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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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Join the Early Access Program (EAP) for Confluence’s new navigation

Hello Confluence Cloud Admins!
The Atlassian Navigation team is excited to introduce a new, modern navigation system designed for consistency, flexibility, and efficiency. This update will be available in Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, and Atlassian Home in early 2025.
We’re inviting interested customers to join the Confluence navigation Early Access Program (EAP) to learn more about and provide feedback on the experience.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

The Progressing Landscape of Agile Practices Current Trends and Insights

Agile methodologies have come a long way since their initiation, continuously adapting to meet the needs of teams across various industries. In this article, we will explore the latest trends in Agile practices, particularly within the Atlassian ecosystem, shedding light on how simplicity, cross-industry adoption, and remote collaboration are shaping the future of Agile.
The Rise of Simplicity in Agile Practices
In recent years, there has been a noticeable shift towards simplifying Agile practices. Teams are increasingly returning to the core principles that made Agile successful in the first place.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Announcing Focus, Atlassian’s new enterprise strategy and planning solution

Atlassian Focus provides one place for leaders to map and track goals, work, teams, and funds against strategic priorities
For leaders, sleep often evades them as they ponder: Do we have the right people working on the right things? What are their goals and do those support our company’s top priorities? Are we investing enough in those priorities?
Atlassian is here to help put many of those questions to bed with Atlassian Focus, our new enterprise strategy and planning solution. It provides a central hub for leaders to map and track goals, work, teams, and funds, keeping everything aligned to strategic priorities.
 
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Unlock advanced Atlassian cloud security today with Guard Premium

Back in May, we introduced Atlassian Guard, our cloud security add-on that empowers you to protect your Atlassian cloud data, detect threats, and respond to risks before they become incidents. Today, we are thrilled to announce that Guard Premium is now generally available!
With Atlassian Guard, we have unified identity and access management capabilities from Atlassian Access, threat detection capabilities from Beacon beta, and added brand-new data loss prevention functionality. Atlassian Guard has two plans:
Guard Standard for identity and access management Guard Premium for data classification, threat detection, and data loss prevention, plus everything in Standard.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Conduct effective sprint retros using Confluence and Jira

Sprint retrospectives are a crucial part of the Agile process, offering teams a chance to reflect on what went well, what didn’t, and how to improve future sprints. However, these retros can easily become disjointed when feedback is stored separately from sprint data, action items are forgotten, or retros are treated as a formality rather than an opportunity for meaningful change. 
By integrating Confluence and Jira, you can streamline your retros, turning them into a productive part of your workflow– rather than an afterthought. 
In this installment of our Better Together series, we’ll explore how using Confluence and Jira together can improve the efficiency and outcomes of your sprint retrospectives
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

The *new* Jira is here

At Team ‘24 in Las Vegas, we unveiled the next evolution of Jira – a shared place for every team to align on goals and priorities, track and collaborate on work, and get the insights they need to build something incredible, together.
Today, we’re excited to announce new features (and a new look!) that make Jira easier, more flexible, and more powerful for all types of work – helping transform siloed companies into connected ones.
Let’s take a look!
 
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

How to make cross-functional collaboration simple for program managers

f you’ve ever gone hunting for information, digging through Slack archives, Google Docs, and spreadsheets, then you’ve experienced the common challenges of cross-functional collaboration. 
Program managers working in cross-functional teams end up spending 30% of their workday searching for information. And when you can’t find the right information, you can’t work together effectively. In fact, 70% of corporate errors are due to poor communication between teams. 
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

5 AI features that will delight your support agents

Finding the right balance between speed and quality is the key to delivering exceptional service experiences. However, achieving this balance can be challenging for support teams inundated with a high volume of inquiries. AI revolutionizes how support agents handle inquiries and streamline their workflows. With AI-powered tools, support teams can tackle challenges quickly, enhance customer satisfaction, and focus on more strategic tasks. 
Jira Service Management offers a suite of cutting-edge AI capabilities powered by Atlassian Intelligence. These tools are designed to augment the abilities of human support agents, providing user-friendly features that boost efficiency and customer satisfaction. Let’s explore five AI features transforming employee and customer support.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

