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COLLABNET’S NEW TEAMFORGE 7 AND TEAMFORGE ORCHESTRATE SPEED CYCLE TIMES AND IMPROVE COLLABORATION FOR AGILE ALM AND DEVOPS

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:51:22 +0000

New TeamForge Orchestrate connects tools, and turns disparate tasks into associated activities for cross-functional collaboration and visual traceability BRISBANE, Calif., June 18, 2013, CollabNet (www.collab.net), the leader for Enterprise Cloud Development, today announced TeamForge 7 and TeamForge Orchestrate – major new capabilities for its open ALM platform. TeamForge Orchestrate is a new add-on product that helps software organizations connect disparate tools and activities, and produce cross-functional associations and visual traceability throughout the application lifecycle. TeamForge 7 includes Adaptive Planning Boards for hybrid Agile-based project management and Lifecycle Dashboards for centralized visibility across projects and tools. Together, TeamForge 7 and TeamForge Orchestrate provide IT organizations with an open and extendable ALM platform for enterprise Agile and DevOps that greatly reduces cycle times – while providing the freedom and control to use a range of open source and commercial tools in unison. “With the advent of mobile and cloud, the days of the heavyweight and monolithic toolsets to build and deploy software are over, making room for a federated ALM platform that coalesces all of the assets, data and activities that occur throughout software delivery,” said Bill Portelli, co-founder and CEO for CollabNet. “TeamForge 7 and Orchestrate address the challenges resulting from today’s increasingly complex software environments, allowing cross-tool data and cross-team activities to flow in a structured, traceable and visual manner – empowering organizations to improve code quality through better collaboration and traceability” Today’s software delivery environments are increasingly fragmented due to the open nature of development and the proliferation of tools and processes. New applications and delivery platforms, such as cloud, mobile, social and big data mandate new strategies for ALM success. Synchronizing cross-functional data from the tools teams want to use, and coordinating activities that occur from “idea through deployment,” is critical to Agile and DevOps success. TeamForge continues to solve the dilemma of having to choose a monolithic platform over best-of-breed point tools. With Orchestrate, it collects and stores metadata related to key lifecycle activities and draws associations between disparate tools for the ultimate purpose of traceability. This centralized system of record connects previously unconnected ALM activities, syndicating human and machine-generated transactions to bridge IT silos and provide context between tasks. The result is cross-functional and automated ALM traceability – presented in an intuitive graphical interface – that is critically important for software engineers and a capability that is sorely lacking in today’s commercial tools that provide only simplistic traceability support. “The need to collaborate across tools and processes has never been stronger, and organizations realize this is a must requirement if they want to scale Agile and bridge development and operations via DevOps,” said Melinda Ballou, principal analyst at IDC. “Coordinating point tool choices and providing the centralized and social collaboration needed to manage change in a structured fashion are key elements for successful innovation and execution.” TeamForge Orchestrate offers: • Control Center for Delivery Pipelines: creates traceability across disparate tools, enabling graphical traceability of delivery pipelines across tools and clouds to measurably reduce cycle times. • Social Activity Streams: embedded social activity streams link comments and discussions to events, data and activities to provide context through continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines. • Agent-based APIs: an easy-to-use integration model provides traceability links between TeamForge and third-party tools. This eliminates “vendor lock-in.” Pre-packaged integrations include Git and Subversion, Jenkins, TeamCity, ReviewBoard and others. This tool ecosystem can be expanded with community-built integrations. TeamForge 7 offers: • Adaptive Planning Boards: helps teams facilitate product and release planning regardless of development method – Agile, traditional or hybrid in-houses processes – in real-time and through a flexible drag-and-drop framework. • Enterprise Lifecycle Dashboards: a range of pre-packaged and customizable lifecycle reports provide a holistic view across projects, tools and platforms. • Additional features: include greatly enhanced usability with 3x faster workflows, updated support for Git/Gerrit and more. For more information on TeamForge 7 and TeamForge Orchestrate please visit: http://visit.collab.net/TeamForge7Resources_LP.html Share this: #CollabNet new #TeamForge and #Orchestrate to speed cycle times for #ALM, #Agile, #DevOps and #continuousdelivery www.collab.net About CollabNet CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a development platform and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. CollabNet TeamForge® ALM, ScrumWorks® Pro Agile project management and Subversion Edge and Enterprise Git source code management can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CloudForge™ enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support TeamForge and leading third-party tools. 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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Contact: Christie Denniston Catapult PR-IR M: 303-827-5164 O: 303-581-7760 cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

Mahindra Satyam and CollabNet Partner to Bring Agile, Enterprise Cloud Development and DevOps to Global IT Customers

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:08:31 +0000

BRISBANE Calif. – June 12, 2013 – Mahindra Satyam, a leading global consulting and IT services provider, and CollabNet® (www.collab.net), the leader for Enterprise Cloud Development, today announced a strategic alliance agreement to jointly develop and deliver Enterprise Cloud Development, Agile and DevOps solutions in the cloud services space. Gartner predicts the total public cloud services market to cross $ 237 billion by 2017 (Gartner Forecast: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2011-2017, 1Q13 Update). Mahindra Satyam and Tech Mahindra (referred to as Mahindra IT) will work together with CollabNet under this agreement. CollabNet’s TeamForge ALM platform aligns with Mahindra IT’s vision to drive value for enterprise IT organizations via cloud-based approaches. Mahindra IT will resell CollabNet’s TeamForge® and CloudForge™ products and services, as-well-as its Agile training services throughout Asia. “Software development and deployment moving to the cloud within larger IT organizations, provides a compelling case to have a technology partner who is a leading player in cloud based development initiatives,” said Hari T, Head - Business Value Enhancement Group, Mahindra Satyam. “CollabNet and its TeamForge platform provide the basis for Mahindra IT to offer a clear path to Agile and DevOps practices in the cloud - that is both open and flexible - yet meets the requirements of the most demanding of enterprises.” Starting now, Mahindra IT and CollabNet will partner to bring cloud-based technical and service offerings to global IT organizations that are moving Agile, DevOps and other strategic initiatives to the cloud. CollabNet’s TeamForge (http://www.collab.net/products/teamforge) is the industry’s most complete and open ALM platform for developing and deploying applications by distributed teams. Enterprise IT organizations use TeamForge to manage multiple technology processes, commercial and open source tools, and deployment applications through a flexible, hybrid model of both cloud and on-premise deployments. CollabNet’s global services team provides public and private training courses focused on accelerated Agile success, and it has more Certified Scrum Trainers than any organization in the industry. “Partnering with a world-class technology leader like Mahindra IT will benefit both new and existing customers as we jointly develop technical and service offerings based on deep experience and knowledge of emerging enterprise software development trends,” said Bill Portelli, co-founder and CEO for CollabNet. “Mahindra shares our vision for Enterprise Cloud Development and how larger IT organizations can leverage the benefits of the cloud to develop and deploy quality software faster.” For information about the CollabNet/Mahindra strategic alliance please visit http://www.collab.net/partners/distribution Share this: #CollabNet and #Mahindra partner to bring #Agile and #DevOps to global enterprise IT organizations. About Mahindra Satyam Mahindra Satyam is a global business consulting and information technology services company leveraging deep industry and functional expertise, leading technology practices and a global delivery model to help businesses transform their processes and improve performance. The company's professionals excel in enterprise solutions, supply chain management, client relationship management, business intelligence, business processes, engineering and product lifecycle management, infrastructure services, among other services. The company has development and delivery centers in the United States of America, Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Hungary, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, India, China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia and serves numerous clients, including many Fortune 500 organizations. Mahindra Satyam is part of the USD 16.2 billion Mahindra Group. The Mahindra Group employs more than 155,000 people in over 100 countries and operates in key industries that drive economic growth, enjoying a leadership position in tractors, utility vehicles, information technology and vacation ownership. For more information, see www.mahindrasatyam.com Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mahindra_satyam For clarifications, write to us at: MediaRelations@mahindrasatyam.com About CollabNet CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a development platform and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. CollabNet TeamForge® ALM, ScrumWorks® Pro Agile project management and Subversion Edge and Enterprise Git source code management can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CloudForge™ enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support TeamForge and leading third party tools. 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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AGILE EXECUTIVE FORUM ANNOUNCES 2013 PROGRAM FEATURING EXECUTIVES FROM MACY’S, FIDELITY AND WALMART

