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Globally Distributed Software Development

Erich GammaDistinguished Engineer, Jazz Technical Lead IBM Rational Zurich Research Laberich_gamma@ch.ibm.com

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Our Journey: XDE -> CDE

Eclipse Way

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� An effort to create a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform.

� A vision for the future of software delivery – supporting a workforce that is organizationally and globally distributed.

� A community at Jazz.net – the online venue for open commercial development of Jazz-based products.

The Jazz Project

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Jazz and Team Concert

� Jazz is a technology platform

�Rational Team Concert is the first Jazz based product

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Team Concert

� Project, Teams, Users

� Process enactment, customization, role based Permissions

� In-context Collaboration, Events, Presence

� Reports

� Dashboards (project, team, personal)

Build� Continuous integration

� Build engine

� Work Item and Change Set Traceability

� Run Personal Builds

� Integration with Build Forge

SCM� Change sets

� Suspending changes

� Workspaces, Streams

� Components, Baselines

� Snapshots

� ClearCase Connector,SVN Bridge

Work Items� Defects, Enhancements

� Task tracking

� Approvals

� Iteration planning

� Workflow customization

� ClearQuest Connector

Project Health� Reports

� Dashboards (project, team, personal)

Rational Team Concert

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Team Concert Themes

� Themes derived from the CDE properties:

� Integration

�Team First

�Collaboration

�Transparency/visibility

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Tracing among artifacts

promoted

built from

change flow

Work Item

IterationPlan

Build

Release

Change Set

SnapshotUser

Stream

Artifacts

subscribesapprovesreviews related

implements

found in

plannedfor

included

reportedagainst

included

included

Workspace

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Team First

Build

Members

Release/

Iteration Plan

Categories

Streams

Queries

Events

has

produces

defines

generates

works

in

is responsible

shares

Process

Team

follows

owns

� Tools know the Team

� Each team is different

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Team First: Scoped Collaboration

� Multiple level of information visibility

� Isolation levels:

� individual user

� team

� teams of teams

� Distributed

teamsTeam Team

Team of Teams

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Notifications

� RSS feeds enable

everybody to be

informed of changes

� Feeds for the:

� individual user

� team

� team of teams

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Builds

� Scoped builds

�Personal builds

�Continuous team builds

�Scheduled integration builds

� Collaborate in context on build failures

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Rules/Process

� All collaborations have underlying

context specific rules and patterns Each project follows a

process

� Each team is unique and thus can work differently ⇒Team’s own their process

� Team members play roles defined by

the process

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Process

� Process manifested through:

� artifact types and their states

� role-specific preconditions and follow-up actions on operations manipulating artifacts

� artifact change events

� role-specific and permissions

Eclipse Way

Scrum

OpenUP

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Transparency/Visibility: Dashboards

� Knowing what is going on without having to

ask

� At a glance view on team artifacts

� Three dashboard types:

� project

� team

� individual user

Viewlets

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A Personal Dashboard

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A Team Dashboard

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Team Dashboard

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Team of Teams Dashboard

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Team of Teams Dashboard

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Point of Friction: Getting Started

� Cost of setting-up a new team member

� Demo:

�new team member joins a team

� learns about the team

� fixes and delivers the first bug

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Team Invitation

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Team Invitation

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Accept Team Invitation

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Team Area

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Team Members

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New Work for Me

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Linkage to the problem

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Drill down to details

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Fix the Problem

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Deliver a Fix (Change Set)

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Process Enforcement

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Process Requires Code Review

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Easy Access to Change Set to Review

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Conclusions

� Jazz and Team Concert is developed and used by a globally distributed team

� Experiences

� we have become more continuous

� things important to us we make explicit

� increased awareness

� improved practices

Effortless access to assets, notifications, reporting, and tracking for everybody

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www.jazz.net

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DEMO

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QUESTIONS

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