luxproject functionality overview
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LUXproject functionality overviewR11.6
Luxoft September, 20th, 2011
LUXproject is a distributed web-based project management system created on the basis of specific commercial and non-commercial modules developed by third-party vendors and open-source communities (Atlassian JIRA/GreenHopper, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian FishEye, Subversion/Perforce, Cruise Control, WebDav etc.) as well as Luxoft modules.
The System provides users with a friendly, multi-purpose environment for implementing key project tasks and ensuring communications.
The main LUXproject users are project executors as well as the Customer. LUXproject supports role access, i.e. each project team member depending on his/her project role has certain access permissions to the System functional.
LUXproject management mechanisms as well as availability of project artifacts at any time and from any geographic location allow company management to arrange transparent project management and always have current and reliable information.
Currently, LUXproject allows to choose one of several methodologies for software development and maintenance projects, set up Project Management Office as well as deploy Service Desk.
What exactly is LUXproject?
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Release/Iteration/Milestone scope planning and management Task management Risk management Communication management Metric gathering and statistic analysis Requirement gathering and management Requirements classification Requirement status management Requirement test coverage management Change management Test specification creation and management Defect Management Continuous Integration Version and non-version storage of project artifacts Project knowledge base Global search Flexible project reporting
LUXproject is all you need for
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Components and Architecture
JIRA engineManagement ofRequirements
Task, Resource, Time,Risks, Milestones, Test
Cases, DefectsCustom Workflows
CentralAdministration
/Security/OpenLDAP
Interaction with External SystemsRFP/RFI Response
Subsystem,MS Project, MS
SharePoint, IDEA, Eclipse
Software Engineering Processes / LUXproject event-driven workflow engine
Reporting,Metrics,History,
Statistics
Source Code Repository
Versioning, releases,Peer review.
Subversion, PerForce, etc
Continues Integration
/ Build /Server
CruiseControl
WebDAV File ManagementApache Slide
Web Access to Source Code
FishEye
ConfluenceWiki engine
Knowledge BaseText Search
Document VersioningMail Indexing ServiceDocument Templates
Discussion Forum
Unified User Interface. Automatic logging of user activities in all components
Indexing and Search ServiceApache Lucene
Project TemplatesStandard process
Agile processPMO
Service Desk
Java Standard Edition 6.0
Web Container Apache TomcatSOAP
RMI/IIOP
JMX Management
Event Queue
Single SignOn
Java-COMBridge
MS Project Tasks and milestones
synchronization
MS ExcelTimesheet and Reports
export
MS WordDocuments import and
export
MS OutlookIncoming mails storage
XML-RSS
Adobe AcrobatDocuments, Reports
Calendar andPlanning
MS Project integrationiCalendar std.
ImplementedMS Share Point
Cross content access
BugzillaAutomatic one-way data
synchronization
Rational Clear QuestOne-way data import
LDAP
Users Users Administrator
Enabled, need extra plug-ins
Code ReviewCrucible
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Supported Platforms
LUXproject supports 64bit operation systems, which ensures high performance and stability
Linux Fedora core 12 i386 is recommended to be used for the LUXproject server deployment. The server can also be used under Windows, Solaris
As there’s no thick client, LUXproject users can work with the System in any operation system
Operation is guaranteed in browsers– Internet Explorer 8.x– FireFox 3.x
The System works in browsers– Chrome– Safari
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JIRA 4.1.2 GreenHopper 5.2.4 Confluence 3.1.x FishEye 2.2.х SVN 1.6.5 Cruise Control 2.8.3 Crucible 2.2.1
Key Components of the Third Parties
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Project manager
Analysts
Support team
Customer
Developers team
Flexible security policies for accessing LUXproject
Access to LUXproject for all project stakeholders, both the project team and the customer team
Access to LUXproject from all geographic points where Internet is available
Role Access
Testing team
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Project template predefines a set of role settings, access permissions, information objects (including their attributes and workflow models), functional system modules, screens, reports, version control system, document templates and portal structure in compliance with a certain development methodology and the Customer requirements.
