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Any product manager will tell you miscommunications are the bane of their existence. While developing a brand new product from scratch is one of the most exhilarating things a software team can do – it comes with a healthy set of lows (mostly due to communication mishaps). Gliffy just experienced these peaks and valleys while building a software tool to help teams add a visual element to Jira. We learned a thing or two along the way that we thought could help others and wanted to share them with the Atlassian community.
Jimi Wikman
Blackboards had a long and storied history of aiding people in illustrating and explaining ideas. Whiteboards later took over the same role, and now virtual whiteboards continue the tradition. Each iteration of this tool helps teams collaborate, but only virtual whiteboards do so without having to be in the same room.
Visualization has always been an essential aspect of Agile development. Scrum and Kanban boards visualize progress, allowing teams to see tasks move from one phase to another. 
Here’s how integrating virtual whiteboards into your Jira workflow can improve every stage of your Agile project management.
Jimi Wikman
In 2024, a secure WYSIWYG Editor has become a complex intricate thing.
Copy/paste bundle files have largely been phased out in favor of complicated NPM repos and build tools. What was more or less just "HTML Manipulation" has evolved to abstract content models with dynamic rules on how to actually render the content to HTML. Then, for kicks, throw in the requirement that this editor needs to work in non-standard cases like the drag and drop page builder and live topics. The solution for Invision Community 5 is a new, custom, state of the art Editor built using ReactJS and Tiptap.
In this article, I'll cover high level advantages, technical highlights and what's possible with 3rd party extensions. 
If you want to know more about the editor functionality, then see my other blog here.
This story begins after we switched to CKEditor5 over a year ago. It is a decent product, but it had several serious limitations in a distributed platform like Community. We compared just about every editor currently on the market, and even considered building an editor completely from scratch, and ultimately landed on creating a custom editor using ReactJS and Tiptap.
Jimi Wikman
Invision Community 5 has a brand new editing experience powered by a lightweight, fast React text editor built for mobile and modern browsers.
The venerable CKEditor v4 at the core of our current editor is starting to show its age, so we wanted a clean slate with Invision Community v5 with an editor that was optimized for mobile use, easily extensible and had a feature set that would take us into the next era of Invision Community and beyond.
Jimi Wikman
As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for just text-based links. With the new “Web” filter that appears at the top of the results page, users will be able to filter for text links the way they can today filter for images, video, news or shopping.
Jimi Wikman
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing business, has confirmed further details of its European “sovereign cloud” which is designed to enable greater data residency across the region.
The company said that the first AWS sovereign cloud region will be in the German state of Brandenburg, and will go live by the end of 2025. AWS added that it plans to invest €7.8 billion ($8.5 billion) in the facility through 2040.
Jimi Wikman
We heard a lot of great feedback from TEAM 24 around sharing ways to get started and best practices for using Atlassian Intelligence features in our Cloud products.
We're excited to share 3 Atlassian University courses for FREE to help you level up in AI.
Free courses available NOW:
Using Atlassian Intelligence across your organization Using Atlassian Intelligence in Jira Software Using Atlassian Intelligence in Confluence Going forward, we're building out more learning content for AI. Please drop your feedback and wishes in the thread for more of what you want to see! 🧵
Jimi Wikman
Unblock user invites is a new feature within the Jira system settings. It provides an audit of undelivered invitation emails, detailing the reasons why they didn’t make it to their recipient. In cases where Atlassian has suppressed emails due to on-going delivery failure, you’ll see an option to Resend invite. This will connect you to the admin.atlassian.com user management screen to complete the resend invitation action. From there, invitations will generally be issued within one hour.
Jimi Wikman
My name is @Philip Braddock and I’m Atlassian’s new Head ofAtlassian for Startups. I am SUPER EXCITED!
But I am not new to Atlassian. I have actually been working here since May 2015 and have been fortunate enough to grow alongside the company. Over the past 9 years, I’ve held several roles – see screenshot below. Immediately prior to this, I was Portfolio Management Lead for Atlassian Ventures, where I spent every day working with startups in the Atlassian ecosystem.
And that is why, as I wrote above, I am SUPER EXCITED to help kick-ass startups leverage Atlassian’s tools as the backbone for their journeys from MVP to IPO! 🚀 🤩 🥳
Jimi Wikman
Hi friends, I’m excited to share a new improvement that was released today for search within Compass.
A while ago, we released two new types of custom fields:
Single-select dropdown
Multi-select dropdown
You can review that announcement here: Dropdown Custom Fields are here!
At first release, you were unable to filter these while on the Components (Advanced Search) page in Compass.
We’re happy to announce you can now filter on both of these custom field types directly from the UI! We hope this enables more flexibility and gives you more freedom to customize, filter, and organize your catalog!
Jimi Wikman
As we continue to drive innovation with AI in Jira Service Management, we're thrilled to announce our latest capabilities designed to enrich the experiences of support and IT Operations teams.
From AI-driven issue triage and sentiment analysis to streamlined automation and AIOps capabilities, these enhancements are set to redefine how teams deliver exceptional service at scale. Dive into the details of each release below and discover how Atlassian Intelligence is setting a new standard for operational excellence and AI-powered support experiences.
Jimi Wikman
Shaun here from the Jira Service Management product marketing team. I’m inviting you all to ask us anything about incident management in Jira Service Management. We’ll answer your questions LIVE at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST on May 16th.
 
Jimi Wikman
Hello everyone!
I’m Connie, a Product Designer for Atlassian Analytics. We are interested in talking to Atlassian Analytics customers about their experience in viewing and interpreting dashboards and charts in Atlassian Analytics.
What’s involved in the research:
45 minute session conducted over Zoom from 5/27-5/31.
We'll start with a general chat to get to know you, and then ask you questions about your experience viewing dashboards on Atlassian Analytics.
You'll receive an e-gift card worth $100 USD within 10 business days of completing your session.
Please fill out this form by 5/22 to be considered and we will reach out via email for qualifying applicants!
If you have any questions, leave a comment on this post or email directly at cliu7@atlassian.com. We look forward to meeting you!
Jimi Wikman
This feature update was also published on the Bitbucket blog.
Here at Bitbucket Cloud, we are focused on helping you and your teams have the best possible experience for code review. That’s why we continue to add features like batched comments, marking files as viewed, AI-assisted pull request descriptions – and coming very soon, iterative reviews.
Jimi Wikman