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The technology landscape continues to shift rapidly, with major updates this week highlighting a trend toward platform maintenance, mass AI adoption, and strategic reliability.

Managing Jira labels through automation often presents a significant challenge: standard "edit issue" actions typically overwrite existing labels instead of appending new ones. This article explores how to use advanced JSON payloads to dynamically add new labels while preserving your historical issue data.

In many organizations, bridging the gap between Jira Service Management (JSM) and Jira Software creates a significant operational bottleneck. When a customer incident escalates into a software bug, support teams often find themselves trapped in manual data entry—copying descriptions, screenshots, and manually linking tickets. This post explores how to automate these processes to improve efficiency and traceability.

In our recent tutorial session, we explored the powerful yet frequently overlooked "Create Variable" action in Jira Cloud Automation. Understanding how to use these variables is a game-changer for administrators looking to create cleaner, more maintainable automation rules.

The technology sector is currently witnessing a period of rapid transformation, driven by the relentless push into artificial intelligence. From streamlining user onboarding to massive hardware investments and complex organizational restructuring, industry leaders are adapting to a new operational reality.

Automating Jira subtask creation can significantly streamline your workflow, especially when you need to maintain data consistency between parent issues and their child tasks. However, a common hurdle arises when dealing with cascading select lists. In this guide, we explore how to bridge this gap using Jira Cloud Automation.

In a recent tutorial session, Aaditya Kumar demonstrated how to resolve historical limitations in Jira Cloud automation regarding cascading select fields. For years, users struggled to copy cascading select fields between issues using standard automation, as the child option could not be selected without the parent value.

Automation in Jira Cloud is a powerful tool, but it often requires fine-tuning to ensure it serves the team rather than creating unnecessary work. In a recent tutorial, Aaditya Kumar demonstrated how to build a precise automation flow that creates work items for new project versions while intelligently filtering out "noise" from internal-only testing versions.

This guide breaks down the technical configuration required to build a cleaner, more effective release pipeline.

Welcome to this week's Tech Capsule, where we dive into three pivotal developments shaping the future of technology: Atlassian's latest updates for product teams, shifts in the AI hiring landscape, and a groundbreaking mission to rescue aging space assets.

The tech industry is evolving rapidly, and this week"s "Tech Capsule" highlights significant shifts in how teams collaborate and how small businesses leverage artificial intelligence. Here’s a breakdown of the latest trends shaping the future of work.

Streamlining Product Discovery with Jira

Communication bottlenecks are a classic challenge in project management. Atlassian has addressed this with a new feature in Jira Product Discovery: idea watchers.