Development Centre Manager

[Craig Goulden]

Hi, we are consolidating 8 development centres around the world into a single instance of Jira Confluence and Bitbucket.

[Christoph Schötz]

Hi @Craig Goulden,

welcome to this community - sounds like a very interesting project! Any special questions you want to ask to the community?

All the best to you,

Christoph

[Craig Goulden]

Apologies @Christoph for missing your earlier message. Just an update that we completed the merge successfully, but it took us about 18 months to complete the process. Lots of lessons learned about duplicated, redundant and ambiguous data and configuration.

Having been acquired by a new parent company it looks like we will be going through the exercise again to merge 2 large instances. The fun never ends 😊

[Craig Nodwell]

Curious to know how the second phase went.

[Craig Goulden]

@Craig Nodwell The merger with the new parent company was a huge task. It took about 9 months for the bulk of the migration of the Jira and Confluence instances. There are some outstanding Jira projects remaining, mainly due to issues migrating the test artefacts for the Zephyr plugin.