The Information Radiator: Creating Awesome Wallboards Brendan Humphreys, Atlassian

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2. The Information Radiator
Creating awesome wallboards for fun and profit
Brendan Humphreys, Atlassian
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3. “A large display of
critical team information
that is continuously updated
and located where
the team can see it constantly.”
— Alistair Cockburn
(2000)
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7. What to display?
•Easy-to-grok performance measures
•Critical team data
•Fun stuff!
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8. A Good Information Radiator
•Large display
•Understood at a glance
•Always relevant
•Easy to update
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12. A Good Information Radiator
•Large display
•Understood at a glance
•Always relevant
•Easy to update
• Aesthetically pleasing!
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16. Days left in sprint
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18. Bamboo Plan results
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20. Story Status
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22. GreenHopper Burndown
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23. Relative performance
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24. Review Blockers
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25. Only a Prototype
• Python script cronjob output JSON
• Mixture of Screen-scraping, REST, and HTTP GET
• Static HTML page with Javascript update code
• Hardwired content
• = “A Festival of Hacks”
• = Not shippable
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26. A Better Way: JIRA Wallboard Plugin
• Gadgets!
• Special gadget renderer plugin that does “wallboard mode”
• Plugins for each product that publish “wallboard” gadgets
• Gadgets just need to provide “wallboard” view mode
• Supports multiple, sharable wallboards
• All configurable via JIRA dashboard
• Some graphic design input...
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29. Demonstration
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31. The JIRA Wallboard plugin
• Available in Alpha Release NOW (plugins.atlassian.com)
• Supports
• cycling of panes
• automatic refresh
• full configuration via normal JIRA dashboard
• multiple, sharable wallboards
• Requires
• JIRA 4.1.1
• FireFox 3.6 (for fullscreen mode)
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32. Wallboard Gadgets
• JIRA (v4.1.1) FishEye/Crucible (v2.3.2)
• Sprint days remaining • Review blockers
• Sprint burndown
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• Sprint story status Lots more to come!
• Arbitrary Chart renderer
• Bamboo (v2.6.1)
• Twitter feed
• build plan results
• What would you like to see?
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34. Cleaner turns
wallboard off
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35. Massive
performance
regression
Cleaner turns
wallboard off
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36. Massive
performance
regression
Release
day!
Cleaner turns
wallboard off
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