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The best stories related to our favorite topics from all over the Internet. Find links to the best news, blog posts and stories related to Leadership, Management, Design, Requirements, Development, Operations, Test, Security and Atlassian to mention some topics. Stories is a curated section where any story is welcome as long as it fit the categories and are considered useful and interesting to the community.
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Write custom formulas using Atlassian Intelligence

We’re introducing a new Atlassian Intelligence (AI) feature that generates custom formulas based on your prompt. Custom formulas use SQLite syntax and allow you to perform basic calculations or apply one or more functions to your data. With this new AI feature, you’ll be able to write custom formulas without needing to look up SQLite syntax.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Submit your story to be featured in JPD's PM Spotlight series!

Calling all Product Managers! We want to feature your stories about the reality of product management. Whether it’s figuring out priorities, communicating roadmaps, or getting buy-in from stakeholders, we want to hear from you.
Our PM Spotlight series will showcase product managers from around the world, sharing their wins, challenges, and lessons learned.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

JIRA Align

What is Jira Align?
Jira Align is an enterprise-level agile planning software that enables large organizations to connect their strategic goals with day-to-day development work. It provides a unified view of work across all levels of the organization, from the portfolio level down to individual teams.
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Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Bitbucket is removing the "Open watched pull requests" page

We have a small announcement to share about a change we’re making to streamline Bitbucket Cloud.

What is changing
As of September 2, we will be removing the Open watched pull requests page from personal notification settings (bitbucket.org/account/settings/watched/pull-requests).This means that the ability to see the count of open PRs from the Notifications page in personal settings (bitbucket.org/account/settings/notifications) is also being removed.
 
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Big day for the backlog!

Hiya, Jake here with an exciting update. As of today, Jira Align administrators can decide to hide accepted features in the backlog. We are thrilled about this launch!
With this setting on, users can rank and review work in their backlogs without being burdened by work already accepted. You can truly use the backlog to see what’s up next. Your backlog will also be more performant now that we’re loading less items. We've also implemented a performance fix to improve the load time of the kanban column view by introducing infinite scroll pagination.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

View the same data in grid pages with column defaults

What’s changing?
In Jira Align, when you navigate to a grid page, the default columns are fixed and can't be changed.
We are excited to announce that this is changing with the launch of a new set of API endpoints that will allow your organization to choose default grid columns across themes, epics, capabilities, and features. This will give your team the flexibility to define essential fields most relevant to your organization and share a common language across all your users.
These API endpoints will be released today with the 11.2.0 release. Please note that this feature is optional and will only affect column defaults if you make changes via the API endpoints. If you don’t take any action, you will continue using the current default column settings.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Portfolio Kanban System: A Silver Bullet or Golden Hammer?

Introduction
The title may seem like a clickbait, but is actually not. I do seriously believe that there are a few “silver bullets” to being lean. Equally, I do also believe that in the knowledge industry, a kanban system, a supposed visual way of managing the flow of value, is a modern day golden hammer for many i.e. very overrated providing a false sense of assurance of being lean.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Grouping Cross ART releases in Jira Align

The fix versions in Jira are specific to a Jira project. However, the intent to create, plan, and visualize a Go-Live Release runs across multiple Jira projects.
Jira Epics and stories built across multiple Program(s)/Agile Release Train(s) in different Program Increment/Quarters need to be clubbed to form Major/Minor Release. 
To add further, not all the Jira Epics stories might be part of the Major/Minor release, but some specific ones.
This can be handled in Jira Align; however, before we go there, it's important to note that we don't need (also not recommended) to sync fixed versions from Jira to Jira Align. Fix version being Jira Project specific stay in Jira, and Group Releases (being referred to as Major/Minor stay in Jira Align).
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

What is Jira Align and the difference between Jira Standard and Jira align

Jira Align takes project management to the next level, providing enterprises with the tools they need to align strategy with execution. It bridges the gap between business strategy and technical execution, ensuring that all teams are working towards common goals. Here are some of the standout features of Jira Align:
Enterprise-Level Project Management: Manage multiple teams, portfolios, and programs with ease, ensuring alignment across the entire organization. Strategic Alignment and Planning: Connect strategic goals with execution by visualizing dependencies and aligning work with business objectives. Comprehensive Reporting and Analytics: Gain deep insights with advanced analytics and customizable reports, helping you make data-driven decisions. Integration: Integrate seamlessly with multiple Jira instances and other enterprise tools, ensuring a cohesive workflow across different teams and departments.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Changes affecting workflow validators and post functions on the new issue transition experience

In my previous post, we announced the early access program to the new issue transition experience. Akin to the old experience, the new issue transition experience also supports variants of RichText fields such as the Description and Custom Paragraph (multiline text) fields. However, the new experience employs the REST v3 API for Issue Submit utilizing the ADF format, compared to the REST v2 API for Issue Submit utilizing Plain String format based on Wiki Markup. As a result of these format alterations, workflow validators and post functions relying on RichText fields are incapable of parsing the text from the ADF representation, leading to validation failures. Consequently, users may encounter difficulties in transitioning issues.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Bitbucket Cloud is removing tags links and lozenges from the “Commits list“ page

Throughout the month of June 2024, we will be removing tags links and lozenges from the Commits list page. Tags themselves continue to be supported. They can be added to commits. They will continue to be visible on the individual Commit view pages for each individual commit. They will also continue to be available in drop-downs for selection.
We had to make this decision for technical reasons. As our product continues to grow, we always look for opportunities to improve the product’s architecture to enhance performance. Sometimes this means trade-offs with changes to the product interface. In this particular case, we have been able to improve the page’s performance, particularly for customers who experienced significant delays in load times for this page.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Custom email addresses for Confluence notifications available now!

Email notifications are an important part of the user’s workflow - however when they are sent from the Confluence domain they may be received as external content and considered untrusted or gets caught incorrectly as spam at many companies. With this feature your company communication can be trusted by all users as they come from a verified domain.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Impact of updated cipher suites on Jira cloud and Jira Service Management

To meet the latest industry security standards for TLS and their associated ciphers, Atlassian is deprecating support for less secure and older cipher suites. As a result, some of the TLS cipher suites that used to work earlier may now result in errors leading to unsuccessful incoming email connections.
Find more information on security protocols supported for Atlassian cloud products
This change will take effect on July 8, 2024. We recommend that customers review their existing web server and incoming email configurations and ensure they support one of the supported TLS cipher suites.
Note: This change will not affect customers using OAuth access.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman