New products are added (Projects and Goals)

[Ferry Portier]

New products are added (Projects and Goals) on our Confluence environment.

- In which release of Confluence was this added ?

- What are the consequences for management ?

- What are the consequences for our Confluence users ?

[Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_]

Hi @Ferry Portier ,

This is actually a part of the 'migration'/transition of Atlas as a product into new functionalities as part of platform experiences.

In December, access management for projects and goals was announced and I would recommend checking out the official announcement here: Atlassian Projects and Goals access management is now available! 

Cheers,
Tobi

[Ferry Portier]

Hi Tobi,

Do you happen to know if there are any costs involved? To take advantage of this ?

grtz,Ferry

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Ferry Portier According to this related article (https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Atlas-Group-articles/Atlas-is-evolving/ba-p/2686154):

That’s why we announced at the recent Team ‘24 that Atlas will be retired as a product, and its features will become the first of Atlassian’s Platform Experiences available to every Atlassian customer for free. That means no more product licenses to provision or user access to manage - if you have an Atlassian product in your workspace, you’ll be able to use goals, projects, teams, and topics and get an upgraded Atlassian Home experience.

So, I guess there is no cost. Of course, never having used Atlas, I have no idea what goals and projects are. I guess I have some research in my future.

[Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_]

@Ferry Portier as Barbara said, it's expected to be and remain free (but, I cannot confirm or deny that).

As stated in the article Barbara shared, there's an official support documentation link related to platform experiences with a lot of relevant documentation about projects and goals: What are Platform Experiences? 

There are numerous resources on the topic, but here's one introductory video of Atlas (newly these platform experiences): An introduction to Atlas | Atlassian 

I can just say that I've used projects for tracking bigger implementation and migration projects for our clients, and it all ended really well. We now have a nice retrospective of everything that was happening during these projects + some learnings, risks and decisions for each, all at the same place. 👀

Also, you could use goals with Jira (& Jira plans) and then get a really nice visualization of how each Jira item (e.g. Epic) impacts a specific company goal.
As for Confluence, you can easily embed stuff from projects and goals to a Confluence page.

I mean, there's a lot to it (& it's all quite new), but IMO, really interesting stuff.

Cheers,
Tobi