Case Study: Met Office launches Space Weather app and reduces configuration-management support costs by 75% with Atlassian Bitbucket

Using Git and Bitbucket, Met Office launches Space Weather app

The Met Office, the UK’s national weather service, partnered with NOAA in 2014 to launch the Space Weather app — the first service to forecast upper-atmosphere events that can disrupt navigation, mobile networks and GPS. Building this pioneering product across a 2,000‑person organisation and external suppliers exposed a need for stronger version control and configuration management to coordinate development and delivery.

The team adopted Git and Bitbucket for repository management and branching, and used Jira to run agile sprints, with enablement and training from Atlassian partner Clearvision. Bitbucket delivered faster development cycles, tighter access control, easier collaboration with external suppliers, reliable backups and better remote visibility via Jira; as a result the Met Office sped up delivery, cut configuration‑management support costs by 75% and is expanding Git/Bitbucket across its projects.

Met Office

Alan Morbey

Configuration Management Team Leader