May 2022

If you like listening to music then you should definitely invest in an amplifier and passive speakers. It is enhance your music listening experience. I have both Lepy LP-2024A+ and Lvpin LP-A6, both are inexpensive amplifiers but really good.

#Lvpin #LPA6

You can easily transition your epic when all the stories are done using a simple automation rule.

#Automation #TransitionEpic

There are literally no prerequisites to learn Jira especially if you are a Project Manager or a SCRUM Master but you definitely need to learn what is project management first.

#AtlassianCareer #ProjectManagement

Guide to start your Atlassian career

Let us talk about how much minimum salary you should expect as an Atlassian or Jira Consultant.

#AtlassianCareer #Salary

Guide to start your Atlassian career

Atlassian ecosystem is quite good if you are considering building career in this field.

#AtlassianCareer

Guide to start your Atlassian career

My personal recommendation would be to learn programming if you can and ask for a raise. Yes if you have technical skills then you have more options as an Atlassian Consultant.

#GetAnswers #MoreSalary

Guide to start your Atlassian career

Considering buying a Raspberry Pi? May be buy a used low powered computer instead.

#RaspberryPi

Donkey Derby 2022 was good. Nice to see things back to normal.

#DonkeyDerby #Burnham

I bought ThinkPad x270 and it is looking good.

#ThinkPad #x270

Elizabeth line finally opened on 24th May and it will massively help those traveling from Burnham to central London and beyond.

#London #Crossrail #burnham #elizabethline

It is not difficult to make daily videos. Just talk about things that you do in general and keep track of your work. Org Mode can help a lot in organising your life.

#Emacs #OrgMode

It is not always possible to enforce mandatory fields in Jira but you can very easily find empty fields in Jira and then take action.

#GetAnswers #EmptyFields

Please don't underestimate the capabilities of labels in Jira.

#BestPractices

You can write a very simple short script to read contents from a text file line by line and do wonderful things. I use this quite a lot for bulk updates and save lot of time

#shell #readfile #line

Do you want to start your Atlassian learning but not sure where and how? Let me help you.

#JustTalk

Let me share today what I eat, what exercises I do and how I spend my day. This will give you an idea about how I maintain my health. It is mre about building good habits.

#HealthAdvice

I have been syncing my YouTube videos to Odysee which I think is a really good platform.

#Odysee

I have to figure out how to securely stream the feed privately which I can access from anywhere. For the time being I think I will just use YouTube private stream I guess.

#akasov50pro

I quite like London 😊

#London

It is possible to capture the transition dates and store it somewhere else. It can be done very easily using an automation rules.

#Automation #TransitionDates

Reach out if you want to collaborate with me? Either you can invite me in your channel/event or if you have something to share with me audience then you can come to my channel.

#JustTalk

Yes you can calculate waiting time between transitions but what will you do with that information? I think it is better to unblock items and resolve dependencies. There are reports in Jira to help you with that.

#GetAnswers #WaitingTime

If you want to make YouTube videos then don't wait, just do it. Don't worry too much about making your videos perfect. Focus on the content and start uploading.

#justtalk

Let us create a time tracking reporting showing who logged time on Jira issues on different project split by days.

#eazyBI #TimeTracking

Don't install an app just because it looks cool. Don't over complicate your Jira customisations, Don't do too many automations. Keep it simple and use the native out of the box features of Jira as much as you can.

#JustTalk

Today I had to sign a PDF and was wondering whether I should do it in GIMP, Inkscape or find another software. Fortunately I found Xournal++ or Xournalpp which is really cool software for annotating PDF and making handwritten notes.

#xournalpp

There are some in built reports that you can use to understand about SLA breached vs met information and it can also be done based on a specific assignee using a JQL.

#GetAnswers #SLAReports

If you are in IT then it makes sense to invest some time in learning REST API. It has become a must have standard skill these days. Let me share some tools like Postman, Talend API Tester and linux utilities like jq and curl commands that you should consider learning.

#RESTAPI

Let us understand how advanced roadmaps can help in making a plan based on the workload and sprint dates.

#advancedroadmaps #Workload

Today I built a white background using a big piece of thermocol. Now I am planning to replace the background with another image using a blur. I think it can be done but I will try to do that if I get time.

#ffmpeg #background

Let me share a really good site where I go to look for cheap virtual private servers and also give you my recommendation.

#cheapVPS

Lowendbox
get vpsdime

When migrating to Cloud you can also choose to not migrate anything at all or simplify your migration. Look at it as a wonderful opportunity to standardise your processes.

