Example of an Agile workflow for Catapult Satellite Applications

1. The story of a basic Agile workflow
...or how I discovered SIL
London Atlassian User Group, 18 February 2014
Dan Petzen
dan@dionetechnology.com
The story of a basic Agile worflow
London Atlassian User Group, February 2014

2. Background
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Dan Petzen, Dione Technology - founded 2013 with Ram Tandukar and
Sven Lecherbonnier
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Current client:
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Various interesting projects and tasks
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One of the tasks:
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Work with the DevOps team to help them make the most of their JIRA
The story of a basic Agile worflow
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3. High level overview
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4. First workflow draft
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5. Final (initial) workflow version
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6. ...a bit more complicated...
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7. The story of a basic Agile worflow
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8. What's this? JJupin?
This is not an advert – really!
(They don't even know I'm doing this presentation)
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9. SIL – Simple Issue Language
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Called from post-functions, validators, listeners, services etc, etc
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Runs in a JIRA or an issue context
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Access to variables (R/W) and API function
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...and loads more
The story of a basic Agile worflow
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10. User story post function 'B'
string st;
for (st in subtasks(key)) {
if (%st%.status == "Created")
autotransition("Queue", st);
}
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11. User Story validation of tranisition 'E'
string sub_task;
for (sub_task in subtasks(key)) {
if (%sub_task%.status != "Done")
return false, "One or more sub-tasks are still
being worked on ('Doing' state).";
else
return true;
}
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12. User Story post function for transistions 'F' and 'F n'
string st;
boolean sub_tasks = false;
// Parent (i.e. User Story):
if (isNull(parent)) {
resolution = "Cancelled";
for (st in subtasks(key)) {
if (%st%.status == "Ready") {
autotransition("Cancel", st);
%st%.resolution = "Cancelled";
logPrint("DEBUG", "Task " + %st%.key + " is moved to 'Ready' via the 'Cancel'
transition.");
sub_tasks = true;
}
}
return;
}
// Sub-task (Fn):
for (st in subtasks(parent.key)) {
if (%st%.status == "Ready" || %st%.status == "Doing")
sub_tasks = true;
}
if (!sub_tasks) {
if (parent.status == "Ready") {
logPrint("DEBUG", "This (" + key + ") was the last sub-task. The story is in 'Ready', so
I'm 'Cancelling' story " + parent.key);
autotransition("Cancel", parent);
parent.resolution = "Cancelled";
}
}
The story of a basic Agile worflow
London Atlassian User Group, February 2014

13. What's next?
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One more demo session
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Stomp out bugs, thorough testing etc
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Implementation in production
The story of a basic Agile worflow
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14. Questions?
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