DevEx Roundup: Your Team '24 Compass Recap

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Compass Communique: May 2024

Hello Compass Community,

April was a huge month for Compass: we met many of you at Team ‘24, shared our newest and upcoming features like automatic API documentation in Compass, and shared insightful conversations on building a work-class developer experience. Find it all here with Compass (log in here if you're already signed up).

What’s included this month:

• ✨ Unveiling the biggest new Compass features

  • Reduce technical debt with the native Compass integration in Jira

  • Bring DevEx front and center with the Developer Experience Dashboard

  • Compass acquires Optic for API documentation

  • Incidents are easier with on-call and alerts in Compass

• ✅ OVO Energy shares how to achieve world-class developer experience

• 🔬 Make invisible work visible with Compass and Jira

• 🩺 Improve engineering org health with Jellyfish in Compass

• 📺 Watch how to improve your developer experience

• 🤖 Automation with Compass components in Jira

• 🎫 Join us for PlatformCon 2024 in San Francisco

🎉 Compass at Team '24 - Recap of the highlights

Over 4,000 attendees representing hundreds of companies joined Atlassian in Las Vegas, and thousands more joined virtually at our biggest event of 2024. In case you couldn’t make it, we have you covered with all the Compass highlights right here 👇

✨ Unveiling the biggest new Compass features

Reduce technical debt with the native Compass integration in Jira

Technical debt is inevitable, but too much slows software delivery and leads to fragile code. With Compass components in Jira, software teams understand the impact of their work and the health of their services. That means teams can make informed investments and balance innovation with preventing potential incidents:

• Link issues in their backlog to the relevant services, libraries, APIs, and more

• Track service health with metrics and scorecards

• Map software dependencies to track up and downstream impact of work

Log in today to connect your Jira issues and learn how to use the Compass component field in Jira.

Bring DevEx front and center with the Developer Experience Dashboard

Surface potential software issues and drive to solutions faster with the new attention board on the home page. The attention board highlights potential problems so teams can act quickly with context and clarity, and empowers teams to understand and improve performance and compliance trends. The attention board is part of our efforts to help teams better track their software delivery and increase their productivity.

Take action and shift your top items from red to green today!

Compass acquires Optic for API documentation

Make it easier for your teams to discover APIs and ship software with greater reliability with Optic, which allows Atlassian to provide every engineering organization with native API documentation and management directly in Compass. Optic is an API documentation tool that automatically tracks API changes, keep documentation up to date, and keeps devs informed for greater visibility into changes that affect them. Optical will be integrated in Compass will help developers find the critical documentation faster alongside a centralized component catalog.

Learn more.

Incidents are easier with on-call and alerts in Compass

Soon we’re bringing on-call scheduling and incident alerts directly within Compass. Keep developers informed when responding to an incident with contextual information and health insights. Map and understand dependencies, quickly find documentation and chat channels for related services, and see recent activity like deployments and events to make on-call duty easier for your teams. With over 100 component-aware integrations, you’ll know exactly which component is triggering an alert. Stay tuned for updates.

✅ 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.

🔬 Get ahead of technical debt to improve engineering health

Tech debt slowing your teams down? You’re not alone - technical debt is inevitable as organizations scale and strive to quickly deliver new features. Katie Silver, Principal Product Manager at Atlassian, shares how using Compass and Jira reveals the impact of your team’s work to help stay ahead of technical debt and continue to ship great software at velocity. See how you can use Compass to understand and prioritize your Jira backlog, reduce technical debt, and deliver new features faster.

Watch on demand.

🩺 Improve engineering org health with Jellyfish in Compass

 

Get a complete picture of your engineering organization’s health with the Jellyfish DevEx integration. Quickly set up and distribute surveys to elevate engineering perspectives, all within Compass. Identify top opportunities to improve developer satisfaction and eliminate bottlenecks. Compass centralizes core elements of the developer experience so qualitative insights from your surveys are actionable.

Add the integration today and learn more.

📺 Watch how to improve your developer experience

• 🤖 Use AI to elevate your developer experience [Watch here]

• 🗺️ Watch the discussion on navigating the new frontier of developer productivity [Watch here]

• 🧑‍💻 Check out all the DevEx sessions! [Watch here]

🤖 Automation with Compass components in Jira

We released native Compass components in Jira to help teams reduce technical debt and prioritize work by linking issues to the services, libraries, and other software components they impact. Soon you can use Compass components in Jira automation rules just like your other favorite fields to get work done more quickly. Speed up your workflows by automatically assigning Jira issues to teams based on component ownership and more. We expect to release Compass component automation by May 17, 2024, so connect your issues to Compass components today.

🎫 Join us for PlatformCon 2024 in San Francisco

Join us in person on June 13th for San Francisco’s premier platform engineering event during the digital PlatformCon 2024! Connect with fellow platform practitioners, learn from the best in the industry, and engage directly with event speakers at the Atlassian office. We will also offer refreshments and a chance to win great prizes in our raffle.

Register for PlatformCon.

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