1. LUXproject functionality overview
R11.6
Luxoft
September, 20th, 2011

2. What exactly is LUXproject?
 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.

3. LUXproject is all you need for
 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

4. Components and Architecture
Users Users Administrator
MS Project
SOAP Tasks and milestones
synchronization
Web Container Apache Tomcat
Unified User Interface. Automatic logging of user activities in all components Java-COM MS Excel
Bridge Timesheet and Reports
export
Web Access to
Indexing and Search Service WebDAV File Management
Source Code
Apache Lucene Apache Slide
FishEye MS Word
JMX Documents import and
Management export
LDAP Central Project Templates Reporting, Calendar and
Administration Standard process Metrics, Planning MS Outlook
Agile process
/Security/ PMO History, MS Project integration Incoming mails storage
iCalendar std.
OpenLDAP Service Desk Statistics XML-RSS
Single SignOn Adobe Acrobat
Documents, Reports
Software Engineering Processes / LUXproject event-driven workflow engine
Event Queue
JIRA engine Confluence Interaction with
Wiki engine Source Code Continues MS Share Point
Management of External Systems
Knowledge Base Repository Integration Cross content access
Implemented Requirements Versioning, releases, Code Review
RFP/RFI Response
Text Search / Build / Subsystem,
Task, Resource, Time, Peer review.
Risks, Milestones, Test
Document Versioning
Server Crucible MS Project, MS RMI/IIOP
Enabled, need extra plug-ins Mail Indexing Service Subversion, PerForce,
Cases, Defects CruiseControl SharePoint, IDEA,
Document Templates etc Bugzilla
Custom Workflows Eclipse
Discussion Forum Automatic one-way data
synchronization
Java Standard Edition 6.0
Rational Clear Quest
One-way data import
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5. 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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6. Key Components of the Third Parties
 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
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7. Role Access
Project
manager
 Flexible security policies
for accessing LUXproject
 Access to LUXproject for Customer
Analysts
all project
stakeholders, both the
project team and the
customer team
 Access to LUXproject
from all geographic points
where Internet is Developers team
available
Support team
Testing team

8. Project template concept1
 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.

9. Project Template Concept2
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

10. 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

11. Program/PMO Report
 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

12. Program/PMO Report for Agile Projects
 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

13. 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

14. Unique Reports Creation
 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

15. Milestone Management
 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

16. Task Management
 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

17. Task Creation via Email
 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

18. MS Project Integration
 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

19. Workplan Plugin
 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

20. Risk Management
 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

21. Project Events Report
 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, require
ments, defects etc.)
– File updates
– Page updates
– Builds

22. Benefits for Analyst
 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

23. Requirements Management1
 Requirements gathering
and management: their
creation, assignment, con
trol
 Requirements grouping by
statuses and graphic
representation of status
statistics
 Requirements Traceability
 Automatic tracking of
changes in linked
requirements

24. Requirement Management2
 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

25. Requirements Traceability
Links Tree
 Links hierarchy is
represented as a tree or a
list
 Links between different
functional elements
(requirements, tasks, defe
cts)
 Interactive “leaves” drilled
down to Jira element

26. Requirements Traceability –
Matrix
 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

27. 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

28. Release Management
 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

29. Build Management
 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

30. Source Code Management
 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

31. Source Code Management
Integration with Crucible
 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

32. 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

33. Test Management
 Test cases creation
 Control of test
assignments
implementation
 Linking defects to
requirements, tasks, and
test cases
 Test cases results report
 Statistics reports on
testing

34. Test Manager Workplace
 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

35. Test Manager Workplace
sample test reports

36. Test Manager Workplace
sample test assignment reports

37. Communication Management
 Project news line
 Forum to discuss
project issues
 Project
correspondence
storage

38. Files Sharing
Non-version File Storage
 Possibility to share files within project team:
– upload files
– view files
– manage files and folders

39. Time Tracking
 Time spent on each
project activity
 Different time tracking
reports

40. Time Tracking
SLASupport Report
 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

41. Business Processes Visualization
 Ability to run an eye over a
process workflow
 Visualization of workflow
transitions of a certain
issue
 Visualization of the latest
changes history

42. Global Search
 Search through all
components and
modules of system
 Filter for detailed
search by
date, user, project
etc.
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

43. System Administration Console
 Manage project
roles and team
members
 Manage
security
 Manage
workflows,
attributes, etc.
 Manage
components
(SVN, Cruise
Control, etc.)
 Project
configuration
export

44. Localization Capabilities
 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

45. Agile Project Template
 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

46. Agile Project Template
Additional tools - GreenHopper
 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

47. Agile Project Template
GreenHopper 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

48. Agile Project Template
GreenHopper Burndown chart
 Burndown chart shows
current dynamics of tasks
implementation and
allows to predict the time
when activities will be
finished

49. Agile Project Template
GreenHopper Cumulative Flow chart
 Cumulative Flow chart
allows to track cumulative
change of work in
progress by statuses and
can be useful for
identifying bottlenecks.

50. Project Knowledge Base
 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

51. Project Knowledge Base
Labels Groups Plugin
 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

52. Project Knowledge Base
Labels Groups Plugin. Navigation Macros
 Possibility to predefine search by particular label AND label group
 Possibility to use navigation table to quickly
search by predefined label AND label group

53. Help Desk Project Template
 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

54. Benefits Summary
 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

55. LUXproject Implementation Models
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.

56. 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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57. Thanks !
Contacts:
LUXproject@luxoft.com