Case Study: Collins Aerospace achieves 30% cost reductions and 25% fewer defects with Atlassian Bamboo

Rockwell Collins develops ALM platform on Atlassian

Rockwell Collins, a global aerospace engineering company with about 20,000 employees that supplies flight‑deck safety systems and handles roughly 70% of U.S. and allied military airborne communications, needed a modern Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution. Regulatory requirements for configuration control, traceability, and quality oversight exposed the limits of their PC‑based tools and drove the search for a scalable, secure, and integrable platform for collaborative design and development.

After defining business requirements, Rockwell Collins selected Jira and Confluence and integrated them with Bamboo, Fisheye, Crucible, Crowd and custom plugins. Teams use Jira for program- and feature-level project tracking and Confluence for collaborative design, documentation, and reporting, with CI and code review tied into Subversion/Bamboo/Fisheye/Crucible. Adoption scaled to 7,000 users (expected 10,000), 900 Jira projects, 470,000 issues and 1.5M Confluence pages, delivering real-time reporting, faster onboarding, improved security, a ~30% cost reduction in some processes and 25% fewer defects.

Collins Aerospace

Bonnie Beyer

Project Manager