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You're Invited: September Jira Align Customer Forum
Our monthly Jira Align Customer Forum is returning on Thursday, September 24, 2026! Starting this month, we’ll host one session per forum and alternate the meeting time between AMER/EMEA and APAC-friendly hours every month so more customers can join at a convenient time. Join us for a look ahead at what’s coming up, the…
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You're Invited: July Jira Align Forum
Our monthly Jira Align Customer Forum is back on Thursday, July 30! This month, we're keeping it focused on the latest Jira Align roadmap updates followed by an open discussion. When is this happening? Register for our upcoming forum: Thursday, July 30, 2026 Session 1: 8AM PT / 11AM ET (For North America & Europe) Session…
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Join our June Jira Align Customer Forum
Our monthly Jira Align Customer Forum is back for June! Whether you're a long-time attendee or joining for the first time, this is your chance to hear directly from the Atlassian team, ask questions, and connect with peers. What's on the agenda this month: * May forum recap * Jira Align roadmap updates * Live discussion:…
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You're Invited: May Jira Align Customer Forum
We're back with May's Jira Align Customer Forum: a space where your experience directly shapes our roadmap. We’ve packed the agenda with product updates and more ways to participate live. This month, we'll cover: * What's new on the Jira Align roadmap * Early access program updates, including how to get involved * Strategy…
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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 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 visible…
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Your Guide to Team '26 Anaheim: 3 Curated Days for Strategy Collection
Team ‘26 is coming to Anaheim May 5–7, 2026 and we have three exciting days planned featuring product innovation, hands-on workshops, real customer stories, and the kind of hallway conversations that actually change how you work. Not sure what to attend? We’ve got you covered with a day-by-day guide personalized with…
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A More Flexible Align Dependency Object
Hello Jira Align community, I’m Andrew Zhang, Product Manager for Jira Align, and I’m excited to share an important evolution of the Dependency object. This update significantly improves how you model dependency relationships. Jira Align exists to connect strategy to execution. Dependencies are one of the most important…
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You’re Invited: April Jira Align Customer Forum
We're back with April's Jira Align Customer Forum: a space where your experience directly shapes our roadmap. This month we’ve packed the agenda with exciting product updates and more ways to participate live. This month, we'll cover: * Our Jira Align product roadmap, what’s next, and why it matters. * What's being…
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Tactical way to handle PI Confidence Vote!
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) came up with the concept of a PI confidence vote as an activity towards the end of Day 2 of the Program Increment(PI) planning event. PI confidence vote is an activity where everyone raises their fists up and votes on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest. As an…
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Epics grid page is now generally available (GA)
The updated Epics grid page is ready to graduate from beta, and is now generally available (GA). You can use it in your environment running version 11.22 or later. GA highlights Store and retrieve your customizations with saved views We’re excited to introduce the ability to save views on the new epics grid page and beta…
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Test out the beta features grid experience
Hello Jira Align community! I’m happy to announce that our beta experience for the new features grid page is now available! This enhanced version of the page offers new, more usable ways to find and edit Jira Align features, and builds on the enhancements provided by the new epics grid page. The beta features page is…
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Jira Align Rovo Skill Early Access Program
We’re excited to launch the Early Access Program (EAP) for the Jira Align Rovo Skill as part of the broader Rovo Skills EAP. Continue reading to learn more about Jira Align’s inclusion in the program, what’s included, and how eligible customers can participate. The Jira Align Rovo Skill unlocks AI-powered insights from…
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Beta no more, new roadmaps are going GA
Hello Jira Align community! We’re excited to share a major milestone in our journey to reimagine planning at scale: the new Jira Align roadmap experience is preparing to move from beta to general availability (GA)! This update brings a more intuitive, performant, and flexible way to visualize and manage your strategic…
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Strategy Collection: March 2026 Innovation Spotlight
🚀 March 2026 Innovation Spotlight: What's new in Strategy Collection Hi Jira Align 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…
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You’re Invited: March Jira Align Customer Forum
Join our next Jira Align customer forum, a space where your experience directly shapes the future of our roadmap. When is this happening? Register for our upcoming forum on March 17, 2026: * 8AM PT / 11AM ET (For US East Coast & Europe) * 2PM PT / 5PM ET (For US West Coast & Australia) This live, interactive session is a…
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Connecting to Jira Align Enterprise Insights with Azure Active Directory Authentication
In my last article, Connecting to Jira Align Enterprise Insights with SQL Authentication, I walked through connecting to Enterprise Insights with SQL login authentication. If you use Azure Active Directory for authentication, Enterprise Insights can be set up to authenticate with your Azure Active Directory. This article…
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Adding the Parent Feature Name and Program Increment (PI) Fields to Jira Software
Jira Align has the ability to push Program Increment (PI) and the Parent Feature name data to a custom field in Jira Software from Jira Align Features to Jira Epics. Whether this custom field is already in place or one is being created for the first time, please be aware of the following best practices: Jira Configurations…
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Jira Align and Jira Integration Best Practices and FAQ Table of Contents
Last updated: 2023/10/24 Use this as a resource to find connections to the vast array of Community Articles related to Jira Align and Jira integration. Know of or write an article that isn't linked? Throw it in the page comments to get it added. General Info * What are the maximum role settings for an Integrated User in…
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A New Chapter for the Align Roadmap
I’m excited to share that our new Roadmaps experience is officially Generally Available (GA) for all cloud environments. This milestone represents our largest Jira Align investment of FY26, and it’s already transforming how organizations plan, communicate, and deliver work at scale. 🎯Why We Built a New Roadmap Customers…
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Check out the new epics grid page, now in beta
Hello Jira Align community! I’m happy to announce the launch of our latest project: a new experience for grid pages in Jira Align. Our first milestone is the beta release of a new Epics grid page. This modernized view for epics is now available for testing in version 11.19. What’s included The new experience provides a…
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Beta roadmaps are ready to test, but we’re just getting started
Hello Jira Align community! I’m Andrew, a PM with Atlassian. I have the pleasure of leading the next phase of our roadmaps project, working to bring you a new, more usable experience. With the 11.12.1 release scheduled to ship to production environments today, I wanted to take some time to review what we’ve provided in the…
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Epic Grid Alpha Early Adopter Program Announcement
Hello Jira Align community! I’m Jakub, a PM with Atlassian. I have the pleasure of leading the Grid project, working to bring you a new, more usable way to find and edit Jira Align work items. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> link to video <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> link to…
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Understanding the Dependency Workflow in Jira Align
Although this topic has been discussed on multiple platforms, just adding to the collection of dependency management. The image shows the dependency workflow in Jira Align. A dependency is a contract between two teams: the requesting team creates it, and the responding team either accepts it or proposes changes, which…
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Alternative Jira Health Checks After the Jet by Jira Align Retirement
As communicated in the Jira Align release notes for the last quarter, the JET App was designated with end-of-support (EOS) status on September 17, 2025. We are planning to remove access to the app sometime before December 31, 2025. The removal is in support of Atlassian’s EOS plan for marketplace apps built with Connect.…
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Introducing Align Smart Links: Streamline Your Workflow
Update - This feature has now been rolled out to all customers. If you are not seeing Jira Align links resolving correctly into smart links in your Atlassian cloud apps, please open a ticket with our support team with the subject "Verify my Jira Align and Atlassian organization mapping". Hello Atlassian Community! I’m…