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THIRD MEETING - 20 July 2011Focus = Confluence

CENTRAL TEXAS

AgendaREGISTRATION AND MINGLING

INTRODUCTION/CALL FOR PRESENTERSSPEAKER: MATT HODGES, ATLASSIAN

SPEAKER: TIANI JONES, AMDBREAK

BIRDS OF A FEATHERCLOSING

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AgendaREGISTRATION AND MINGLING

INTRODUCTION/CALL FOR PRESENTERSSPEAKER: MATT HODGES, ATLASSIAN

SPEAKER: TIANI JONES, AMDBREAK

BIRDS OF A FEATHERCLOSING

Video: Matt Hodges

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYJMdmD4-eE

Slides: Tiana Jones

ConfluenceFrom Silos to Open Collaboration

IntroductionName: Tiani JonesEducation: Colorado School of MinesEngineering – Electrical SpecialtyCompany: AMD (Previously at EchoStar )Role: Technical Project Manager / Program ManagerOther:

• Atlassian user and enthusiast for 6 years• Moved to Austin from Denver 15 days ago• Achieved PMP credential 9 days ago• Accepted into the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner program 5 days

ago

• Internal wiki (s)• SharePoint• Shared drives• Email• Documents saved on local PCs• Bill of Materials tool

… ... … … Napkins

HOW IT WAS

• Started with JIRAo Rolled JIRA out to:

All Software PMs  All STB engineering Entire Software Test

Organization Test teams in Europe  From California to Ukraine Project work housed in

JIRA Teams started to become

Agile in addition to using one tool

WHERE WE STARTED

• Special project created in JIRA for initiating changes or new features to STBso Tracked all engineering

design reviewso Tracked executive

approvalso Tracked test procedure

development change requirements

o Customized workflowo Multiple document

attachments to JIRA issues Documents written and saved

locally and uploaded to JIRA issue

Engineers would each add their piece and then reattach to JIRA

BUT improvement was still needed …

WHERE WE STARTED

• Lack of interest in using SharePoint• Need for collaborative

documentation development• Need to relate this documentation to

issues in JIRA• Need to get the documents attached

in JIRA issues out and into a central location providing:o Version Controlo Easy accesso Easy administrationo Ability to collaborate and provide instant

feedback

HOW CHANGE BEGAN

• Imported WIKI to Confluence• Acronyms and Terms • Set up team global spaces• Created project pages spanning

Infrastructure/Operations, Software development, and Test

• Began writing software specifications in Confluence

• Used Confluence for project meeting minuteso Tracked non-development tasks by

means of Confluence• Piloted company social networking

through Confluence• Wrote help screen content for

internally-developed tools in Confluence

• … no more napkins

ENTER ONFLUENCE

• Engineering Management• Set Top Box Software Engineering• Satellite Uplink Centers• Web Application development teams• Software Test Organization• Software Program Managers• Test Program Managers• Testers at global sites• Operations teams• Tech writers• And others …

WHO USES CONFLUENCE

• Getting Marketing, Sales, Hardware, and Systems on board

• JIRA/Confluence Integrationo Ability to create Stories out of Specs

• Test tools• Test scripts/cases other content• Continuous Integration - Bamboo• Crucible• FishEye• JIRA/Jazz Connector by CM Logic• Internally-developed plug ins

NEXT STEPS

CONCLUSION

Becoming

In line with the Atlassian Summit …

QUESTIONS?

THANK YOU.

@CTXAUGCentral Texas Atlassian User Group

NEXT MEETING: 21 Sept 2011, 6p

CENTRAL TEXAS