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COLLABNET OUTLINES FIVE PRINCIPLES OF ENTERPRISE CLOUD DEVELOPMENT IN ANIMATED VIDEO SCRIBE

Wed, 16 May 2012 16:27:39 +0000

CollabNet outlines a five-step blueprint for embracing Enterprise Cloud Development as the next evolution in software development and deployment BRISBANE, Calif., May 16, 2012 â�� CollabNetÂ® (www.collab.net), a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services, has created an animated video scribe that succinctly outlines five principles IT organizations can use to adopt and scale cloud development practices. CollabNet worked collectively with its internal experts, cloud platform partners and enterprise customers to develop a practical roadmap for Enterprise Cloud Development that addresses the cultural, technical and process aspects of cloud development and how it extends the value of Agile and DevOps in the enterprise. Animated video scribes are fun, highly engaging presentations that highlight and simplify often complex concepts through the use of visual and audio learning queues. Through a blend of audio storytelling and professional animation, video scribes help magnify and reinforce key learning points for enterprise and industry organizations. To view CollabNetâ��s video scribe, Five Steps to Software Development and DevOps in the Hybrid Cloud please visit: (http://tinyurl.com/bwmwqm5). â��The rate or change and the accompanying complexity within the IT industry can be overwhelming, especially within the software development and cloud computing industries,â�� said Jim Ensell, chief marketing and strategy officer for CollabNet. â��We challenged ourselves to outline the core principles of Enterprise Cloud Development in five practical steps and to detail them within a fun and engaging video scribe that runs just more than three minutes.â�� Based on its years of experience and patterns of customer success, CollabNet has outlined a blueprint containing five practical steps to guide organizations on their path to Enterprise Cloud Development as they adopt hybrid cloud IT into the application development and deployment lifecycle. The steps include: 1) embrace the cloud for centralizing access and visibility to tools and processes; 2) create a robust coding community to encourage reuse; 3) codify development processes by standardizing tools, workflows and processes; 4) automate DevOps practices; and 5) take a hybrid approach by leveraging public and on-premise private cloud resources in a secure, compliant and optimal way. In addition to the video scribe, CollabNet has developed additional videos and a white paper that outlines in more detail the principles of Enterprise Cloud Development. All of the content is available free by visiting (www.collab.net/ecd). Share this story via Twitter: Watch #CollabNetâ��s innovative animated video scribe on Enterprise #Cloud Development, #Agile and #DevOps at (http://tinyurl.com/bwmwqm5). About CollabNet CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services for software-driven organizations. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a suite of platforms and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. Its CloudForgeâ�¢ development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support leading third party tools. The CollabNet TeamForgeÂ® ALM, ScrumWorksÂ® Pro project management and Subversion Edge source code management platforms can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CollabNet complements its technical offerings with industry leading consulting and training services for Agile and cloud development transformations. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net). CollabNet, TeamForge, and ScrumWorks are registered trademarks of CollabNet, Inc. CloudForge is a trademark of CollabNet, Inc. Subversion is a registered trademark of the Apache Software Foundation. Other names may be trademarks of their respective holders. Contact: Christie Denniston Catapult PR-IR M: 303-827-5164 O: 303-581-7760 cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

AGILE ALLIANCE ANNOUNCES CONFERENCE PROGRAM FOR AGILE2012

Mon, 07 May 2012 17:13:32 +0000

Agile2012 conference program includes more than 200 presentations and workshops that cover the complete spectrum of Agile best practices and methodologies

PORTLAND, Ore., May 7, 2012 â�� The Agile Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the advancement of Agile software development principles and practices, today announced its full conference program for Agile2012. The finalized schedule is available for review at (http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/program/schedule/). Agile2012, the worldâ��s largest conference for Agile teams, developers, managers and executives, will take place Aug. 13-17 in Grapevine (Dallas area), Texas (www.agile2012.com). â��Building on the momentum of 11 years of Agile adoption and maturity, Agile2012 will offer more than 200 sessions, ranging from introductory to highly advanced topics,â�� said Mitch Lacey, Agile2012 conference chair. â��One of my goals was to increase the technical content at the conference, and I believe we did that, taking technical content from under 15 percent in 2011 to over 25 percent in 2012. Across the board, each session aims to help practitioners and organizations capture the value of Agile software development. This year, we had more than 800 session proposals submitted. Our extremely selective peer-review process resulted in a program of esteemed Agile practitioners and developers â�� quite possibly our best one yet. As Agile processes are increasingly becoming widespread across the enterprise, the Agile Conference continues to deliver the most cutting-edge conference program in the industry. I am very excited.â�� Agile2012 offers multiple â��stagesâ�� to attract audiences with different interests. The stages within the program are proven to provide participants with a focused area of interest while offering attendees a wide choice of topics to choose from. Agile2012 will host a number of exciting and beneficial stages, including: adoption and transformation, Agile boot camp, business value/working with stakeholders, coaching and mentoring, collaboration culture and teams, development practices and craftsmanship, distributed Agile, enterprise Agile, insights, leadership, no-bull know-how, open jam, research in practice and user experience. Agile2012 attendees have the opportunity to explore the latest Agile development methodologies, technologies, tools, leadership principles, management philosophies and processes. The conference program provides insights into new and practical approaches for Agile success that attendees can immediately put into practice within their organizations. For more information about Agile2012, its conference program and to register for the event, please visit (www.agile2012.com). About the Agile Alliance The Agile Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the concepts of Agile software development, as outlined in the (http://www.agilemanifesto.org/). With nearly 6,000 members located around the globe, the Agile Alliance is driven by the principles of Agile methodologies and the value delivered to developers, organizations and end users. The Agile Alliance organizes the annual Agile Conference, the industryâ��s leading event that attracts practitioners, academia, business and vendor-partner community members from around the globe. The Agile2012 Conference (http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/) is scheduled for August 13-17 in Grapevine (Dallas area). For more information about the organization, visit (http://www.agilealliance.org/). Agile Alliance Media Contact:Â Â Catapult PR-IR Christie Denniston Office: 303-581-7760 ext.Â 13 Cell: 303-827-5164 cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

