Creating Enterprise Visibility With GreenHopperMichael de la Maza, PhD

December 6, 2012

Who is cPrime?Engaged for Your Project Management Success

About Me

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• Currently: Lean/agile coach at edx.org, the Harvard/MIT/Berkeley online education nonprofit

• PhD in Computer Science from MIT• Former Research Scientist at MIT Lincoln Lab• Former VP of Corporate Strategy at Softricity (acquired by Microsoft)• Member of founding team at Inquira (acquired by Oracle)• During the past year, I have been an agile coach at PayPal, Symantec, and Blue Cross• Previously, I have done agile training and coaching at Carbonite, EMC, Intuit, Verizon

Wireless, etc.• Startup mentor at Blackbox.vc• Created scruminschools.org• Co-author of Professional Scrum with Team Foundation Server

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Agenda

• GreenHopper in one slide• Customizing GreenHopper• Using GreenHopper for Enterprise Visibility• GreenHopper is part of the Atlassian suite• Questions [15 minutes]

Survey: About You

What title best describes what you do?

• Project Manager• Engineering Manager• Product Manager• Member of technical team• Circus clown• Other

Survey: About Your Company

How large is your company?• One person (me, myself, and I)• 2-50 people• 51-200 people• 201-1000 people• 1000+ people

Survey: About Your Framework

Which of the following frameworks do you use?• Scrum• XP• Other agile• Waterfall

GreenHopper in one slide

• GreenHopper is a Jira extension. GreenHopper cannot be used without Jira.

• GreenHopper adds three boards to Jira:– Planning Board: Backlog– Task Board: Work item progress– Chart Board: Forecasts, velocity, burndown/burnup

• GreenHopper can be used for Scrum, Kanban, waterfall, XP, etc.

Survey: You and GreenHopper

Where are you in your GreenHopper adoption?• We started using GreenHopper over a year ago• We started using GreenHopper less than a year ago• We are evaluating GreenHopper and other tools and

plan to make a tool decision within three months• Other

Two Steps to Increase Enterprise Visibility

1. Capture what your organization does in GreenHopper2. Create a dashboard which makes the organization’s

activities visible

Survey: You and Enterprise Visibility

How good is the visibility in your enterprise?• Excellent! I can see for miles and miles.• Ok• Poor 11

Customizing GreenHopper

• GreenHopper is the most easily customizable agile tool. You can create:– Custom fields– New issue types– New issue states– New workflow

• Customizing Greenhopper is not difficult but it typically takes a person with Jira/GreenHopper “Admin” skills to do so.

• Buying GreenHopper and then not customizing it is like paying for a Ferrari and settling for a Pinto.

Customization Example: Task Board Columns

1. Agile / Manage Boards2. Add Column

Customization Hierarchy

Not Obvious!

Customization Example: Custom Fields

1. Administration/Issues2. Fields/Custom Fields3. Add Fields

Customization Example: Moving Fields

1. Administration/Issues/Screens2. Configure3. Move/remove fields

Extended Customization Example

Right Size!

Extended Customization: Steps

1. Create new Issue Types2. Create new Issue Type Scheme3. Change Project’s Issue Type Scheme4. Create Screen5. Create Field6. Create Screen Scheme7. Create Issue Type Screen Scheme8. Change Project’s Issue Type Screen Scheme

Create New Issue Types

1. Administration/Issues2. Create Issue Type3. Create Issue Type Scheme4. Associate Scheme with project

Create New Issue Type Scheme

1. Administration/Issues/Issue Type Scheme2. “Add Issue Type Scheme”3. Create Issue Type Scheme

Change Project’s Issue Type Scheme

1. Administration/Projects Admin2. Click “More” link in Issue Type Scheme3. Change Issue Type Scheme

Create Screen

1. Administration/Issues/Screens2. “Add Screen”3. Create new screen

Create Field

1. Administration/Issues/Custom Fields2. “Add a Custom Field”3. Create new field4. Add to screen

Create Screen Scheme

1. Administration/Issues/Screen Schemes2. “Add Screen Scheme”3. Create new Screen Scheme

Change Project’s Issue Type Screen Scheme

1. Administration/Project Admin2. Screens/Default Issue Type Screen Scheme3. “More”4. “Actions/Use a different scheme”

Ta Dah!!!

Customization Example: Workflows

GreenHopper for Enterprise Visibility

Plugins: Epics

1. Administration/Plugins2. Agile GreenHopper/GreenHopper Labs

Atlassian Suite

GreenHopper is part of a large suite of development focused tools which include:• Confluence: An enterprise collaboration tool (wiki)• HipChat: Group chat• Crucible: Code review• Bamboo: Continuous integration

Many others….

The Atlassian Universe

Track and Collaborate

The Deeper Atlassian UniverseDistributed Version Control

Code QualityEnterprise GIT Repo Management Unlimited GIT code hosting

Browse and Search Code Peer Code Review

Continuous Integration Java Code Coverage

Even Deeper into the Atlassian Universe

Connect to Eclipse, IntelliJ and Visual StudioIssue Tracking for Mobile App Developers

Git and Mercurial client for Mac

Next Steps

• Atlassian University: https://university.atlassian.com/• Free trial:

http://www.atlassian.com/software/greenhopper/try/• Several Jira books: Jira 4 Essential by Patrick Li

Survey: Visibility and You

What are your thoughts about increasing enterprise visibility with GreenHopper?

• Too difficult• Difficult but worth it• Easy• Other

After the webinar…

• We will send information to collect the PDU you will earn from this webinar

• We will also send a link to the recorded webinar and slides once they are posted online