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Velocity6.3

Issue and project tracking for software teams

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Atlassian is quietly turning Jira into the connective tissue for an AI-driven enterprise work platform.

enterprise platformai workflowsteamwork graphdevops automationguest collaborationhris integration
◆Current state
Jira keeps shipping along two tracks at once. One is enterprise lifecycle plumbing — sandbox-to-production config promotion, guest access on paid plans, multi-space service queues — that closes long-standing change-management and collaboration gaps. The other is platform expansion: HRIS data flowing into the Atlassian Teamwork Graph, Rovo skills landing inside Jira Align, and Bitbucket merge queues.
◆Where it's heading
The center of gravity is moving from issue tracking to a unified work platform with AI on top of an enriching Teamwork Graph. Atlassian is treating the Graph as the substrate Rovo reasons over, and is now feeding it HRIS data — well beyond traditional Jira scope. Enterprise-grade controls (sandbox promotion, guest seats, multi-space views) are being assembled in parallel to make that platform pitch defensible at the CIO level.
◆Prediction
Expect more first-party connectors that load non-Jira data (HRIS, CRM, finance) into the Teamwork Graph, paired with Rovo skills that act on it. Configuration Promotion should reach GA within a quarter.

◆Recent moves

  1. just now

    Multi Space work item View

    Service Management agents get a cross-project queue view, consistent with Atlassian's broader push to flatten silos across its product surface under the 'spaces' model.

  2. just now

    Strategy Collection: Universal HRIS Connector

    ⚡ SPARK

    A universal HRIS connector pipes employee data from customer S3 buckets into the Atlassian Teamwork Graph, feeding the new Talent product and extending the Graph well past its traditional work-tracking origins.

  3. 1mo ago

    Explore how to migrate

    A generic migration-landing-page entry with no product change behind it. Useful only as a marketing pointer.

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  4. 1mo ago

    Configuration promotion from Sandbox to Production - Open Beta

    Configuration Promotion enters open beta, giving admins a real sandbox-to-production deployment path for Jira config and closing one of the most persistent enterprise change-management gripes.

  5. 1mo ago

    Configuration promotion from Sandbox to Production - Open Beta

    A duplicate announcement of the Configuration Promotion beta — no new substance beyond the prior entry, but it signals how hard Atlassian is leaning into change-management messaging for the enterprise tier.

  6. 1mo ago

    Jira customers on paid plans can now add free guests to their tenants.

    Paid tenants can now add five free guests per seat with scoped, single-space access. It's a deliberate expansion of the spaces model that makes cross-org collaboration cheaper without selling more full seats.