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:04:01 +0000

Event to focus on an executive’s perspective for succeeding with Agile PORTLAND, Ore., June 5, 2013 –Agile Alliance and the Agile Leadership Network, today announced the program for the third annual Agile Executive Forum (http://execforum2013.agilealliance.org/) to be held Aug. 5, in conjunction with the Agile2013 conference in Nashville, TN (http://agile2013.agilealliance.org/). The Agile Executive Forum brings together senior executives to spend the day in a combination of practical, hands-on presentations and rich networking opportunities. “Each of this year’s featured speakers is an executive that will provide insights into their own individual company's journey into agility,” said Todd Little, Executive Forum co-chair. “We have assembled a slate of executives who are leading the adoption of Agile best practices within their diverse organizations, from retail and financial services to healthcare, from oil and gas to going to Mars. Some of the topics that will be discussed include lean startup, servant leadership, user experience, and enterprise architecture. This year’s speakers are prepared to share the challenges and successes that they have experienced from an executive’s perspective.” Confirmed speakers include: • Gary Gruver, CIO/VP of Macy’s: “A Practical Approach to Large Scale Agile Development” • Susan Courtney, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE): “Our Transformation Journey to Enterprise Stable Teams and Servant Leadership” • Charles Evans, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President Development, Intergraph: “We’ve been to the moon! How hard could Mars be?” • Brad Jaehn, Vice President of Product for Gogo: “Gogo – Adopting and Scaling Agile” • Simon Galbraith, CEO Red Gate Software: “Board Level Agile, A CEO’s Perspective - Using Agile with my Executive Leadership Team” • Ojonimi Baku, Director at Walmart, “WalSmart: a Lean Startup Approach Within Walmart” • Nagaraj Srinivasan, VP Technology at Landmark Software and Services, “Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Agility” • Julia Cichowski, Vice President of User Experience Design at Fidelity Investments: “Fidelity Investments – An Agile User Experience” The Agile Executive Forum is structured as a combination of compelling short presentations of experiences spotlighting innovative success stories and transformation challenges and group events with opportunities for networking and community-building. Offered as a convenient one-day event, attendees will have the opportunity to experience a diverse collection of peer executives’ journeys into agility and participate in conversations to integrate enterprise agility into future strategies that align seemingly disparate goals, teams and reserves. Attendance at the 2013 Agile Executive Forum is limited to 100 executives and costs $2,400. The price includes a non-transferable admission to the Agile2013 Conference that is co-located and is being held from Aug. 5 to 9 (valued at $2,199). For more information on both events please visit: (http://agile2013.agilealliance.org/). Share This Via Social Media: View the full #agileexec2013 program at http://execforum2013.agilealliance.org/ #Agile #Executive #Agile2013 About the Agile Leadership Network The Agile Leadership Network is dedicated to evolving leadership so that individuals, teams, and organizations thrive in an ever-changing world. It is an international network of local communities that provides opportunities to connect and engage to advance the practice of Agile leadership, principles and values. Visit the website to become a member, find a local chapter meeting, learn more about our leadership conferences and other networking opportunities. Visit (www.AgileLeadershipNetwork.org). About Agile Alliance 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 greater than 6,000 members located around the globe, Agile Alliance is driven by the principles of Agile methodologies and the value delivered to developers, organizations and end users. Agile Alliance organizes the annual Agile Conference, the industry’s leading event that attracts practitioners, academia, business and vendor-partner community members from around the globe. The Agile2013 Conference is scheduled for August 5-9 in Nashville. For more information about the organization, please visit (http://www.agilealliance.org/). Agile Alliance Media Contact: Catapult PR-IR Christie Denniston Office: 303-581-7760 ext. 13 Cell: 303-827-5164 cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

TASKTOP’S DAVE WEST AND BLACKROCK’S JONATHAN MAJOR TO DISCUSS ALM AND SOFTWARE INTEGRATION AT HP DISCOVER 2013

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:32:54 +0000

Industry experts West and Major will join forces to describe BlackRock’s path to ALM integration and present an evolving case study of software development in the finance industry Who:

Dave West Chief Product Officer Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)

West is instrumental in building Tasktop into a transformative business that is driving major improvements in the software industry. He leads the strategic direction of the company’s product line and helps to define Tasktop’s market position. He is a former industry analyst at Forrester Research.

Jonathan Major VP of Quality Assurance BlackRock (www.blackrock.com)

Major has more than 17 years of experience in software testing. His specialties include quality assurance, quality engineering and test automation architecture. Prior to BlackRock, Major was a test engineering manager at Barclays.

What:

HP ALM ‘the one ring to bind them:’ An experience report on adopting ALM in a heterogeneous environment at BlackRock Investments

Modern software development is a messy affair with complex problems, disconnected disciplines and immature practices. For large financial services organizations, software is a key enabler to delivering value to its customers, empowering employees and providing insights to management. The combination of increased complexity and value has led BlackRock to invest in the process of software delivery, and the application of the discipline ALM to the problem of disconnected delivery. Their desire, like many organizations, is to provide better insights, improve collaboration and make the process of software delivery flow faster. In this talk Major and West will discuss the journey BlackRock has taken in adopting a successful ALM practice. They will outline steps toward connecting the disciplines of quality and development, and how that has created increased traceability, visibility and reporting in a heterogeneous tool stack. They also will discuss the challenges of adopting an integrated approach to software, both technical and cultural, and the steps necessary to take the ideas of ALM and implement them. The journey is by no means complete, but in this talk Major and West will provide attendees with a description of their experience and a set of ideas for how an IT organization can adopt the ALM practice.

Where:

The Venetian Resort 3355 S Las Vegas Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89109 (www.venetian.com)

Share:

#Tasktop @DavidJWest and #BlackRock Jonathan Major @jr_major to present #ALM best practices at #HPDiscover

Info:

For more information about this event, please follow this link: (http://h30614.www3.hp.com/Discover/Home)

For more information on Tasktop or to speak with West about his presentation, please contact Christie Denniston at Catapult PR-IR: Office Number: 303-581-7760 Mobile Number: 303-827-5164 Email: (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com) Twitter: @prhightech

TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO DELIVER KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT 2013 BETTER SOFTWARE CONFERENCE WEST

Thu, 30 May 2013 21:14:58 +0000

Kersten will discuss how different organizational teams can work together to achieve maximum flow and deliver better software faster

Who:

Mik Kersten CEO and co-founder Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)

Kersten sets the strategic direction and drives many of Tasktop's key partnerships and key customer accounts. He created the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and the task-focused interface while working on his Ph.D. in computer science. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tools for AspectJ. He has been an Eclipse committer since 2002, is a three-time elected member of the Eclipse board of directors, and serves on the Eclipse Architecture Council.

What:

Lean Software Delivery: Synchronizing Cadence with Context

Daily, we are told that adopting Agile, PaaS, DevOps, crowd sourced testing, or any of the myriad of current buzzwords will help us deliver better software faster. However, for the majority of software development organizations, naïve Agile transformations that don’t look beyond the needs of developers will fail to produce the promised results. Kersten will share his beliefs that instead of focusing on development alone to transform software delivery, we must acknowledge the different contexts and mismatched cadences that define the work of business analysts, developers, testers and project managers. For example, a developer working in an Agile team may deliver code every two weeks, but the performance testing group may need more time for its work, while the operations group has a planned release cycle of once per quarter. He will explain that to achieve optimum flow, which is the goal of end-to-end lean delivery, we must identify the different cadences of each group and interconnect the collaborators and their work—requirements, development, testing, and deployment.

