One of the core activities as Software Product Manager (SPM) is to identify the most valuable ideas which drive your business so you can start your next product project based on them.
This task is done by Software Product Manager (SPM) in cooperation with other professionals, e.g. development, marketing or sales, who contribute with their domain specific knowledge.
One such tool is Demand Metric's Business Strategy Prioritization Tool which is done - of course, what else - in a spreadsheet. This approach is suitable for a small number of simple topics. If the complexity increases, especially if you start describing your ideas in Portfolio Epics, e.g. Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Design, things become complicate.
This project is dedicated for all those Software Product Managers (SPM) who uses Atlassian JIRA project management software and want to make their decision making process involving and transparent to their organisation, especially for their Product Owners.
With this plugin for Atlassian JIRA project management software you are able to:
- Define weightings which are used for polls
- Define polls with predefined weightings on a selected number of topics
- Invite a selected number of users to participate in a poll
- Analyse the poll results with descriptive statistics methods and visualise then in a box plot and Product Portfolio Matrix
Because it's a spare time software development project for me, things going slowly but consistent.
A small and short overview about the project plan:
- Concept papers with maths, required software libraries and tools, database model, user interface finalised
- Descriptive statistics examples with box plot are working in Mathematica
- Development environment is working and version control system is up and running, including first sample code
- Definition of evaluation criteria is working
- Setup of polls is working
- Definition of evaluation categories is working
- Execution of polls is working
- Analysing polls as box plot is working
- Analysing polls as Product Portfolio Matrix is working
- Automatic changing the ticket priority based on the results is working
- Implement Add-on licensing and Timebomb Licenses for Testing
- Finalise the documentation
- Start the field trial
- Finalise the automatic test cases with collected field trial data
- Publish the plugin to Atlassian Marketplace
- Go for Atlassian Verified program badge
This peace of software is developed for Atlassian JIRA project management software 6.4.12 and newer.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2016 Raphael Bossek
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As soon as there is a working version you will find the corresponding plugin for download together with a comprehensive description on my homepage for a trial period. The final version will be made public at Atlassian Marketplace including email support.
All those who are familiar with software development techniques will have the ability to build this software for their own and deploy and use it for free including community support at GitHub.
I'm developing on a Mac with JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA, Atlassian JIRA SDK and PostgreSQL as database backend.
Here are the SDK commands you'll use immediately:
atlas-run-- installs this plugin into the product and starts it on localhostatlas-debug-- same as atlas-run, but allows a debugger to attach at port 5005atlas-cli-- after atlas-run or atlas-debug, opens a Maven command line window:pireinstalls the plugin into the running product instance
atlas-help-- prints description for all commands in the SDK
Full documentation is always available at:
https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Introduction+to+the+Atlassian+Plugin+SDK