jira

Even if you’ve never touched any of Atlassian’s products, there’s a pretty good chance others in your organization—such as IT and customer service teams—use them every day. Best known for Jira, Confluence, and, my favorite, Trello, the Sydney-based company has a low profile but a big presence in collaborative enterprise software. Its products are instrumental to how many companies wrangle tasks, such as tracking support requests and managing projects. Over Atlassian’s 21-year history, all that has propelled it to more…

Atlassian Corp. unveiled new artificial intelligence features for its workplace collaboration tools, making it the latest technology company to utilize OpenAI's generative AI models.Atlassian's Jira and Confluence, often used for tracking product development or communicating with employees, will add capabilities such as summarizing meetings, drafting tweets, responding to internal service requests and writing Jira code, the company said Wednesday. The new features, dubbed Atlassian Intelligence, will come at no…

Australia-based software company Atlassian, known for making tools like Jira, Confluence and Trello, has announced to lay off 5 per cent of its workforce, or about 500 employees.Atlassian co-founders and co-CEOs Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar in a note on Monday announced that this move shouldn't be seen as a reflection of the company's financial performance.Rather, the co-founders presented this decision as a "rebalancing" that will allow the company to focus on areas where it is growing."We've made hard calls to…

Twitter has apparently shut off its internal communication system Slack and employees posted on anonymous workplace chat app Blind that the company had stopped paying its Slack bills.The move left employees baffled and no one worked throughout the day on Friday as they were suddenly unable to communicate, reports Platformer.Employees also lost access to Jira, a tracking software that allows engineers to ship code and monitor progress on new features.While some employees communicated over email, some decided to just take…