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Mike Cannon-Brookes says the first version of Atlassian's Jira was a bug tracker aimed at technical teams.
“The very first version of Jira was actually a bug tracker, which was definitely for far more technical parts of technical teams.”
Topic
Jira
11 facts from 6 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
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Sherif Mansour says Atlassian's products such as Confluence and Jira default to open access, and he argues this helps AI give useful answers to new employees.
“our products are open by default. And I have to explain that a little bit. When you create a documentation space in Confluence or a Jira project or whatever it is, the default is open”
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Sherif Mansour says adding AI agents to Jira workflows is probably the biggest or fastest growing use of agents among Atlassian customers.
“adding an AI agent in a Jira workflow, which is probably the biggest or fastest growing use case of agents in deployment”
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Sherif Mansour describes a five-person sales AI startup that uses AI agents in a Jira workflow to publish content to its WordPress blog, with humans reviewing it.
“they have AI agents in their Jira workflow that automatically publish content to their WordPress”
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Eran Yahav recommends starting by giving the context engine access to code, Jira task management and Confluence design documents.
“giving context engine access to code and to, um, um, I would say something like a Jira task management or Confluence design documents”
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Tsavo Knott says sales and product teams already share context by posting Jira tickets and tracking issues in GitHub.
“They put up Jira tickets, they're tracking issues in GitHub. They're like, hey, you know, these are the things we need to accomplish.”
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A Rovo agent built by Mercedes-Benz to triage Jira defect tickets reduced engineers' manual triage work by 85%, according to Tamar Yehoshua.
“So that triaging agent reduced the manual work for engineers to triage the bugs by eighty five.”
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Tamar Yehoshua says Atlassian products such as Jira and Confluence run millions of rule-based automations every month, and many now call AI agents.
“We run millions of automations every month and they're automations like when a bug comes in of this type, then do this with it.”
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Atlassian's products run millions of workflow automations every month.
“We run millions of automations every month and they're automations like when a bug comes in of this type, then do this with it.”
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A Rovo agent built by Mercedes-Benz that triages Jira bug tickets reduced engineers' manual triage work by 85%.
“So that triaging agent reduced the manual work for engineers to triage the bugs by eighty five.”
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Atlassian's AI reviewer uses language models plus the context of a customer's previous incidents documented in Jira to review generated code.
“we have the AI reviewer, which uses um, LLMs again, but we have the context of all of your previous incidents.”
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