The Jira Life

What if your Trello boards could do the work for you? Join us for our special Trellopendence event where we explore how automation can transform the way teams manage projects, tasks, and workflows. We'll discuss how to think about automation before building it, share some of the most valuable Trello automations every user should consider, and demonstrate how Trello works alongside powerful too...

The Atlassian ecosystem is changing faster than ever, and navigating where the platform is headed can be tough for users and enterprises alike. In this episode, we sit down with ecosystem veteran Larry Brock to unpack the massive shifts happening right now inside the Atlassian community and product lineup. We dive deep into the merger of Atlassian Community and University, the rise of the Content...

This week the TJL crew sits down with Kayode Faith, a longtime Jira admin who's just launched his own podcast, The New Shape of Work and had one of the TJL crew members as his first guest (guess who!?). Kayode opens up about how a recent summit completely changed his perspective on Forge, and the crew swaps stories about the unexpected professional relationships and friendships that come out o...

Being a Jira admin has never been more complex or more critical. In this episode, we sit down with Peter Kerrigan, Head of Customer Success at Solcoro, for a no-holds-barred conversation about the real struggles, hard decisions, and thankless work that goes into keeping an Atlassian environment healthy, scalable, and sane. Whether you're managing a scrappy single-instance setup or a sprawling...

What does it actually look like to embed social impact into the DNA of a leading tech company — not as a PR footnote, but as a core operating principle? This week, we sit down with Jessica Hyman, the person at Atlassian tasked with answering exactly that question. As a key part of the Atlassian Foundation and the company's Chief Sustainability Officer, Jessica oversees everything from Atlassia...

Birthday episode! 🎂 Three years. Hundreds of sprints. Countless standups. And somehow, we're still here. To mark the third birthday of The Jira Life, co-hosts Rodney Nissen, Alex Ortiz, and Sarah Wright are joined by the people who make this whole thing possible behind the scenes — producers Robert "King Bob" Wen and Lina Ortiz — for a full-crew celebration episode unlike any other....

As spring turns into summer, many people's thoughts turn to hitting the open road and soaking in the majestic grandeur of the United States. This week on The Jira Life, we're celebrating that spirit of adventure with a grand reunion of the Trello Trailblazers — featuring the Trello queen herself, Brittany Joiner, along with fellow Trello enthusiasts Rob Hean and Mike Day. Brittany takes us...

TEAM '26 was a whirlwind — and we're still buzzing from it. But before we move on to the next thing, we wanted to take a moment to shine a light on the people who helped make this season possible. This quarter, that means ikuTeam, and we couldn't be more grateful for the partnership. So what better way to say thank you than to hand them the mic? In this episode, we sit down with Nelson...

Atlassian Team '26 Conference kicks off May 5th in Anaheim, which means it's time to pull out our crystal ball and see what's coming. We've been digging through the Atlassian Roadmap, the Cloud release notes, recent partner announcements, and a few tea leaves to put together our best predictions for what you'll be reading about next week — because if the pattern holds, there&#3...

Every Atlassian admin has been there — you're either locking everything down so tightly that users are filing tickets just to breathe, or you've said "yes" one too many times and now you've got 47 duplicate fields and a different workflow in every single space. So where's the line? This episode is less of an interview and more of a conversation — and we want you to be par...

In this episode, we sit down with Kristjan Mathiesen, who recently joined Atlassian's Certification team as a Technical Subject Matter Expert, to take a comprehensive look at one of the most valuable — and often underutilized — resources in the Atlassian ecosystem: the certification program. Kristjan walks us through the full history of Atlassian credentialing, from the early days of the Atlas...

What does it take to create a hands-on Atlassian event from the ground up? This week, we sit down with some of the organizers behind Build IT Together — Lina Ortiz, Shawn Doyle, and Josh Golosinskiy — to hear the full story of how a community idea became one of the most practical Atlassian gatherings around. We trace the origins back to the Atlassian Builders Summit, the spark that planted the see...

