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Making the Switch to JIRA Studio
Jesse Gibbs & David Yu, Atlassian
Jim Drewes, Contegix
Bryan Schmidt, Intelligent Insites
Aaron Roller, Akuacom
Alex Koloskov, Reaxion
Agenda
• Studio Summary
– Unique Features
– Latest Release
– How do you switch?
• Contegix hosting summary
• Customer migration stories
• Q&A
Housekeeping
• All phone lines are muted
• Submit the questions via
GoToWebinar any time
– Indicate panelist
• e.g. “Jesse – When is the next
Studio release?”
• Q&A at the end
• Recording will be available
JIRA Studio
Hosted, fully-integrated
JIRA Studio – Concept to Launch
Tools for:
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Reqs, specs, backlog
Release & Iteration Planning
Project tracking
Coding & Debugging
Testing
Code review
Technical documentation
Support
JIRA Studio – True Collaboration
• Developers
– Coding
– Test automation & CI
– Code review
• Managers
– Project Planning
– Tracking & reporting
• Product Owners
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Backlog
Requirements
Release Planning
Launch planning
• Contributors
– Docs, training material
• Stakeholders
– Visibility
JIRA Studio – Unique Features
Unified Quick Navigation
& Search
JIRA Studio – Unique Features
Automatic linking
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Issues
Wiki pages
Changesets
Reviews
Build plans
Build results
JIRA Studio – Unique Features
Update issues with SVN commit comments
– #time, #comment, #<transition>
JIRA Studio – Unique Features
• Unified Activity Streams
JIRA Studio + Google Apps
JIRA Studio 2.2 – Now Available!
Updated Apps
• Fisheye 2.2
• Crucible 2.2
• JIRA 4.1
• Greenhopper 4.4
Other App Versions
• Confluence 3.1
• Bamboo 2.5
• Subversion 1.6.5
Migrating to JIRA Studio
Migration features
• Import source
• Import issues
– JIRA
– CSV
• Import wiki
Limitations
• External LDAP
• Limited plug-in support
– Managed upgrade
schedule
• No terminal access
• I18n
Contegix – JIRA Studio Hosting
• Atlassian managed hosting partner
• Provide all of the infrastructure that powers
JIRA Studio
Contegix – Studio Infrastructure
• How do Atlassian and Contegix integrate?
Software
Hardware
Billing
Network
Account Maintenance
Instance Creation
Support Queues
Backups
Advanced User Support
Technical Support
Provisioning
Contegix - Hardware
Contegix Cloud API
VMWare ESXi
Dell R710 Servers
Brocade FastIron Switches
EqualLogic iSCSI SANs
Contegix – Network & Facilities
• Located in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• 5 Network Carriers (XO, Level(3), Sprint,
Verizon, WilTel) – BGP Routed
• Two power feeds with automatic failover
• Backup generators capable of running
indefinitely
• Everything is on UPS power
Contegix – Security
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Each customer has their own VM.
Shorewall software firewall.
No shared Databases.
Data stored on highly redundant RAID-50 SAN.
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Security cameras throughout data center.
Secured lobby.
Code access required to access upper floors of building.
Double-door man traps requiring a biometric scan and two proximity
badge swipes to enter any data center.
Contegix – Backups
• Local Backups
– Weekly SVN Dump
– Nightly DB Dump
– Weekly Attachments Copy
• Instance Backup
– Snapshot of entire instance taken nightly and
stored on SAN
Contegix – HA/DR
• Instances aren’t tied to specific hosts.
• All data stored on SAN rather than local disk.
• If a host fails, instances are automatically
restarted on another host.
• Mechanisms available to pull your data off.
