Category Archives: Blog

Blog, General

Building a Career in Atlassian Jira Administration

Posted on by Vickie MacLean

  Listen : Career in Jira Administration   Watch : Career in Jira Administration Wondering what are the most sought-after skills on a Jira administrator’s resume? As Rachel Wright-entrepreneur, certified JIRA Administrator, and author of ‘Jira Strategy Admin Workbook’-walks us through her inspirational journey, aspirants get a glimpse of the roles, responsibilities, and beyond.. Rachel […]

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Blog, Cloud Migration

Moving from Jira Server to Jira Cloud: What no one tells you

Posted on by Vickie MacLean

  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 […]

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Blog, DevOps, ITSM / ESM

Mindville, Opsgenie & Statuspage Next up… Jira Service Desk Premium?

Posted on by Vickie MacLean

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 […]

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Blog, General

How ‘proxy’ openness is creeping & in our work culture – and it might not be the best thing for us

Posted on by Vickie MacLean

(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 […]

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Blog, DevOps

Deploying a Successful DevSecOps strategy

Posted on by Vickie MacLean

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 […]

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Blog, General

Leading a virtual session Our experience with Atlassian Community Event

Posted on by Vickie MacLean

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 […]

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Blog, General

COVID-19 and its impact on the labor force, team collaboration, and remote work.

Posted on by Vickie MacLean

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… […]

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