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How Atlassian’s Chief Design Officer Builds for Agents
Every 1% increase in the context your agents receive produces a 0.38% improvement in output quality. LangChain’s State of AI Agents 2026 report makes that measurable — and it makes interface design the highest-leverage investment most product teams aren’t treating it as. At Atlassian Team ’26 in Anaheim, Chief Design Officer Charlie Sutton made the […]
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Teaching AI to speak our design language
Atlassian’s use AI to design and build every day, but AI tools are only as good as the context they have. We translated the Atlassian Design System’s documentation content into machine-readable schema files to deliver context to agents using ADS MCP, Skills and more to improve their accuracy and generation speed while reducing AI token costs.
From alert noise to action: How 24 Hour Fitness transformed IT operations with Jira Service Management and Rovo Ops
How a modernized IT Ops team cut alert noise, slashed ITSM costs by 37%, and built a fully connected Ops platform that traces change and reclaims on-call sanity. The learnings in this blog post are based on the session, “From alert noise to action: How 24 Hour Fitness modernized IT Ops with Jira Service Management”, […]
How We Cut up to 80% of Engineering “Chores” Using AI Agents in Jira
Flaky tests and stale feature flags drain engineering time quietly. Here is how Atlassian’s engineering team uses AI agents in Jira to automate both.
How Content Assistant raised the design quality bar without slowing us down
AI is moving fast, and Atlassian app teams are rolling out new features at a cracking pace! In a quest to make sure that UX content stayed top quality, our content design team created the Content Assistant: a helpful teammate powered by Atlassian’s Rovo. It quickly became one of the business’s favourite AI helpers. Here’s what we learned while building it and where we’re going next!
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Atlassian named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Strategic Portfolio Management Tools, Q2 2026
We improved across the board — and our Vision and Innovation scores tell a bigger story about where SPM is heading. We’re proud to share that Atlassian has been recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Strategic Portfolio Management Tools, Q2 2026. But the placement is only part of the story.We have evolved […]
Inside Reddit’s IT playbook: Building for scale and AI-readiness
From tool chaos to trusted AI: how Reddit modernized IT for 4,000 employees
How customers are using Confluence Agents to turn knowledge into action
Docs aren’t just records anymore — they’re fuel for agents that plan, collaborate, and ship with you.
New grads are 1.5x more likely to use AI daily. Here’s why that matters for your hiring strategy.
Companies are cutting new grad hiring to save money. Atlassian research suggests they’re actually cutting their fastest path to AI adoption.
Marketers: stop experimenting and start solving real-world problems with AI
How marketing managers can turn stuck moments into their most valuable AI use cases
What CIOs told Forrester about building an AI‑ready digital workplace
Forrester surveyed CIOs and IT leaders on what it really takes to build a modern, AI‑ready digital workplace, uncovering gaps, opportunities, and practical next steps
Beyond the Jira board: how autonomous workflows unlock engineering velocity
Engineering teams today are shipping more than ever. Sprint boards move quickly, work items are completed on schedule, and releases move forward with steady momentum.
How to handle team conflict as a first-time manager
Three scenarios specific to new managers, plus what to do when all else fails.
75 inspirational leadership quotes you haven’t heard yet
For something to inspire and support your work, take a look at these quotes from true leaders.
Your employees might not feel like they matter. These are the subtle signs
As humans, the only way to survive and thrive is through our relationships with other people. That means mattering to others is a survival instinct,
How to avoid “manager crash” in 2025 and beyond
Meaningful steps organizations can take to support wellbeing, bolster resilience, and set the stage for leaders to thrive.
How to delegate when you’re wired to do the work
Getting input from your team about their capacity, strengths, and preferences makes it easier to loosen your grip.
How to make work more meaningful for your employees
If you were asked for examples of “meaningful work,” what comes to mind? Roles like paramedic, teacher, or humanitarian aid worker might be some common
Brain drain: Are Zombie Projects eating your team’s productivity alive?
Picture the scene: You’ve returned from a wonderful holiday break, invigorated to tackle ambitious projects, and then it hits you. Maybe it’s pinned to your
Toxic positivity at work: how to spot it and squash it
Though well-intended, extreme optimism can hurt more than it helps. Here’s how you can trade false reassurance for true resilience.
All brains on deck: 10 best practices for knowledge-sharing
One person’s knowledge isn’t enough to execute the work that really matters. Even your team can’t go it alone. To make great things happen, your
How hands-on workshops boost teamwide AI confidence
When teams learn by doing, AI stops feeling abstract and starts driving real behavior change, from higher usage to stronger everyday skills.
Better together: 8 essential teamwork skills to master
Use these strategies to align expectations, streamline communication, and crush your goals.
How to implement goal refresh cycles on your team
Five steps to shift from annual goal setting to a quarterly refresh rhythm for better results.
