Enterprise software giant Atlassian is rolling out a new way for humans and AI agents to work together, which it hopes will help teams create “10x more work without 10x more disruption.”
Atlassian announced “Agent for Jira” on Wednesday. The update will allow users of the company’s project management software Jira to assign and manage work for digital agents from the same dashboard they use for human employees.
Agents in Jira allows businesses to assign tasks and tickets to AI agents just like they would to humans. Also, track work progress and set metrics such as deadlines. Users can now loop in AI agents even in the middle of an existing project.
This feature is now available in open beta.
Tamar Yehoshua, Atlassian’s new principal product and AI officer, told TechCrunch that the update aims to give users visibility into the work their agents are doing, just like human employees.
“Atlassian has been in the business of collaboration software that helps people get work done for decades,” Yehoshua said. “Now you go into an agent and the agent is doing a lot of the work, so you want to be able to coordinate between the human and the agent.”
But Atlassian understands that just giving people more ways to automate doesn’t necessarily mean fewer jobs, Yehoshua said. That’s why a key part of this update is that everything happens within the same dashboard, she said.
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“In the zeitgeist these days, we’re hearing that all these agents are creating more jobs for people and in some ways creating more disruption,” Yehoshua said. “What we’re really good at is bringing order to that chaos.”
This kind of perspective could prove beneficial as companies continue to explore where and how they can find return on investment from investments in AI tools. The ability to compare agent and human work on the same project can help companies decide where to deploy agents first and which tasks should remain human-led.
Yehoshua said this announcement is just the first of many as the company is looking to increasingly add AI tools to its existing software products.
“The goal is to help people work more productively with AI, and I think this is a step,” Yehoshua said. “This is just the beginning of a journey. It’s a long journey, but this is a very important step in how we integrate AI into existing workflows, and I’m very excited.”
