Key Takeaways Extra-usage billing for Rovo, Automation, Assets, and Bitbucket starts December 3, 2026. Your per-user subscription price doesn't change. Every paid Jira and Confluence plan includes a monthly allowance that's pooled across your organization, refreshes...
Automation and AI
Automation at Scale: Reducing Repetitive Jira Tasks
Key Takeaways Jira automation gives teams time back. Automating repetitive tasks can save employees 10 to 50% of the time they once spent on manual work. Every rule follows a simple pattern. A trigger, conditions, and actions make rules easy to build, and pre-built...
What Are AI Agents and Why Should Engineering Leaders Care?
Key Takeaways AI agents take action, not just answer questions. They combine a model with memory, reasoning, tools, and connections to complete multistep engineering work. The biggest gains from AI are through the process. AI can be a feature within a final product,...
Cloud Security Posture Management and AI Governance for Engineering Organizations
Key Takeaways CSPM finds and fixes cloud risk before attackers do. Cloud security posture management continuously scans cloud environments for misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and compliance drift, then drives remediation. AI tools expand your cloud attack...
Strategies for Optimizing Software License Costs
Introduction Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another SPK & Associates Vlog. My name is Michael Roberts. I'm the Vice President of Sales and Marketing here at SPK. So today, we're going to talk about something that shows up on every engineering and IT budget...
How Product Teams Can Measure AI Coding ROI
Key Takeaways AI adoption alone does not prove ROI. Teams must measure how AI coding tools impact development speed, software quality, engineering capacity, and overall costs. Developer time saved must translate into business value. Tracking recovered hours,...
AI Has a Cost. Here’s How We Prove the Benefit.
Key Takeaways AI ROI starts with a measurable business problem. Companies should define what they want AI to improve before investing in tools or launching pilots. AI value should be measured across speed, quality, cost, and capacity. These four areas help connect AI...
Automating PDM and Design Workflows with Custom Scripting
Register NowYou’ll be taken to a secure registration page to complete your sign-up.By submitting this form, I acknowledge receipt of SPK and Associates' Privacy Policy.Mechanical and design engineers spend valuable time on repetitive administrative tasks such as...
What Is an AI Agent Really?
Key Takeaways AI agents go beyond generating responses. They can gather context, use tools, take actions, and work through multiple steps toward a defined goal. A model provides intelligence, while an agent puts that intelligence to work. Agents combine models with...
What Is a Forward Deployed Engineer? And Why Every Enterprise Needs One
Key Takeaways AI pilots often struggle in production because real enterprise environments are complex. Legacy systems, fragmented data, security requirements, and compliance constraints can quickly expose the limits of a successful demo. Forward Deployed Engineers...
AI Is Changing Simulation. Is Your Engineering Infrastructure Ready?
Key Takeaways: AI is changing simulation from a late-stage validation step into a continuous part of product development, helping teams explore more designs, automate setup, and support predictive digital twins. AI-driven simulation still depends on high-performance...
Using Atlassian Rovo to Connect AI, Knowledge, and Workflows
Key Takeaways Rovo gives AI the organizational context generic chatbots often lack. It connects people, projects, documents, and workflows through the Atlassian Teamwork Graph. Teams can find project context faster. Rovo pulls together information from Jira,...











