DevEx Roundup: 🎁 Compass Recap 2024 Edition
Compass Communique: December 2024
Hello Compass Community,
Give your devs the gift of a better developer experience with less friction, golden paths, and fewer meetings. We’re recapping how with our most popular content and the most exciting features of the year, from Compass components in Jira to the launch of Compass Premium.
What’s included this month:
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🎁 No surprises when you unwrap your components
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🪄 Discover the Magic Behind Product Engineering
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💡 Compass Innovations
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🔌 Connect your Jira Software issues with the Compass integration
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💡 Streamline ops with alerts and on-call in Compass
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💎 Unlock the power of Compass Premium
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🪪 Know your repo with the Compass component card in Bitbucket
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💡 Dark mode is here for a better developer experience
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📚 Content Corner
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👨💻 Gain actionable insights with our State of DevEx Report
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🚀 Atlassian named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms
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🔨 Build your own Forge app for Compass
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📚 Learn how to Set up a world-class developer experience
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🎓 Tackle tech debt, developer experience, platform engineering, and more with our webinars and articles
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🙋 Customer Stories
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✅ OVO Energy shares how to achieve world-class developer experience
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🚀 Boden chooses Compass to cut through complexity
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🎁 No surprises when you unwrap your components
As the year wraps up, have you been keeping track of whether your components are naughty or nice? Are your services sneaking bugs into production or causing deployment chaos when you weren't looking? Don't worry, we're not here to judge – we're here to help you catch troublesome components before they become a problem.
🪄 Discover the magic behind product engineering
Product Engineering can feel like magic, but really, it’s all about rituals and processes. On December 18/19th, Raghu Venkatesh, senior Engineering Manager for Compass, will share how his team brings Product Engineering to life using Jira Product Discovery and turns customer problems into features they love. Register here.
💡 Compass Innovations
We’re recapping our biggest features and developments from the year, from Compass components in Jira to our latest Compass Premium offering. We’re grateful to all of you for joining us on our mission to create a better developer experience and look forward to shipping more features in partnership with you.
🔌 Connect your Jira Software issues with the Compass integration
In February, we released the native Compass integration with Jira Software, which brings the Compass components and the Component tab to Jira users. This unified experience within the Atlassian ecosystem teams can link their issues to software components and get insights without switching tabs:
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Tracking work against health metrics and understand work impact
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Measure and reduce technical debt
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Identify bottlenecks and improve your developer experience
If you’re already using the Jira Software components field, you can import your legacy data into Compass. Click here to learn how. You can also migrate Jira component data to a different custom field in Jira. Click here for the script. Ready to get started? Log in today to connect your Jira issues and learn how to use the Compass component field in Jira.
💡 Streamline ops with alerts and on-call in Compass
We’re rolling out operations features in Compass. Consolidate monitoring, on-call management, and alert response in Compass where you already track and collaborate on software components. That means no more “hide-and-seek” with critical information across tools, teams, and services immediately available when you receive an alert in the middle of the night:
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Reduce spend: Alerts and on-call are included in the Compass Standard plan so you don’t need to purchase an additional product for these features
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Make alert investigation easier: Find the info you need faster and see all recent changes and events in the activity feed
These features are now available to the majority of Compass sites and we plan to announce full General Availability (GA) to all Compass customers in the coming months. Learn more here.
💎 Unlock the power of Compass Premium
Elevate your engineering teams with our new Compass Premium offering. Scale your software catalog effortlessly with granular permissions, customize your internal developer platform with more templates, scorecards, and metrics, and enjoy extended data retention to track long-term initiatives. Plus, with 24/7 premium support and a 99.9% uptime SLA, you'll have peace of mind that your entire organization has access to Compass data at all times.
Ready to take your developer experience to the next level? Try Compass Premium today!
🪪 Know your repo with the Compass component card in Bitbucket
The new Compass card in Bitbucket shows key details about the software components you have complete context without switching tabs. Quickly learn who owns a repo and info like runbooks and dependencies so you get work done faster, right where you already build and ship code in Bitbucket.
Haven’t linked your SCM yet? Linking your SCM to Compass is the fastest way to get up and running with ownership and dependency tracking, building expressive scorecards that improve your software’s health, and much more. Connect your SCM today and get Compass cards in Bitbucket.
💡 Dark mode is here for a better developer experience
Change your theme to view your catalog, scorecards, and components in dark mode. Compass users can transform their UI into a low-light, sleek environment, reducing eye strain during long work sessions. Flip the switch – your eyes will thank you. Log into Compass to check it out.
📚 Content Corner
👨💻 Gain actionable insights with our State of DevEx Report
Get the latest insights on how to better align and improve the developer role with our 2024 State of DevEx Report. We surveyed 2,100 developers and managers to understand the points of friction getting in the way of their satisfaction and productivity. Discover:
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How to improve developer experience in a meaningful way
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Mismatches between leader attitudes and what developers experience
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The future of developer experience, including the impact of AI
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Progress and limitations to developer experience
🚀 Atlassian named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms
We’re thrilled to announce that Atlassian has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms for the second consecutive year.
We believe Gartner is recognizing Atlassian for the following capabilities:
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Enabling organizations to facilitate a world-class developer experience to boost engineering velocity and improve compliance
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The ability to connect your CI/CD pipeline, incident management, DevSecOps practices, and internal developer portal together with Jira and Confluence
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New AI capabilities that accelerate your DevSecOps workflow by reducing interruptions and helping to surface context from across your stack.
Want to learn more? Download the full report.
🔨 Build your own Forge app for Compass
Compass gives teams powerful features out of the box like a complete software component catalog, metrics, scorecards, and more. You can also customize it using our Forge platform to rapidly build custom tooling and integrations. Discover how in our detailed example tutorial.
📚 Learn how to Set up a world-class developer experience
Go from zero to hero in minutes with Compass. Check out our onboarding series to go from first login to creating your own scorecards, templates, and beyond:
🎓 Tackle tech debt, developer experience, platform engineering, and more with our webinars and articles
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Deep dive: State of Developer Experience Report 2024 [Watch here]
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Track your services with Jira and Compass [Watch here]
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Get ahead of technical debt to improve engineering health [Watch here] [Read our Article]
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Learn how to reduce complexity with an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) [Watch here]
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Hear our experience building APIs that work well – and work together [Watch here]
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Learn Atlassian’s approach to platform engineering [Watch here]
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Feeling signs of sprawl? Learn how to identify and tame it [Read our Article]
🙋 Customer Stories
Companies of all shapes and sizes use Compass to reduce cognitive load, create a better developer experience, and improve ops readiness across their engineering organizations.
✅ OVO Energy shares how to achieve world-class developer experience
The best investment you can make is in your team. Improving developer experience yields huge results — from happier and healthier teams to better products for your customers. Elizabeth Watkins, Service Operations Manager, shares how OVO Energy invests to reduce friction, save time, and help developers focus on the work they enjoy most: shipping great software. Watch on demand.
🚀 Boden chooses Compass to cut through complexity
Boden is a global online retailer that relies on Compass to deliver a great developer experience. Watch James Crowe, Head of Software Development, share how his teams use Compass to cut through the complexity and spend more time shipping great code. Watch the story.
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