Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) is a division of Sony that makes PlayStation games. It has many teams and companies located across 10 countries. SCE uses Atlassian's JIRA and Confluence tools globally for collaboration across teams on game development. JIRA is used extensively to track assets, bugs, features and more for many games and teams. Greenhopper is also increasingly used for project management and visualization.

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3. SONY Computer Entertainment
SCE Worldwide Studios is a
division within SONY
We make PlayStation games
With many teams (~70) & companies
(~25)
And people (~4000) in 10 countries
Divided into 3 main territories
America, Europe and Japan
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4. The Opportunity for Collaboration
Geographically dispersed teams:
San Francisco, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Liverpool, San Diego, Santa Monica,
London,…
A wide variety of clients:
Artists, Sound Designers, Directors, Motion Capture Technicians, Executives,
HR, Finance,…
Everyone needs to share and track:
Sounds, Hi-res Art, Source Code, Marketing Assets, ISO files, etc,…
The Solution:
A global collaboration portal built on enterprise class open source
applications
JIRA and Confluence
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5. A Bit of History
We’ve been using Atlassian products for about 4 years
At First…
Wiki and JIRA played second fiddle to SourceForge
Heavy use was made of SF trackers and doc repository
Now…
Our Blockbuster Games use Confluence and JIRA exclusively to collaborate
on game development and to track assets, bugs, feature requests, etc…
Seeing more interest in Office Connector and Greenhopper
Beginning to see heavy use of {gallery} for asset sharing
Gamers demand “style”!
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6. SCE Information Portal
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9. Where We Use JIRA
Games
Track asset approval
Feature Requests
Game bugs
Tools Groups
Bug Tracking
Feature Request
Backport Request
Playstation Network
Web site work order system
SCE Information Portal
Help Desk
Motion Capture Studio
Help Desk
Greenhopper
PMO: Project Management
OTG: Online Tools Group
Games Teams
Web Portal Development
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10. JIRA
20 Workflows
Many custom fields
~20 projects have custom screens
Workflows and custom screens are re-
useable
Projects have their own e-mail address
Users (Artists, Sound Designers,
Directors) don’t need to learn JIRA
Can share filters between project
members
Projects export reports as PDF for
distribution
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11. PlayStation Network
Love the screen capture feature!
Multi-stage workflow
Extensive use of custom fields
Manages content updates for
Playstation Network
Images, Page Updates, Games,
Layouts, Trailiers
Users mail to an alias or…
Login to JIRA and fill out request
form directly
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12. MLB The Show
Integrated into QA tools
When game crashes a log is sent
to the Recap server
From the log a single click will
create a JIRA issue and assign it
to the appropriate MLB game
team component lead
Integration of SCE Recap Server
with JIRA using JIRA SOAP API
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13. Resistance 2 and JIRA
Bug Tracking
Feature Requests
Post Release Updates
Clan Strategies
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14. On-line Tools Group
Multiple Projects
Multiple Groups
Multiple Methodologies
Multiple Terminologies
Multiple Locations
ONE TOOL!
JIRA + Greenhopper
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15. JIRA Integration with Our Portal
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16. Portal Integration – Find Issues
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17. Portal Integration – Run Filter
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18. Greenhopper
Massive interest in the plugin
Deployed in April
In first week 6 projects adopted
GreenHopper
Much better interface for creating new
tasks
The ability to edit cards and book time
at the navigation view is huge for
many of our PMs
Drag and Drop interface is a huge win!
Chart board drives home the
importance of everyone updating their
Worklogs
Logging work is so much easier than
the Standard JIRA
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19. Greenhopper Wish List
SOURCE CODE: Typically all the
applications in our environment are
open source, it is a bit unnerving for our
engineers to have a black box sitting in
our living room and no one knows
what’s in it
More robust documentation. I have
seen in the demo issues being
reprioritized in the Planning Board but
can’t figure out how to do it for our
projects
Best practices
More granular reporting (JIRA SQL)
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20. And this is the result…
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21. haveasec.com/summit
SURVEY!!