Project template concept1
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The advantages of a project template:
Opportunity to choose a configured management environment with all required components by one mouse-click
Best practices from previous projects involvement Capability of tailoring project templates in accordance with particular project
needs Capability of saving tailored templates for future projects
LUXproject includes several project templates:
Project template for a traditional project which is based on RUP model with waterfall/iteration lifecycle (CMMI requirements support)
Agile/SCRUM project template Project Management Office project template Support/Service Desk project template
Project Template Concept2
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Benefits for Customer
Capability of profound project team involvement to facilitate higher manageability needed to meet ever-changing priorities and business goals
Real- time access to project data from any geographic location, if Internet is available
Transparent lifecycle – from business requirements to system ones, from system requirements through tasks to source code, requirement links to test cases and defects
Visual representation of the reported data: flexible and easy visualization of product builds, project team data, and reports
Customization of project environment to meet the Customer requirements Heightened project security
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Representation of progress in terms of project milestones as well as releases
Project statuses through color indication and % of completion
Direct links to the key project milestones and releases
Support of multi-release projects
Export to Excel
Program/PMO Report
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Representation of progress of LP-managed and manual Agile-projects:
– Project statuses through color indication in terms of quality, delivery, and last project info update
– % of work done and time spent
– Number of open/closed defects
Direct links to home pages of LP-managed projects and to iteration data manual input forms of manual projects
Capability to view project status charts showing the dynamics of project success parameters
Program/PMO Report for Agile Projects
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Benefits for project manager
Access to project data from any geographic location, if Internet is available
Project data are represented in real-time mode
Project activities planning and managing (via milestones/releases)
Resource & Time Management: on-the-fly statistics for tracking the timeline of tasks in several projects simultaneously
Ability to create tasks via email messages
Risk management
Release/build management Generate Roadmap, Release Notes Control Build status
Ability to keep project mail within the System and make references to it
Ability to archive completed projects and activate them back if needed
Ability to customize a project to your needs and add new functions by yourself
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LUXproject allows project members to create unique reports according to their needs
When creating reports you can use requests with specific fields of the System entities, which greatly extends standard Jira functional
Unique Reports Creation
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From the Milestones screen Project Manager can:
– Control statuses of project milestones
– View tasks related to milestones
– Navigate to View Issue Details screen of each task included in a milestone
– Create new milestones and link them to tasks and other system entities
Project milestones and tasks can be synchronized with Microsoft Project
Milestone Management
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Project planning and control: create tasks, assign them and monitor their statuses
Representation of different task statuses and tasks by status graphic statistics
Monitoring task deadlines
Auto-notification subsystem and events calendar
Task Management
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Project Manager can create tasks in LUXproject by sending a task description email with project address specified in СС
– The task will be assigned to the email addressee automatically
– The task name will be created on the basis of the email subject
– The task description will be created on the basis of the email body
– Email attachment will also be included in the task in LUXproject
Upon receipt of such email, the Assignee can log in LUXproject and start working with the task – change its status, comment on it, add artifacts as soon as they are created
Task Creation via Email
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Bidirectional data exchange between MS Project and LUXproject (Jira) via plugin THE-Connector– Downloading planned tasks and milestones from MS Project to Jira– Importing tasks from Jira to MS Project – Synchronizing status and time information
MS Project Integration
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Capability to set work start date, utilization % of a user, and work estimate
Capability to view the workload of:– a user– users within a
certain project– a specific JIRA group– users of a specific
resource project in all projects
Capability to plan resources and activities for future
Workplan Plugin
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Log of risks for their estimation and description
Automatic calculation of the next date of risk monitoring
Different status tables (triggered, active risks, closed risks) and graphic statistics diagram.
Links between risks and project artifacts
Risk Management
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Report on the events registered in all System components
Filter for:– Who?– When?– In which project?
Filter for project events:– Project item
updates (tasks, risks, requirements, defects etc.)
