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How the JIRA development team uses Atlassian tools

Anatomy of a JIRA Feature

Dylan Etkin, JIRA Architect, Atlassian

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Phases of a Feature• Idea & high-level planning• Confluence pages, page comments and blogs

• Release & iteration planning• JIRA & GreenHopper epicʼs & stories

• Development work & QA• JIRA & GreenHopper issues & tasks• Bamboo

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Idea & high-level planning• Confluence• Specifications as Confluence pages• Blogs for open opinion gathering• Comments, comments, comments

• Example• JQL, founder idea

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Release & iteration planning• JIRA & GreenHopper• Planning board, run by product manager• Outcome is prioritized and estimated

stories and tasks• Idea (epic) -> Stories - > Tasks

• Example• Logging work from a workflow transition

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Development work & QA• JIRA & GreenHopper• JIRA time tracking used for iteration status• Dashboard & agile gadget for reports• QA can reject (workflow step) work

• Bamboo• Commits trigger a series of builds• Build telemetry for status monitors• 45 min to find out build status for a commit

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Summary• Confluence drives specifications and

feature crystallization

• JIRA & GreenHopper track our development and generate our reports

• Bamboo keeps our developers honest

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