Case Study: Collins Aerospace achieves a 30% cost reduction and 25% fewer defects with Atlassian

Rockwell Collins develops ALM platform on Atlassian

Rockwell Collins, a global aerospace engineering firm with nearly 20,000 employees, needed a modern Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) system to meet strict aerospace regulatory requirements for configuration control, traceability, and quality oversight. The company was limited by inefficient PC-based tools and sought a scalable, secure platform to trace requirements through design and implementation and support collaborative development across teams.

Rockwell Collins selected Atlassian tools—Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Fisheye, Crucible, and Crowd—integrating them for project management, collaborative design, continuous build/test, single sign-on, and custom QA metrics via plugins and Marketplace add-ons. The rollout quickly gained cross-department adoption, scaling to 7,000 users (targeting 10,000), 900 Jira projects, 470,000 issues, 2,600 Confluence spaces and 1.5M pages. Outcomes included real-time reporting, faster onboarding, stronger security, a reported 30% cost reduction in some processes, and 25% fewer development defects.

Collins Aerospace

Bonnie Beyer

Project Manager