From cost center to growth engine: 5 lessons from Leadership Circle’s AI-first support transformation
Leadership Circle implemented AI-first customer support to serve 3 million customers across 17 languages — achieving a 71% AI resolution rate, 65% fewer manual tickets,
Introducing Cursor in Jira
Assign work items directly to Cursor from Jira, your agent orchestration platform
Agentic Pipelines now supports Claude Code
Last month, we introduced Agentic Pipelines, a new way to orchestrate AI agents to automatically, and routinely, handle the repetitive engineering chores so you can
Structured Queries: Enhancing Search with Natural Language and Filters
If you’re like most people, you don’t remember the exact name of the page you edited three weeks ago—or the precise title of the document
3 ways AI alert grouping is transforming on-call engineering at Atlassian
Learn how Atlassian saved 839 hours in 28 days using AI Alert Grouping in Jira Service Management
Introducing Flex: A Flexible Commercial Model for the AI Era
Built for enterprise agility, a new value-based model helps customers keep pace with AI-driven change
Rovo Dev in Frontend Platform Engineering – AI for small tasks, AI for big tasks
Rovo Dev can help a lot with many common platform tasks – one of them which I have stumbled upon most recently is migration from
Enhancing Developer Workflow with Rovo Dev and Notifications
Why notifications matter for flow Context switching has always been the bane of software engineers, and deep work dies by a thousand paper cuts, such
How Amdahl’s Law still applies to modern-day AI inefficiencies
Discover how a computer science theory from 1967 may be a compass for AI-driven productivity gains across the enterprise.
Agent Context Pruning: How Rovo Dev keeps long sessions useful
AI agents become more useful as they work through longer tasks. But longer tasks also create a memory problem. A serious coding agent accumulates a
MCP Compression: Preventing tool bloat in AI agents
Model Context Protocol (MCP) has made it dramatically easier to connect LLM agents to real tools. The trade-off is that every MCP server tends to
Delivering 120 PRs in two weeks with Rovo Dev in Jira
I’ve had a pretty good experience with our Rovo Dev in Jira solution in the past few weeks. I estimate that I do probably 95%
Design Technologists: The role that turns creativity into code
At Atlassian, a new kind of role is collapsing the gap between idea and reality and changing how quickly teams can move from ‘what if’
Streaming Server-Side Rendering in Confluence
Over the past two years the Confluence team has spent a significant amount of time investing into improving performance – halving the 90th percentile latency
Behind the scenes of Atlassian’s AI Builders Week
At Atlassian, we are often asked how we are adapting internally to AI and transforming our R&D organization to be AI native. One lever we
Engineering the Forge Billing Platform for Reliability and Scale
Introduction Forge is Atlassian’s cloud app development platform. It’s a serverless, Atlassian-hosted environment that allows developers to extend products like Jira and Confluence, and it
Creating with Rovo: How We Built a Collaborative AI Canvas
Learn how Rovo’s collaborative AI canvas was engineered—unifying streaming, structure, and agent-powered workflows to build smarter content creation features.
Advancing semantic search for millions of Rovo users
Rovo brings meaning‑aware search, chat, and agents to Jira, Confluence, and your connected tools, so teams can quickly find the right artifacts and move forward
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Is AI flattening your team’s creativity? Here’s how to tell.
AI can make “good enough” thinking the default. Use this framework to spot the risks of AI over-reliance and decide when humans — not models — should lead.
New grads are 1.5x more likely to use AI daily. Here’s why that matters for your hiring strategy.
Companies are cutting new grad hiring to save money. Atlassian research suggests they’re actually cutting their fastest path to AI adoption.
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Turning AI into infrastructure with Atlassian’s Head of AI
Sherif Mansour has spent over 16 years at Atlassian helping shape products like Jira and Confluence. Now Head of AI at Atlassian, he’s focused on a bigger shift: how AI changes not just what we build, but how teams work together.
Context Graphs Will Reshape How We Work
The fastest teams didn’t switch to a better AI model. They gave their AI memory. At Atlassian Team 2026, they showed us the next evolution of AI capabilities: 150 billion connected objects across an organization, an agent reviewing 2 billion lines of code in 2 minutes, and 44% better answers using half the tokens. Inside […]
The new shape of teamwork: Designing the Human+AI workforce
Wharton professor and leading AI researcher Ethan Mollick, Magnus Östberg, Chief Software Officer at Mercedes‑Benz AG, and Emily Chang, award‑winning tech journalist and television host, explore what’s working now, what’s not, and how successful teams will build with AI toward long-term advantage.
How Atlassian Williams F1 Team is building an AI-led System of Work
In 2025, we shared how Atlassian Williams F1 Team started aligning strategy, work, knowledge, and AI to unlock the potential of a connected System of Work. Now see what happens when they design for flow. We’ll unpack how Williams is rebuilding purpose, work, knowledge, and intelligence flows across the organization – using the Atlassian System […]
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Driving AI adoption through trust: Insights from Atlassian designer Rachel Shepard
Introducing new AIOps integrations with Lansweeper, Coralogix, and Honeycomb
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