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May 6, 2026
Team '26
Atlassian
AI
Cloud
Rovo
Smarts by the Token: A Trusted-Advisor Tour of the Team '26 Announcements

'Anyone can buy smarts by the token.' A trusted-advisor tour of the Team '26 announcements and the idea — context beats models — running through them all.

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A packed conference audience with hands raised in excitement during a keynote, evoking Day 1 of a major industry conference
May 5, 2026
Team '26
Atlassian
AI
Cloud
Rovo
The Coffee Line Tells You Everything: Day 1 at Team '26 Anaheim

Day 1 at Atlassian Team '26 Anaheim: what the coffee line, and the Rovo deflection stats overheard in it, reveal about where teamwork is heading.

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Close-up of a green circuit board with intricate copper traces, a fitting visual metaphor for the connections finally flowing between parent and child Bitbucket Pipelines
May 4, 2026
Atlassian
Bitbucket
Cloud
Automation
Developer Experience (DevEx)
Send the Note in the Bottle: Bitbucket Pipelines Just Quietly Solved the Family Communication Problem

Passing artifacts between parent and child Bitbucket Pipelines used to mean S3 workarounds. A quiet update finally solves the family communication problem.

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Two colleagues warmly welcoming a new team member with a handshake in a bright modern office
May 1, 2026
ScriptRunner
Atlassian
Cloud
Rovo
Workflow
The Spreadsheet With 47 Columns: Why HR's Best-Kept Secret Is Already Sitting Inside Jira Service Management

Still onboarding new hires with a 47-column spreadsheet? HR's best-kept secret is already inside Jira Service Management. Here's how to put it to work.

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A man at a laptop in a modern open-plan office, in the middle of a video call with a colleague
April 30, 2026
Jira Service Management
Confluence
AI
Atlassian
Cloud
Show, Don't Type: How Loom and Jira Service Management Quietly Rewrote the Rules of Service Desk Work

Teams using Loom inside Jira Service Management cut triage time 30–50%. How showing instead of typing quietly rewrote the rules of service desk work.

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A man and a woman standing in front of a whiteboard arranged with sticky notes like a Kanban board, planning project work
April 29, 2026
Teamwork collection
Atlassian
AI
Cloud
Rovo
Jira Just Got a New Coworker (And It Doesn't Need a Lunch Break): What the 2026 Spring Release Actually Means for Your Team

The Jira 2026 Spring Release makes AI agents real coworkers, not just summary-writers. What actually changed — and why it's a bigger deal than the headline.

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A crowd of attendees seated in a conference hall, watching a keynote presentation
April 29, 2026
Team '26
Atlassian
AI
Cloud
Teamwork collection
Mouse Ears, Machine Teammates, and Three Days I'm Genuinely Excited About: Why Atlassian Team '26 Belongs on Your May Calendar

Why Atlassian Team '26 (Anaheim, May 5–7) belongs on your calendar. A trusted advisor's take on what's coming and how fast it changes the way teams work.

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Dramatic mountain landscape representing Jira as an underused strategic advantage for teams.
April 27, 2026
Jira
Why Jira Is the Secret Weapon Your Team Didn't Know It Needed

Jira isn't just for developers. If your team tracks work in email threads and an optimistic spreadsheet, here's why Jira is the secret weapon you're missing.

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A team of colleagues collaborating around a laptop in a bright modern office, smiling and pointing at the screen
April 24, 2026
Atlassian
AI
Cloud
Rovo
Teamwork collection
Three Apps, One Brain, Zero Wasted Tuesdays: The Surprisingly Personal Case for Atlassian's Teamwork Collection

Knowledge workers lose a quarter of every week hunting for information. The personal case for Atlassian's Teamwork Collection — three apps, one shared brain.

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April 17, 2026
Bitbucket
Atlassian
AI
Cloud
Rovo
Pull Requests and a Plot Twist: How Bitbucket Quietly Became the Most Strategic Tool in Your Engineering Stack

Atlassian's Software Collection puts Bitbucket at the center of your engineering stack. Why pull requests just became the most strategic tool you're underusing.

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