Atlassian Jira Planner joins spec-driven development AI coding trend

Atlassian has introduced Jira Planner, a tool that applies spec-driven development to the requirements planning stage to mitigate AI-related bottlenecks in software testing and deployment. By leveraging enterprise context to generate structured technical specifications, the platform aims to improve coding quality and productivity across the entire development lifecycle. Additionally, Atlassian is expanding its ecosystem by making the Jira Coding Agent generally available and integrating support for third-party tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude.