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Overview
Summary
The Problem
Team Studio - light setup
"What are you working on?"
"How am I doing?"
"Can I get a promo?"
The Beta
Atlassian

Streamlining continuous team management.

Streamlining 1:1 performance tracking, feedback, and growth for managers and teams.

Team Studio

Team Studio is a team management experience I designed and (vibe)coded to make performance and capacity more transparent and quantifiable, for both individual contributors and managers.

The Problem

Atlassian design managers lacked a unified view of work distribution, design team capacity, and performance outcomes. They relied on fragmented signals, while IC designers had little visibility into how their work mapped to team goals or their own career progression.

I intentionally avoided building another bloated "enterprise" tool. Instead, I focused on three core questions:

1

What are we working on?

Track team efforts, timelines, and scope.

2

Does it matter?

Connect daily work to business priorities.

3

Where am I going?

Map current work to career goals and progression.

Team Studio - light setup

Using Replit, I built a functional, manager-focused prototype. Because it was a beta without deep API access, it required some light initial setup.

AI-Powered Data Normalization

To bypass these data limitations, I integrated Rovo (Atlassian's AI agent) to pull unstructured performance docs from our knowledge base and automatically parse them into normalized, structured rubrics for Team Studio.

Team Studio light setup

Capacity Tracking Configuration

The only manual step for managers was defining their mental model for T-shirt sizing, which grounded the tool's capacity tracking.

Team AI-powered admin settings

"What are you working on?"

Understanding team capacity is critical, especially for teams stretching to cover multiple business areas.

In Team Studio, the core unit of tracking is a workstream. By combining start/end dates with T-shirt sizing, workstreams give managers an instant, glanceable read on both individual workload and overall team capacity.

Team Studio workstream tracking

"How am I doing?"

"How am I doing?" is a difficult question to answer not for lack of feedback, but because traditional answers are qualitative and hard to plan against.

Interactive Performance Mapping

Using the AI-parsed level rubrics, Team Studio provides an interactive map where managers and ICs collaboratively link active workstreams to specific performance expectations.

Team AI-powered performance path

Growth & Trajectory Insights

This creates a visual, succinct map of strengths and growth areas. The rubric data then powers a glanceable radar chart and an AI-generated summary of what's going well and where to focus next.

Team AI-powered trajectory view

"Can I get a promo?"

While a promotion is never guaranteed, managers and ICs need a structured way to quantify opportunities and plan for the next level.

Team Studio's "level up" feature exposes the rubric for the IC's next career level. Managers and ICs can then map current workstreams against those higher expectations, keeping conversations grounded and ensuring no surprises during performance reviews.

Team Studio level up promo

The Beta

Team Studio launched to my org a month ago, driving instant engagement, especially among ICs, by plainly connecting daily work to career expectations.

Performance conversations in 1:1s are now considerably shorter. Ambiguity around progress and planning has dropped to near zero because all tracking and collaboration happens directly in the product.

This tool will also be included in our upcoming "Strategy Collection" suite of enterprise apps.