Moving from Jira Server to Jira Cloud: What no one tells you
Listen to the Podcast Watch Cloud Migration Neither hearsay, nor hacks. #TrundlTalks S02E01 had Atlassian experts themselves share key information & insights for planning Jira Cloud Migration successfully. Excerpts follow… When it comes to creating a competitive advantage, more and more enterprises across industries are choosing Cloud as the ultimate ‘stepping stone’ to […]
PI Planning – What it is, and why we do it
Program Increment (PI) Planning is a critical event that is part of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®), which is conducted by the development teams in an Agile Release Train (ART).
7 Best Practices when deploying Jira Service Management
Great! You’ve chosen to deploy Jira Service Management (JSM). Awesome… Here’s a few tips before you start.
8 Tips to Help You Write a Star-Studded Resume
The resume you send across to a potential employer for a new job opportunity is literally your first line of offense. Here’s why it shouldn’t be a summary tool to add everything you’ve done since you started working.
Deploying a Successful DevSecOps strategy
The average cost of a security breach in the US is $8.19M. That’s a significant number to the bottom line for any company. These aren’t one-offs either. Every industry is facing frequent attacks… nearly 90% of healthcare companies are actively being hacked. 75% of retail and 60% of manufacturing companies are facing varying degrees of […]
How ‘proxy’ openness is creeping & in our work culture – and it might not be the best thing for us
(Jan 2020) Employee – “Hey, I need to work from home today, I have a carpenter coming in during lunch.” Boss – “Please mark it as an unplanned leave. We do not promote WFH as a culture. Sends a bad message to the rest of the team.” (3 months later) Boss – “This is a critical release, can you WFH […]
Mindville, Opsgenie & Statuspage Next up… Jira Service Desk Premium?
First off… congratulations to Tommy Nordahl, Mathias Edblom, and the Mindville team! They are an inspiration to both Marketplace Vendors and Solution Partners for what they’ve accomplished in a few short years. Riada (Mindville) was our first vendor partnership. At the time, as a new, unproven Atlassian Partner, and it was a tremendous boost to […]
Mental Wellness and Remote work
It’s been little over a month, since we started staying indoors to practice Social distancing with the goal to flatten the curve. By now, you probably have read at least 5-10 post on effective remote working on LinkedIn, received forwards on Whatsapp, shared posts on Instagram including cooking challenges, workout videos and cribbed about the […]
COVID-19 and its impact on the labor force, team collaboration, and remote work.
Leading up to this Spring many thought the US economy was due for a natural correction after so many years of growth since the ’08 financial crisis. It would have been something predictable in line with the US’ natural growth & contraction to keep us on our historical pace (~2-2.5%). Wow. How the narrative has changed… […]
Leading a virtual session Our experience with Atlassian Community Event
In these times, with the pitfalls of remote working, leading a discussion in a virtual event is not uncommon. However, when it comes to an event for Atlassian Community (ACE), where we share knowledge with Jira users and subject matter experts of the Atlassian community, it is very important that you make the presentation compelling […]