COLLABNET LAUNCHES CLOUDFORGE, INDUSTRY’S FIRST ENTERPRISE-GRADE DEVELOPMENT-PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE (dPaaS)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:12:21 +0000

CloudForge enables software development teams to develop and deploy in seconds, using a hybrid mix of tools, application frameworks and deployment clouds

BRISBANE, Calif., April 30, 2012 â�� CollabNetÂ® (www.collab.net), a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services, today announced CloudForgeâ�¢, a new development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) that helps distributed teams and enterprise IT organizations adopt, manage and scale cloud-based development activities using a hybrid mix of tools, application frameworks and deployment clouds. For teams, CloudForge provides ease-of-use, instant access to popular development tools, integrations with cloud services and one-click deployment to public PaaS or private datacenters. For IT organizations, it provides centralized role-based security, automated backups, visibility and compliance needed to code, connect and deploy software applications within a hybrid mix of public, private and on-premise cloud environments. CollabNet also announced that its on-premise TeamForgeÂ® and Subversion Edge installations seamlessly integrate into CloudForge. â��Rapid developer adoption of cloud-based services has enabled companies of all sizes to build and release new categories of software, including mobile, local and cloud-based applications, without assuming the upfront capital costs associated with supporting requisite new IT,â�� said Guy Marion, vice president and general manager for CollabNet Cloud Services. â��As cloud development matures, CloudForge addresses the glaring need for a secure, flexible and scalable platform to help enterprises gain control of and benefit from hybrid cloud development.â�� CloudForge represents the industryâ��s first enterprise-grade dPaaS offering, and underpins CollabNetâ��s strategy to lead the adoption and growth of Enterprise Cloud Development. It provides code repository hosting (Subversion and Git), access to hosted and third-party Agile tools, and facilitates the deployment of applications to public and private cloud environments. It uniquely extends to and integrates with on-premise applications like TeamForge, Subversion Edge and leading commercial and open source tools, or to affiliated cloud platforms like Cloud Foundry and SOASTA. This mix of hybrid cloud and lifecycle capabilities enables development teams to leverage the power of Agile processes and DevOps initiatives â�� while providing the enterprise with a centralized view of productivity, cost management and compliance. â��Having a flexible platform to quickly build and ramp up a cloud development program has helped our company become more agile and responsive to the market,â�� said Rahul Subramanian, managing director for DevFactory, a Trilogy company. â��CollabNet and its CloudForge platform provide a much needed development and deployment front-end to the IaaS and PaaS offerings that are available today â�� our developers love it and it provides the visibility and control we need to run the business.â�� CloudForge is an entirely new platform that is built upon the industry leading CodesionÂ® cloud development framework that more than 4,000 global customers use daily. It is more than a year in the making and leverages CollabNetâ��s extensive experience building development communities and helping enterprise IT organizations manage complex distributed team environments. While CloudForge offers an easy, flexible and low-cost â��on-rampâ�� to cloud development, it is 100 percent enterprise-ready, with the high availability, backup, compliance, security, user management and support expected from a world-class cloud offering. â��By partnering with CollabNet, CloudForge provides a front-end development platform that provides easy access to the Cloud Foundryâ�¢ PaaS environment â�� whether hosted in the public cloud, private cloud, or on-premise environment,â�� said Jerry Chen, vice president, Cloud and Application Services at VMware. â��With CloudForge, CollabNet is bringing cloud development and Cloud Foundry to the enterprise in a way that makes sense for development and operations teams, and provides a centralized platform for executives.â�� Starting today, CollabNet is making CloudForge Cloud Services accessible from within all of its products, including its TeamForge ALM and Subversion Edge SCM platforms. Initially, the new Subversion Edge CloudBackup service provides seamless Subversion data archiving, redundancy and migration capabilities for any on-premise user of Subversion Edge or TeamForge, without leaving their own desktop environment. Future hybrid cloud services will become available later in 2012 within Subversion and TeamForge, and may range from elastic server provisioning for build and test, to data analytics services and access to knowledge communities. The CloudForge hybrid cloud development platform includes the following capabilities:

