In 2015, Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., was using a traditional development approach for their internal IT front office application and releasing only every 2-3 months. But that just wouldn't cut it. The application, built on the Salesforce platform, was simply too important. When they moved to agile, the team realized they'd need to level up on communication, collaboration, and workflow automation. Intimidated, yet determined, Hitachi Vantara turned to Atlassian's cloud-based tools: Jira and Confluence for planning, tracking, and documentation; Bitbucket for collaborating on source code; Bitbucket Pipelines for continuous delivery; and the whole host of native integrations to tie it all together. This is the story of how they did it, and the results they achieved.

1. SREENATH GOPAL | TECHNICAL ARCHITECT | HITACHI VANTARA | @RAJSREENATH
How to Develop, Track, and Release
Like a Boss using Atlassian Tools

2. Agenda
Who we are
Our Problem
Why Atlassian
Plan, Track, and Release with ease
Where we are

3. Agenda
Who we are
Our Problem
Why Atlassian
Plan, Track, and Release with ease
Where we are

4. HITACHI
VANTARA
A wholly owned
subsidiary of Hitachi,
Ltd.
Founded as “Hitachi
Data Systems” in 1989
and became a part of
Hitachi Vantara in 2017

5. MORE THAN 100 YEARS OF REVOLUTION
1910 1950S 1980S 2000S 2017
Hitachi’s first
product was a
five-horsepower
motor
Hitachi began to
build construction
machinery Hitachi developed
the fastest
supercomputer in
the world
Hitachi introduced
cutting-edge
artificial
intelligence
technology Hitachi formed
Hitachi Vantara to
focus its efforts in
IT, OT and IoT

6. Products
Storage
Converged Systems
Solutions
Data Center Modernization
Smart Cities and IoT Analytics
Services
Application Services
Infrastructure Services

7. SALESFORCE IS OUR CRM APPLICATION
Market Sell Service Partner

8. Agenda
Who we are
Our Problem
Why Atlassian
Plan, Track, and Release with ease
Where we are

10. Center of Excellence
Business and Leadership
Governance and Architecture
Development and Operations

11. Disconnected
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT WORKFLOW

12. PROCESSES AND TOOLS DID NOT
AUGMENT EACH OTHER

13. VELOCITY RELEASE PREPARATION
48story points
2-3days

14. Right Tools
Well-defined processes
Integrate them as part of CoE
QUESTIONS MISSING
Why?
What is happening?
How do we solve?

15. Agenda
Who we are
Our Problem
Why Atlassian
Plan, Track, and Release with ease
Where we are

16. SOLUTION
Tools Process Cloud Integrated

17. UNIFIED TOOLSET
Start in any tool and navigate
to other tools seamlessly to
get accurate information
about a release in a given
point in time

19. Agenda
Who we are
Our Problem
Why Atlassian
Plan, Track, and Release with ease
Where we are

20. PLAN
Pipelines
TRACK
RELEASE
REPORT

21. CONFLUENCE - JIRA JIRA - BITBUCKET

22. FORECAST
Atlassian Plugin
Team Calendars
Unified Calendar
View
Toggle Menu
Show/Hide Events
Page Links
Confluence/ Other Web Page Links

23. ENVISION
Visualize using
Charts
Jira Confluence
Integration
Data driven from Jira

24. COLLABORATION
Confluence
built-in features
Inline Comments, page
comments, watch, and share
to collaborate with your team
members

25. VERSIONING
Fix Version/s in
Jira
Planning releases, monitoring
progress and velocity, and
reporting

26. PROGRESS
Jira’s Release Hub
Track status of the version,
summary and breakdown at
any point in time

27. PLAN
Pipelines
TRACK
RELEASE
REPORT

28. Take it to the
next levelJIRA ISSUE KEY

29. TRACK DEVELOPMENT
Jira’s Development
Panel
Seamless integration with
Bitbucket Cloud
Code changes
Track at issue level
View and create branches,
view commits and status of
pull requests
Feature branches
Create branches in the repo
without leaving Jira

30. TRACK REPOSITORY CHANGES
Access Bitbucket
Cloud from Jira
Get in depth details about
what files are changed,
commit ids, author, date
without leaving Jira
Repo commit details
Commit id, author, files and date
Pull Request
status, reviewer and d

31. TRACK AT RELEASE LEVEL
Summary breakdown
of the issues in the
version
Development status of the
release grouped by status
Warns you if you have
completed stories with open
pull request

32. INTERACT WITH JIRA
Preview Jira Issue
from Bitbucket
Cloud
Include Jira issue key in commit
comments to interact with
issues in Jira.
You can even collaborate at Pull
Requests during code review
Transition Jira status, add
comments and much more

33. PLAN
Pipelines
TRACK
RELEASE
REPORT

34. Let’s go even
further with
Bitbucket
Pipelines
Pipelines

35. BITBUCKET PIPELINES
Integrated CI/CD for Bitbucket Cloud
Automate the deployments
and get build status feedback
In the Cloud Add on to
Bitbucket
Various ways to
trigger build jobs

36. QUICK AND SIMPLE
Enable with a
toggle of a button
Write your rules in
a simple .yaml file
support for wildcard in
branch or tag names
name deployments to
track in bitbucket
deployments and track
it in Jira development
panel
pull docker images from docker hub
manual deployments

37. CHAIN
DEPLOYMENT JOBS
Custom
Pipeline
(Scheduled)
Tag
based
Pipeline
Parallel jobs based
on commit

38. MORE FEATURES…
Schedule jobs, run
parallel builds
Even automate via
REST api call
custom pipeline
artifacts for
subsequent processes
jobs based on tags
jobs based on
commits on branches
parallel jobs
support for
environment variables

39. 8823
build minutes

40. PLAN
Pipelines
TRACK
RELEASE
REPORT

41. REPORTS AND DASHBOARDS
View progress and predict a release using
Release Burndown Report
Sprints, issues and even for
versions
Jira’s range of reports
Using Confluence
Dynamic Status Report for fix versions
to display charts

42. Provide insightful
information using
interactive reports
ANIMATED REPORTS AND DASHBOARDS

44. Agenda
Who we are
Our Problem
Why Atlassian
Plan, Track, and Release with ease
Where we are

45. Before After

46. VELOCITY RELEASE PREPARATION
87average story points
2-4hours

47. UNIFIED TOOLSET
Start in any tool and navigate
to other tools seamlessly to
get accurate information
about a release in a given
point in time

48. Center of Excellence
Business and Leadership
Governance and Architecture
Development and Operations
PROCESSES AND TOOLS

49. SREENATH GOPAL | TECHNICAL ARCHITECT | HITACHI VANTARA | @RAJSREENATH
Thank you!