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Creating awesome wallboards for fun and profit

The Information Radiator

Brendan Humphreys, Atlassian

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“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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What to display?

•Easy-to-grok performance measures•Critical team data•Fun stuff!•

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A Good Information Radiator

•Large display•Understood at a glance•Always relevant•Easy to update•

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A Good Information Radiator

•Large display•Understood at a glance•Always relevant•Easy to update•

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•Aesthetically pleasing!

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Days left in sprint

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Bamboo Plan results

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Story Status

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GreenHopper Burndown

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Relative performance

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Review Blockers

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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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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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Demonstration

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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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Wallboard Gadgets

•JIRA (v4.1.1)• Sprint days remaining• Sprint burndown• Sprint story status

•Bamboo (v2.6.1)• build plan results

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FishEye/Crucible (v2.3.2)• Review blockers

•Lots more to come!• Arbitrary Chart renderer• Twitter feed• What would you like to see?

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Cleaner turnswallboard off

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Cleaner turnswallboard off

Massive performance regression

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Cleaner turnswallboard off

Massive performance regression

Releaseday!

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