Use Atlassian Cloud products for agile and DevOps
15 min
Beginner
By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to:
- Recognize the functionalities of each Atlassian cloud product in the agile and DevOps market
- Describe who each Atlassian product in this suite serves
- Describe how Atlassian agile and DevOps products work together
How Atlassian Home helps agile and DevOps teams
Atlassian Home is a hub connecting your work across Atlassian. It provides a single, centralized experience for managing your team's structure, goals, and projects. It provides one place to consider the questions:
- What are we doing?
- Why are we working on this?
- Who's working on it?
- How is it going?
Goals and projects help you stay in sync, share context, and discover the most relevant and meaningful information for your work. Using Atlassian Home features, teams can:
✔ Create a central hub for their work, including projects, goals, and teams
✔ Define the status and goals of projects
✔ See who is working on what and how much progress has been made
✔ Easily find and share information across teams and apps
✔ Stay up-to-date on the latest changes to projects and goals
👇 Goals provide key insights into projects.
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How Bitbucket helps agile and DevOps teams
Bitbucket is an online version control repository. It enables users to:
✔ Store and manage Git repositories, collaborate with others on projects, and easily deploy code
✔ Track changes to their codebase
✔ Create branches for different features or bug fixes
✔ Review and merge code changes
✔ Automate build and deployment processes
👇 You can view the build status for your pull requests in Bitbucket.
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How Compass helps agile and DevOps teams
Compass is your guide to navigating your distributed software architecture. It's a platform for cataloging, monitoring, and handling all of your software components and their dependencies as well as the teams behind them. Compass improves the developer experience and streamlines operations, whether you use microservices, monoliths, or anything in between.
👇 Compass shows your service health at a glance.
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How Confluence helps agile and DevOps teams
Confluence is a collaboration product that allows teams to create, organize, and share content in one centralized place. With Confluence, users can create pages, blogs, and wikis to facilitate knowledge sharing and documentation within their organization. Confluence also includes features such as commenting, version control, and task management.
👇 Confluence allows you to organize your work, create documents, and discuss in one place.
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How Jira Align helps agile and DevOps teams
Jira Align is an enterprise agile planning platform that helps organizations align their work, teams, and resources across the entire enterprise. It enables large-scale agile transformations by connecting strategy to execution. With Jira Align, businesses can drive strategic alignment, improve cross-team collaboration, and gain visibility into progress and outcomes.
👇 Jira Align connects strategy with execution, at scale.
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How Jira Product Discovery helps agile and DevOps teams
Jira Product Discovery enables you to capture and prioritize ideas and insights from your customers and stakeholders, at the team or product level. This allows you to create custom and shareable roadmaps that get everyone on board with your product vision.
👇 Jira Product Discovery connects business and tech teams.
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How Jira helps agile and DevOps teams
Jira is a tool to help your team manage work. Think of Jira as a to-do list for your entire team. It allows teams to use agile methods, like scrum or kanban, to organize their work projects into work items, tasks, sprints, and boards.
In Jira, you can create a project and choose a template that suits your team’s workflow. You can customize the project settings, such as the work item types, fields, screens, and permissions. Then, you can create and assign work items to your team members, and track their progress on the board with built-in reports. This progress can then be planned and executed in sprint iterations, which you can measure using reports to improve your team’s performance.
👇 The boards feature allows you and your team to manage work, together.
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How Plans in Jira helps agile and DevOps teams
Plans is the project planning superpower within Jira. It allows users to create roadmaps, set dependencies between work items, track progress, and make informed decisions about their project timeline.
With Plans, teams can gain visibility into cross-team dependencies, identify bottlenecks, and ensure that the team is aligned on goals and priorities. Plans includes a feature to create timeline scenarios with modified scope, releases, resources, and dependencies.
👇 With Plans, you can combine work items from boards, projects, and filters.
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Let's put it all together: see how each product helps your teams
Let’s go through an example of how all these products work together across an organization.
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