New Article: The Climbing Rope - Why Projects Rise or Fall Together
Featured Article: AI Agents in Jira Can Now Write, Not Just Read - Rovo A2A Goes GA
Live Event (9/30): Building a Lightweight Risk Management Framework in Jira and Confluence
PM Best Practice: Give Every Dependency One Named Owner
Tuesday Brief: Project Online retires tomorrow, and this issue looks at what keeps a team steady when the ground moves. Ronald B. Smith ties a project team to a climbing rope, then we look at what changes when AI agents start writing into the Jira record under your name. Vlad Petrescu builds a risk framework live tomorrow, and the October 7 roundtable picks up once the retirement has passed
New Article: The Climbing Rope - Why Projects Rise or Fall Together
Climbers tie into a single rope because one slip travels to everyone attached to it. Ronald B. Smith applies that picture to project teams and follows the rope through trust, communication, dependencies, risk, and shared accountability to see where the strain lands. It reads quickly, and it gives you a fresh way to describe a team that is under load. Read Article (5 minutes)
Featured Article: AI Agents in Jira Can Now Write, Not Just Read - Rovo A2A Goes GA
Since August, connected AI agents can create work items and Confluence pages using the permissions of the person who linked them. A ticket an agent raises carries that person's name, which leaves a question most delivery teams haven't answered yet: how would you know who, or what, wrote a given entry in your project record? The article covers what changed, where the permission model stops, and a short list of decisions to settle before an agent shows up in your instance. Read it before tomorrow's session and bring your questions for Vlad.
Live Event (9/30): Building a Lightweight Risk Management Framework in Jira and Confluence
Risk registers tend to live in spreadsheets, far from the work they're meant to govern, and they go stale quickly. Atlassian consultant Vlad Petrescu builds one live inside Jira and Confluence, so you can watch each piece come together.
What You'll Learn:
How likelihood, impact, ownership, and mitigation map to Jira issue types, fields, and workflows
How to set up a risk register with scoring and linked work
How Jira Automation rules handle scoring, alerts, and escalations
How to build risk dashboards for stakeholders and leadership
🗓️ Wednesday, September 30
🕛 12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
📍 Live on Zoom
🏅 1 PMI PDU: [confirm category]
Vlad takes live questions, so bring a risk process you're struggling to keep current.
Learn More + Register Here This session is for MPUG members. Membership includes live access and replays. Through September 30, your first year is $99 instead of $159, and past members can renew at $129. Join or Renew Today.
Live Event (10/7): Life After Project Online - A Community Roundtable
By the time this session starts, Project Online will have been retired for a week. The people who ran real migrations this year sit down together to compare where things stand: Erik van Hurck, Ira Brown, Nenad Trajkovski, Eric and Jeff Christoph, and Tim Runcie, with more Microsoft MVP guests to be announced.
🗓️ Wednesday, October 7
🕛 12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
📍 Live on Zoom
🏅 1 PMI PDU: Business Acumen
Learn More + Register Here MPUG members get live access and replays. Through September 30, your first year is $99 instead of $159, and past members can renew at $129. Join or Renew Today.
September Membership Sale ends tomorrow!
Through September 30, a first year of annual membership is $99 instead of $159. That includes live events, replays, and the full course catalog, including the scheduling course above.
First-time members use discount code: new2mpug
Returning members can renew at $129 using the code: mpugloyal26
PM Best Practice: Give Every Dependency One Named Owner
List the three dependencies your project is most exposed to this week and put one named person beside each. Ronald B. Smith's advice in The Climbing Rope is to confirm ownership early and revisit it often, because a dependency everyone shares is one nobody is watching.