– File updates– Page updates– Builds
Project Events Report
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Centralized requirements repository
Easy to use tool to manage requirements - assign, review, approve, control the requirements online
Ability to notify all project teams about changes in requirements
Requirements traceability: from business requirements to functional requirements, from requirements through tasks to source code and defects
Ability to review requirements
Graphic representation of requirements statistics
Benefits for Analyst
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Requirements gathering and management: their creation, assignment, control
Requirements grouping by statuses and graphic representation of status statistics
Requirements Traceability
Automatic tracking of changes in linked requirements
Requirements Management1
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Requirements list can be displayed as a tree structure
Requirement description can be represented as a wiki-page
Requirements and change requests can be created and managed via Jira +WIKI or Jira + SVN
Requirement Management2
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Links hierarchy is represented as a tree or a list
Links between different functional elements (requirements, tasks, defects)
Interactive “leaves” drilled down to Jira element
Requirements TraceabilityLinks Tree
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Ability to link requirements to other dependent artifacts of this as well as a related project
Visualization of dependencies and their types
Links Coverage Matrix allows to visualize requirements coverage by other artifacts such as test cases
Identification of suspected dependencies to define which requirements need to be reviewed and confirmed to relevant
Color indication of dependency types
Requirements Traceability – Matrix
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Benefits for Developers
It’s obvious which tasks are to be performed and when it should be done
All documents and requirements needed to perform a task are linked to the assigned task
Extended functional for release/build management
Build management in Cruise Control right from LUXproject interface
Build reports in real-time mode
Ability to work with version control repository without installing a specific client
Ability to link source code with tasks and defects from Jira
Ability to share experience or find the needed answer in the project knowledge base
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Creation of release and build entities, linking project activities to them
Support of hierarchic structure of releases and builds
Attributes of important life cycle dates of releases and builds
Control of release and build implementation
Release Management
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Setting up Continuous Integration parameters (Continuous integration - Cruise Control)
Build status online Results of
automatic unit tests
Errors/Warnings Ability to download
delivery package Build/Release notes
Build Management
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Web-access to the project version control repository via FishEye
Flexible filter settings
Changelog (including a mechanism for comparing differences)
Diagram of code size variation
Content Search by directories, commit comments, files, file names
Source Code Management
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Capability to arrange code review:– create review
card– select source
code files for review
– define review participants and due dates
Ability to add comments to source code lines, reviewed file, review in general
Track reviews status and statistics
Reviews Search
Source Code Management Integration with Crucible
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Benefits for Test Team
Test Assignment creation:− Assigning test cases that need to be performed− Assigning defects for validation
Testing reports
Ability to:− create a wiki-page with test plan description and link it to test cases− access requirements quickly− access the centralized document storage and version control repository− view the current build status− access defect statistics
Ability to link defects to other project entities Ability to control requirements coverage by test cases
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Test cases creation Control of test
assignments implementation
Linking defects to requirements, tasks, and test cases
Test cases results report
Statistics reports on testing
Test Management
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Ability to analyze and predict release quality
Information on testing progress, test case creation, defect statistics is available to Test Manager in a convenient form
More than 20 metric reports on testing
Ability to export reports to Excel, PDF, charts to graphics format
Test Manager Workplace
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Test Manager Workplacesample test reports
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Test Manager Workplacesample test assignment reports
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Project news line Forum to discuss
project issues Project
correspondence storage
Communication Management
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Possibility to share files within project team:– upload files– view files– manage files and folders
Files SharingNon-version File Storage
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Time spent on each project activity
Different time tracking reports
Time Tracking
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Capability to view the work time the issues spend in each of their statuses within the specified period
Capability to see bottlenecks in the lifecycle of issues and stick to the SLA terms
Time TrackingSLASupport Report
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Ability to run an eye over a process workflow
Visualization of workflow transitions of a certain issue
Visualization of the latest changes history
Business Processes Visualization
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Search through all components and modules of system
Filter for detailed search by date, user, project etc.
Global Search
Results of search in project portal pages
Results of search in Jira
Results of search in file storage
Results of search in version control
repository
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System Administration Console
Manage project roles and team members
Manage security
Manage workflows, attributes, etc.
Manage components (SVN, Cruise Control, etc.)
