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From static spreadsheets to strategic agility: How CNA Insurance unified planning with Atlassian’s Strategy Collection
Find out how a century-old insurance leader initiated a culture of constant improvement and agile strategy, dismantling silos to align the whole organization.
Automate more in Jira: A guide to Forge Automation Actions
Are you looking for ways to make your work in Atlassian products faster and easier? Forge Automation Actions can help! With these actions, you can automate repetitive tasks in Jira, saving time and reducing mistakes. In this blog, I’ll explain what Forge Automation Actions are, how they work, and how you can use them to […]
Spec Driven Development with Rovo Dev
I’ll start by sharing Martin Fowler’s post on semantic diffusion (bliki: Semantic Diffusion) as I feel it is strongly at play here with the term Spec Driven Development, which this blog will discuss the benefits of using. The definition of Spec Driven Development (SDD) keeps shifting, it’s something that exists in a rapidly changing environment. […]
Scaling responsibly: evolving our API rate limits to power the next generation of Atlassian Cloud
At Atlassian, we’re committed to delivering a cloud platform that’s reliable, scalable, and flexible enough to let developers and partners experiment, iterate, and validate their ideas quickly. Whether you’re an Atlassian Marketplace partner, a developer building custom integrations, or part of an enterprise team automating workflows, our API platform plays a critical role in your […]
See what Forge developers are building for Codegeist 2025
Codegeist 2025 is underway. This year Atlassian’s annual hackathon is awarding up to $120,000 in prizes. I’ve been reviewing early submissions, and three apps stood out for how they solve common challenges. I’ll walk through what makes them interesting and share practical lessons you can apply to your own Forge app development whether you’re entering […]
How to effectively utilise AI to enhance large-scale refactoring
Learn how Atlassian engineers used Rovo Dev and AI-driven workflows to safely refactor a large frontend monorepo, removing feature flags and dead code at scale.
The Forge Fundamentals Certificate Is Now Available
We’re excited to announce the Forge Fundamentals certificate is now available! It’s free, it’s official, and it validates your Forge development skills. Whether you’re new to Atlassian Forge or already maintaining a suite of Forge applications, this developer credential helps you stand out in the developer community and connects you with other credentialed Forge developers. […]
Ship faster with focused Subagents in Rovo Dev CLI
Subagents turn one big, brittle prompt into a small team of specialized helpers you can test, reuse, and permission separately, so you ship faster with less risk. Rovo Dev exposes this subagent capability and supports both interactive creation and markdown-based configuration for predictable, auditable delegation patterns, keeping the main thread’s context lean and on-task. Wait! […]
Rovo Dev agent, now available in the CLI
Agentic AI in your terminal, built for developers
Building with Forge: Recap from the Atlassian Builders’ Summit
At the first Atlassian Builders’ Summit, over 150 practitioners explored Forge through keynotes, workshops, and hands-on sessions. This recap highlights how admins and non-developers are building apps, boosting security, and leveraging key Forge features such as custom workflow rules, UI components, REST APIs, board action modals, dynamic tables, external data macros, and advanced JSM portal extensions.
Understand, Enhance, and Troubleshoot Your Apps with the Forge MCP Server
The recent release of the Forge MCP Server is set to revolutionize Forge app development—making it easier than ever, even for non-developers, to add powerful capabilities to Jira and Confluence. Let me show the capabilities I use most frequently to help you make the most of it right away. These capabilities include: No matter which […]
Extended Timelines for Marketplace Revenue Share Changes
summary Atlassian is extending the timeline for upcoming Marketplace revenue share rate increases, originally scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2026. The new effective date for these changes is April 1, 2026, with subsequent increases adjusted accordingly. Forge revenue share increases: 15% -> 16% April 1, 2026 16% -> 17% Oct 1, 2026 Connect […]
Start Your Engines: Codegeist 2025 Hackathon Is Here
Codegeist 2025 is officially open. This year, we’ve brought you a hackathon that’s all about building apps that help teams perform like elite racing crews inspired by Atlassian Williams Racing — fast, coordinated, and making the right calls under pressure. Whether you’re a seasoned Forge developer or just getting started with app development for Jira […]
Table Enhancer’s Evolution: Elevating User Experience from Data Center to Cloud
This article is a guest post by TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, an Atlassian Marketplace Partner People love using Confluence tables to store data, but they often need some of the functionality they would get from a spreadsheet provider. That’s why we created the Table Enhancer for Confluence, a plugin that adds features to tables, including: […]
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