Atlassian Africa
South Africa 2015
Jonathan Singh
Agenda
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Intro & Context
Product Teams
Engineering Culture
Unified Platform : Jira and Confluence
– Portfolio Backlog Prioritisation
– Requirements Collaboration
– Team Backlogs
– Sprint Planning and Execution
– Release Management
– Incident Tracking
Our Journey
• Channel UI : Web and Mobile
• Channel Apps : eg VAS, Order Management
Application Context
Product Delivery Teams
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QA
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PO
New Team Structure
– Teams previously aligned to projects
– Long Running Teams
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e.g. Platform, Banking, Wealth
Triad Leadership
– Product Manager
– Technical Lead
– Design Lead / QA Lead
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Multi Disciplined
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Mobile : IOS, Android
Web , Angular JS
Java
Testers and BA’s embedded into teams
Loosely coupled but closely aligned
Product Delivery Teams
• 6 Product Teams
• Global App, Multiple Platforms
• Combined Monthly Release
Solution
Engineering
Tech
Lead
Iteration
Business Manager
Product
Team
QA
QA
Lead
Business
Product
Owner
Product Delivery Cycle
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Discovery Backlog
Discovery
Inception
Team Backlog
Build and Test
Monthly Release
How do we Align Product Teams to Product
Delivery Cycle and to Monthly Releases ?
Agile Engineering Culture
• Culture Drive: Its all about People !
– Innovation, Agility, Responsiveness
– Lean IT
– Think MVP
• Unified Collaboration Platform
• Team Processes and Values ~ Christensen
– Influence Culture
– TDD, CI, Modularity
“CULTURE EATS STRATEGY FOR BREAKFAST.~ PETER DRUCKER
Unified Platform
Multi Disciplinary Teams
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Portfolio Backlog Management
Requirements Collaboration
Team Backlogs , sprint planning and execution
Continuous Integration
Release Management
Traceability
MIS
• Atlassian Tool Suite as a unified platform to bring Business and IT
together
Unified Platform Tooling
Jira and Confluence
• Confluence Story Template
• Customised Jira Project
– Fields : teams, region
– Workflows : epics, stories, incidents
– Screens
• Kanban Portfolio Backlog
– Aligned to product delivery cycle
– Product Team Filters
• Track Epics per product team
• Scrum or Kanban boards per team
• Releases
– Monthly, small increments
Unified Platform
Portfolio Backlog
• Weekly prioritisation session
Unified Platform : Screens
Unified Platform : Screens
Unified Platform : Teams
Unified Platform
Requirements Collaboration
• User Stories , Confluence
– UX Designs
– Business Requirements
– Acceptance Criteria
– Contracts
– Page History
– Stories linked to Epics
• Jira Epic and Story
Unified Platform : Team Backlogs
• Team Boards aligned to Jira Board
Unified Platform : Team Backlogs
• Each Team has its own boards to track Stories , Bugs, Incidents and Tasks
• Common underlying Jira Project
Unified Platform : Team
Iteration Planning
Release
Trains
• Multiple Contributing Teams
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Development in Trunk
Release code and stabilise : 2-3 week Cycle
Monthly Release Trains
Train leaves the station
Feature Toggling
Beta
Market Release, Business pulls the Trigger
• Jira Road Map and Release notes
• Kanban Release Board
Release Trains
Incident Tracking
• Confluence Landing Page : Create Incident against
respective team
Incident Tracking
Next Steps…
• Jira Portfolio
– Licences Procured
• Jira REST API
– Reduce handoffs
• Reporting
• Dev Ops : Afternoon Slot
References and Credits
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Lean IT
– Mary Poppendieck
– https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=ugdu1YngE9w
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Release Engineering
– Google, Chuck Rossi
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nffzk
kdq7GM
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Scaled Agile
– SAFE Framework
– http://www.scaledagileframew
ork.com/
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Engineering Culture
– Spotify
– https://vimeo.com/85490944
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Product Delivery
– Marty Cagan
– https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=734K7cEo30U
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MVP , Agile Coaching
– ThoughtWorks
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Continuous Delivery
– Jez Humble
– https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=IBghnXBz3_w
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Collaborative Tooling
– Atlassian
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Architecture , Infrastructure, Configuration
– Standard Bank