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# The best SDLC is the one you build yourself: Why orchestration changes everything


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 9, 2026
- **Time:** 13:00–15:00 (120 min)
- **Room:** Room M8 (60 Seats)
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Description

Industry research shows AI productivity gains have plateaued at 10–15% — because today's tools only optimize the 20% of a developer's day spent writing code. The real bottlenecks are left and right of code: planning, orchestration, review, and operations. We'll also explore the value of AI-powered code reviews - from establishing code standards that AI can seamlessly enforce, to triggering agentic pipelines that autonomously fix issues.

Join Atlassian’s Jovana Dunisijevic for a hands-on deep dive into the AI-native SDLC. In this workshop, we’ll move past single-player copilots and show you how Atlassian is turning Jira into an AI-native orchestration layer for the entire software development lifecycle. Then, we’ll go further. You'll learn how to build custom automations that chain these capabilities together, transforming your Jira board into an agentic software factory where humans set intent and agents execute.

You'll walk away with a working understanding of how to move from single-player copilots to multiplayer AI workflows — where the coordination layer, becomes the leverage point.

## Speaker

### [Jovana Dunisijevic](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@jovana-dunisijevic)

Senior Technical Evangelist at Atlassian


## Related talks at this congress

- [Developers become Orchestrators: From Human-in-the-Loop to Spec-in-the-Loop](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1024-developers-become) — Bastian Heilemann, Stefan Bley
- [The AI-Native Software Team: How Agents Are Rewriting the SDLC](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1294-the-ai-native) — Marcin Wawryszczuk
- [High Quality AI Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1459-high-quality-ai) — David Tielke
- [Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1133-agentic-employees-in) — Sasa Fajkovic