Project completion of the Atlassian tools Project completion of the Atlassian tools

The University of Bonn is celebrating the very successful completion of the Atlassian project, which has significantly advanced digital collaboration throughout the university. Since January 2020, the Atlassian collaboration tools Confluence (wiki), Jira (task management) and Bitbucket (software development) have been widely available to employees. The aim of the strategically important project is to establish the Atlassian tools as a central virtual collaboration platform. These digital tools are designed to suit the working reality of employees. The ‘Functions in practice’ simplify a number of work processes: 

• Sharing knowledge: Sharing information with colleagues from your department or the whole university and working collaboratively on shared knowledge
• Writing in teams: Working simultaneously with colleagues from different departments on a text, a report or protocol
• Coding in teams: Versioned work on and sharing of programming code
• Organizing tasks: Managing tasks, working together on a process and keeping track of who has assigned which task
• Organizing projects: Keeping track of information on project progress
• Organizing teams: Organizing a digital space for collaboration with your team
• blogging @UBonn: Providing information about news within the team or across the university

Under the management of the University IT and Data Center (HRZ), the project, which originally emerged from various wiki initiatives in 2017 and started as a DiCe project in 2020, was effectively implemented by the Atlassian Tools team. Following the successful launch, the Atlassian tools have been running in stable operations since 2023. 

Numerous other institutions at the University of Bonn were actively involved in the ongoing development of Atlassian tools. The university administration has also developed a service portal based on the Confluence infrastructure. Long-term support structures at the HRZ ensure the operation, further development and comprehensive support of the users. This includes conceptual training and virtual consultation hours. In May 2025, the project was officially and successfully completed by the DiCe Executive Board.

With the update in August 2025, the Confluence landing page of the University of Bonn will also receive a new intuitive structure that will support all employees even better in sharing knowledge, writing and coding together, administering tasks, blogging internally and organizing projects and teams.