Where:

Caesars Palace 3570 Las Vegas Boulevard South Las Vegas, NV 89109 (www.caesarspalace.com)

When:

Thurs., June 6, 2013 from 12:45 p.m. – 2 p.m. Pacific

Share:

#Tasktop CEO @mik_kersten to deliver keynote at Better Software Conference on June 6 (http://adc-bsc-west.techwell.com/) #bscadc

Info:

For more information about this event, please follow this link: (http://adc-bsc-west.techwell.com/)

For more information about Tasktop or to speak with Kersten about his presentation, please contact Christie Denniston, APR at Catapult PR-IR: Office: 303-581-7760 Mobile: 303-827-5164 Email: (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com) Twitter: @prhightech

TASKTOP’S DAVE WEST, NICOLE BRYAN AND IBM TO DISCUSS ENTERPRISE ALM AND AGILE BUSINESS VALUE AT IBM INNOVATE 2013

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:16:40 +0000

Tasktop and IBM continue to advance the business value of ALM and enterprise Agile

Who:

Dave West Chief Product Officer Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)

West is a software industry thought leader (formerly with Forrester) and Chief Product Officer for Tasktop Technologies. At Tasktop he leads the strategic direction of the company’s Sync and Dev products that help organizations integrate ALM tools, data, people and processes.

Nicole Bryan Director of Product Management Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)

Bryan has more than 17 years of experience in software and product development, focused primarily on bringing data visualization/infographics and human factors considerations to the forefront of Application Lifecycle Management. At Tasktop, she is focused on improving how software is created and delivered.

What:

Why You Need an ALM Data Model: Increasing Visibility and Transparency to Enable Business Agility Speaker: Dave West, Tasktop Location: LM-2090

For many organizations, the promise of ALM has been undermined by disconnected tools, processes, organizations and practices. But as organizations pivot business models and deliver faster, the need for ALM is much greater. Increased visibility and flow are the cornerstones to increased business agility. But for many organizations, adopting Agile at the team level has left enterprise ALM in a worse state than before, with teams adopting tools, practices and even process models for their own needs. So how do organizations increase the visibility of software delivery while software is being delivered by a diverse set of project teams, all following slightly different methods and using a variety of tools?

Practicing ALM in a Mixed Lifecycle Tool Environment Speakers: Nicole Bryan, Tasktop; Gary Cernosek, IBM; Kevin Bauer, IBM Location: LM-2207

IBM launched the Rational Jazz initiative with a mission for improving collaboration across the software and systems lifecycle. This initiative includes elements from community, architecture and product perspectives. The value of community development can be seen today on Jazz.net, where developers gain insight into products comprising the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM). But the Jazz initiative is larger than Rational itself. The Jazz platform is designed to be open and broader in the scope of capabilities and lifecycle tools. This session will show how the Jazz initiative has evolved to integrate lifecycle tools stemming from a wide range of sources.

Where:

Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel 1500 Epcot Resorts Blvd. Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830 (http://www.swandolphin.com/)

Share:

#Tasktop and #IBM to share #Agile and #ALM best practices for the enterprise at #IBMInnovate

Info:

For additional information about IBM Innovate, please follow this link: (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/innovate/)

For more information on Tasktop Technologies, or to arrange an interview with the speakers, please contact Christie Denniston, APR: Office: 303-581-7760 Cell: 303-827-5164 (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com) @prhightech

AGILE ALLIANCE ANNOUNCES CONFERENCE PROGRAM FOR AGILE2013

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:56:01 +0000

More than 1,100 submissions for Agile2013 focus on Agile success

PORTLAND, Ore., April 30, 2013 – 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 Agile2013. The finalized schedule is available for review at (http://agile2013.agilealliance.org/program/). Agile2013, the world’s largest conference for Agile teams, developers, managers and executives, will take place Aug. 5-9 in Nashville (http://agile2013.agilealliance.org ) at the beautiful Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center.

“With more than 1,100 program session submissions this year, and only 210 able to make the cut, we believe this year’s program is a very strong one,” said Kent McDonald, Agile2013 conference chair. “I want to personally thank everyone who submitted a submission proposal and all of the reviewers from the community that commented and provided feedback throughout the program development process. It is inspiring to see continued passion and momentum from our industry, and how the value and impact Agile-based methods are building for developers and their organizations.”

