AgileALM by Tomi Kallio

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agileALM

"Quick guide to making it work"

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Tomi Kallio

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"Does your [sw] development [dept.|org.] cough like an asthmatic

moose?" (direct translation from Finnish)

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ALM – Application Lifecycle Management

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Stuff

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Efficiency Transparency

Traceability Agility

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Can you tell ...

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Why do you do or have done things, or which investment decisions are your changes

related to?

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Which of your customers suffer from the same bug as

CustomerX?

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X

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Whether your code change has already been published and if it

has, where to?

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dev qa

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How much time do you spend generating reports to your

stakeholders?

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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?

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So, can you tell ... when your moose is coughing?

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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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Case Bamboo plan branches

• Automatic branch detection• Set up CI (build & test)

• Efficiency, no manual labor involved• Agility, lower cost to branching

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master

development

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Case Bamboo deployment envs

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What is being deployed?

• Example: rollback

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Following progress

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• The all new JIRA version view:

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JIRA Portfolio – project portfolio management

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New! New! New!

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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

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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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tomi.kallio@ambientia.fi

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@tomi_kallio

Tomi Kallio