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What 5M+ daily MCP tool calls taught us about the future of AI at work
Over a million users trust Atlassian’s Rovo MCP server every month to do real work through agents. We dug into those interactions: how AI agents are actually used at enterprise scale, and who gets the most value.
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Elena Verna on AI growth: Automate the basics, elevate the creative
The former growth leader at Dropbox, Miro, and Amplitude on using AI to automate the basics — so humans can focus on the creative work that actually matters.
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.
Secure AI adoption with data loss prevention (DLP)
Your AI strategy is only as good as your data security foundation AI makes your organization’s knowledge easier to find and use. That’s the whole point. But it also means sensitive data moves faster, surfaces in more places, and becomes harder to track. The pressure to act is real, but the playbook isn’t new. You […]
Meet the Knowledge Architect: The Role Every AI-First Organization Will Need Soon
While most enterprises are talking about how they approach AI transformation, increasingly knowledge management and arranging the required context are important factors in whether or not AI can work effectively. This shift is creating demand for a new role called the Knowledge Architect. We have Systems Architects to design the overall structure of software and […]
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AI’s speed paradox: why faster individuals don’t mean faster organizations
AI has accelerated execution, but misalignment is quietly eroding shared outcomes. Here’s what leaders can do next.
New research shows honesty about AI use at work is backfiring
New research from Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab finds that workers who disclose using AI are judged as 10x lazier than peers doing identical work, unless their
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
Stop counting who uses AI. Start finding who’s transforming with it.
At Atlassian, we’ve gone through three evolutions of how we measure employee AI adoption. Each time we changed the metrics, we learned something telling about
The AI-native SDLC is paying off: 19% more PRs and 2–3 hours saved per developer per week
Reimagining software development around an AI-native SDLC AI is now a core part of how software gets built. 93% of developers use AI tools and
Atlassian Design System: Building the context engine for the AI era
Design systems are no longer ‘just’ about consistent UI and component libraries. They’re strategic capabilities that harness design intent, drive coherence and accelerate a team’s
How AI is Changing Developer Workflows: Lessons From Engineers
AI writes the code. Engineers spend their day on everything else.
How to minimize the impact of manager changes
Outcomes hinge on how the transition is handled, not how often it happens.
Advice for first-time managers, from leaders who’ve been there
If you’re new to leading a team, take these 29 tips from a slew of seasoned managers.
How executives can bridge the strategy-execution gap for tech-driven organizations
Learn how C-levels can remove chaos and drive clarity by building a truly connected enterprise and optimizing their approach to AI.
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,
The Dunning-Kruger effect: why and how we overestimate our own abilities
We all have the tendency to overestimate our own abilities (yes, even you). Here’s how to make sense of this cognitive bias.
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.
Accelerating government modernization with AWS
Government technology teams face a growing mandate: modernize faster, strengthen security, and prepare for an AI-powered future all without disrupting mission-critical systems. To help agencies
Agentic Pipelines now supports OpenAI Codex
Bring your Codex agent into Bitbucket Pipelines. A few weeks ago, we announced support for Claude agents in Bitbucket Pipelines. Today, we’re adding OpenAI Codex
Trace packages back to their source pipeline
When we introduced native Pipelines authentication for Bitbucket Packages, we made it easier to publish artifacts from CI/CD without relying on personal credentials. Now we’re
Introducing Package triggers in Bitbucket Pipelines
In November 2025, we introduced new triggers and workflows to Bitbucket Pipelines to help teams manage and scale complex CI/CD workflows. We later extended that
Introducing @Jira: create work items from any Slack conversation
Turn Slack threads into agent-ready Jira work items, without leaving the conversation. The Jira Cloud for Slack app is already one of the top five
Build AI-powered Forge apps with Atlassian-hosted LLMs
LLMs have become a core tool in every app developer’s stack, powering features that feel almost magical. Users can query data with natural language, summarize
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.
From Ambiguous Questions to Action: Research Mode in Rovo Dev CLI
Not every developer question starts as a coding task. Sometimes the hard part is figuring out where to look: Jira for work history, code for
Accelerated frontend development with RovoDev in a practical example
How it started What happens when a project estimated at two to three quarters gets built in 14 working days? In 2022, the team built
Rovo Dev in Jira as my Spec Driven executor
Intro – my standard flow In my daily work, I have consistently followed the same workflow (also before AI era). With this method, I consistently
Install once, use everywhere: Multi-app compatibility is now live on the Marketplace
Have you ever gone to the Atlassian Marketplace looking for an app that works with both Jira and Confluence? Maybe you found the perfect solution
The bottleneck keeps shifting: What AI is changing about how we build
Over the past few decades in the technology industry, some of the biggest constraints to building products have been about having enough engineers, time, or
Designing In Variables: How Control Panels Accelerate The Way We Design
A year ago, my workflow looked very different. When a design problem opened up, I explored it by hand. Multiple screens. Multiple flows. Sometimes two
Designing AI products you can depend on
Everyone is shipping AI products now, and most look impressive in demos but fail in the messy reality of daily work. The problem often isn’t
Inside Atlassian’s Merge Queues: How we ship faster with fewer incidents
At Atlassian, we use Merge Queues to ship frequent changes with confidence and streamline pull request merges. Across some of our busiest codebases, Merge Queues
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
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AI made your people faster. But it’s your office that’s slowing them down.
AI made individuals faster, but your office is still designed for the old bottleneck. Atlassian research reveals a new framework for the AI-enabled office.
The leadership effect: How a single demo nearly doubled AI usage
Inside the 90% spike in AI usage that followed one live demo – and what other leaders can learn from it.
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A CEO’s guide to AI ROI
How enterprise leaders successfully implement generative AI solutions
Permission to build: Hardwiring a founder mindset into the enterprise
What does it take to maintain a founder’s mindset when your organization scales from a garage to a global powerhouse? Atlassian CEO and co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes sits down with Reddit co-founder and Seven Seven Six investor Alexis Ohanian to talk leadership and teamwork amid the rapid technological shifts brought by AI. Drawing on their founder […]
Rovo at Work: AI that moves work forward
Meet the next evolution of teamwork with Rovo at Work—spotlighting Atlassian’s AI agents in action. See how AI agents are working alongside humans to transform teamwork—right inside the tools you already use.
Designing for the beautiful mess of modern work
The best ideas often come from false starts, conflicting opinions, and rapid iteration. Teamwork is messy, and AI might make it even messier. But the Chief Design Officers of Atlassian and Figma are designing for that reality to turn friction into a creative edge. In this conversation, Charlie Sutton (Atlassian) and Loredana Crisan (Figma) discuss […]
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