Last year, we shared a vision to make Jira the single record of work for all teams. Now we’re shipping the biggest changes yet to make that vision a reality. Jira is sleeker, faster, and supercharged with powerful AI agents, designed to help every team plan smarter, move faster, and stay aligned. When you connect work across your entire organization, teams don’t just stay on top of what’s happening—they unlock the potential to drive real, business impact.
And we’re not the only ones saying it – analysts agree. In 2024, Atlassian was the only platform recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for both DevOps(1) and Marketing Work Management(2).
We believe that recognition reflects more than just surface-level improvements—it signals a deeper transformation in how Jira helps teams run, grow, and share best practices. Let’s start with how we’re making that easier than ever.
Scale what works, without reinventing it
Driving real business impact means more than doing great work—it means being able to repeat it across teams, time and time again. That’s where custom project templates come in—capturing what works and scaling it across the business.
When a team nails down the best way to manage a process—like launching a marketing campaign or running a legal review—admins can now save that config as a custom project template. That includes pre-configured work types, custom fields, workflows, permissions and more.
Other teams can then spin up new projects using those same proven practices, right from the Jira template library. It’s a faster, more consistent way to scale how great work gets done—without re-inventing the wheel each time.
Scaling what works is just the first step in helping teams unlock their full potential. The next challenge is ensuring that work flows seamlessly and intelligently across every function. That’s where Rovo, Atlassian’s AI-powered solution, steps in.
AI that connects the dots to drive work forward
Powered by Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph, Rovo bridges the context gap that slows teams down. It connects information – like people to projects, goals to work – pulling in context not only from Atlassian tools like Jira, Confluence, and Loom, but also third-party apps like Google Drive. The result? A unified system of record that helps teams understand what’s happening, why it matters, and what they need to do next.
Capture and organize work from anywhere
Ideas, requests, and tasks come at you from every direction—Slack messages, emails, meetings, and more. AI Work Create makes sure nothing gets lost—instantly turning those conversations into rich, fully contextualized work items, right from where they happen. Whether it’s Slack, Gmail, Confluence, or your IDE, you can capture and organize work with everything you need to move it forward—no copy-pasting required.
Make work more contextual
Once work is created, AI turns it into something far more useful: a clear, fully contextualized task your team can act on immediately. With just a task name or a Confluence link, AI can write a complete description, create child work items based on past patterns, and link relevant work and resources from Jira and Confluence.
Now, you don’t need to spin your wheels trying to decode vague work items, or chase teammates for status updates. It’s clarity for your collaborators, without spending hours on rewrites.
Turn work into action
When work is clear in Jira, it’s easy to use Rovo agents to transform tickets into technical plans with the Code Planner, part of our Developer Agent collection (coming soon). Rovo agents understand your existing codebase and requirements, from the work documented in Jira, and uses it to create detailed step-by-step guides that get developers confidently coding faster.
Build workflows without writing a single rule
AI is also changing how teams design and optimize their processes—without the usual complexity.
Creating automations or building complicated workflows used to mean writing JQL or fiddling with configurations. Not anymore. With Workflow Builder, a Rovo Teamwork Agent (coming soon), just describe what you want to happen—and it’s done.
AI is helping teams make sense of their work faster—connecting the dots, surfacing what matters, and cutting out the guesswork. And just as we’ve made Jira smarter, we’ve also made it simpler. We’ve rethought the experience from the ground up—starting with how work is named, viewed, and navigated—to make Jira easier to use for every team.
Run any project, for any team
We’re introducing one of the most significant redesigns in Jira’s history—a big step forward in our mission to make Jira the most powerful and intuitive platform for project management, no matter what you do or how you work.
Meet the new home for Work
At the heart of every project is the work item. We’ve updated our language to refer to “work” instead of “issues,” to make Jira more inclusive for every kind of team. Now, whether you’re planning a campaign or reporting a bug, you can refer to work in ways everyone can understand.
We’ve also redesigned the work item view to help you take action. It’s easier to collapse sections to minimize noise and stay focused, and update tasks with in-line editing. Best of all, we launched threaded comments, one of our most requested features, to keep discussions flowing and context in-line.
Lists, reimagined
Of course, how work is organized matters just as much as what’s being done. That’s why we’ve also reimagined one of Jira’s most popular views; bringing powerful spreadsheet-like functionality to lists. You can now drag and drop, edit in-line, filter, or group work items to see and shape work in ways that makes sense to your team. It’s faster, more flexible, and easier to use.
Field new requests from anyone—no Jira account required
Capturing work from the right people shouldn’t require a workaround. With new public forms in Jira, anyone can submit a request, even if they’re outside your organization or don’t use Jira (yet).
That means HR teams can now intake requests from job candidates, legal can receive questions from outside counsel, or creative teams can collect briefs directly from internal or external partners—all without added friction.
And there’s more: conditional fields have landed in Jira. Now, forms can adjust based on the type of request—showing only the fields that are relevant and hiding ones that aren’t. That means less noise, cleaner intake, and faster follow-through.
Navigation that works the way you do
We’re also making it easier for you to quickly find the work you frequent most with our redesigned navigation.
It’s easy to reorder by priority, pin what matters most, and hide what doesn’t. Plus, the navigation experience is now consistent across Atlassian apps, giving teams a more seamless, familiar experience no matter where or what they’re working on.
Teamwork Collection: better together
Today, we’re bringing Jira, Confluence, and Loom, along with Rovo teamwork agents, together in a single, tightly integrated offering, Teamwork Collection.
With Teamwork Collection, you get Jira as your system of record for work, Confluence as your collaborative, AI-powered workspace, Loom for fast, async communication, and Rovo to tie it all together with smart, connected insights. It’s a key step toward the Atlassian System of Work—helping teams align to goals, track work together, unlock knowledge, and bring their big ideas to life.
Learn how your team can get started with Teamwork Collection at https://www.atlassian.com/collections/teamwork.
Learn more at Team ’25
These Jira announcements and our new Teamwork Collection were unveiled at our annual conference, Team ‘25. Want to learn more about how teams are using these new features? Check out our live-streamed and on-demand sessions.
- Gartner, Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms, Keith Mann, Thomas Murphy, Bill Holz, George Spafford, et al, 3 September 2024.
- Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Marketing Work Management Platforms, Michael McCune, Lacretia Marsh, et al., 17 December 2024
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