Project configuration export
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Bilingual menu system– Русский– English
Availability of English and Russian project templates
Ability to select GUI language for each user
User and Administrator documentation in Russian and English
Localization Capabilities
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Task management– Product
backlog– Iteration
backlog– Personal
backlog Release and build
management Risk management; Defect
management; Communication
management (Scrum and retrospective meetings);
Configuration management
Project Status Charts
Agile Project Template
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GreenHopper is a plugin for Jira that allows to manage Agile projects– Backlog
management– Sprint and
release planning
– Whiteboard metaphora
– Easy work with cards of Jira entities
– Editing entities within their cards as well as editing entities in bulk
Agile Project TemplateAdditional tools - GreenHopper
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Agile Project TemplateGreenHopper Task Board
Task Board displays tasks according to their statuses in a convenient form:– Cards– List– Minimized cards,
as a full list of tasks
– Color indication– Flexible filters
It is possible to combine saved filters with custom criteria to display only the needed issues
It is possible to drag-and-drop cards from column to column in order to change task status
Kanban Support
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Agile Project TemplateGreenHopper Burndown chart
Burndown chart shows current dynamics of tasks implementation and allows to predict the time when activities will be finished
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Agile Project TemplateGreenHopper Cumulative Flow chart
Cumulative Flow chart allows to track cumulative change of work in progress by statuses and can be useful for identifying bottlenecks.
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News Tag cloud Quick Search Ability to import Word
documents to wiki-pages Voting ability (with capability to
view the voters list, their votes being anonymous )
Useful capabilities– Confluence-SharePoint
search is a great example of LUXproject integration with other knowledge management systems
– Confluence Watch list helps Confluence administrators manage a list of watchers on any wiki-page of the knowledge base
Project Knowledge Base
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Possibility to organize labels into groups
Capability to use the predefined list of labels groups (page passport) to quickly label your WIKI content
Capability to use page passport to search Wiki pages by labels
Project Knowledge BaseLabels Groups Plugin
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Project Knowledge BaseLabels Groups Plugin. Navigation Macros
Possibility to use navigation table to quicklysearch by predefined label AND label group
Possibility to predefine search by particular label AND label group
Requests creation Log of request
statuses Graphic
representation of request resolution statistics
Report on efforts spent on requests implementation
Knowledge base for each project
Ability to link requests to activities of other projects
Help Desk Project Template
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Atlassian components used in LUXproject enjoy world-wide recognition due to diverse functional, supportability, scalability and reliability at a relatively modest price per user
The LUXproject platform integrates all components into one environment, which increases capabilities of the components, and provides missing functions:
– Common interface and single sign on to all System components– Flexible security policies customized for each project member– Additional functional for risk management, test management, release
management, requirements management
– Extended capabilities for reports creation as well as ready-made reports– Quick search of the needed information in all System components– Localization capabilities– Ability to group projects into programs and monitor their statuses– High level of data security
Unique project templates developed on the basis of the best Luxoft practices and methodologies
Extended capabilities of System customization in compliance with unique Customer processes
Continuous System development and ability to add specific functions upon request
Diverse functional at a modest price
Benefits Summary
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LUXproject basic implementation is recommended when: The Customer wants to use the best practices and processes of the Luxoft
company and chooses one or several standard project templates:– Standard– Agile– PMO– HelpDesk
The Customer does not have similar systems that must be integrated and/or a system to migrate data from.
LUXproject enhanced implementation with future System customization in compliance with Customer’s specifics and/or data migration:
The Customer considers his software development process to be mature and/or unique and wants the existing template to be customized or a new project template to be developed.
The Customer has a different tracking system (for example, JIRA, ClearQuest, Bugzilla) and wants to save the historical data.
LUXproject Implementation Models
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Server Requirements for LUXproject Installation
System requirements (up to 100 users)– CPU 1 x Dual Core XEON from 2.33GHz (server edition with х64 support)– RAM 4 GB FBD 667MHz Memory– ROM 100GB, SAS/SCSI, 15.000/10.000 rpm Hard Drive (2 in RAID1)– RAID Controller (RAID 1)– NIC 1x Gb NIC– Drive 8X DVD Drive
System requirements (up to 500 users)– CPU 1 x Quad Core XEON from 2.33GHz (server edition with х64 support)– RAM 8 GB FBD 667MHz Memory– ROM 160GB, SAS/SCSI, 15.000/10.000 rpm Hard Drive (2 in RAID1)– RAID Controller (RAID 1)– NIC 1x Gb NIC– Drive 8X DVD Drive
Operation system requirements– Linux Fedora core 11 64bit
Data base requirements– MySQL 5
Current configuration of the LUXproject production server in Luxoft– CPU 4x Phenom™ II 955, Memory 8GB, 2x200Gb HDD Raid1
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