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The vulnerabilities reported in this Security Bulletin include 6 high-severity vulnerabilities which have been fixed in new versions of our products, released in the last month. These vulnerabilities are discovered via our Bug Bounty program, pen-testing processes, and third-party library scans.
To fix all the vulnerabilities impacting your product(s), Atlassian recommends patching your instances to the latest version or one of the Fixed Versions for each product below. The listed Fixed Versions for each product are current as of October 15, 2024 (date of publication); visit the linked product Release Notes
We're excited to announce that we are replacing the retired ACE program with new designations for Atlassian Specialists and Atlassian Experts. This new program will create multiple tracks for users and admins to demonstrate advanced proficiency with Atlassian products and solutions by earning and combining related certifications.
Over the past few decades, securing remote access has become monumentally more complex. Remote work, with all of its benefits, has also furthered the threats of shadow IT and unauthorized remote access.
Companies now need to secure their systems by guarding five pillars: identities, applications, devices, data, and networks.
Even so, there’s a gap between the people, devices, and applications that we trust to access sensitive data, and those that actually do in practice (this is called the “Access-trust Gap”). As such, we created 1Password Extended Access Management® to give companies complete visibility and control over the user identities and devices that access their resources.
The conference room falls silent. The projector hums quietly, displaying yet another requirements document that will likely join thousands of others in the corporate graveyard of unused solutions. Somewhere between “The system shall” and “User acceptance criteria,” we’ve lost sight of what truly matters.
Requirements aren’t working anymore. Here’s why — and more importantly, what should replace them.
What is a deadline? For some, it's a secret line that should never be crossed but only quietly approached and quickly completed. For others, deadlines exist, but somewhere indirectly - if I have time to complete the task, I will. If I don't make it, nothing terrible will happen.
However, when working on a particular project, each task depends on the others; the overdue deadline for one issue can become a major blocker in the development.
To never miss a deadline when using Jira, you'll want to effectively manage and monitor time, status, and other relevant metrics.
Ineffective communication affects nearly half of all workers, presenting a common challenge: leadership messages that aren’t delivered clearly or efficiently. Improving top-down communication is essential to aligning everyone with the company’s goals and fostering collective progress. This article delves into what top-down communication entails, its common obstacles, and effective strategies for improvement.
Do you ever create several different diagrams on a Confluence page and find yourself constantly leaving the Gliffy editor to update each one separately? Want a way to sketch your work in one spot and finalize it an another — without a ton of jumping back and forth?
With Gliffy's new multi-page functionality, you can work with multiple diagrams at once by creating additional tabs—each one has the full functionality of the Gliffy editor. I've heard from our customers that we're great for complex, technical diagramming, so as Gliffy's PM I'm always looking for functionality and improvements that help you best handle that complexity. Really excited about this addition!!
We've released the new Spaces feature to customers on all editions!
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This is a new location where product admins are able to manage and take action on their spaces from a consistent, convenient location.
We're excited to announce that the ability to edit a space key has now been rolled out to all customers (excluding those on release tracks)!Â
How it works
The technical approach that we are using will leverage two different keys: an internally generated ID plus an additional, separate key that is what will be shown to your users.Â
This approach is represented in the UI as:
System space key = internally generated IDÂ
Space key = the visible alias that's seen by your users
Some time ago, there was a webinar recorded by VersionOne: How to use SAFe® to Deliver Value at Enterprise Scale Q&A Discussion with Dean Leffingwell).  If you fast-forward to about 23 min, 20 seconds into the recording, you will hear the following statement: “…We don’t typically mess with your organizational structure because that is a pretty big deal…”
This statement somewhere puzzled me. While graphic representation of SAFe framework is nowhere short of supporting organizational complexity, I was still under impression that organizational design improvements/simplification are included in SAFe teaching. To me, an ability to influence first-degree system variables, such as Organizational Structure, is critical. Without this ability, any attempt to improve organizational agility and system dynamics would be short-term and limited. Even such important second-degree system variables, as organizational culture, values, norms, behaviors, policies, agile engineering practices usually bring limited results if organizational structure remains unchanged.
In any project or team, tracking the efficiency of issue resolution is key to improving productivity and identifying bottlenecks. This week’s report offers a detailed visualization of how issue resolution performance has evolved over time, allowing teams to gain actionable insights into their workflows. Let's break down what this report reveals.
Cycle time is the amount of time it takes for a task to move from the start to the finish line. In Agile, cycle time helps teams see how quickly they can deliver value to their customers while finding ways to do things faster without sacrificing quality.
Cycle time usually complements two metrics: lead time and throughput. While lead time measures the total time from when a request is made until it's delivered, cycle time focuses only on the active work phase. Throughput, on the other hand, looks at how much work is completed over a certain period.
The Role of Cybersecurity in Medical Device Safety
The Global medical device market is a $800 billion business that is rapidly growing, especially in the area of software as a medical device (SaMD). The majority of the SaMD segment is made up of the digital health and digital therapeutics solutions, where medical devices are made solely of software.
Remember typing out the same support ticket questions over and over again? In 2014, that was my daily routine - and honestly, it wasn't fun. Fast forward to 2024, and I'm letting AI do it for me 🙌
Welcome to the first part of my "I can do it with a Rovo agent" series, where I'll show you how to transform your support workflow using Rovo, the Atlassian AI assistant.
I'd like to introduce you to Confluence Analytics – a set of features we launched back in 2019 to help teams understand content performance, user activity, and collaboration across their Confluence pages, spaces, and site (available on Confluence Premium and Enterprise Plans).
But we’ve heard that its current UI and controls made it challenging to derive actionable insights from your data. That's why we're thrilled to announce a major redesign of Confluence Analytics!
