Improving Dashboards with open content sharing

Improving Dashboards with open content sharing @lachlanhardy

Set the scene

set the scene What is a dashboard?

set the scene A dashboard provides contextual access to commonly used tools in a software program

set the scene What is open content sharing?

set the scene Choosing information from an application that you want displayed in a different application

set the scene “I want to display a selection of all Flickr images tagged with ‘whippet’ on my blog”

ATLASSIAN

atlassian We build collaboration and development tools

atlassian JIRA - an issue tracker

atlassian Confluence - a wiki

atlassian Code repository browser Code review tool Continuous Integration server

The problem

the problem “How can our users share information between Atlassian apps more easily?”

the problem Dashboard elements are hard to build

the problem Dashboard elements only work in their native app

the problem Arranging dashboard elements is awkward and unwieldy

the problem It’s ugly

Finding the solution

ﬁnding the solution Competitive analysis

ﬁnding the solution “Is our own common format feasible?”

ﬁnding the solution Comparative analysis

OpenSocial

OpenSocial It’s an open source project

OpenSocial Used by iGoogle, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Gmail...

OpenSocial It solved all our problems, if...

OpenSocial It could work for enterprise

OpenSocial It could work behind the firewall

Building the solution

building the solution Assigned a team of developers and me

building the solution Agile process

building the solution Static HTML & CSS mockups

building the solution Project lead and I did lots of rapid design iterations

building the solution As it evolved more, we added JavaScript functionality

building the solution You could drag and drop boxes, but there was no real content

building the solution Moved mockups into the app

building the solution 6 months of iterative development

building the solution 4 months ago we put it into JIRA

building the solution Integration testing, bug fixes, browser compatibility work

building the solution We’ve been releasing public betas of JIRA 4 since June

building the solution Final release next month

Did we win?

did we win? Dashboard elements are easier to build

did we win? Dashboard elements conform to common format and can be used in any compliant application

did we win? Much better user experience

did we win? Drag and drop

did we win? Colour coding

did we win? Always configurable

did we win? It’s not ugly any more

I declare victory!

want the real thing? http://jira.atlassian.com http://atlassian.com/opensocial/videos.jsp

contact me http://lachstock.com.au/

Thank you

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Improving Dashboards with open content sharing

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