At its Crew ’24 occasion in Las Vegas, Atlassian right now introduced that it’s combining Jira Software program with Jira Work Administration right into a single product below the “Jira” model.
The origins of Jira, Atlassian’s flagship undertaking administration software, are in software program growth and situation monitoring for builders, however all through the previous few years, the corporate began to launch Jira variations for different groups as nicely. These included Jira Work Administration for enterprise groups like advertising, gross sales and human assets, which launched in 2021 and changed a earlier product referred to as Jira Core.
“We consider nice groups are constructed on a basis of shared targets, coordinated work, and free-flowing info throughout features,” writes Dave Meyer, the top of product for Jira, in right now’s announcement. “That’s why the most recent evolution of Jira presents a shared place for each crew to align on targets and priorities, monitor and collaborate on work, and get the insights they should construct one thing unbelievable, collectively. We’ve taken one of the best of Jira Work Administration and Jira Software program to make a single undertaking administration software prepared to assist any crew go from good to nice.”
The concept right here is to supply a cross-functional software that enables completely different groups inside an organization to extra simply collaborate and monitor their work. Whereas there have been already connections between Jira Software program and Jira Work Administration (plus Work Administration is already included in each Jira subscription free of charge), Atlassian says that this mixed model will cut back friction and assist completely different groups align on widespread targets, regardless of whether or not they’re engineers, entrepreneurs or designers, for instance.
It’s price noting that Jira Service Administration for IT groups is just not affected by this transformation.
Extra AI in Jira
With this transformation, Atlassian can also be bringing numerous new options to Jira to allow this type of collaboration. Unsurprisingly, these embrace a number of new AI-based instruments.
Perhaps essentially the most fascinating of those is the brand new AI work breakdown (coming to Jira and Jira Premium customers quickly), which can assist groups break down their epics into particular person points (or points into sub-tasks) robotically — with the power to edit them manually, too, in fact. That takes away among the grunt undertaking administration work and can liberate undertaking managers to give attention to the bigger-picture gadgets on their to-do lists.
Quickly, Jira can even have the ability to sum up situation feedback robotically. This functionality can even come to Confluence, Atlassian’s wiki-like workspace software.
At present, to change into a Jira energy consumer, you’ll must be taught the Jira Question Language (JQL) to seek for points on the platform. Now, due to the facility of enormous language fashions, customers will have the ability to use pure language to create these JQL queries.
And for these events the place you don’t know precisely what to jot down, Atlassian can also be introducing a brand new generative AI writing software to Jira that may create, summarize and enhance descriptions and feedback. These identical capabilities are additionally coming to Atlassian’s Trello and Bitbucket, with Jira Product Discovery and Confluence following quickly.
Setting Targets
Because the complete goal of mixing these two instruments is to make collaboration simpler, Jira can also be getting a brand new function that helps groups align on their general targets. That function, imaginatively dubbed “Targets,” will roll out within the coming month and goals to assist customers to “create targets in Jira’s checklist and situation views to visualise how every process maps to a better goal.” There can even be a listing of targets and purpose progress charts “the place targets will be considered within the context of your tasks.”
New views
Jira can also be introducing a number of new methods to work with points and visualize them. Now you can see each undertaking in a spreadsheet-like checklist view, for instance, and make in-line edits. Atlassian notes that this can even make bulk edits simpler.
To higher monitor advanced tasks, Jira Premium and Enterprise customers now get entry to the brand new “Plans” function, which permits customers to trace points from completely different boards and tasks in a single view.
“Now everybody – from leaders to program managers to crew members – can estimate launch dates for cross-team tasks, reply staffing and useful resource questions, or map out yearly targets, all in a single view,” Meyer explains in right now’s announcement.
Talking of time, there’s now additionally a brand new calendar view for monitoring enterprise tasks with points organized by due date. This, Meyer notes, will assist enterprise groups extra simply align their work in sync with upcoming software program releases. The complete launch of this calendar function continues to be a number of months out, although.