Collaborative UI: A newly designed user interface that promotes open, collaborative development in the cloud and for the cloud, with an emphasis on sharing, speed, simplicity and built-in training.
Developer Feed: Aggregates development activities in real time through a streaming, searchable dashboard for easy reference and data access.
Reporting Center: Provides centralized visibility for development managers and IT administrators with a focus on project performance against milestones, coding progress and system/access logs.
CollabNet App Center: Building and managing a cloud development platform is easy through Â two â��App Zones,â��
- My Services â�� provides easy-to-provision development services included within the CloudForge Public Hosting plan, including SCM (Subversion, Git and CVS), trackers (Trac, Bugzilla and DAV) and Agile ALM (ScrumWorksÂ® Pro and TeamForge) tools. Integrated services include basic (Basecamp, Pivotal, FogBuzz and Lighthouse) and premium (JIRA, Rally and VersionOne) levels.
- Marketplace â�� additional add-on services may be purchased through the CollabNet partner ecosystem, including: Cornerstone, ALMWorks, BrainEngine, SOASTA, New Relic and Zendesk.
- Hybrid Cloud Deployment - Includes one-click deployment to public PaaS or private datacenters

Share this story via Twitter: @CollabNet launches @CloudForge to drive #cloud #software #development in the #enterprise. Learn more today at www.collab.net/ecd Availability CloudForge is being rolled out as part of CollabNetâ��s corporate re-launch and alignment to support Enterprise Cloud Development. It is currently available for free public beta by visiting http://cloudforge.com/try. CloudForge will be commercially available, with full enterprise support, starting later in the second quarter of this year. About CollabNet CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services for software-driven organizations. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a suite of platforms and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. Its CloudForgeâ�¢ development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support leading third party tools. The CollabNet TeamForgeÂ® ALM, ScrumWorksÂ® Pro project management and Subversion Edge source code management platforms can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CollabNet complements its technical offerings with industry leading consulting and training services for Agile and cloud development transformations. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net).

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CollabNet, TeamForge and ScrumWorks are registered trademarks of CollabNet, Inc.Â CloudForge is a trademark of CollabNet, Inc.Â Subversion is a registered trademark of the Apache Software Foundation.Â Other names may be trademarks of their respective holders. Contact: Christie Denniston Catapult PR-IR O: 303-581-7760 M: 303-827-5164 cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

COLLABNET USHERS IN THE NEXT EVOLUTION IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: ENTERPRISE CLOUD DEVELOPMENT

CollabNet aligns strategy with Enterprise Cloud Development; adds and integrates CloudForge into its product portfolio to drive hybrid cloud development and deployment

BRISBANE, Calif., April 30, 2012 â�� CollabNetÂ® (www.collab.net), a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services, today unveiled its new corporate strategy to support the enterprise adoption of hybrid cloud development and deployment. It is the culmination of 12 years of development vision, innovation and community-building to better connect teams, processes and tools, both on premise and in private and public clouds. In addition to launching its new strategy, corporate website and a host of thought leadership content around Enterprise Cloud Development, CollabNet today launched CloudForgeâ�¢, the industryâ��s first enterprise-grade development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS), and also integrated CloudForge into its on-premise TeamForgeÂ® and Subversion Edge products. â��The information technology sector, and the software development industry in particular, is rapidly evolving into a mix of Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud practices to accelerate application development and deployment,â�� said Bill Portelli, co-founder and CEO for CollabNet. â��Enterprise Cloud Development is the evolution of basic cloud development, as it enables enterprises to extend their internal IT practices to the external cloud in a flexible and hybrid nature by leveraging existing systems and embracing new platforms. Our customers are telling us that their software engineering processes must be enhanced to introduce new spans of control as their teams adopt hybrid cloud development and deployment.â�� As part of its corporate alignment to support Enterprise Cloud Development, CollabNet unveiled its new website that includes a series of online presentations, and is sponsoring an IDG TechCast called â��What you need to know about Enterprise Cloud Development.â�� The TechCast is available for immediate viewing and includes videos of CollabNet executives, partners and industry influencers, a white paper and animated video scribe outlining five practical steps to incorporate cloud development into Agile and DevOps practices. To register for CollabNetâ��s free webinar on Enterprise Cloud Development, please visit: (http://visit.collab.net/ecdevent.html). Follow this link (http://www.collab.net/ecd) for useful content:

Online presentations of CollabNet executives, partners and industry influencers.
Download the 5 Steps to Enterprise Cloud Development white paper.
View the Enterprise Cloud Development animated video scribe.

Follow these links to:

Try the free beta of CloudForge at (http://cloudforge.com/try).
Visit CollabNetâ��s new website at (www.collab.net).

