Adaptavist

We’re celebrating another recognition of our award-winning flexible working culture 🏆 We’ve made it into Jobgether’s Spring/Summer 2024 Top 100 Most Flexible Employers in scale-ups and large companies worldwide 🎉 Our Flex Score of 82% takes into account more than 30 different criteria across the where, when, and how of our working environment—something that we’re really proud of. See our ranking and more information here: https://bit.ly/3m1vWaO #TheAdaptavistGroup

Our special guest on this DevOps Decrypted episode is Gene Kim – bestselling author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Cookbook and The Unicorn Project. Adaptavist CIO Neal Riley joins us as we discuss the bizarre concepts of slowing down to speed up, the limits of limitless communication – and the “social wiring” of companies that operate at the highest levels. Listen now: https://bit.ly/41FMeqU

It's All Banking and Insurance is happening tomorrow in Milan! 🇮🇹 Meet our experts at stand #6. We'll be there to support and help you on your digital transformation path. We look forward to seeing you there. Learn more and register for the event ➡️ https://bit.ly/4d9O74u

We’re handing the mic to another TAG team member for the latest ‘Three Questions’ 🎤 Hear from Ann Newsham, one of our Senior HR Managers for UK and EMEA, about Mental Health Awareness Month ⤵️ Q: What does Mental Health Awareness Month mean to you? A: It’s really important to have a month dedicated to awareness and reducing stigma, but at the same time, I genuinely hope it’s something that just becomes the norm, rather than only one month a year. We are all affected by mental health in some way. There are so many pressures in modern life that can become overwhelming and the need to offer support to those suffering is acute. We need to educate and persuade governments and corporations to give this issue the recognition and resources it so clearly needs. Q: How do we at TAG support our people's mental health? A: In the HR team, we make use of everything we can to make sure people have the right support—whether it’s Occupational Health, phased returns to work, or building relationships across the business so people know what’s available and who to talk to. More generally, we have a free and 100% confidential employee assistance programme (EAP) for our teams in the UK and US—I’d really encourage people to use it when they need to. We also offer paid subscriptions to the Calm wellbeing app for all employees, and we’ve recently launched our employee resource group (ERG) platform—to all TAG people, please join in! I’m in the Menopause group and we'll be lobbying for people to join us very soon—it’s not just for women either! Q: What resources or support networks do you turn to when you need help with your mental health? A: Personally, I place huge value on my support network of friends and family. As a peri-menopausal woman, life can sometimes be a struggle and some days are tougher than others, but the things that help me feel better are: 🔸 Talking to someone I 100% trust—feeling ‘safe’ is important to me. 🔸 Cutting back on alcohol intake—my sleep and mood benefit from this. 🔸 Cold water swimming or a cold shower—you can get the same endorphin hit! 🔸 ‘Decluttering’ negative people in my life—not easy, but I want to be surrounded by people who bring me up, not down. 🔸 Understanding my breathing—I’ve discovered that I hold my breath when I’m anxious. I'd really recommend reading Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor. So simple but so effective to understand how our breathing affects us. 🔸 Reminders not to beat myself up—like most people I am a ‘work in progress’, and l believe that I set my life ‘bar’ quite high. I’m learning that it’s ok to lower that bar occasionally—it doesn’t mean I’m failing; it just means it’s ok to give myself a break! #TheAdaptavistGroup #ThreeQuestions #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

How do you revolutionise a capital city’s local authority’s public grants application system? What do you do when the local authority of a public city is using an overworked and outdated Excel spreadsheet to manage their vital public grants application system? 🤔 The Adaptavist experts told the City of Reykjavik to say goodbye to overly manual processes, human error, and time sinks, and hello to Jira Service Management! 👋 Watch the video below to see how we consolidated very differing opinions into one solution, integrated Jira into CoR’s existing system, and kept them updated with daily communication–all within an unforgivingly tight deadline. ⏰ 🚀🌟 Watch the full video: https://lnkd.in/gwrJjaxy

Shaping the future of DevOps 🚀 On 14 May, we had an incredible event focused on the future of DevOps and how GitLab is leading the charge with innovative security, compliance, and operational efficiency solutions. A special shoutout to our Kuala Lumpur team for organising this fantastic event, and a heartfelt thanks to our guest speakers, Jonathan Lim and Tevan Raj, for their invaluable insights! Thank you to everyone who joined us. Stay tuned for more! #DevOps #GitLab #Adaptavist

Join Phill F., Principal Customer Success Advocate at Adaptavist for the FREE webinar: 'Value Streams and their delivery with Atlassian's Jira family' 💡 Delivering value to your customers is crucial and what differentiates your services from those of your competitors. It plays a pivotal role in both acquiring and retaining your customers. 🤝 Learn how to effectively build the end-to-end process of your value streams, from the initial concept right through to delivering them to your customers. Book your free ticket for 11am GMT, 28 May: https://lnkd.in/dGakukjM #ITSM

What a great day with the Tallinn Atlassian Community Events, led by Kerli Loopman! Robert (Bobby) Bailey shared our latest updates from Team '24, and it was great to hear from Atlassian Product team members Nick Thulin and Grażyna Kaszkur. We'd like to give a big thank you to everybody involved in putting together the event; it's always great to meet members of the Atlassian Community!

How do your teams use AI? 🤔 AI is shaking up how teams work; understanding its capabilities can help accelerate innovation and maximise efficiency for your teams. We've teamed up with our fellow Atlassian Marketplace Partners, Deviniti, K15t, and codefortynine GmbH to share our experiences. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3JTFeOT #AI #Atlassian

You can't put a price on the value of your data stored in Jira, which is why it's vital that you put measures in place to ensure your instance is always safe from breaches and leaks. Luckily, there’s a simple way to achieve this: using Encryption for Jira. Encryption for Jira automatically encrypts your most important custom fields and attachments, keeping them hidden from bad actors and hidden from people who don't need access. 🔐 Discover how to use Encryption for Jira to gain peace of mind over your data in our recent blog post: https://hubs.li/Q02x2LhN0