People are simultaneously an organization’s most valuable asset and biggest cost, which naturally makes workforce planning a challenge. While 80% of enterprises say that workforce planning is essential for driving business outcomes, Fortune 500 executives estimate that only 24% of teams are focused on mission-critical work.
Aligning your team’s talent with your company’s strategy is easier said than done, but leave it to Atlassian to streamline the process with their new app, Atlassian Talent. In this article, we break down what Atlassian Talent is, how it works, and how this app helps you add horsepower to what’s coming down the pipeline.
What is Atlassian Talent?
Part of the Strategy Collection, Atlassian Talent is an app designed to align your team’s skills and roles with your company’s priorities. Talent helps you map out your workforce to match the capabilities you need to hit your goals, keeping everything and everyone on track. Even better, it plays nicely with your existing HR systems, which means you have insight into who’s doing what, what gaps you need to fill, and what you need to do to stay on top of your game.
Why Workforce Planning is Key for Strategy Execution
If you want your business strategy to make it out of a slide deck, workforce planning needs to be part of the conversation from day one. While strategy gives your vision shape, your people bring your strategic goals to life.
Even the best ideas fall flat if you don’t have the right resources in place. Gartner found that 66% of HR leaders say their workforce planning is limited to headcount forecasting, but headcount is only one piece of the puzzle. Resource management is also about understanding open positions, tenure, job family, and location. When capacity planning is dialed in, you’re not scrambling to put out fires or fill resource gaps.
Too often, strategy lives in one room while hiring plans live in another. This disconnect slows you down and costs you big time. But when workforce planning is integrated with strategic goals, you ensure that you have the right mix of skills and expertise to execute your strategy without burnout or bottlenecks.
How Does Atlassian Talent Work?
Here’s how Atlassian’s Talent app helps you accomplish your business objectives:
1. Connect Talent to Strategy
It sometimes seems that your team’s efforts and your company’s goals speak two different languages. Atlassian Talent addresses this challenge by letting you link HR roles directly to strategic objectives in Focus, giving you a clear view of how your workforce supports your mission.
2. Plan Like a Pro
With Atlassian Talent, you get a bird’s-eye view of your workforce. It helps you spot position and location gaps, redundancies, or areas where your teams are stretched too thin. Whether you need to forecast hiring needs or want to know if you’re over- or understaffed in certain strategy areas, Atlassian Talent helps you plan for what’s coming next. For example, if you’re gearing up for a big product launch, Talent can show you exactly where you need to bring in reinforcements or specialized skills.
3. Take Action
Atlassian Talent provides you with actionable insights into how your roles align (or don’t!) with your strategy and how many individuals are assigned to each priority. The app also helps you identify risks, address issues quickly, and confidently distribute talent where it’s needed most.
Benefits of Atlassian Talent
Atlassian Talent takes you from playing catch-up to staying ahead of the game. Here’s how it works its magic:
Clarity on Contributions
Talent gives you the clarity of knowing exactly how every team and individual contributes to your goals. It ensures no one is overworked, underutilized, or misaligned.
Spot-On Hiring Forecasts
With Atlassian Talent, you can analyze trends and priorities to help you predict exactly what roles you need to fill and when. Whether you’re scaling up or bringing in niche expertise, you have the right information to build the workforce your business needs.
Proactive Problem-Solving
Markets move fast, and so do problems. Missed deadlines, hiring delays, or bottlenecks can derail your plans. Atlassian Talent acts like an early warning system, flagging risks before they become full-blown crises.
Built for Collaboration and Growth
Workforce planning isn’t just HR’s job anymore. Atlassian Talent brings managers and decision-makers together on one platform, so everyone’s on the same page. Whether you’re scaling rapidly, merging teams, or navigating compliance changes, Atlassian Talent meets you where you are.
Seamless Integration with Focus and Jira Align
Atlassian Talent seamlessly integrates with Focus and Jira Align to help organizations crush their business goals. By linking talent data to strategic priorities, it provides clear visibility into how roles align with company goals. Focus ensures teams stay centered on top priorities, while Jira Align connects the dots between big-picture strategy and day-to-day execution. Together, these tools enable organizations to identify risks, optimize resource allocation, and ensure every team member contributes to achieving business objectives.
The Way Forward with Atlassian Talent
Atlassian Talent ensures you have the right people with the right skills in the right roles to bring your strategy to life. This Strategy Collection app connects your team’s talent to your company’s goals, enabling you to plan work with precision, adjust when needed, and move forward with confidence.
Since 2008, Praecipio has been empowering top brands to crush their enterprise goals with better data, sharper decisions, and faster results. That’s why Atlassian brought us in to collaborate with their product design team on creating Talent and Focus.
So, if you are interested in implementing Talent or any of the other Strategy Collection apps, you’ve come to the right place. Recently named Atlassian of the Year for Enterprise Strategy and Planning, we’re ready to help organizations confidently turn strategies into real results. Reach out to our team to learn more about how to put your Atlassian tools to work.
