Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

What's new in Asana | August 2026

Welcome to the August edition of What’s new in Asana, our monthly product update. Key moments: AI Studio instruction suggestions: Improve automation instructions in AI Studio with tips from Asana AI to make your instructions clearer. And remember to follow us on our other social media channels: LinkedIn - / asana Instagram - / asana.

Using @Jira in Microsoft Team: create, update and assign work from chat | Atlassian

Yes, Jira works inside Microsoft Teams. The Jira Cloud for Microsoft Teams app brings project management into your conversations, and it just got smarter. Over a million users already rely on the Jira for Microsoft Teams integration for notifications, work item previews, and quick actions. Now Jira understands natural language, so you can create, update, and assign work without ever leaving your Teams chat.

Workstatus Changelog | What's New in This Sprint

A lot can change in one sprint. This time, we’ve made Workstatus cleaner, simpler, and stronger - from a redesigned reporting experience to major backend improvements. Here’s what you’ll find in this video: Redesigned Reports - See what’s changed across Expense, Project & Task, App & URL, Weekly, Time Off Transaction, and Attendance reports. A More Consistent Experience - Updated typography and visual improvements across billing, subscriptions, settings, and more.

3 tips every internal communicator needs to hear ft. Carolyn Clark, Simpplr

Internal communications is evolving fast — and the communicators who stay ahead are the ones rethinking how they work, not just what they produce. Carolyn Clark, Simpplr's VP of Communications and EX Strategy, shares her top 3 tips for modern communicators: from leading with context over content, to leveraging AI in your comms workflow, to getting into the strategic rooms where decisions get made.

Group approver: Assign approval requests to a team | What's New

Say goodbye to approval bottlenecks by assigning requests to a group instead of a single individual. With group approver, any member of the designated group can review and complete the approval—so requests move forward faster. The first group member to respond becomes the recorded approver, and all members receive notifications and visibility in Agent Home. Zendesk makes customer and employee service better. We build software to meet customer and employee needs, set your team up for success, and keep your business in sync.

Turn Meeting Notes Into Action Items Automatically with Miro AI

Messy meeting notes never turn themselves into action. In this video, we show you how to select your notes in Miro, choose your output format, and let Miro AI generate a structured task table, system diagram, or decision document in seconds, with ownership, deadlines, and context all intact. From chaotic session to clear next steps. Without the hour of cleanup afterward. Subscribe for more productivity tutorials that transform how your team collaborates.

Slack School | Deploying Your Slack App with GitHub Actions

If you’d rather spend your day building features than manually pushing updates, this episode’s for you. We’re putting your hosted Bolt app on autopilot using GitHub Actions and Railway. You’ll see how to securely stash your Slack tokens in GitHub, trigger an automated build, and deploy live app changes just by pushing code. Once it's set up, you'll never have to deploy manually again. Class dismissed!

How to Prototype Tablet Experiences in Miro

Tablet design is not just a bigger mobile screen. It needs its own layout thinking, navigation patterns, and interaction hierarchy. In this video, we show you how to generate editable tablet wireframes in Miro AI from a single prompt, how to use existing board content like sticky notes or PRDs as context, and how to convert screenshots into customizable tablet layouts instantly. Structured flows. Real collaboration. Before a single line of code.