Rockwell Collins is an aerospace engineering organization developing safety critical systems for aircraft flight decks and communications. Our regulatory processes require unique tool solutions for configuration control, traceability, and quality oversight.
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a highly integrated engineering tool platform built upon Atlassian products, vendor plugins, and internally developed plugins like Auto-Issues-Creation, project defined custom fields, quality assurance metrics and many more. We support 7,000+ engineers with common workflows, training, and customer support.
It might be easier for organizations like Rockwell Collins to remain in legacy tools, but the benefits with ALM for collaborative design and development are overwhelming. I will describe the unique needs we have addressed, the challenges we faced, and the benefits our engineering teams are enjoying.
Products covered:
JIRA Software, Confluence, Bamboo, Fisheye / Crucible
14. Rapid Adoption
Evaluation Criteria
Options Considered
35 tools reviewed, narrowed to 8,
and then to Atlassian
30 categories including integration,
scalability, performance, security
Pilot team results led to
unprecedented rates of adoption
Trade Study
15. Atlassian Tools Project Centric Toolbar Plugins
ALM Design
JIRA, Confluence,
FishEye, Crucible,
Bamboo, Crowd!
Navigation between
tools while maintaining
project context!
Some purchased and
many developed
internally!
!
17. Toolbar Access
Project request and support
immediately available
!
Project Creation
Includes consultation for project specific
tool needs, workflows, permissions, etc.
!
Instructor Led Training
Required for all team members –
engineers, leaders, admins
Onboarding & Training
21. ManagementAutomationProcess Requirements Configurability
Over 30 Plugins Developed Internally
Design assurance,
export compliance,
certification, and more
Auto-creation, transition,
conversion, and other
“easy buttons”
Project unique
configuration for fields,
processes, templates
Project planning, status
reporting, and scope
management
30. ALM Releases
Frequent Deployments
Plugin and workflow updates are
deployed on 3 week sprint cycle
!
ALM Versions
Major versions for Atlassian major
upgrades, minor on plugin updates
!
Documentation
User Guides updated and linked
from Release Notes
31. Rockwell Collins Atlassian User Group
Community of Practice
Monthly meetings for Rockwell
Collins employees
!
User Selected Topics
Quality assurance metrics and
gadgets, Risk Management….
!
Exchange Tips & Tricks
Sharing best practices between
teams and organizations
35. By the Numbers
Over 7000 users, 900 projects,
2600 spaces, 470K issues, 1.5M pages
ALM Scale is
Multifaceted
36. Workflow Complexity
By the Numbers
Over 7000 users, 900 projects,
2600 spaces, 470K issues, 1.5M pages
Both collaborative and complex
process requirements supported
ALM Scale is
Multifaceted
37. Customizations
Workflow Complexity
By the Numbers
Over 7000 users, 900 projects,
2600 spaces, 470K issues, 1.5M pages
Both collaborative and complex
process requirements supported
Over 30 plugins developed
internally
ALM Scale is
Multifaceted
43. Common Workflows
Be Prepared
Understand your end user needs
and be prepared to answer them
Workflows defined for different
processes, not different teams
Lessons
Learned
44. Communication
Common Workflows
Be Prepared
Understand your end user needs
and be prepared to answer them
Workflows defined for different
processes, not different teams
Collaboration to maximize benefits
for ALM teams
Lessons
Learned