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Welcome to TEEM360 - your weekly pulse on the Atlassian ecosystem.
As we welcome August, we present the latest edition of TEEM360 – your weekly roundup of everything Atlassian. This issue highlights the major updates that enterprise teams need to be aware of, covering a range of topics from innovative DevOps features and UI redesigns to AI advancements, security updates, and administrative tools. Let’s explore the key news from the Atlassian ecosystem over the past week.
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Content Overview:
💔 Atlassian Lays Off ~150 Employees Amid Strategic Refocus on AI and Cloud
💬 Rovo Dev Agent Now Assists with Bitbucket Code Reviews
🔄 Bitbucket Pipelines Go Modular with Parent/Child Workflows
🚀 “Runs on Atlassian” Badge Now Available for Marketplace Apps and We're Proud to Be All In
🤖 Rovo Chat Gets Smarter – AI Answers Powered by Your Team’s Data
🔄 Sync Workday Team Data Directly into Atlassian
💔 Atlassian Lays Off ~150 Employees Amid Strategic Refocus on AI and Cloud
Atlassian has confirmed a new round of layoffs affecting approximately 150 employees, as part of a continued effort to sharpen its focus on strategic growth areas such as AI, Cloud, and the Rovo platform. While much smaller in scope than previous restructurings, the impact on affected teams is real and deeply felt across the ecosystem.
The company emphasized that the decision was not financially motivated, but part of a broader transformation to align resources with long-term innovation goals. Affected employees are receiving severance packages and career support, and many in the Atlassian community have already rallied on LinkedIn to support those impacted.
A Moment of Reflection:
- 💬 To all those affected – thank you. Your contributions have shaped the Atlassian tools we rely on every day.
- 🧭 To partners and customers – no changes are expected in the core roadmap. Atlassian reaffirmed its commitment to Jira, Confluence, JSM, and partner programs.
- 🤖 The company continues its strategic pivot toward AI-driven teamwork, and these shifts are intended to accelerate development in those areas.
Layoffs, no matter the scale, are difficult. Our thoughts are with everyone navigating this transition – your skills, experience, and impact matter, and the tech community stands with you.
💬 Rovo Dev Agent Now Assists with Bitbucket Code Reviews
Atlassian has introduced a Rovo Developer Agent for Bitbucket, now in public preview, designed to enhance code reviews using Atlassian’s AI capabilities. This agent can join your pull request discussions and deliver instant, intelligent feedback on code quality, structure, and maintainability – directly in Bitbucket.
By analyzing diffs and leveraging AI patterns, the agent becomes a second pair of eyes for developers. It doesn’t replace human reviewers but speeds up review cycles and improves confidence before merges.
Why This Matters for Engineering Teams:
- 🧠 AI-Powered Code Feedback: Get suggestions on complexity, potential bugs, test coverage, and refactoring opportunities – automatically generated within the pull request view.
- 🚀 Fast, Actionable Insights: The agent responds in seconds, helping teams reduce idle PRs and ship faster.
- 🤝 Built to Collaborate: The feedback is provided in a conversational style, making it easy to discuss, refine, or dismiss.
- 🛠️ Preview Phase – Try It Now: The Rovo Dev Agent is available for teams to test today via Forge. It’s a great way to explore how AI can co-review code with your team.
This is an exciting glimpse into how Rovo AI is transforming software development workflows – one pull request at a time.
🔄 Bitbucket Pipelines Go Modular with Parent/Child Workflows
Atlassian has launched parent/child pipelines for Bitbucket Cloud, a powerful CI/CD feature that lets one pipeline trigger another as a discrete sub-process. This update helps development teams break up large, monolithic pipelines into smaller, parallel workflows. By nesting child pipelines within a main pipeline step, teams can finally surpass the 100-step limit and streamline complex builds without hacks or workarounds. The result is faster, more maintainable CI/CD processes for growing codebases.
Key Takeaways for DevOps Teams:
- Greater Parallelism & Scale: Parent/child pipelines unlock more concurrent steps and execution beyond Bitbucket’s previous 100-step cap. Complex build and deploy sequences can be split into modular units, speeding up overall run times.
- No Wasted Build Minutes: The native implementation manages pipeline state automatically – no more idle polling or manual triggers while a downstream pipeline runs. This efficient handoff saves CI minutes and cloud resources.
