You know if you don’t maintain your Jira application that it can quickly grow out of control. But where do you start? How do you make small improvements without impacting daily business? What should you do if your application is already a bit of a mess? In this presentation, we’ll address: * How to set standards so you don’t have more schemes to maintain than necessary * How to clean up schemes and custom fields when you have too many * How to archive old projects and unneeded issues * How to track changes and customization requests so you have a record and an audit trail. SPEAKER BIO: Rachel Wright is an entrepreneur, process engineer, and Atlassian Certified Jira Administrator. She started using Jira in 2011, became a Jira administrator in 2013, and was certified in 2016. Rachel also uses Atlassian tools in her personal life for accomplishing goals and tracking tasks. Her first book, the "Jira Strategy Admin Workbook", was written in Confluence and progress was tracked in Jira!

The Future of Jira Administration with Power Admin: Configure & optimize Jira faster with full understanding of usage & change impact. SPEAKER BIO: Peter Toudjarski is the founder and CEO of Botron Software. He has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry and held management positions in Bulgaria and Silicon Valley. Most of his career was focused around building high-performance teams and organizations using Agile processes. He has experience as Jira administrator and owner of Atlassian tools since 2007. Peter holds Scrum Alliance CSP, CSM, CSPO certification; SAFe SA and SPC4; CMMI and Six Sigma certifications.

We’ll take a deep dive into Atlassian Data Center products on AWS. Starting with some basics of Data Center and what AWS services are utilized, then some best practices around sizing and scaling. Lastly, we’ll discuss ideas and tooling around how to automate the implementation on AWS. SPEAKER BIO: Michael March's 20+ years of business experience has been a crucible of improving companies ranging in size from a two-person startup to Fortune 500 companies. He has been involved in aspects of the business ranging from heavy software development to the management of massive computing infrastructures, purposefully shifting organizational sizes, types, domain foci and operational foci. Michael created Arizona's first Internet service twenty years ago as a co-founder and CEO of Internet Direct, Inc. Michael continued his pioneering efforts in shaping the commercial internet after Earthlink acquired Internet Direct, Inc. in 1998, serving as the head of Earthlink's internal tools teams. Michael has dedicated his career to helping in the automation of every aspect of IT infrastructure for organizations of all sizes. This automation has been applied to all portions of the businesses, from development to operations to customer support.