#JiraCloudMigration

Why you should run your own Jira instance.

#JustTalk

Let us go for a walk today.

#Slough #BaylisPark

I will reply to your tickets soon.

#JustTalk

Wondering how to display your Agile boards in Confluence, well you can use a macro or create your own.

#GetAnswers #AgileBoardConfluence

In the last few months I made few proposal using LaTeX and not a single client complained.

#Emacs #LaTeX #Proposals

I went for a walk in Spade Oak which is such a nice place to go for a walk or a picnic by the river Thames, there are riverside houses, open train track and lots of rabbits.

#SpadeOak #BourneEnd

00:00 Start
00:34 Spade Oak Lake
00:51 Crossing Train Track
00:00 Walking by River Thames
02:18 Spade Oak Meadow
03:26 Riverside Houses
04:35 GWR Train
04:44 Ducks
06:23 Boat houses
07:57 Sharon Shayari and chilling with friends
16:42 Crossing Train Track
18:26 Rabbits

Let me share and recommend some apps that are free for 10 users.

#FreeApps

After using Syncthing for roughly 2 years I would definitely recommend it and makes syncing files across computers super easy.

#Syncthing

You can easily get Change Management and lot of other workflows in Jira.

#GetAnswers #ChangeManagement

I am determined to learn gardening and for that I need to take care of my tools. Today let me show you how I transformed this an old garden fork to not so old one :)

#Gardening

The intel NUC5i5RYH that I got for only £5 works really well, I had to spend more money getting the power adaptor and mini HDMI cable but overall still a very good deal. I am not sure if I should install Linux on it, may be I will keep windows and play retro games on it.

#intelNUC #NUC5i5RYH

Uploading videos as attachments in Jira and Confluence might not be the best idea.

#GetAnswers #VideoAttachments

I am happy with the progress I am making in making my garden world class.

#Gardening

I think it is good to invest in a bike trainer so you can bike at home whenever you want in any weather.

#BikeTrainer

I hope your weekend was great now let us look at some of the updates from the Atlassian ecosystem.

Atlassian Developer Day - 9th June 2022 (Free and virtual event)

ScriptRunner for Jira on Cloud is different from Data Center.

#ScriptRunner

ScriptRunner's The new code editor Monoca looks good to me, especially the autocomplete is much faster.

#ScriptRunner #Monaco

I have feeling that summer of 2022 would be awesome.

#BaylisPark

I would be happy to merge both my YouTube channels into one. I think one channel is all we need to share whatever we feel like sharing.

#justtalk

I will make my garden the best one in the world.

#Gardening

I am exploring ways to use my action camera as a cctv.

#Akasov50pro #cctv

I have been using Org Mode and LaTeX for creating proposals now and today I thought I will show you how to insert timestamp with proper formatting.

#emacs #timestamps

Let us write a simple Groovy code today to fetch issue details and also take a look at the new script console editor which now has better auto complete features.

#ScriptRunner #GetIssue

Code: https://github.com/sparxsys/ScriptRunner-Scripts/blob/master/jira_serve…

If you copy-paste a code then please don't expect it to work straight away, usually you need to learn little bit of Groovy to modify it according to your needs.

#ScriptRunner #Learning

Can you delay email notifications in your Jira instance. Let me share my thoughts.

#GetAnswers #DelayNotifications

I will be talking at Jexo's PM72 event on 13th June 2022. My topic is using Atlassian tools for digital/business transformation.

#PM72

Agenda

Let us look at some of the updates of last week in the Atlassian ecosystem.

Updates in the Jira Cloud iOS and Android app:

There are some improvements done in the mobile app. I do use the Android app for Jira, it is simple and works fine but yes I would always appreciate new features. There are new incident management capabilities to help users manage the tickets by marking them as "major" from the app, there are new gadgets in the iOS app, push notifications and some performance improvements.

Even if you have lot of money it is always wise to save money. Especially here in UK you can save lot of money if you are smart.

#UKLife #SaveMoney

If you are a college or university interested to teach Jira to your students then reach out to me for a free workshop on Jira.

#JustTalk #JiraWorkshop

Free Jira workshop details

I went to Uxbridge high street and realised that it is better than Slough high street.

#Uxbridge #HighStreet

Resume is the first thing recruiters in UK will look at and you have to make sure you work on it before applying for a job in UK.

#UK #ComeToUK #Resume