Each year the Agile Conference brings together impassioned technologists that are dedicated to solving real-world problems and delivering tangible value to their organizations through Agile software development. As Agile methods mature deeper into IT organizations, this year’s Agile2013 conference celebrates “getting Agile done,” and the committed practitioners that have led the industry to build better software faster. While Agile2013 offers the greatest breadth of learning and content of any industry event, this year’s program focuses on sharing experiences, ideas and creativity for “doing” Agile in a useful and meaningful way. The Agile2013 program is presented through multiple ‘tracks’ to provide participants with a focused area of interest while offering attendees a wide variety of topics to choose from. The biggest addition to this year’s conference is the new DevOps track.

For more information about Agile2013, its conference program and to register for the event, please visit (www.agile2013.com).

Share this: The #Agile2013 program is out! Check out this year’s lineup at (http://agile2013.agilealliance.org/program/) About Agile Alliance

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, Agile Alliance is driven by the principles of Agile methodologies and the value delivered to developers, organizations and end users. Agile Alliance organizes the annual Agile Conference, the industry’s leading event that attracts practitioners, academia, business and vendor-partner community members from around the globe. The Agile2013 Conference is scheduled for August 5-9 in Nashville. For more information about the organization, please visit (http://www.agilealliance.org/).

Media Contact: Catapult PR-IR Christie Denniston, APR Office: 303-581-7760 ext. 13 Cell: 303-827-5164 cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com @prhightech

COLLABNET EXPERTS TO PRESENT SCRUM AND AGILE BEST PRACTICES FOR ENTERPRISES AT 2013 SCRUM GATHERING LAS VEGAS

CollabNet’s Laszlo Szalvay, Angela Druckman and Adam Weisbart will host three separate sessions on how organizations can use Scrum to solve and manage complex business problems

Who:

Laszlo Szalvay VP of Scrum Business CollabNet (www.collab.net)

Szalvay oversees the global Scrum business, drives Agile and ALM integration, and leads Scrum-based initiatives at CollabNet. He is a leading expert in Scrum and was CEO and co-founder of Danube Technologies, Inc. prior to joining CollabNet.

Angela Druckman CollabNet Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Process Mentor (www.collab.net)

As a Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Process Mentor, Druckman specializes in Agile transformation, helping teams and organizations all over the world improve their competitive position and effectiveness through agility. Druckman is the author of 30 Days to Better Agile: Effective Strategies for Getting Results Fast Using Scrum, which helps individuals, teams and organizations achieve sustainable success with Agile-based projects.

Adam Weisbart CollabNet Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach (www.collab.net)

Weisbart is a Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach based in San Francisco. He is passionate about helping groups create spaces in which they can thrive together. He has created several training modules including Build Your Own Scrum, which is used by trainers around the world to teach Scrum from the back of the room. Weisbart is the author of the upcoming book Agile Antipatterns: The Scrum Master's Guide to Traps, Tripwires, & Treachery.

What:

“Making Scrum Stick in Regulated Industries” Tues., May 7, 2013 from 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. Pacific Room: Paloverde A As workplaces evolve and Scrum becomes more commonplace, regulated industries increasingly face the challenge of keeping pace with technological advances and complying to industry standards. This interactive session focuses on how Scrum framework can be used to navigate the obstacles of compliance. In this forward looking presentation, Szalvay will walk attendees through various ways in which Scrum can be properly executed in regulated industries.

“Paging Dr. Scrum: Diagnosing Problems in the Agile Organization” Speaker: Angela Druckman Mon., May 6, 2013 from 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. Pacific Room: Mesquite 1-3 “Our main problem doing Scrum is…” Agile coaches know that those new to Scrum often complete this sentence by describing symptoms rather than the root causes of their issues. It is hard to solve a difficult, multifaceted problem when you are in the middle of it. Enter the Agile coach. In this session, for both internal Agile coaches and those who work with external clients, Druckman will provide techniques to get to the root causes of common problems with Scrum and share best practices to help clients move their businesses forward.