Industry research shows that cloud development is quickly working its way into the overall enterprise IT mix. For instance, a 2011 study conducted by Saugatuck Technology indicated that â��75 percent of all companies will be doing some of their development in the cloud in 2012, and an average of 50 percent of new software deployments worldwide will be made in the cloud by the end of 2014.â�� Based on its years of experience and patterns of customer success, CollabNet has outlined a blueprint containing five practical steps to guide organizations on their path to Enterprise Cloud Development as they adopt hybrid cloud IT into the application development and deployment lifecycle. The steps include: 1) embrace the cloud for centralizing access and visibility to tools and processes; 2) create a robust coding community to encourage reuse; 3) codify development processes by standardizing tools, workflows and processes; 4) automate DevOps practices; and 5) take a hybrid approach by leveraging public and on-premise private cloud resources in a secure, compliant and optimal way. To deliver customer and industry value, CollabNetâ��s Enterprise Cloud Development strategy is strengthened by three new product offerings: 1)Â Â Â Â Â The launch of CloudForge: CollabNetâ��s next-generation dPaaS is built from the previously acquired CodesionÂ® public cloud hosting platform, and meets the needs of professional teams throughout the entire organization. It helps developers and IT managers instantly develop and deploy software using a hybrid mix of tools, application frameworks and deployment clouds â�� all with enterprise security and compliance in place. 2)Â Â Â Â Â Standardizing Enterprise Cloud Development for the industry: CloudForge adds unique capabilities for its users, and creates new dPaaS business opportunities for third-parties through its new App Center. By offering complimentary, best-of-breed development and deployment services, including Cloud Foundry and SOASTA, users gain integrated functionality and platform partners can directly access CollabNetâ��s more than 10,000 customers. It also helps CollabNet rapidly expand its menu of services offered within the CloudForge user interface. 3)Â Â Â Â Â ALM and SCM hybrid cloud services: Initially, CloudForge Cloud Services will be available to customers with on-premise deployments of Subversion Edge and TeamForge. A new Subversion Edge CloudBackup service now provides seamless Subversion data archiving, redundancy and migration capabilities for any on-premise user of Subversion Edge or TeamForge, without leaving their own desktop environment. Later in the year, additional hybrid cloud services will be available in TeamForge and Subversion Edge, such as elastic server provisioning for build, test and deployment. â��Software development is changing, due in part to the growth of cloud computing. Smaller teams are taking the lead with cloud-based development, and in turn provingÂ value and gaining the attention of executives responsible for the bottom-line,â�� said BenÂ Kepes, principal at research firm Diversity Analysis. â��As enterprise IT looks to cloudÂ development, offerings such as CollabNet's, that provide the foundation forÂ companies to embrace the cloud in a manner that integrates into and extends existingÂ development processes, will be seen as the best way of ensuring efficiency and effectiveness.â�� Share this story via Twitter: @CollabNet launches new #cloud #software #development for the #enterprise. Learn more today at www.collab.net/ecd About CollabNet CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services for software-driven organizations. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a suite of platforms and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. Its CloudForgeâ�¢ development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support leading third party tools. The CollabNet TeamForgeÂ® ALM, ScrumWorksÂ® Pro project management and Subversion Edge source code management platforms can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CollabNet complements its technical offerings with industry leading consulting and training services for Agile and cloud development transformations. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net). CollabNet, TeamForge, and ScrumWorks are registered trademarks of CollabNet, Inc.Â CloudForge is a trademark of CollabNet, Inc.Â Subversion is a registered trademark of the Apache Software Foundation.Â Other names may be trademarks of their respective holders. Contact: Christie Denniston Catapult PR-IR M: 303-827-5164 O: 303-581-7760 cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

Dave West Joins Tasktop as Chief Product Officer

West to realize his passion for optimizing the value stream of software delivery by driving Tasktopâ��s product vision and roadmap Vancouver, British Columbia â�� April 26, 2012 â�� Tasktop Technologies (tasktop.com),Â creator of Eclipse Mylyn and a leader in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation solutions, today announced that Dave West has joined the company as Chief Product Officer. As one of the foremost software development thought leaders and the most recognized analyst in Agile and ALM, West will lead the strategic direction of Tasktopâ��s product line and market position, and help strengthen Tasktopâ��s executive leadership team as it builds a transformative business that continues to drive major improvements in the software industry. â��Daveâ��s thought leadership has been a key driver in the adoption of Agile and in the ALM modernizations underway at large-scale software organizations,â�� said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project. â��His insights on how cross-vendor integration have become the main bottleneck on the promised ROI, and the massive opportunity that Tasktop has to connect the software lifecycle across the software supply chain and open source ecosystem, will help drive our vision and product roadmap for overhauling the value chain of software delivery.â�� West has helped advance many modern software development processes, including Agile and Lean methodologies, process improvement, and project and requirements management. His experience includes hands-on development, executive consulting, project management and industry analysis. He led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational, and also managed the development of IBM solutions for financial services, product development and government applications. Most recently, West served as vice president, research director at Forrester, where he worked with global IT organizations and solutions providers to define, drive and advance major Agile-based methodology breakthroughs. He is a frequent keynote speaker at industry conferences and is a widely published author of articles and research reports, along with his acclaimed book: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. â��Tasktop is a company that is making a major difference in the evolution and improvement of the software industry,â�� said West. â��Its Tasktop Sync and Dev product lines, as well as the Mylyn open source project and ecosystem of integrations, address some of the biggest issues IT organizations face as they move to automate ALM and improve collaboration across the enterprise. The type of integration, automation and synchronization that Tasktop offers is fostering true ALM success, and I look forward to building on the innovation the company offers to meet the infrastructure-level needs of software organizations.â�� Tasktop helps software organizations implement and automate enterprise-wide Agile and ALM modernization initiatives by connecting both developers, through Tasktop Dev, and cross-functional enterprise teams, through Tasktop Sync. As part of Tasktop Sync, Sync Studio extends the value of its Task Federationâ�¢ platform by making it dramatically easier for organizations to connect, configure and maintain medium- and large-scale ALM infrastructures. Together, all Tasktop products leverage the Eclipse Mylyn task-based integration framework to provide a more strategic and lightweight synchronization solution than standard REST API and pure data-store integrations. Its tools provide visibility into ALM work flow and frameworks, and the real-time data sharing of cross-function activities that IT organizations need to synchronize and automate development and deployment of quality software. West joins Kersten and Tasktop president and COO Neelan Choksi on Tasktopâ��s executive leadership team. He will work side-by-side with Kersten on the product vision, platform design and partner ecosystem strategies, and with Choksi on company growth and business development initiatives. West also will continue his work to advance Agile success at an industry level through thought leadership, and develop new ideas to further streamline and improve the software development and delivery lifecycle. Connect With Others About this Story: Tweet This: @Tasktop today announced @DavidJWest as new Chief Product Officer â�� Read why Dave joined the #Tasktop team at (http://tasktop.com/blog/tasktop/dave-west-joined-tasktop) #ALM Helpful Links â�¢ Tasktop Technologies â�¢ Tasktop Blog on Announcement â�¢ Tasktop Twitter About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is the industryâ��s leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation and integration software. Thousands of IT organizations depend on Tasktopâ��s commercial and open source solutions to connect developers, testers, business analysts and project managers who use a wide variety of Agile and ALM tools hosted both on premise and in the cloud. By automating and connecting the software lifecycle, Tasktop is solving one of the biggest challenges facing large-scale software delivery organizations â�� the complete disconnect and brittle integrations of ALM tools. Its Task Federationâ�¢ technology delivers on the promise of a unified ALM stack through a partner ecosystem that integrates more than 70 disparate ALM tools with real-time connectivity and cross-repository workflow support. Tasktop created and leads the Eclipse Mylyn project, with more than 1 million downloads per month, upon which its commercial Tasktop Sync ALM middleware and Tasktop Dev IDE tools are based. All Tasktop tools are built to enable organizations to gain a competitive advantage in todayâ��s software-driven economy by providing the ALM Automationâ�¢ needed to gain visibility, predictability and productivity across the software development lifecycle. For more information, visit (http://tasktop.com). # # # Media Contact: Christie Denniston Catapult PR-IR cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com O: 303-581-7760, ext. 13 M: 303-827-5164

COLLABNET AND MSDEVELOP PARTNER TO OFFER AGILE AND CLOUD DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS TO FAST-GROWING IT INDUSTRY IN BRAZIL

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:10:48 +0000

Strong adoption of Agile, open source, DevOps and cloud development in Brazil bodes well for partnership of leading IT companies

BRISBANE, CALIF. AND SÃ�O PAULO, BRAZIL, April 23, 2012, CollabNetÂ®, a leading provider of enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM solutions, and MSDevelop, a Brazil-based IT services firm, today announced a partnership to jointly deliver Agile- and cloud-based development and deployment solutions to software-driven organizations in Brazil. MSDevelop will now offer and fully support CollabNetâ��s suite of products and services to help enterprise IT organizations adopt and scale Agile methodologies and emerging cloud development practices to improve productivity, collaboration and customer value. In addition to supporting CollabNet products and services in the region, MSDevelop is establishing a new development practice based on CollabNet platforms and its deep domain expertise, with targeted emphasis on government and financial markets. The companies also will conduct a four-city seminar tour slated for Brasilia, Porto Alegre, Recife and SÃ£o Paulo later in the year. For complete and continued information please visit a new web page the companies have established at (http://visit.collab.net/msdevelop.html). â��Latin American countries, and Brazil in particular, are emerging as technology leaders with a highly educated workforce, support from all levels of society and an acceptance of the innovations being made around open source, Agile and cloud computing,â�� said Bill Portelli, co-founder and CEO for CollabNet. â��We are extremely excited about the opportunity to join forces with MSDevelop and to expand our global reach into one of the fastest-growing IT markets in the world.â�� CollabNet helps organizations adopt modern and collaborative approaches to software development, with an emphasis on distributed team environments, Agile methods and cloud development and deployment. Its products support application lifecycle management (ALM), Agile project management and cloud development across the enterprise â�� with world-class training and consulting services available to help with transformation success. MSDevelop brings more than 19 years of IT experience, combining strong domain expertise in the areas of governance, business intelligence, consulting and outsourcing. Through its partnership with CollabNet, MSDevelop is poised to increase its leadership role in the area of software development. â��Software innovation is a key component to the success and growth of the IT industry in Brazil, and MSDevelop is committed to advancing the art of software development and deployment together with our customers and partners,â�� said Augusto Streppel, president of MSDevelop. â��Partnering with CollabNet, and having access to both its technology platforms and customer success experience, will be a great value to our current and future customers throughout all regions of Brazil.â�� Together with CollabNet, MS Develop will now offer expanded services around Agile, Scrum, ALM, DevOps and cloud development and deployment to enterprises throughout Brazil. The company has assigned a dedicated delivery team to support and deploy CollabNet products and services to its customers, and the two companies will jointly collaborate to help early adopters of Agile scale practices across the enterprise. It has and will continue to be an active member of the thriving Agile community in Brazil, participating in industry events like Agile Brazil. For more information on this partnership and MSDevelopâ��s expanded offerings please visit (http://visit.collab.net/msdevelop.html). About MSDevelop As a professional IT services resource for almost two decades in Brazil, MSDevelop combines domain expertise and experience with leading technologies for a complete IT solution, producing positive ROI for its customers. It provides IT services in the areas of governance, business intelligence, consulting and outsourcing â�� whether a single project or managing all of a customersâ�� IT assets. With CollabNet, MSDevelop now offers expanded services around cloud development, Agile, ALM and DevOps-IT to enterprises throughout Brazil, as well as to Brazil's public sector entities. The company is strategically located in the heart of Brazilâ��s greatest business centers: Brasilia, Porto Alegre, Recife and SÃ£o Paulo. For more information please visit: http://www.msdevelop.com.br About CollabNet CollabNet is the recognized leader in enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM, with more than 7,000 global customers that range from single workgroups to large enterprises. Its deep open source roots include the creation of Subversion, the industry leading version control system with millions of users. CollabNet helps enterprise customers build and deploy better software through its focus on collaboration, enterprise Agile methods and cloud development and computing. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. Its solutions include TeamForgeÂ®, the industry-leading Agile ALM platform for distributed development, ScrumWorksÂ® Pro for Agile project management, Subversion Edge for managed source code management, Codesionâ�¢ for cloud-based development and deployment, and a range of Agile-based training, consulting and transformation services. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net).

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CollabNet, TeamForge, and ScrumWorks are registered trademarks of CollabNet, Inc.Â Codesion is a trademark of CollabNet, Inc.Â Subversion is a registered trademark of the Apache Software Foundation.Â Other names may be trademarks of their respective holders. Media Contact: Christie Denniston (for CollabNet) Catapult PR-IR O: 303-581-7760 M: 303-827-5164 cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com Bianca Brandao Miguel MSDevelop +55 (51) 3327-1700 Bianca.miguel@msdevelop.com.br

Tasktop Bolsters ALM Automation Leadership with Addition of New Product Management and Solutions Architecture Directors

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:29:48 +0000

Company continues to add highly experienced technical talent to manage and accommodate strong growth and market momentumÂ

VANCOUVER , BC â�� April 16, 2012 â�� Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a leader in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation solutions, today announced the expansion of the companyâ��s product management team with the appointment of Nicole Bryan as product management director and Lance Knight as director of solutions architect, effective immediately.Â Both positions will report directly to Tasktopâ��s president and COO, Neelan Choksi. â��We are very pleased to welcome Nicole and Lance to our rapidly growing organization, and believe their experience of walking the line between business and technical stakeholders is an essential part of meeting Tasktopâ��s mission of transforming software development and delivery,â�� said Choksi. Â â��Both Nicole and Lance have proven track records that will help strengthen our leadership and organizational infrastructure to better meet the current and future demands of our customers and our growing ecosystem of software partners.Â â�� Bryan brings more than 15 years of product management experience for large software companies to her new role at Tasktop. She has an extensive technical background focused on data analytics, business intelligence, data visualization and software development processes. Prior to joining Tasktop, she served as director of product marketing and management at Micro Focus, formerly Borland Software. Â She also served as director of regulatory technology for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Knight brings nearly 25 years of software development and executive-level sales expertise to Tasktop. He joined the company from Accept Corporation, where he served as senior director of global solutions consulting. In Knightâ��s career, he has shown success as a manager and as an individual contributor helping customers derive tremendous value from their software investments.Â In his role leading the solutions architecture team, Knight will serve as a key technical advocate to actively drive the positioning of Tasktopâ��s enterprise software solutions to clients. Tasktop continues to solve major challenges for software organizations that are implementing enterprise-wide Agile and ALM modernization initiatives by connecting both developers, through Tasktop Dev, and cross-functional enterprise teams, through Tasktop Sync, to automate the entire application lifecycle. In addition, Tasktop recently launched Sync Studio, an extension of its Task Federationâ�¢ platform that makes it dramatically easier for organizations to connect, configure and maintain medium- and large-scale ALM infrastructures. Offered as a new component of Tasktop Sync, Sync Studio provides visual cross-ALM system task and workflow mapping, ALM architecture design, monitoring tools to ease integration maintenance and alert notifications for project and system administrators. All Tasktop products leverage the Eclipse Mylyn task-based integration framework to provide a more strategic and lightweight synchronization solution than standard REST API and pure data-store integrations. Its tools provide visibility into ALM work flow, real-time data sharing of cross-function activities and context into actual performance and business value. Connect With Others About this Story: Tweet This: Tasktop announces new appointments @nicolebryan and @lancedknight to @Tasktop #productmanagement and #engineering team #ALM #Agile Helpful Links

About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is the industryâ��s leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation and integration software. Thousands of IT organizations depend on Tasktopâ��s commercial and open source solutions to connect developers, testers, business analysts and project managers who use a wide variety of Agile and ALM tools hosted both on premise and in the cloud.Â By automating and connecting the software lifecycle, Tasktop is solving one of the biggest challenge facing large-scale software delivery organizations â�� the complete disconnect and brittle integrations of ALM tools. Its Task Federationâ�¢ technology delivers on the promise of a unified ALM stack through a partner ecosystem that integrates more than 70 disparate ALM tools with real-time connectivity and cross-repository workflow support.Â Tasktop created and leads the Eclipse Mylyn project, with more than 1 million downloads per month, upon which its commercial Tasktop Sync ALM middleware and Tasktop Dev IDE tools. All Tasktop tools are built to enable organizations to gain a competitive advantage in todayâ��s software-driven economy by providing the ALM Automationâ�¢ needed to gain visibility, predictability and productivity across the software development lifecycle.Â For more information, visit (http://tasktop.com).

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AGILE ALLIANCE ANNOUNCES KEYNOTE PRESENTERS

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:01:28 +0000

World renowned keynote speakers to address best practices in the implementation of Agile within diverse settingsÂ

PORTLAND, OR, April 9, 2012 Â â�� The Agile Alliance (www.agilealliance.org) a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the advancement of Agile software development principles and practices, today announced technology innovators Bob Sutton, Dr. Sunita Maheshwari and Joe Justice as keynote speakers for the Agile2012 Conference, scheduled for Aug. 13-17 in Dallas, (http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/). Agile2012 is the leading international conference on Agile methods in software development, bringing together many disciplines in the fields of information systems and software development to foster the exchange of fresh ideas and best practices. â��Our conference is made up of a group of innovators, people constantly pushing the envelope,â�� said Mitch Lacey, the Agile2012 conference chair.Â â��The Agile community is constantly looking for ways to improve company culture, innovation in software development and implement modern engineering practices that apply to both hardware and software, and I believe these speakers will be a fantastic fit for our conference.â�� Confirmed keynotes for Agile2012 include: Bob Sutton Sutton is a professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford and a professor of Organizational Behavior, by courtesy, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Sutton studies innovation, leaders and bosses, evidence-based management, the links between knowledge and organizational action, and workplace civility.Â Sutton was selected by Business 2.0 as a leading â��management guruâ�� in 2002, and the award for best article published in the Academy of Management Review in 2005.Â His books, Hard Facts, Dangerous Half Truths, and Total Nonsense, were selected as the best business book of 2006 by the Toronto Globe and Mail.Â His latest book, the No Asshole Rule, won the Quill Award for the best business book of 2007. Dr. Sunita Maheshwari Dr. Maheshwari is a multi-accomplished pediatric cardiologist with the relentless goal of changing the health scenario of India.Â She is a world renowned pioneer in IT healthcare medical entrepreneurship in India, cofounding Telaradiology Solutions in 2002, a medical knowledge process outsourcing company. In addition to her responsibilities with Telaradiology, Dr. Maheshwari runs an online teaching academy offering e-classes in pediatric cardiology and RxDx, a software development unit for healthcare solutions for hospitals. In this presentation, Dr. Maheshwari will describe the practices and processes that enable healthcare professionals to thrive with agility. Joe Justice Justice is the founder of WIKISPEED, a car company that boasts the idea that it shares more in common with Google or Twitter than GM or Toyota.Â A software consultant by trade, Justice brought his experience in Agile/Lean/Scrum project management, distributed collaboration and loosely coupled engineering with him when founding WIKISPEED.Â His dedication to Agile values and practices is evidenced in the production of the SGT01 â�� an affordable 100 mpg, four-seat commuter car with a mid-engine and rear-wheel drive. From Agile software development, Justice took the principles of reducing cost to create change, changes in team, materials and even goals.Â Justiceâ��s presentation will use the car as a case study of how manufacturing companies have deployed Agile methods to expedite the design process and deliver a product that consumers want now, rather than a product consumers wanted years ago. To learn more about the Agile2012 Conference, or to register, please visit (http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/registration/). About the Agile Alliance The Agile Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the concepts of Agile software development, as outlined in the (http://www.agilemanifesto.org/). With nearly 6,000 members located around the globe, the Agile Alliance is driven by the principles of Agile methodologies and the value delivered to developers, organizations and end users. The Agile Alliance organizes the annual Agile Conference, the industryâ��s leading event that attracts practitioners, academia, business and vendor-partner community members from around the globe. The Agile2012 Conference (http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/) is scheduled for August 13-17 in Dallas. For more information about the organization, visit (http://www.agilealliance.org/). Agile Alliance Media Contact:Â Catapult PR-IR Christie Denniston Office: 303-581-7760 ext.Â 13 Cell: 303-827-5164 cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN AND INDEPENDENT RESEARCH ANALYST DAVE WEST TO PRESENT WEBINAR ON DEPLOYING ALM2.0+ ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:38:32 +0000

Tearing down IT organizational silos and promoting collaboration through ALM tool integration strategies lead to successful Agile2.0+ initiativesÂ Â

WHO:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mik Kersten â�� CEO and founder of Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com) Kersten is the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. At Tasktop he provides the technical vision behind Tasktop Dev for desktop-based developer productivity and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM automation and synchronization. Featured Speaker: Dave West â�� vice president and research director at Forrester Research, Inc. (www.forrester.com) West is a leading expert on software development process, Agile development, Lean thinking, process improvement, project management and requirements management. His interest in software modelingÂ and application development led to his authoring of the book,Â Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. He also covers the area of product development and its relationship with software systems development. WHAT:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Getting ALM2.0+ to Work For many organizations, the ability to deliver software is fundamental to business success. New products, services, updates to channels, pricing or promotion require changes to applications and websites. Organizations are now looking to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to provide visibility into this increasingly core business process.Â ALM promises the benefits of business management to the practice of software delivery. ALM2.0+ describes the next generation of practices that broaden the lifecycle to include operations and the business, while adding functionality for planning and collaboration. West and Kersten will present patterns for successful ALM adoption for mid- and large-scale organizations, and highlight how organizations can incrementally obtain the benefits of ALM by connecting siloes â�� one stakeholder at a time.Â The pair will draw on their year of software development experience to define a series of ALM integration patterns and describe how successful organizations are delivering software more efficiently with ALM2.0+ today. WHEN:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Thurs., April. 19, 9 to 10 a.m. Pacific (Noon Eastern) INFO:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â To register for the webinar please visit: (http://go.tasktop.com/forrester-webinar-registration.html).Â To arrange an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or by email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

