Atlassian Team '24: Everything You Need to Know
It’s the event of year for Atlassian fans: Team ’24 landed in Vegas last week.
We, along with hundreds of fellow Atlassian advocates, partners and vendors, were part of the action. Team ’24 has always been one of the highlights of our calendar, and this year didn’t disappoint.
From leaps forward in AI to significant developments in Jira, the event was brimming with product updates and insights. So, allow us to guide you through the key updates you need to know about.
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AI is continuing to evolve - fast
This time last year at Team ’23, Atlassian announced Atlassian Intelligence, its flagship AI offering.
Since then, we’ve seen Atlassian Intelligence enter general availability and start to have an impact on teams’ work – from summarising extensive text in Confluence documents to supporting agents in Jira Service Management.
Today, Atlassian estimates that 30,000 organisations are boosting their productivity with Atlassian Intelligence, and that it is saving teams an average of 45 minutes a week.
Team’24 saw the unveiling of several exciting new features. We particularly like its ‘AI in whiteboards’ functionality, where AI will transform your planning and brainstorming by generating ideas, creating visual sticky notes and grouping insights together.
Alongside this, we’re looking forward to the ‘AI work breakdown’ feature, whereby Atlassian Intelligence will suggest where to break epics into issues, and issues into sub-tasks. Designed to cut the time spent creating issues one-by-one, this feature is currently in Beta.
Introducing Rovo
At this year’s event, the true focus was on a new AI-powered tool joining the Atlassian ecosystem: Rovo.
Described by Atlassian as the ‘new product that helps you turn information into action in a heartbeat’, Rovo has been designed to solve the problem of enterprise search and knowledge discovery.
With Rovo, you’ll be able to search and find information across a vast array of tools and platforms, from third-party apps to home-grown systems.
Alongside its immense search capabilities, Rovo’s unique value derives from Atlassian’s teamwork-graph, a data model first shared when Atlassian Intelligence was launched. Without context, data is meaningless, so Rovo draws upon your organsation’s own structure, people, projects and objectives, to provide valuable, real-time results.
Following its unveiling at Team’24, Atlassian have shared a comprehensive overview of Rovo here, which is well worth a read.If you’re eager to try this pioneering new AI tool, you can sign up for the Atlassian Rovo waitlist. Rest assured, we’ll be equipping our team with all the Rovo knowledge and experience we can, so that we’ll be ready to help you optimise your experience when it’s fully available.
Atlassian University: Free to attend
At Team ’24, Atlassian made a very interesting announcement: training will now be free to access for all. Covering everything from Trello best practice to JSM configurations, this exciting development will be sure to level-up the utilisation and effective implementation of the Atlassian product suite.
A new chapter for Jira
One of the wonders of Atlassian is that it never stands still – the team are continuously seeking new ways to innovate and exceed customer expectations.
As one of the ‘Atlassian originals’ Jira (or, as it’s often referred to, Jira Software) is no stranger to this evolution – but even we were surprised at some of the significant changes announced at this year’s Team event.
Put simply, Jira Work Management (JWM) is being rolled into Jira Software (which will now solely be referred to as Jira), to create a powerful tool where all teams can manage their work.
The change has resulted in some exciting new upgrades to Jira’s functionality. From the new ‘Goals’ capability (coming soon) to unite all teams with shared objectives, to increasingly flexible ways to manage work with enhanced views and plans, this is a big shake-up for Jira.
How can you start using Jira?
A couple of things to note here. The first is that the tool consolidation mentioned above only impacts Jira Cloud.
If you’re already a Jira Cloud user, then you don’t need to do anything. There’s no change to your plan or pricing, and you can simply start benefitting from your new work management functionality today! (Some features will be rolled out over the coming months, so do keep an eye out for those.)
If you’re a Jira Work Management user, Atlassian have confirmed you’ll continue to have access to JWM until you’re migrated to a Jira subscription. Migrations are due to begin in early 2025.
Increased investment in Cloud security
Information security has never been more important, with high-profile security breaches hitting the headlines with alarming regularity.
As such, another highlight of Team’24 was the unveiling of Atlassian Guard. This brings together existing Atlassian Access and Becon capabilities alongside innovative new data-loss prevention functionality.
The result is robust new security product, designed to protect your data from misuse, detect threats and strengthen your Cloud security processes – all with a unique Atlassian focus.
Atlassian Guard is available in two plans. Standard provides all the Access features you’ve come to know and rely on, with additional enhancements around SSO and other areas.
The premium plan, meanwhile, extends your information security measures with even more, from expanded threat detection and investigation to comprehensive audit logging.
And finally, the winner is…
We couldn’t leave our Team ‘24 round-up without a final shout out for our exceptional team, who took home this year’s coveted Partner of the Year: Services award.
Awarded to Partners who have demonstrated an outstanding contribution and achievements on behalf of Atlassian customers, we were utterly thrilled to be crowned winners.
We love helping our customers to maximise value from their Atlassian toolset, exceeding their expectations and and guiding them to long-term success. So, to have our team recognised in this way – and on the global stage of Team’24 – was a real highlight.
So long, Las Vegas
That’s it for another year.
We always leave Team buzzing with ideas and inspiration for the next 12 months. Hopefully, if you weren’t able to be at the event in person, this round-up has captured some of that innovation and excitement for you too.
As always, we’d love to talk to you about your Atlassian tech-stack. Whether you’re looking at ways to optimise your tooling, need support with dedicated Atlassian training, or have a complex project on the horizon, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.
We offer a 30-minute free consultation, so there’s time for you to tell us all about your challenges, objectives and more. Do contact us today – our service is award-winning, you know!
