The slides from the RealDolmen What's New in the Atlassian Toolset Webinar from 26/sept/2014.
This slide deck focusses on the new features announced at the Atlassian Summit 2014.
2. Concept
Quarterly Events
Atlassian ALM Tools
Format
Live webinar
Interactive multimedia
presentation
Duration 45’
What’s in it for you
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 | SLIDE 2
Tom Callant
Manager ALM Solution
Tom.Callant@realdolmen.com
Peter Van de Voorde
Senior ALM Consultant
Peter.VandeVoorde@realdolmen.com
RealDolmen
Atlasssian ALM Events
44. AND SOME MORE FEATURES
Restrict Blog Posts
Collaborate faster with quicker comments
Get your tasks in order
Insert date lozenges with ease
PDF Export Improvement
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 | SLIDE 44
45. Team Calendars 5
Enhancements & New Features
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 | SLIDE 45
46. CUSTOM EVENT TYPES FOR REAL-LIFE SCHEDULES
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47. VISUALIZE AND FILTER YOUR CALENDAR LIKE NEVER BEFORE
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57. HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 | SLIDE 57
58. MANAGED ATLASSIAN
Proactive
Support
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 | SLIDE 58
Reactive
Support
Hosting
Basic
Advanced
Full
• Proactive Support: Upgrades & Healthchecks during the year
• Reactive Support: Single contact service desk (telephone, mail) and
guaranteed Service Level Agreements.
• Hosting: Hosting of your Atlassian Toolset in the RealDolmen Cloud
60. For more information:
visit our website WWW.REALDOLMEN.COM
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THANK YOU
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 | SLIDE 60
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What’s in it for you as a listener :
Fast overview of what’s new in the Atlassian ecosystem, no need to find out everything yourself.
New idea’s about how you can use the Atlassian toolset to further enhance the way you work
Introduction to new tools
This webinar will mostly be about what was announced at the Atlassian Summit in San José 2 weeks ago.
Atlassian is finally starting to focus on Enterprise customers and their specific needs.
There are some new offerings from Atlassian focused on Enterprises:
Premier Support : SLA’s, 24h/7d online and telephone support (a bit like RealDolmen’s Managed Atlassian offering, but at a higher price point and with less content)
Technical accountmanager or TAM : somebody from Atlassian who’s your point of contact for all enterprise level technical questions and problems, they will provide specialized skills directly to the customer
Enterprise Experts : Atlassian Experts that are qualified by Atlassian to work with Enterprises.
A new offering : DataCenter, of which we’ll see more in the following slides.
So what is datacenter exactly?
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High Availability
Active-active clustering : Cluster multiple active servers to ensure users have uninterrupted access to critical applications in the event of unexpected hardware failure.
Distrubuted Load : Use any form of load-balancing technology – hardware or software – to intelligently distribute load across your Data Center cluster.
Redundancy : Data Center deployments integrate with industry standard technologies for database clustering and shared files systems to minimize single points of failure.
Performance at Scale:
Concurrent user capacity: Each node in your Data Center cluster increases capacity for concurrent users without sacrificing performance.
Application resilience: Increase application throughput to avoid performance degradation in the event of load spikes.
Guarantee quality of service: Dedicate nodes for automated tasks to ensure the highest possible quality of service for critical teams within your organization.
Instant Scalability:
Hassle-free deployment: New nodes can join the cluster without downtime. Existing nodes automatically synchronize indexes and plugins with each new member.
Rapid re-indexing: Quickly re-index your application without locking the system, ensuring your users have maximum uptime.
Predictable costs: Our Data Center deployment option is licensed by user count, not by the number of servers or CPUs, so you can scale your environment without additional license costs.
It’s no secret that better planning means faster and higher quality deliverables for any agile team. See rich data in an agile context
Many JIRA users have an issue ID emblazoned in their mind because they’re passionate about that issue. For a number of you, that’s GHS-3922: “As a user, I would like to configure the cards displayed in the rapid board”. In fact, it’s the highest voted issue in the GHS project. I’m happy to report that this issue is now resolved in JIRA Agile 6.6.
Each agile team has unique elements that compose their project. Now teams can customize their agile cards to highlight the data that is most important, keeping vital contextual information at the front of every team member at all times. Teams are able to add three new fields in plan mode and work mode. The fields displayed in plan mode and work mode can be different as data visualization needs sometimes differ in planning and delivery.
Many teams have specifically requested ‘due date’, as well as custom fields like ‘customer’ and ‘business value’, as highlights to place on the agile card. With JIRA Agile 6.6 teams can customize cards per board with any field inside of JIRA. Just choose ‘Card layout’ under board configuration.
Optimize Specialists
Agile teams should always be focused on distributing knowledge across the team. Distributed knowledge scales better as the team grows and makes for a more flexible and responsive team as priorities change. Some cross functional teams, however, require specialized skill sets in their program. These specialists work between teams to optimize the specialist’s time and unique skill sets.
With JIRA Agile 6.6 teams can pre-assign work to specialists in the current sprint or future sprints. Pre-assigning work to specialists on the team makes the over or under assignment of work to that specialist clear.
The top of each sprint in plan mode highlights the assignees that have work allotted to them. Hovering over the assignee’s profile picture shows the amount of work assigned to them in story points or in time units, depending on your board configuration. Pressing the ‘more’ button gives a detailed breakdown of work preassigned in the entire sprint.
Plan better; deliver more effectively
Successful teams make planning a core part of their workflow. With JIRA Agile 6.6 teams can get better insight into their backlog with richer data on each card and deeper visibility into the assignment of work. Combined with the new reports in JIRA Agile 6.5, agile teams have better visibility into the lifecycle of work across their team than ever before.
