Atlassian adds 'Compass' and 'Atlas' for devs, collaboration teams

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Atlassian at the moment rolled out two new software program additions to its platform, one geared toward software program builders, the opposite designed for crew collaboration — and added new data-driven capabilities.

Compass and Atlas advanced out of Atlassian’s Level A accelerator, a program that creates new merchandise to deal with clients' ache factors. (Jira Work Administration, which Atlassian launched in April 2021, was additionally born out of the Level A accelerator.)

The newest bulletins got here throughout Atlassian ’22 in Las Vegas, the corporate’s annual occasion. 

Compass for software program growth

Atlassian's new Compass is designed to assist software program growth groups overcome the complexities of distributed software program structure, together with the necessity for a number of instruments

“They spend quite a lot of their time managing these a number of instruments and merchandise, simply to see what is going on on throughout the technical panorama they're engaged on,” stated Atlassian COO Anu Bharadwaj

Compass contains three elements: Parts, Scorecards, and Apps, and presents a holistic view of software program growth elements as they evolve.

  • Parts give builders a unified interface to trace each the technical structure and associated groups over time. Builders can entry shared elements, documentation, and different vital info to construct software program in a single place.
  • Scorecards is a DevOps well being software that permits builders to measure their structure in opposition to baselines, safety, or compliance necessities they should meet. With Compass, Atlassian stated, the auditing course of can go from a few times a yr to almost real-time, with well being scorecards displayed on elements.
  • Apps can usher in info throughout quite a lot of developer SaaS instruments to assist groups higher align their work, and provides them the pliability to decide on the perfect software for the job.

Compass is absolutely suitable with Forge, Atlassian’s cloud app growth platform; Forge’s built-in Features-as-a-Service platform permits groups to increase Compass with minimal setup.

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Compass Parts is without doubt one of the new options rolled out by Atlassian.

Atlas, a teamwork listing

Atlas is a teamwork listing used to attach the dots throughout groups, their apps, and work. Atlassian says it helps drive alignment by clarifying what an organization is doing, the way it's going and who’s engaged on what.

“As you go from, like, 10 folks to 100 folks or 1,000 folks, these communication loops get weakened,” Bharadwaj stated. “Sometimes, we hear from rising corporations that it is tougher to attach with the latest individual on the crew, to elucidate the corporate's mission or objective and allow them to know the way the work they’re doing is definitely serving to to take that ahead.”

Atlas offers each venture a homepage, the place anybody can see what the venture entails and the way success shall be measured. Customers may hyperlink Jira tickets, Confluence pages, and Trello boards linked to every venture, whereas crew members can “comply with” the venture for weekly updates and uncover associated tasks from the identical web page.

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Atlas customized display screen view.

Each Undertaking in Atlas can be linked to a Objective, connecting work to firm outcomes. Atlas reminds groups to publish updates on their work each week for Initiatives, and each month for Objectives.

These weekly updates are restricted to 280-characters and customers can embed movies, photos, gifs to create a helpful, partaking replace. Every Monday, customers obtain a customized digest of the tasks they comply with by e mail, in a Slack channel, or through Microsoft Groups.

Atlassian can be bringing good hyperlinks, first launched in updates to Confluence and Trello in 2020, to Atlas. When pasting a URL into Atlas, the hyperlink could be displayed as simply the title of the linked merchandise, a full preview of the hyperlink or a thumbnail preview of the hyperlink’s contents.

Good Hyperlinks additionally work within the reverse route, making it attainable so as to add dwell previews of Atlas’ Undertaking and Objectives updates to any Confluence web page, Jira situation, or Trello board.

Each Atlas person has a person profile, detailing what they're engaged on and what has been accomplished; their direct reporting traces; and the cross-organizational groups a selected worker has labored with on different tasks. Atlassian plans so as to add a “abilities and pursuits” part for every crew’s profile within the coming months.

Wayne Kurtzman, IDC analysis director for social and collaboration, stated Atlas permits Atlassian to create a better-connected material on the individual degree and stretch throughout their merchandise. “As an alternative of counting on options from different distributors, Atlas brings Atlassian nearer to changing into the platform it envisioned,” he stated.

Atlassian Analytics and Information Lake

Atlassian may also provide two new capabilities to present customers versatile entry to all their information.

The Atlassian Information Lake incorporates cross-product and cross-instance information for straightforward evaluation with pre-modelled and enriched fields to hurry up perception era. At launch, Atlassian Information Lake will embrace information from Jira Software program and Jira Service Administration, entry to information throughout different Atlassian merchandise anticipated later.

Atlassian Analytics makes use of expertise from Chartio, a cloud-based visualization and analytics agency Atlassian acquired final yr. It connects to the Atlassian Information Lake and lets customers entry information through interactive dashboards, SQL visualizations, no-code visualizations, and data pulled from different business-critical information sources.

In a future replace, Atlassian says customers will be capable to straight connect with exterior enterprise intelligence instruments.

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