Tasktop’s New Sync Studio Provides First Visual ALM Mapping and Monitoring Tool for ALM Architects

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:24:14 +0000

Â IT Organizations Gain New Levels of Visibility into Heterogeneous ALM Architectures to Author and Manage Task and Data Flow between Best-of-Breed ALM Tools

VANCOUVER and RESTON VA (EclipseCon 2012, Booth #25), March 27, 2012 â�� Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a leader in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation solutions, today announced Sync Studio, an extension of its Task Federationâ�¢ platform that makes it dramatically easier for organizations to connect, configure and maintain medium- and large-scale ALM infrastructures. Offered as a new component of Tasktop Sync, Sync Studio provides visual cross-ALM system task and workflow mapping, ALM architecture design, monitoring tools to ease integration maintenance and alert notifications for project and system administrators. â��As weâ��ve been rolling out Tasktop Sync over the past year to IT organizations trying to automate Agile ALM and DevOps architectures across the enterprise, the process of taking inventory and managing integrations between all of their disparate tools has become extremely messy, frustrating and time-consuming,â�� said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project. â��Sync Studio makes it possible for software delivery organizations to gain control of this chaos by providing a single tool for viewing the design, integration and performance of todayâ��s complex ALM architectures with an easy-to-use visual design and authoring tool.â�� Tasktop continues to solve major challenges for software organizations that are implementing enterprise-wide Agile and ALM modernization initiatives by connecting both developers, through Tasktop Dev, and cross-functional enterprise teams, through Tasktop Sync, to automate the entire application lifecycle. All Tasktop products leverage the Eclipse Mylyn task-based integration framework to provide a more strategic and lightweight synchronization solution than standard REST API and pure data-store integrations. Its tools provide visibility into ALM work flow, real-time data sharing of cross-function activities and context into actual performance and business value. With Sync Studio, the company continues to help IT organizations synchronize and automate development processes to deliver market value quicker, reduce inefficiencies and promote collaboration and innovation by connecting individuals and teams across the enterprise. â��Standard integration of ALM tools is typically limited since it only addresses point-to-point functionality and can then lack the comprehensive visibility, interoperability and traceability needed for a fully synchronized ALM tool stack,â�� said Melinda Ballou, program director for the Application Lifecycle Management and Executive Strategies service at IDC, a research advisory firm headquartered in Framingham, MA. â��With software driving innovation and with challenges resulting from complex ALM infrastructure, complex sourcing and silo-ed departments, IT organizations need to be able to architect and gain control of automated ALM solutions. This automation is sorely needed to help drive effective software delivery and competitive benefits.â�� To help IT organizations scale Tasktop Sync deployments and better manage the growing number of ALM systems in a typical tool stack, Sync Studio provides a whole new set of ALM infrastructure management tools. Capabilities include:

A Unified View across the ALM Stack: Sync Studio presents ALM architects and administrators with a comprehensive and â��liveâ�� architectural view of current tools and processes, and the associated interdependencies and roadblocks that need to be addressed.
Visual Mapping for ALM Administrators: Sync Studio provides automated mapping capabilities for ALM administrators to author and configure task, data and workflow connectivity and integration between ALM servers.
Cross-repository Monitoring and Administration: Sync Studio helps maintain the health and performance of enterprise-wide ALM architectures through the regular monitoring of inter-tool functionality and centralized administration of changes, maintenance, trouble-shooting and alert notifications.
End-to-end Traceability for the Lifecycle: through its Task Federation platform, Sync Studio provides complete ALM traceability that is available through the visual mapping and visibility capabilities now available in the tool.

In addition to Sync Studio, Tasktop also is introducing Tasktop Sync 2.3 with new integrations for ThoughtWorksâ�� Mingle and Accept360, as well as an updated Mylyn-based Sync integration for IBM Rational Team Concert. It is part of a coordinated Tasktop rollout that also includes Tasktop Dev 2.3 and builds on the new Eclipse Mylyn 3.7. Tasktop Dev now includes support for Gerrit and the Jenkins continuous integration server, and new workspace provisioning tools for HP ALM. With these additions, Tasktop now supports more than 70 ALM tools. Availability Tasktop Sync 2.3 with Sync Studio is being demonstrated now at EclipseCon 2012 (http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/) and will be generally available on April 17.Â Tasktop Dev 2.3 is available today. About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is the industryâ��s leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation and integration software. Thousands of IT organizations depend on Tasktopâ��s commercial and open source solutions to connect developers, testers, business analysts and project managers who use a wide variety of Agile and ALM tools hosted both on premise and in the cloud.Â By automating and connecting the software lifecycle, Tasktop is solving one of the biggest challenge facing large-scale software delivery organizations â�� the complete disconnect and brittle integrations of ALM tools. Its Task Federationâ�¢ technology delivers on the promise of a unified ALM stack through a partner ecosystem that integrates more than 70 disparate ALM tools with real-time connectivity and cross-repository workflow support.Â Tasktop created and leads the Eclipse Mylyn project, with more than 1 million downloads per month, upon which its commercial Tasktop Sync ALM middleware and Tasktop Dev IDE tools. All Tasktop tools are built to enable organizations to gain a competitive advantage in todayâ��s software-driven economy by providing the ALM Automationâ�¢ needed to gain visibility, predictability and productivity across the software development lifecycle.Â For more information, visit http://tasktop.com.

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