- Modularity & Reuse: Teams can encapsulate repeatable tasks in child pipelines and invoke them as needed from parent workflows. Pipeline configurations become easier to reuse and maintain across projects.
- Smarter Failure Reruns: Only the failed steps in a child pipeline can be re-run, rather than re-executing an entire parent pipeline. This targeted retry capability reduces time to resolve broken builds.
- Improved Pipeline Navigation: Bitbucket’s UI now clearly links parent and child pipelines with status indicators, so engineers can jump between them and monitor progress effortlessly.
🚀 “Runs on Atlassian” Badge Now Available for Marketplace Apps and We're Proud to Be All In
Atlassian officially launched the “Runs on Atlassian” badge a while ago and now more apps are running after this badge – It is a new branding initiative that allows Marketplace partners to showcase their apps’ deep integration and alignment with Atlassian’s Cloud Platform. This badge signals that an app is not just compatible, but built with Atlassian tools and best practices at its core.
Marketplace Partners like ONETEEM can now apply to display the badge on their Marketplace listings, websites, and sales materials. The program includes co-marketing opportunities, access to new Forge capabilities, and visibility boosts in Atlassian campaigns. It’s a strong signal of trust and quality for customers evaluating apps in a crowded marketplace.
Why This Matters:
- ✅ Build Trust with customers: The badge highlights apps that are purpose-built for the Atlassian Cloud and follow recommended design, integration, and security standards.
- 📢 Partner Visibility: Atlassian plans to promote “Runs on Atlassian” apps in future campaigns, giving certified partners a marketing edge.
- 🔧 Available Now: Eligible apps can already start applying. Requirements include strong user adoption, Forge/Connect alignment, and use of Atlassian APIs and UIs.
At ONETEEM, we also offer tailored solutions and customizations built with Forge and fully running on Atlassian.
If your team has unique requirements that go beyond the standard capabilities, we are here to help. Let’s build exactly what you need. Do not hesitate to reach out.
🤖 Rovo Chat Gets Smarter – AI Answers Powered by Your Team’s Data
Atlassian’s AI assistant Rovo Chat just leveled up with new intelligence and context-awareness built on the Teamwork Graph. Rovo (which is included for all customers of the Jira-Confluence-Loom Teamwork* Collection) now delivers more relevant, in-depth answers by understanding the relationships between people, projects, and content in your organization. Key improvements announced this week include intelligent intent routing for queries, clarification prompts for ambiguous questions, and personalized summaries of project activity. These enhancements make Rovo a more effective conversational teammate for busy enterprise users.
Key Takeaways for Enterprise Customers:
- Contextual Answers: Unlike basic chatbots, Rovo leverages Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph to connect the dots between your work – issues, pages, teams, goals – when answering questions. This means responses aren’t just generic, but grounded in your company’s actual projects and people.
- Intent-Based Querying: Rovo can now decide the best way to answer each prompt (quick search vs. deep graph query) automatically. Simple asks get fast answers, while complex questions trigger Rovo to pull richer insights from connected systems (Jira, Confluence, Slack, etc.).
- Clarification on Ambiguity: If you ask something unclear (e.g. “update from Alex” when there are multiple Alexes), Rovo will proactively ask for clarification. This ensures the AI delivers accurate results, saving users from sifting through irrelevant info.
- Personalized Work Summaries: Need a briefing on what you missed or a recap of your contributions? Rovo can now summarize project updates or your own recent work with a focus on what matters most. It filters out noise and highlights key changes, tailored to your teams and goals.
- User Satisfaction Up: Early adopters report a ~29% higher satisfaction with the new Rovo responses. The deeper integration with your data is clearly paying off, making AI assistance more reliable and actionable for day-to-day team productivity.
🔄 Sync Workday Team Data Directly into Atlassian
Atlassian has just announced native support for syncing team data from Workday into the Atlassian Teams platform. This integration helps organizations using Workday as their source of truth for HR and org structure to keep team information consistent and up to date across Atlassian products like Jira and Confluence.
With this release, admins can automatically import and manage team memberships based on Workday data — reducing manual work, ensuring accuracy, and enhancing features like advanced search, permissions, and reporting that rely on up-to-date team information.
💡 Why it matters:
- Streamlines onboarding and offboarding
- Maintains accurate cross-functional team visibility
- Powers automation and analytics with real org structures