Atlassian wants it used more widely … but probably not for reporting misinformation to social networks
Atlassian’s Jira tool last Friday received significant upgrades aimed at encouraging its use beyond development teams, a day after it was cast in a sinister role in the USA’s culture wars.
Let’s cover the upgrade first. Atlassian has signalled that Jira Product Discovery (JPD) will soon become generally available. Like the addition of Jira’s workflow tools to Confluence, Atlassian’s aim with JPD is to get more teams that have input to software development working with the same tools.
The team JPD addresses is product managers, whom Atlassian believes create wish lists for enhancements to software in spreadsheets, text documents, or email. The ideas expressed can therefore be hard to communicate to developers, and harder to track.
JPD lets product managers – and others who rely on developers – share ideas and then watch as they’re progressed.
Another Jira enhancement, Work Management, offers project management baked into Jira to again let more parts of an org work with the Atlassian tool.
