At Team ‘24 in Las Vegas, we unveiled the next evolution of Jira – a shared place for every team to align on goals and priorities, track and collaborate on work, and get the insights they need to build something incredible, together.
Today, we’re excited to announce new features (and a new look!) that make Jira easier, more flexible, and more powerful for all types of work – helping transform siloed companies into connected ones.
Let’s take a look!
More flexibility, for more teams
No matter the team you’re on, Jira embraces the little things that make teams unique, while keeping you connected to the people, plans and information you need to deliver great work together.
Let’s check out the new ways Jira is bringing more flexibility and customization to support any team’s work style.
Some people [outside of technical and product teams] were thinking of Jira in the early 2010s [when it was geared toward engineers and had a steeper learning curve], and didn’t want to use it. But now, Jira is a completely different product in terms of how it looks and works. Once we get into a demo and start talking about things we can do for them, their minds change.”
Matt Chester, Senior System Engineer at Reddit
Improved navigation, customized for you
Soon we’ll be rolling out a new, customizable navigation experience that brings the most relevant work to your fingertips. From goals, to plans, to projects, and more, a new sidebar gives you quick and easy access to the most important information from your team and across the company. Plus you can personalize it! Reorder items by importance, pin relevant work, and hide what you don’t need.
Along with the new sidebar, we’re also introducing a simplified top navigation that brings AI-powered search front and center. AI-powered search helps surface the most relevant information from across Jira, Confluence, and other Atlassian apps. That means less time wasted hunting things down, and more time to get s#!t done.
We think you’ll love this simplified navigation so much, we’re rolling it out across all Atlassian products for a consistent experience.
More pieces of flair
Wish Jira better reflected your team spirit? With new background colors, images, and card covers, now your team can truly make Jira feel like home. Personalize Jira to reflect your team vibes (we’re more of a cute dogs-in-hats kind of team).
Speaking of flair, we also added a confetti cannon to celebrate any time you move a work item to done.
No more issues
Not every thing you work on is an issue (anymore). With more teams making Jira their home for work, we’re retiring ‘issues’ as our default name for work in Jira. Instead of referring to ‘issues,’ you choose how you refer to your work – whether that’s a “launch”, a “task” or even an “issue”.
Custom project templates to scale your team’s way of working
For scaling enterprises, consistency is key. With custom project templates (one of Jira’s most requested features), soon you’ll be able to create reusable project templates for your organization with pre-configured workflows, automations, fields, permissions, and more. With custom project templates, it’s easy to scale processes you want to standardize – from marketing campaigns, to HR onboarding processes, and more.
Three more features making it easier for teams to work their way:
- Conditional formatting in the list: Create rules to conditionally format rows and cells to highlight what matters most to your team (e.g highlight in red all work that’s due this quarter).
- Form templates: Pre-built form templates make it easy to create intake requests for different use cases. On a marketing team? Easily create forms for frequent requests like website updates or content creation.
- Attachments hub: For teams like design, Jira now features an attachments hub to centralize and manage all images and attachments related to your project. No more switching between apps to find or share a specific file.
Making AI work for Jira users
Atlassian Intelligence (AI) in Jira empowers teams to be their best. Here are a few new AI-powered features in Jira that will enable teams to work smarter.
Save time creating work items
With AI work creation, easily identify and create work in Jira right from a Confluence page. Just highlight the text and AI will suggest a task that you can create directly from the page. And soon, AI work creation will be even more powerful. You will be able to create single work items from Slack messages, or even use AI to scan an entire Confluence page for action items and bulk transform them into multiple work items.
Automatically create work items from Loom video
More of a visual communicator? With Loom AI workflows, you can easily turn any Loom recording into a work item in Jira. Simply record a Loom, click “create an issue,” and Loom AI will generate a detailed work item for your Jira project based on the video transcript. Now you can go from unstructured thought to structured work in seconds.
Break down work in a click
With Jira’s new work breakdown feature, AI helps you break down large projects into individual tasks automatically. Simply create a work item and AI will recommend relevant subtasks that you can approve in a click! Now you can spend less time breaking work down, and more time moving work forward.
Two more ways users are working smarter with AI:
- Issue reformatter (coming soon): Improve the clarity of information in your issue using a generative AI prompt option that reviews and rewrites issue descriptions in a consistent, clear framework to keep everyone on the same page.
- Work suggestions simplify finding the next best task by surfacing recommendations for the most effective actions to take, right inside Jira. This helps dev teams overcome obstacles, eliminate bottlenecks, and turbocharge their pace of delivery
Stay aligned every step of the way
Your engineers, marketers, designers, and other teams may all work differently, but they should still be aligned to shared objectives. Bringing every team into Jira makes it easier for leaders to set goals, align teams to priorities, and track the success of every project in flight.
Goals, everywhere
Previewed earlier this year and now generally available, Goals are now part of the Jira experience. To help keep your priorities front and center, Goals can be viewed in the list, timeline, calendar, and issue views. You can also now filter by Goals.
This one’s for you, program managers
We’re also introducing a new board view within Plans called the program board. This new, drag-and-drop interface allows you to coordinate a program of work and its dependencies across multiple teams on a customizable cadence.
Your next great idea starts with Jira
We can’t wait for you to check out the new ways we’re making Jira easier, more powerful, and more flexible for every team’s working style.
With all teams on the same tool, and on the same page, building something incredible together has never been easier.
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