Not using JIRA Agile yet? Try JIRA Agile today!
JIRA Agile 6.5 ships alongside JIRA 6.3. New reports in JIRA Agile make interpreting agile metrics easier than ever before. The smarter JIRA not only keeps issues up to date it learns how your team plans, works, and ships product. We’ve released three updated reports: release burndown, epic burndown, and the control chart. The release and epic burndown charts make understanding work over time simple. Teams can easily see work completed, scope added, scope removed, and a forecast for when the release or epic will be complete.
Agile is all about learning and optimizing through change. The new control chart gives deep insight into the flow of work through the team. Teams can learn where bottlenecks lay to increase the team’s velocity. The control chart also helps teams make better estimates which leads to more predictable deliveries.
Customers have asked us for an easy way to create issues inside of sprints as the team works. JIRA 6.3 with JIRA Agile adds in-line issue create inside of plan mode. As the team engages in sprint planning, new tasks arise. Conversations often arise during these meetings that is critical to capture in the moment. Recording issues inline ensures that new work is clearly defined. This is a good thing as work becomes more defined and predictable. Simply add new work to the current or a future sprint in one click with our new in-line issue create.
The newest release of JIRA Agile provides richer data during the planning process by making agile cards more customizable than ever before. Now teams can display the data that is important to them. Additionally, we’ve made improvements that will allow agile teams to better optimize their flow of work across the team. With JIRA Agile 6.6 it’s now easier than ever to pre-assign work to specialists, allowing these specialists to optimize their time across multiple teams.
Each agile team has unique elements that compose their project. Now teams can customize their agile cards to highlight the data that is most important, keeping vital contextual information at the front of every team member at all times. Teams are able to add three new fields in plan mode and work mode. The fields displayed in plan mode and work mode can be different as data visualization needs sometimes differ in planning and delivery.
Many teams have specifically requested ‘due date’, as well as custom fields like ‘customer’ and ‘business value’, as highlights to place on the agile card. With JIRA Agile 6.6 teams can customize cards per board with any field inside of JIRA. Just choose ‘Card layout’ under board configuration.
Optimize Specialists
Agile teams should always be focused on distributing knowledge across the team. Distributed knowledge scales better as the team grows and makes for a more flexible and responsive team as priorities change. Some cross functional teams, however, require specialized skill sets in their program. These specialists work between teams to optimize the specialist’s time and unique skill sets.
With JIRA Agile 6.6 teams can pre-assign work to specialists in the current sprint or future sprints. Pre-assigning work to specialists on the team makes the over or under assignment of work to that specialist clear.
The top of each sprint in plan mode highlights the assignees that have work allotted to them. Hovering over the assignee’s profile picture shows the amount of work assigned to them in story points or in time units, depending on your board configuration. Pressing the ‘more’ button gives a detailed breakdown of work preassigned in the entire sprint.
Plan better; deliver more effectively
Successful teams make planning a core part of their workflow. With JIRA Agile 6.6 teams can get better insight into their backlog with richer data on each card and deeper visibility into the assignment of work. Combined with the new reports in JIRA Agile 6.5, agile teams have better visibility into the lifecycle of work across their team than ever before.
Not using JIRA Agile yet? Try JIRA Agile today!
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Agile focuses on the self organizing team. The team builds a backlog and works through that backlog using a series of sprints or iterations. The product owner can then forecast completion dates using the teams velocity through the backlog.
When multiple agile teams work together, it becomes harder to track progress across the company. JIRA Portfolio enables organizations to effectively track initiatives which are large blocks of work spread across a series of agile teams. An initiative will combine epics from different agile teams encompassing the larger work item.
Organizing epics across a large stream of work gives everyone in the company new insight into the health of the portfolio. Development teams can see the larger context in which their code operates seeing the roadmap in JIRA Portfolio. Product owners can easily follow progress and release readiness of related components delivered by dependent teams. Managers and executives can track overall schedules across the board.
Effective project planning requires deep understanding of the scope and type of work ahead. It also requires an intimate understanding of the delivery teams and the skills they bring to the project. JIRA Portfolio aligns the skills required by the work and the skills brought by the team. Managers can easily see which skill sets are needed over different phases of the project to maximize utilization of specialist team members. Teams can also see which skill sets are important to grow within their self organizing team.
Large portfolios require additional planning metrics to ensure a coordinated delivery. JIRA Portfolio has extensive resource allocation tools to track and manage many streams of work. Project managers and development managers can easily hone in on critical path streams of work as well as over allocated teams.
Your schedule isn’t one size fits all. The events you typically schedule don’t always fit into pre-defined settings like, ‘Leave’, ‘Travel’, ‘JIRA issues’, or generic ‘Events’. Real life is complicated, especially for teams. Custom event types let you build a better calendar, so you can organize the chaos and keep your team aligned.
One of the best parts of the new event types is that it makes it easy to visualize your schedule. Now that your events aren’t all lumped under a single color, you can better gauge what’s on the calendar. You can further consume that information using filters, so you can just see whatever events are important to you at the current moment.
The Calendars view is useful for building a calendar that’s relevant to you. With custom event types, you can now subscribe to the exact events that are relevant to you from the calendars of the cross-functional teams you work with every day. While you might not filter your immediate team’s calendar events, you might filter for the leave and milestone calendars of the other teams you work closest with.
Step-by-step walk-throughs on JIRA, JIRA Agile and Confluence are now free.
Good news! Previously this content was only available for companies that paid, but now all content is freely available by going to university.atlassian.com.
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Paying customers have been enjoying the training for years, so we’re very excited to offer all users the ability to learn the basics of our products in an interactive format. Last month, a customer went through the walk-throughs and said:
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