– SVN dumps
– WebDAV
Customer Stories
• Bryan Schmidt, Intelligent Insites
• Aaron Roller, Akuacom
• Alex Koloskov, Reaxion
• Product:
InSites Applications
– InSites Enterprise
Visibility Platform
• Location:
– Fargo, North Dakota
• Established in 2007
• Team size: 24
Real -Time Location Systems
Automating the Healthcare Enterprise
Clinical IT Systems
Asset Management
 Operating Room IS
 Tracking, Locating, & Status
 Automated Work Orders
 Theft/Loss Prevention
 Inventory Tracking
 Room Management
 Emergency Dept IS
 Other Departmental IS
 Electronic Medical Record
 Positive Patient ID
Operational Workflow
 Bed Management
 Transport Management
 Unified Messaging/Alerts
 Reporting & Analytics
 Automated Task Routing
Patient & Staff Safety
Passive
Data
Building Systems
 Temperature Monitoring
 Door Locks/Access Control
 Audible and Visual Alarms
 Telemetry
 Fire Alarms
 Staff Panic/Duress
 Emergency Response
 Wireless Nurse Call
 Wander Prevention
 Infant Abduction
• What lead us to use
JIRA studio?
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Hosted solution
Support/Maintenance
Integrated with IntelliJ
Had all the features we
needed for our small
development team
• How do we like JIRA
Studio?
Benefits:
•Hosted
•Accessible from
anywhere (home/office)
•IT support
•Supports a growing team
•Integrated Subversion
has worked well for us
• How do we like JIRA
Studio?
Improvements:
•Query tools
•Performance slows when
more than 3000 issues
•Planning for feature work
versus bugs
Akuacom – The Company
• Small “Green Tech” start-up company
• Software manages energy consumption for buildings
• Recently acquired by Honeywell
• Development team of 4 rapidly growing to 20
• Remote team of developers in China
• www.akuacom.com
Aaron Roller – AAWhere
• Started consulting for Akuacom in January
• Assisted in preparing for Honeywell acquisition
• Architect/Developer/Co-Founder of MotionBased.com
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Architect/Manager of Garmin Connect
JIRA/Confluence/Hudson/SVN/Maven @ GC
Tony Pelosi provided Agile Project Management
AAWhere products use JIRA Studio + Google Apps
www.aawhere.com
Old Development Environment
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JBoss/EJB/JSF/Web Services
ANT Builds / CVS
Media Wiki / Bugzilla
Hudson (recent addition)
Eclipse/IntelliJ or any IDE
New Development Environment
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JIRA Studio (Using every App)
Maven Builds / Nexus Repository Mgr.
Agile process
No flaky VPN
10 Developers / 5 Collaborators and growing
Best of JIRA Studio
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Instant Software Start-Up
Imports from Legacy Tools worked well
Seamless Integration across Studio Apps
Activity Stream gives the pulse
Automatic Upgrades & Expert Admins
Integration with Cloud Computing (Bamboo)
Faster connection for China Team/Remote Dev
JIRA Studio Improvements?
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Maven Repository Manager
Better JIRA/Confluence Linking
Support More Plugins
Larger Support Team
• IP & Trade Secret concerns for large companies
• Bamboo or Maven doc generator integration
• JIRA Studio Growing Pains
Next Steps at Akuacom
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JIRA Studio set up a solid foundation
Continue to focus on Agile Development
More use of Greenhopper
Add system testing to Bamboo
Requirements in Confluence
Hire more people
www.akuacom.com
Mobliss Inc.
Trademarks: PressOK Entertainment and Reaxion
• Mobile games/apps developer and publisher
• Size of team - ~35
• 3 offices – Seattle, Moscow, Minsk
War on IT
• At some point, we had 3 IT administrators and
~20 servers
• That was way too much
• We declared a war on IT – no more servers
• We migrated:
– E-Mail/Calendars to Google Apps
– VCS/Issues/Wiki to JIRA Studio
– Production servers to Amazon
• And we’re doing great!
Dark Side
• WE LOVE JIRA STUDIO!
– Doesn’t mean that it’s perfect though. Nobody is.
• Things that may become problems:
• VCS: Subversion is the only choice, right now
• VCS: Forces certain structure of repository, may not be
compatible with existing structure
• Google Docs Integration: Great idea, but needs
improvement
• In general, JIRA Studio is updated few months after
standalone versions. For geeks it’s pretty tough.
• Plug-ins installation has to be performed by Atlassian
support (which is very responsive, by the way)
Any Questions?
JIRA Studio
Recording available soon!