Tomi Kallio's presentation about agile Application Lifecycle Managent (agileALM) in Atlassian User Group in Stockholm September 18 2014. agileALM is all about efficiency, transparency, traceability and agility in software product development. Learn more how to utilize Atlassian tools, like JIRA, Bamboo etc in your SW development process.

2. agileALM
"Quick guide to making it work"
NAUG Stockholm
Tomi Kallio
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3. • Founded in 1996
• 100+ employees
• Intranet solutions, Liferay portals,
industrial internet, service design,
software development, ALM, ...
• Atlassian products, licenses, and
consulting
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4. JIRA & Confluence Nordic Conference on Oct 9 in Helsinki (jcn.fi)
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5. "Does your [sw] development
[dept.|org.] cough like an asthmatic
moose?" (direct translation from Finnish)
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6. ALM – Application Lifecycle Management
time
Stuff
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7. Efficiency Transparency
agileALM
Traceability Agility
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8. Can you tell ...
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9. Why do you do or have done
things, or which investment
decisions are your changes
related to?
40€
20€
20€
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10. Which of your customers suffer
from the same bug as
CustomerX?
X
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11. Whether your code change has
already been published and if it
has, where to?
dev
qa
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12. How much time do you spend
generating reports to your
stakeholders?
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13. Can you tell...
• To which initiative or decision the change is
based on?
• When was that decision made and by whom?
• If there is a real need for all the changes that
were made?
• You are not making ad-hoc changes, are you?
• How long you write release notes for the
changes?
• Wouldn't it be better to generate the notes and docs
automatically?
• Et cetera
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14. So, can you tell ... when your
moose is coughing?
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15. Case JIRA development panel
• Everything visible on the issue (JIRA – Stash – Bamboo migration)
• Transparency, the whole truth and nothing but
• Traceability, where's my change
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16. Case Bamboo plan branches
master
development
• Automatic branch detection
• Set up CI (build & test)
• Efficiency, no manual labor involved
• Agility, lower cost to branching
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17. Case Bamboo deployment envs
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18. What is being deployed?
• Example: rollback
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19. Following progress
• The all new JIRA version view:
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20. JIRA Portfolio – project portfolio
management
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21. Quick traceability tips
• "Why are we doing this right now?"
• e.g. specific task in a sprint
• Set up issue linking (implements, related to)
• Back and forth, chain of evidence
• Initiatives  high-level features  sub features 
user stories  tasks
• Screenshot: Structure addon for JIRA
• JIRA Portfolio and JIRA
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22. Quick transparency tips
• Collect your work and immediate dependencies
onto pages in Confluence
• Reporting live status (no more copy-paste!)
• Your audience might not use JIRA daily
• Open and honest view to the operations
• Show schedules and especially changes to them!
• Screenshot: Product Owner dashboard
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23. Tomi Kallio
tomi.kallio@ambientia.fi
+358407492051
@tomi_kallio