CIKLUM

CONSULTING

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How Cossacks have

chosen tools

Ciklum Consulting,

March 26, 2014

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Purpose of the speech

AGENDA

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• Why listen to me?

• Initial request

• Our approach

• Solution

• Challenges

• Alternative tools

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Why Listen To Me?

Yuri Kudin

• More than 8 years in IT

• Technical background

• Last few years working with

Distributed Agile teams

• Consulting experience

• Practical experience with Atlassian

products during the last 6 years

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Client

Automotive parts web shop

• US based

• 400+ people in UA entity

• 30+ people in development unit

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Initial Request

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Approach

TOOLS

TRAININGAUDIT WORKSHOP TOOLS CONFIGURATION

WORKSHOP WITH

THE TEAM

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Audit & Solution

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Org and Product Structure

CAT

Catalogues teams Order team

3rd partyProviders

ORDER

IMPORT-EXPORT

3rd partyProviders

INTERNAL

Internal team

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Project Workflow

Formalization Preparation Development Publishing

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Backlog Items

Project

Epic

• Story

• Bug

• Technical Debt

• Investigation

• Task

• Technical Task

Product

Project

Task

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Theory VS Practice

Portfolio

Program

Team

Business

epics

Arch

Epics

Features

Arch

Features

Theory Our Case

High level

epics

Technical

Epics

Stories,

Sub-tasks

Spikes,

Refact. etc

Epics

Stories,

Sub-tasks

Tech Debt,

Tasks

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Requirements Structure

Confluence

Jira

High level

requirements

Epic

Story

Tech. Task

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Boards Structure

Epics

Portfolio

Management

Confluence

Team

TeamTeam

Link

Team

Parallel Sprints

CAT board ORDERD & INTERNAL board

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Implementation

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Confluence

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Epic workflow

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Epic workflow

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Epics Board Status Mapping

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Epics Board Status Mapping

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Epics Board

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Reporting

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Story workflow

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Technical task workflow

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Task Board

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Task board: Priority issue

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Sprint Reporting

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JIRA restrictions in scaled agile

• Challenges with multi-level hierarchy

visualization

• No automated update of linked items

• Limited amount of columns

• Lack out of box reporting for scaled agile

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Alternative tools

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JIRA vs V1

JIRA VS V1

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JIRA vs V1

Advantages• Suitable for scaled Agile (SAFe

support)• Out of the box supports all aspects of

Agile Software development• Great relation visualization

Disadvantages • Less flexible • Restriction with reporting (incl. V1

Analytics)

Advantages• Powerful workflow engine • Great user experience • Flexible reporting • Huge amount of plugins

Disadvantages • Lack of flexibility in extending items

hierarchy • Lack of out of box preconfigured

templates

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Official comparison

• https://www.atlassian.com/software/

jira/agile/agile-comparison#!greenhopper-versionone

• http://www.versionone.com/vs/versionone-vs-altassian-jira-agile/

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Summary

• Often, a wish to change a tool is a wish

to change a process

• Match tools to the process

• Choose the tool according to needs

www.ciklum.com/consulting34

Yuri KudinTechnical ConsultantConsulting Office (CSC)

P +38 044 545 77 45 (ext. 2348)M +38 097 922 76 79E yuk@ciklum.comW www.ciklum.com/consultingS ykudin

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