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Rovo Dev Code Reviewer reduces PR cycle time by 30.8% at Atlassian

Manual code review at Atlassian was time-consuming, created deployment bottlenecks, and exposed code to human error, slowing engineering velocity as the product portfolio grew in complexity.

How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · First-pass review triggered
Rovo Dev performs the initial 'first pass' review of a pull request within the Bitbucket workflow.
Tools used
Rovo DevClaude 3.5 Sonnetgpt-4o-miniModernBERTBitbucketJira
Outcome

Rovo Dev Code Reviewer reduced median PR cycle time by 30.8% and cut human-written review comments by 35.6%, with 38.70% of its generated comments leading directly to code changes; engineering feedback was overwhelmingly positive.

Results
Time saved30.8%
Volume35.6%
Running sinceOctober 2025
Source

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/artificial-intelligence/developer-productivity-improved-with-rovo-dev

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