Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

How Design Ops built an AI teammate with no engineering lift

Our Design Ops team supports more than 600 designers across Atlassian. And like most operations teams, we were seeing the same pattern over and over again: important questions landing in Slack, manual triage happening in the background, and too much useful knowledge trapped in docs that people either couldn’t find or didn’t have time to read. We built DOT, the Design Org Teammate, to change that.

How to monitor remote BPO agents across shifts and time zones

BPOs run night shifts and rotational rosters because the customer they serve in the US or UK is awake on the other side of the clock. That means at almost any hour of the day, part of the workforce is remote, working alone, and out of sync with the manager who is supposed to be watching over them. The visibility gap this creates is not a trust problem. It is a coverage problem.

What is the Role of AI in Employee Monitoring?

Remember when “checking in” meant stopping by someone’s desk, not logging into surveillance software? Well, that world vanished overnight in 2020. Now, three years after offices emptied, companies face a workforce management crisis they never asked for — how to oversee employees without turning into Big Brother. The numbers show that before COVID hit, about 30% of large employers used monitoring tools. Today, that figure has doubled to 60%.

Data sovereignty: residency is the starting point, not the destination

‍ Most organizations asking about data sovereignty are actually asking about data residency. Where are the servers? Is there a data center in Germany, France, or the Netherlands? The vendor says yes. The procurement box gets ticked. The conversation moves on. This is understandable. Geography is concrete and auditable. And residency does matter. What it does not do is answer every question sovereignty requires. That gap is where the real sovereignty conversation begins.

Incident Response Plan Template & Framework for Security Teams

No organization is immune to cybersecurity incidents. Whether it's ransomware, phishing, or unauthorized access, the speed and effectiveness of your response often determine how much damage an attack can cause. That’s why every company needs a well-defined incident response plan that gives security teams a structured process for detecting, containing, and recovering from security threats.

Building to learn: rethinking the product playbook

At Canvas 26 in San Francisco. Ravi Mehta — product strategy advisor, longtime product leader, and teacher of Reforge’s AI strategy and AI prototyping courses — laid out a bold vision for product teams: unlearn the MVP, trade the assembly line for a jazz band, and expect the playbook to reset every six months.

Turn knowledge in Google Drive and Microsoft SharePoint into connected context

Bring document knowledge you already have access to from Google Drive, SharePoint, and OneDrive into Rovo Search, Chat, and Agents so teams can move from questions to useful context faster. The project plan is in Google Drive. The financial model is in SharePoint. The work is tracked in Jira, and the decisions are documented in Confluence. Your team has the information it needs.

Revenue Up 2x, EBITDA Up 5x: The Operating Model Behind It with Andrew McBarnett

Everyone wants AI to fix their messy data. Andrew McBarnett will tell you straight: it won't. In fact, it'll just help you reach the wrong conclusion faster. Andrew is Group Financial Director at Lucid Group, a PE-backed medical communications agency. He joined in 2020 for what was meant to be a four month contract. Six years later, he's still there, and the numbers tell the story: EBITDA up from £3.6m to £18.1m, revenue more than doubled, legal entities cut from 25 to 15, and a finance team that's shrunk in headcount while transaction volume has nearly doubled.