Forget your sprints. Abandon your backlogs. This week, the crew is bocking the system and doing a full retrospective on the only meaty morsels that matter: chicken tenders and nuggets. We kick things off with the question that has haunted humanity since the dawn of the deep fryer — who has the best chicken tenders? Our panel of highly unqualified experts (namely our TJL crew) are joined by a speci...

This week on  The Jira Life , we’re joined by Ed Gaile of Appfire to explore the intersection of creativity, automation, and the future of teamwork. We dive into the emerging concept of Vibe Coding—what it is, why it’s resonating with modern teams, and how it shifts the way we think about building and interacting with tools. From there, Ed walks us through the practical side of innovation: connect...

This week on The Jira Life, something unexpected has happened… the show has been peacefully (and joyfully) taken over by the Trello community. 🎉 In honor of St. Trello's Day, a legendary celebration of boards, cards, and the power of visual collaboration, the Trello Trailblazers have seized the microphones and transformed the podcast into a whirlwind tour of all things Trello. Leading the cha...

The Jira Life reacts to news of layoffs at Atlassian

The Atlassian ecosystem is evolving rapidly, and the ripple effects are being felt across customers, Solution Partners, and Marketplace vendors alike. In this episode of The Jira Life, we welcome Dzmitry Hyrb, who joins us to explore how Atlassian’s strategic shifts are reshaping the way organizations think about tools, solutions, and collaboration within the ecosystem. We start by unpacking the c...

In this emergency episode, Alex and King Bob talk about the upcoming closing of the Austin and Manila Atlassian offices, the current performance of Atlassian's stock and whether storm clouds are ahead for Atlassian.

On this episode of The Jira Life, we're joined by Walter Buggenhout for a deep dive into modern work planning across the Atlassian ecosystem.  Planning work in Jira is about more than just creating issues and moving them across a board. Walter brings his expertise to the table to explore how teams can connect vision to execution using Jira and complementary tools like Jira Product Discovery, R...

Get ready for a deep dive into Jira Cloud migrations and next-level automation on an upcoming episode of The Jira Life! This week, Przemyslaw Wesolka, founder of JAP Connect joins the TJL crew to talk all things Jira migrations to Cloud and the power of Jira Automation. Moving from Data Center to Cloud isn’t just a technical upgrade—it’s a strategic shift. Przemyslaw shares hard-earned lessons fro...

Atlas Camp 2026 has wrapped in Amsterdam, and this week on The Jira Life we’re bringing you the inside scoop. Join us as we welcome Peter Van de Voorde and Dan Hardiker to break down everything that mattered from Atlas Camp 2026. From AI-first app development to the continued evolution of Forge and platform extensibility, Peter and Dan share their firsthand insights on: The biggest themes shaping...

This week the TJL crew reports and analyzes the news coming from Atlassian's Team on Tour: Government event in Washington D.C. Join us as Alex plays field reporter giving updates from the event! The Jira Life=====================================Having trouble keeping up with when we are live? Sign up for our Atlassian Community Group! https://ace.atlassian.com/the-jira-life/ Or Follow us on Li...

This week the TJL crew sits down with Josh Costella, Lead Architect for Sentify and co-lead of the Phoenix ACE chapter. Join us as we talk about Atlassian Government Cloud and Isolated Cloud and other topics sure to be discussed at TEAM 26! The Jira Life ===================================== Having trouble keeping up with when we are live? Sign up for our Atlassian Community Group! https://lnkd.in...

This week the TJL crew welcome Paulo Ramalho, Atlassian Community Champion from Norway and Senior Atlassian Consultant. Watch as Paulo explains how Assets, as a platform app, can now establish governance of your Jira and Confluence items. The Jira Life=====================================Having trouble keeping up with when we are live? Sign up for our Atlassian Community Group! https://ace.atlassi...

In this episode of The Jira Life , we sit down with Robert Hean of Hean Tech to explore how Confluence documentation is evolving in the age of Rovo and Atlassian Intelligence .As AI teammates like Rovo become part of everyday work, the quality of your documentation matters more than ever. We discuss what “good documentation” really means today, common mistakes teams make in Confluence, and how to...