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Field notes from the Atlassian trenches.
Practical, no-fluff guidance on Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management — from the senior consultants who do this every day.
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Atlassian's AI work factory pattern turns repetitive knowledge work into a folder of skills, frameworks, and MCP connections an agent can run on demand. What it gets right, and what it quietly asks you to write down.
Capacity planning, formula fields, and space insights just landed in Jira Cloud. What's genuinely useful, what's tier-gated, and where the fine print bites.
Atlassian now sells five Collections. What's in each bundle, which products you can no longer buy alone, and when the set menu beats a la carte licensing.
Atlassian's new Jira Planner, now in Early Access, turns rough ideas into agent-ready specs grounded in your codebase and Teamwork Graph. The prerequisites are the real story.
Atlassian just shipped Confluence Slides: Rovo-generated presentations built from your existing work, living in Confluence with real permissions and version history. What shipped, the fine print, and why deck-as-content-item is the real story.
Atlassian's Jira Summer 2026 release ships 15 capabilities, generally available across Jira Cloud by the end of August. The agents got the headline; the rebuilt view layer is the part that changes your Mondays.
People keep quote-searching a "49%" Jira Service Management business-teams stat. I traced it to Atlassian's shareholder letters, found out why nobody can quite pin it down, and dug up the stronger number to cite instead.
Assets is leaving Jira Service Management to become its own Atlassian platform app — dedicated roles, its own billing, Teamwork Graph integration, and native backup coverage. What changed, the honest caveats, and four things to check in your instance this week.
Atlassian's Q4 FY26 shareholder letter is a product roadmap in a suit: Teamwork Graph economics, agents inside Jira, and three moves teams should make before FY27 budgeting.
Atlassian's Data Center countdown has three dates, and 2029 is the least important one. What the 2026 and 2028 milestones actually mean, your honest options, and the four moves to make this quarter.
