UPCOMING: Ask me Anything (AMA) with Josh Devenny, Atlas Head of Product

[Josh Devenny]

Hello Atlassian Community!

My name is Josh and I’m the Head of Product for Atlas. I’ve been a product manager for over 12 years and have spent over 10 of those years working on various products at Atlassian. I’m based in Sydney, Australia alongside the Atlas engineering and design teams. You can find me on LinkedIn here.

I’m especially passionate about hearing from our customers about how they use our products – I’ve heard some incredible use cases over the years! I’m very keen to answer your questions about anything Atlas and beyond.

I’ll be LIVE on Community on Thursday, June 16th at 3pm PDT / 5PM CDT / 6pm EDT / 8am AEST for one hour to answer all of your questions about team-to-team communication, alignment, and understanding how work drives outcomes in your org.

Send me your burning questions, upvote others' questions, and stay tuned as I'll be answering anything and everything that is on your mind about Atlas, how it integrates with Atlassian, our vision for Atlas, anything else about Atlassian, or even how we do Product Management at Atlassian!

Start submitting questions now below 👇🏻

[Jerry O'Sullivan]

1. When are we going to be able to track multiple items?
2. If an atlas goal is linked to a JPD Idea which is linked to an EPIC/Story will the goal details show up in EPIC/Story similar to how a direct Atlas --> JIRA link works?

[Dan Keshet]

Hey @Josh Devenny

How do you decide what's a project?  Work is often embedded in hierarchies -- Project a contributes to Project A contributes to Project Alpha contributes to Goal Project Alphabet.  How do you decide whether to track Project a, A, Alpha, or Alphabet?

[Alexandre Krammel]

For those organizations which do not have a supported Identity Provider (IdP):

Are you going to allow users to update their "manager" in their User Profile?

User may event change their organization and department, so why not allow for editing their manager?

[Anish Deena]

Hi @Alexandre Krammel

Thanks for reaching out. Which IdP are you on currently? 

[Alexandre Krammel]

Google Workspace

[Anish Deena]

Thanks Alexandre, this is something we want to support. Enabling users to update their managers is a good idea and might help but we are currently figuring out how to support an extended set of IdPs so that the process of syncing and maintaining manager info is automated. 

[Carlos Garcia Navarro]

Hello! Sometimes high level OKRs (at the organization level) get broken down into smaller more specific OKRs (at the sub-org level) How can you link them using Atlas?  Thanks!

[Elyse Exposito]

In rolling out Atlas for the past 2.5 quarters for OKR-related Goals and Projects, we realized it isolates business as usual and foundational work that is ongoing for some areas (i.e. IT & Security, People, Compliance). Is there an opportunity to expand the Goals menu to include a sub-section that could be custom categories by function? 

[Elyse Exposito]

At Atlassian, to foster quality and consistent Atlas updates, how do you educate/train staff for best practices and hold Owners accountable? 

[Brent Vierling]

My development team runs in 2 weeks sprints.  Giving weekly updates can seem too frequent and it is easy to start putting in meaningless updates. 

What do you think of being able to configure how often updates are given for a particular project? In our case, I would like to make it every 2 weeks instead of every week.

[Brent Vierling]

Certain Atlassian products strike the balance of simplicity and usefulness very business users very well.  I'm thinking about Confluence (versus Sharepoint), JPD, and Atlas.

One big opportunity in my view is what Atlas Questions is trying to do.  Making Atlas Questions better and democratizing Q&A across the business and giving a way to "slice" the business into cross functional knowledge centers is huge.  Existing solutions like Confluence forum/questions addins seem to be either abandoned or just are not quite there.

Do you plan to keep investing in Atlas Questions or will it stagnate like Confluence Answers? 

Atlas Questions is a good start but it feels a LONG ways from Stack Overflow for Business.  But a small amount of work could take it a long ways.  In Atlas, the visual listing of questions is hard to read and comprehend.  There is no way to mark an Answer as the Best Answer.  Confluence Search should tie into it and show results.   

If we could get closer to a StackOverflow for Business in the Atlassian ecosystem I think would be a big opportunity.