Give it a Try

If you’ve been experimenting with AI in your development workflow, don’t try to build the whole team on day one. Pick the stage of your workflow that costs you the most time or context. For most developers, it’s the stage before the code gets written — research, planning, or discovery — because that’s where ambiguity lives and where context gets lost between stages. Add a column to your Jira board that represents that stage. Build one specialized agent in Rovo Studio scoped tightly to that stage.

Not a general assistant — an agent that does one thing well. Assign the agent to the column so it picks up any work item you move into it. Move one real ticket through it. Review the output. Iterate on the agent’s instructions until you trust it with the next stage.

That’s it. One column, one agent, one ticket. Once that stage feels reliable, add the next column. Then the next. Before long, you’ll have a workflow where the board is doing the coordinating, the agents are doing the specialized work, and you’re doing what you actually should be doing — reviewing, deciding, and moving the work forward.

The point isn’t to build a team of agents. It’s to change how work flows through your workflow, one stage at a time. And this pattern isn’t limited to one developer or one project. Any team building on Atlassian — internal or Marketplace — can compose the same primitives: Jira for coordination, Rovo Studio for agents, Forge for the app surface. The workflow you build for your own bottleneck today can become the workflow your teammates run tomorrow, or the pattern a partner ships to thousands of customers next quarter.

If your organization has Rovo enabled, you can build your first agent in Rovo Studio and assign it to a Jira column today. Get started here. The post The future of Jira isn’t just tracking work. It’s delegating it. appeared first on Inside Atlassian.