How FinTech innovator Riverty future-proofs using Atlassian’s suite of Cloud solutions

By migrating to Atlassian Cloud, Riverty boosts productivity and innovation across technical and non-technical teams with cutting-edge Cloud-only products.
German FinTech leader Riverty is changing the course of the industry by promoting financial sustainability through ‘buy now, pay later’ solutions, empowering customers even during economic downturns. In 2022, Riverty acquired and unified multiple FinTech-related organisations into a single entity with a clear vision. Riverty then dedicated the following year to digital transformation to streamline efficiency and execution.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Atlassian Guard for unified authentication between Jira Align and Jira Cloud

Authenticate once, securely and efficiently
Say goodbye to repetitive logins when transitioning between Jira Align and Jira. For Jira Align customers subscribed to Atlassian Guard, you now have the option to set up Jira Align to use your Atlassian account details for logging in. SAML single sign-on (SSO) allows users to authenticate to Atlassian cloud products through a company's existing identity provider, meaning users access multiple products with the same set of credentials while using a simplified and more secure method of authentication than just a username and password.
 
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Seeking mobile research participants - earn $100USD gift card

We're interested in learning more about how business and marketing teams use work management mobile apps on a daily basis. If you’re currently part of a team that uses apps like Jira, Monday, ClickUp, Linear, Asana, and Smartsheet, would love to hear from you.
What’s involved in the research:
Sessions are a 45-minute Zoom call.
During the research, we'll have an informal chat to get to know you and ask you more about your role and how you and your team use apps to help manage your work.
As a token of our appreciation, you'll receive an e-gift card worth $100 USD within 5 business days of completing your session.
Interested in taking part? Follow this link to fill in a few more details so we can make sure you’re a good fit.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

How I built a Forge application to map teams to boards in Jira

I previously published a post about a Forge application that I’d written called the "Issue Status Helper" and thought it might be useful to share another example of how I've used Forge to help Jira meet our specific project management needs.
This application has a number of similarities with the Issue Status Helper application but touches on a few different modules and capabilities that are worth exploring. In particular these are the new and improved UI Kit, Jira Custom Fields and GraphQL.
The application is called “Jira Board Buddy” and allows you to map teams to boards for a project and enforce that mapping for issues within the project. First let’s dive into the problem that I was using Forge to solve…
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Create more meaningful project status reports with Jira board and backlog Smart Link embeds

A few months ago, we rolled out Smart Link support for Jira dashboards, letting you embed Jira dashboards and gadgets directly into Confluence pages. This was a game-changer for creating reports, project updates, and providing commentary on in-progress work for stakeholders and leadership. Using Confluence as your single source of truth for project documentation is a great way to keep your work and knowledge connected as projects move forward.
We’ve got some great news to share with you: Today, Smart Link support now extends to Jira project boards and backlogs. No more clunky screenshots. Just copy, paste, and configure views of your Jira project boards and backlog seamlessly in Confluence.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Team '24 Europe: Supercharge Enterprise Strategy and Planning in Jira Align with Focus

We’re so excited to share that TEAM’24 Europe is happening right now in Barcelona!
For customers who can’t attend the event in person, we’re inviting you to join us remotely from wherever you are. Get online access here with this link
Hear the latest from our leaders at our Keynote session on our product updates, roadmap, and vision for Jira Align, followed by customer sharing on how leaders like yourself are adopting enterprise strategy and planning across different industries.                    
Don’t miss our Kickoff Keynote session where we invite Arsène Wenger, Chief of Global Football Development, Fifa, to share what it takes to unleash a team’s potential to achieve success.
 
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman

Appfire brings game-changing Jira issue editor and organizer JXL to its portfolio

We are thrilled to announce that Appfire has acquired one of the fastest-growing apps on the Atlassian Marketplace, JXL, the all-in-one Jira issue editor and organizer. JXL performs at any scale to save users countless clicks and hours. While many apps allow users to organize their Jira projects into tables, export to Microsoft Excel, or group issues into hierarchies, there is no other app like JXL that provides a feature-rich spreadsheet experience seamlessly built into Jira.
Jimi Wikman
💫 Jimi Wikman