The future of teamwork unveiled: AI and beyond at Atlassian Team Barcelona
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The future of teamwork unveiled: AI and beyond at Atlassian Team Barcelona
The Adaptavist Group
9 October 2024
7 min read
The Adaptavist Group
9 October 2024
7 min read
In this blog, we share all the key announcements and news from the show floor at Team 24 Europe across the Atlassian suite of tools.
AI, innovation in the cloud, and systems of work were the topics del día as Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO and Co-founder at Atlassian took to the keynote stage at Team Barcelona this week to showcase the latest and greatest innovations from the team.
“Atlassian isn't tiptoeing around AI—we're jumping in with both feet,” he told the audience before diving into how Atlassian is delivering usable AI with Atlassian Intelligence.
Helping organisations cut down on manual work, make essential information findable, and extending the capabilities of physical teams, he explained, represents a "major shift in teamwork" with Atlassian AI.
"Great AI really requires great data" Mike continued, before sharing a series of updates around Atlassian Rovo.
Designed to help bridge knowledge silos, Atlassian Rovo helps workers, in Mike's words, "find knowledge, learn from it, and take action". Built on Atlassian's common data model Teamwork Graph, Rovo pulls and centralises data from across Atlassian tools and other work management applications, offering teams a complete view of an organisation's goals, knowledge, teams, and work statuses. From this data, Rovo becomes an AI teammate to streamline how work is delivered—and the richer the data in the teamwork model, the more powerful Rovo becomes.
In great news for customers leveraging Rovo, Mike shared that:
- Rovo is now in general availability for all customers
- By early 2025, 50 connectors will be available to integrate data from popular third-party SaaS applications for Rovo to leverage
- Teams can now bring their own data to Rovo via an API that pushes data through from internal sources
- Rovo can now connect to Confluence Data Centre, with Jira following
- Rovo chat and definitions now enable users to ask follow-up questions and learn more
Users can now deploy Rovo out-of-the-box by building their own Rovo agents for specific use cases without code, or with the 20 Rovo agents now available to solve essential business problems and help teams with tasks like writing job descriptions, reporting bugs, creating service desk tickets, and generating OKRs.
It was also announced that Autodev Agent is now available in Early Access, allowing teams to leverage AI to generate code plans, create pull requests, and build software within Rovo.
The new Autoreview Agent, meanwhile, shortens the pull request process by extending a team's capabilities with an experienced dev to review code, make suggestions, and directly apply code changes. Teams can accept or reject suggestions, chat with the agent to understand why the suggestions are being made, and even learn and upskill with AI.
It was also announced that Autodev Agent is now available in Early Access, allowing teams to leverage AI to generate code plans, create pull requests, and build software within Rovo.
The new Autoreview Agent, meanwhile, shortens the pull request process by extending a team's capabilities with an experienced dev to review code, make suggestions, and directly apply code changes. Teams can accept or reject suggestions, chat with the agent to understand why the suggestions are being made, and even learn and upskill with AI.
Atlassian's system of work
Next, Anu Bharadwaj, President at Atlassian, took the audience through Atlassian's system of work, a philosophy of how tech-driven organisations can do their best work—from setting goals to delivering work to unleashing collective knowledge—with Atlassian tools and solutions across all departments.
She shared how Atlassian tools support collaboration and success across the lifecycle, from ideation onwards, unveiling exciting announcements and product evolutions along the way.
Goals
With the goals of this system of work front of mind, the big announcement here was the launch of Atlassian Focus, a new solution supporting enterprise agility.
Now available for free for existing Jira Align customers, Focus provides a centralised hub for leaders to map and track high-level goals, the work required to meet those goals, the teams needed to deliver, and budgets needed, aligning work to strategic priorities and goals. By converting strategy and planning documents into a living artefact, teams and leaders can simply track how work at the team level is delivering against strategy and OKRs.
Enterprise, geographic, regional, divisional, line of business and department hierarchies support strategy execution at every level of the business, with the ability to add portfolio epics directly from Jira and Jira Align.
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Work
Under the ‘work’ aspect of the system of work, Anu detailed how enhancements across the Atlassian stack will help teams communicate efficiently and get what they need, faster.
Program Boards in Jira now help managers achieve a single view of work, giving them visibility into the work, priorities, and dependencies of multiple teams.
She also announced general availability of Compass Premium for large organisations looking to scale their internal developer portal with enhanced capabilities across compliance, support, and data. An integration between Jira Service Management and OpsGenie is also available to support improved collaboration between IT and development teams.
Unleash collective knowledge
A series of updates were then shared by Zeynep Ozdemir, CMO at Atlassian around evolutions to products designed to support knowledge sharing and management as part of the system of work. They included:
- Live pages in Confluence will be available in Beta early 2025—allowing users to create and edit pages in real time without the need to commit.
- Loom is now fully integrated into Jira and Confluence.
- Loom AI can now personalise and edit videos automatically.
And as always, security remains the bedrock of Atlassian's cloud strategy, with Atlassian Guard Premium now in general availability to support enhanced security and threat protection for its cloud platforms.
And that's a wrap from the founder's keynote! Stay tuned for more updates from across the event.
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The Adaptavist Group