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Open Beta: Strategic Intelligence 'For You'
Hi Focus community! We’re opening the next iteration of Strategic Intelligence in Focus to open beta. The ‘For You’ page is your central control tower; giving leaders one place to see which focus areas need attention, why they need attention, and what to investigate next. The For You page now surfaces insights and updates…
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Prepare your Focus area updates with Drafts!
Hi community, We know that crafting a good focus area update takes time, effort and collaboration. We’re excited to share that drafts are now supported for Focus area updates, allowing you to save your work and pick up right where you left off. How it works Save, edit and discard drafts: You can save a draft, come back and…
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New in Strategy Collection: The August Innovation Spotlight is live
Hi everyone! We just published the new Innovation Spotlight for Strategy Collection. Everything featured is live for customers right now, GA or open beta, with no waitlist. Most leaders have clear priorities but can't see the work and the money behind them. That gap is what this release closes: Funds puts budgets, costs,…
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[Open beta] Rovo-powered focus area updates
Hello everyone! We’re excited to share that you can now start drafting focus area status updates with Rovo. This is a beta feature that’s now available to everyone with Rovo access enabled. The problem we’re solving As a leader responsible for a Focus area, you know the drill; every update cycle means manually visiting…
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Introducing Focus Public REST APIs
We're excited to announce that starting July 3, 2026, Atlassian Focus has public REST APIs — and this is one of the most-requested capabilities from our customers since Focus went GA. For the first time, your strategic priorities don't have to live as an island. Now you can connect strategic priorities to your financial…
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New: Manage your Focus Area financials with Funds!
Hey Atlassian Community 👋 We're excited to share that Funds, financial planning and tracking, is now generally available in the same place your strategy lives, Focus, for all Strategy Collection customers. What is Funds? Portfolio leaders have always had two separate problems: financial data lives in one system, and the…
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🚀 Team '26: Strategy Collection, from signal to action
Hi everyone! 👋 This week at Team '26, we announced the biggest updates to Focus and Strategy Collection yet: three new capabilities that turn strategic intent into a live, connected operating model, where leaders see what's actually happening, decisions reach the teams who execute them, and the cost of every priority is…
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Early Access: Introducing Strategic Intelligence in Focus!
Hi Focus community! We’re kicking off the first milestone in our strategic intelligence journey. This is an early access / closed beta of the new “For you” page in Focus, designed to give leaders one clear place to understand the health of their portfolio, including what’s at risk across their goals and projects. Instead…
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Introducing editor permissions for Goals
Now you can decide who edits your team’s most important goals. With editor permissions for the Goals app, you control who can update strategic content, while everyone else can safely view, follow, and connect work. The new Goals permissions works like experiences you know from other Atlassian products. Goals can be linked…
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Strategy Collection: March 2026 Innovation Spotlight
🚀 March 2026 Innovation Spotlight: What's new in Strategy Collection Hi Focus community! 👋 We just published our March 2026 Innovation Spotlight, covering what we've shipped across Strategy Collection since Team '25 Europe. Every feature in this roundup is live and available right now. 👉 Read the full Innovation Spotlight…
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Improved Jira Work Linking via Automation ⚡️
Hi everyone, We’re excited to share an improvement to Jira work linking in Focus via Automation. You can now link work items to Focus Areas using custom field values in Jira, making it easier to automatically connect work to the right Focus Area — with less manual setup and fewer rules to manage. With this update, you can…
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Introducing new insights & charts for Focus areas
Hi everyone, We’re excited to share that we’ve just shipped new insights and interactive progress bars in Atlassian Focus! These updates make it easier to quickly identify goals and work that need attention and to visualize how things are progressing. What’s new With these improvements, you can now: Visualize the progress…
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New: Labor Rates arrive in Focus and Talent
Connecting labor costs to strategic priorities Most leaders can answer the question: “What are our strategic priorities?” Far fewer can answer: “What do they actually cost us?” For years, operations teams have calculated cost in spreadsheets, manually stitching together headcount data from HR with finance data and Jira…
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New: Focus Area Update Notifications via Automation 🔔
Hi everyone, We’re excited to announce the release of two new Focus automation components: Focus area status update posted trigger and Focus fields condition 🎉 With these additions, your teams can automatically send notifications to Slack channels, Microsoft Teams channels, or email whenever a Focus area update is posted.…
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[Revised] Introducing Custom Fields in Focus ⚡️
This post was updated March 23, 2026 - Custom fields are now available in Atlassian Analytics Hello everyone! We’re excited to share that you can now add custom fields to your Focus areas! With this feature, you and your team can better capture data relevant to your business processes in Focus, allowing for deeper…
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New focus areas editor permissions and access request for Focus
More control over editing focus areas and requesting access to Focus You now have the ability who makes edits your focus areas. The new editor permissions for focus areas gives focus area owners direct control of who can edit and follow their focus areas. With editor permissions, you get clearer ownership of focus areas,…
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Introducing the Strategy Collection
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Atlassian Strategy Collection, a powerful combo of apps designed to enhance your strategic planning and execution capabilities. This collection gives leaders better visibility, stronger alignment, and faster decision-making across your organization. What's Included in the…
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New Goal types experience starting December 1, 2025
Hi Focus community! I'm excited to cross-post an exciting announcement from our friends who work on the Goals app. Starting December 1, 2025, there will be a new goal types experience: Goal types and better support for OKRs are coming soon. For Focus customers, you have access to a previous release of Goal Types which…
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Work Linking Automation in Focus — Now Live! ⚡️
Hi everyone, We’re excited to share that the first automation in Focus, Jira Work Linking, is now generally available! With this release, your teams can fully automate how Jira work connects to focus areas, helping you bridge strategy and execution faster than ever. What’s new You can now configure Jira Work Linking…
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📢 Coming Soon: Automations in Focus
Hi everyone, We’re excited to share that in the coming weeks, we’ll begin rolling out the first automation in Focus: Jira Work Linking. It will give your teams the ability to automate and customize Jira work connections in Focus. This new feature is part of our ongoing efforts to streamline object linking in Focus and make…
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Control group permissions in Focus 🎉
We’re excited to share that the ability to control group permissions is now generally available in Focus — and is enabled by default for all new customers. With this release, you can bring greater clarity and control to how your teams collaborate in Focus, while also unlocking centralized governance models that will scale…
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📢 Coming Soon: Control group permissions in Focus
Hi everyone, We’re excited to let you know that in early July, we’ll begin rolling out a new capability to control Group Permissions in Focus. This new feature gives your teams more flexibility and control over what each group of users can do in the app. This change is part of our ongoing efforts to support stronger data…
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Atlassian Focus: Key Insights from Customer Roundtables Shaping Enterprise Strategy
Hi, everyone! My name is Sam Ugulava and I’m a Principal Product Manager working on Atlassian Focus. I’m joined by Kimberly Preusse, our team’s Lead Researcher. We both work within Enterprise, Strategy & Planning at Atlassian. Last week, we announced Atlassian Focus is now generally available as part of the Strategy…