Building a Giant Atlassian Universe to Take Over the World
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Fidelity Information Services uses Atlassian tools to manage its software lifecycle from end to end, for massive, multi-million LOC financial applications including core banking and channels products. In this session Glen and Chris will share the high-level process flow for development at Fidelity. Attendees will leave with the tools to implement change in their own environments while maintaining control and assuring quality in a regulated environment.
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Building a Giant Atlassian Universe to Take Over the World
- 1. Building a Giant Atlassian Universe! To Take Over The World! Glenn Bingham and Chris Macharia! Fidelity Information Services!
- 2. The Process Guy The Technology Guy
- 3. Software and Services for Banks and Financial Institutions! 14,000 Customers!
- 4. Software and Services for Banks and Financial Institutions! ! 200+ customers worldwide! Profile Core Banking Solution! Millions of account holders! TouchPoint Channels Solutions! 700+ software professionals!
- 5. Our Applications! • Profile: the FIS real-time, international, multi-language/multi-currency, ultra-scalable core banking platform! • 7mm+ LOC! • TouchPoint: Channels solutions for branch, call center and e-banking! • Profile core is M-code/MUMPS and Java, GT.M open source database. Channels applications are Java. Integration to other platforms via FIS Xpress SOA platform!
- 6. Large scale, big team, corporate environment It s people s money – it needs to be correct Nothing happens by accident!
- 7. Our Stack! • Workflow & Collaboration! • JIRA, Confluence! • Source Code! • Subversion, Fisheye, Mercurial! • Code Quality! • Crucible, FindBugs, JTest, Fortify! • Builds! • Bamboo, Artifactory!
- 8. Our Stack! Development Project Mgmt Tools Tools Code management MS Project Time tracking Code review Planview Time repor+ng Development history EPK Project plans Build scheduling Es+ma+ng tools Project status Build status MS Office Program repor+ng Defect repor+ng Financial repor+ng Defect severity Green/Yellow/Red Task progress JTest, For+fy Detailed task status Ar+factory Traceability Quality Center QTP Winrunner, Loadrunner
- 9. Platform Usage & Volumes! • 2,500 users! • Users in North America, Europe, Asia, Central/South America, Australia! • 150+ K JIRA records! • Growth rate of 80% / year! • Platform support team:! • 4 core staff, 4 secondary support!
- 10. You don t have to toss out (all) your other tools You don t need a large team to support 100s of users!
- 11. FIS Software Development Lifecycle! • Software quality and accuracy are paramount! • Gigantic process! CMMI Level 3 based SDLC and project management process set - FISSP! • FISSP is methodology independent; defines the what, not the how! • Tools support the process; they do not define the process! • Our Atlassian integration project began in April, 2009!
- 12. Our Tools Philosophy! • The primary intent three years ago was to evolve our software development methods toward a more incremental and continuous process! • Implement new technology tools (Atlassian suite, Subversion, others) to support this transformation.! • This model is descriptive, not prescriptive (step 1, step 2, etc.) – teams adopt specific practices to achieve goals and benefits • Software development workflow is guided/loosely constrained as opposed to controlled/highly constrained
- 13. Guided (loosely constrained) Our Tools Philosophy! vs. Controlled (highly constrained) • Software development workflow is documented and enabled within Jira, but we have not constrained the tool to force compliance • Team members are expected to follow the workflow and the rules • Some rules are absolute and are highly constrained, for example, code check-in/check-out • Some fields are required • OOB = out of the box. For the most part, we are using the ability to configure Jira, but not the ability to highly customize it
- 14. Workflow! JIs and development workflow
- 15. Using JIRA for Financials! • Annual budget process! • Portfolio Item is a major budget line item! • Every Requirement JI must link upstream to a Portfolio Item JI!
- 16. Managing Requirements! • Requirement JIs represent software requirements! • Subtasks define standard work! • Requirement JIs beget Enhancement JIs! • Traceability (large grain)! • Requirements in Subversion! • Introducing Balsamiq!
- 17. Managing Requirements! • Next level of detail: Require- ments workflow!
- 18. Know yourself! Align your culture to your processes and tools, assess Flexibility vs. Control To take over the world, you need a plan OOB=less work to implement and maintain!
- 19. Managing Source Code! • Primary tool is Subversion! • Also looking at Mercurial! • Enhancements in JIRA! • Traceable to Requirements! • Agile development (Greenhopper)! • Test case driven development! • Integrated security! • Mandatory code reviews!
- 20. Custom Integrations! • Subversion commits dependent on JIRA issue links! • Code branches locked/unlocked from Confluence! • Subversion project access tied into JIRA/Crowd groups! • JIRA workflow transition counters! • Auto creation of issues! • Auto-switching issue types!
- 21. Builds and Deployments! • Continuous integration builds! • Cherry-picking builds! • Ant or Maven 2 (Artifactory)! • Local and remote auto-deploys! • FTP and Auto-Test jobs! !
- 22. Testing! • Defect JIs are linked to Enhancement JIs (as applicable)! • Traceability! • Other testing tools: Quality Center, QTP, Performance Center, LoadRunner! • Use of linking for cross-project Defect JIs!
- 23. Additional Quality Assurance! • Mandatory code reviews! • Only authorized code changes allowed! • Junit for automated unit tests via Bamboo! • Automatic running of test suites on new builds! • Static code scanning in developer local workspaces! • More comprehensive code scanning of built code (JTest / Fortify)! • All historical issue data is available for reporting and analysis!
- 24. Project Management Support! • All PMO issue types in JIRA! • Change Requests, Risks, ! Issues, Action Items! • Auto issue escalation! • Delegation of Project Administration tasks! • User management, Version management!
- 25. Leverage JIRA for traceability across the lifecycle Use Bamboo for more than just builds Add custom integrations and plugins, but judiciously!
- 26. Atlassian Toolset Benefits! • Lower license costs! • Lower support costs! • Responsive to SDLC changes! • Ease of integrations, plug-ins! • All data in one place! • Full end-to-end traceability! • Management visibility!
- 27. Balancing Trade-offs! • All aboard, or See you later?! • Our way or the highway! • Centralized control vs delegated! • Standard flows/pages vs customized! • Stability vs flexibility!
- 28. Tips and Pointers! • Process:! • To take over the world, you need a plan! • Know yourself! Align your culture to your processes and tools! • OOB=less work to implement and maintain! • Technology:! • No need to throw out other tools that are working well for you! • Leverage JIRA for traceability across the lifecycle! • Find the right balance between stability and flexibility!
- 29. Q & A!
- 30. If you want to take over the world, you need a plan! #summit2012
- 31. Thank you!