“Agile Antipatterns: The Scrum Master's Guide to Traps, Tripwires, and Treachery” Speaker: Adam Weisbart Mon., May 6, 2013 from 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. Pacific Room: Paloverde A It is essential for all development team members to know the basics of Scrum but a good ScrumMaster must be skilled at dealing with Agile Antipatterns quickly to help his or her team and the organization move forward. In this session, Weisbart will detail how to identify an Agile Antipattern and attendees will leave with a powerful set of tools to assist them in defusing antipatterns in the field.

Weisbart will also facilitate the “Open Space: The Magic of Collaboration” sessions on Wed., May 8, 2013 during the event.

Where:

Scrum Gathering Las Vegas 2013 Westin – Las Vegas 160 East Flamingo Road Las Vegas, NV 89109 (http://www.westinvegas.com/)

Share:

#CollabNet Laszlo Szalvay @Ewok_BBQ Angela Druckman @AngelaDruckman and Adam Weisbart @Weisbart to speak at Scrum Gathering #sglas

Info:

For more information on Scrum Gathering Las Vegas, please follow this link: (http://www.scrumalliance.com/events/610-las-vegas-)

To arrange an interview with Szalvay, Druckman or Weisbart or to speak with them about their respective presentations, please contact Christie Denniston, APR at Catapult PR-IR: Office: 303-581-7760 Cell: 303-827-5164 Email: (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com) Twitter: @prhightech

COLLABNET’S LAURENCE SWEENEY TO OUTLINE ENTERPRISE GIT ADOPTION AND ITS IMPACT ON DEVOPS AT CHEFCONF 2013

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:17:51 +0000

Sweeney will share how IT organizations can maximize the benefits of Git

Who:

Laurence Sweeney Vice President, Enterprise Transformation (www.collab.net)

Sweeney helps CollabNet’s enterprise customers adopt and scale Agile practices and DevOps programs. He has more than 25 years of software development experience, including director of software at HP. At CollabNet, his broad-based technical and business experience helps global enterprises transform existing methodologies using Agile and DevOps-based principles.

What:

Why the (legacy) Enterprise is Scared of Git – and what you can do about it Fri., April 26 at 4:30 p.m. PDT ChefConf 2013 (http://chefconf.opscode.com/)

Developers love Git, corporations less so. The war over tools can be a huge distraction in moving to a DevOps environment that is collaborative and automated. During his presentation, Sweeney will outline the common reasons why Git in particular, and tooling in general, can generate so much controversy. During this presentation, attendees will gain a firm understanding of the pros and cons of Git development, the common concerns of using Git in the enterprise, and practical, useful approaches for adopting this popular open source technology within larger IT environments and in the context of DevOps.

In addition to Sweeney’s presentation, CollabNet’s Nick Gulrajani and Paul Peissner will lead a discussion on enterprise examples of hybrid IT and DevOps on Thurs., April 25 from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. PDT. CollabNet is a gold sponsor at ChefConf 2013 and will exhibit at booth #108.

Where:

ChefConf 2013 Hyatt Regency San Francisco 5 Embarcadero Center San Francisco, CA 94111 (http://sanfranciscoregency.hyatt.com/)

Share:

#CollabNet and Laurence Sweeney to speak on #Enterprise #Git and #DevOps at #ChefConf 2013

Info:

To arrange an interview with Sweeney or to speak with him about his presentation, please contact Christie Denniston, APR at Catapult PR-IR: Office: 303-581-7760 Cell: 303-827-5164 Email: (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com) Twitter: @prhightech

TASKTOP INTRODUCES TASKTOP SYNC CONNECTOR FOR CA CLARITY PPM™ AT CA WORLD

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:37:02 +0000

New connector connects business and development disciplines

CA WORLD, LAS VEGAS, NV, April 21, 2013, Tasktop Technologies, the industry leader for ALM integration, today announced Tasktop Sync Connector for CA Clarity PPM at the CA World 2013 conference. The new connector extends Tasktop integration capabilities to CA Technologies portfolio and project management product, CA Clarity™ PPM, to connect portfolio and project management disciplines to software development. The integration of CA Clarity PPM with the software delivery tool chain will help IT organizations synchronize business priorities with development activities and progress. The result is reduced project completion times by ensuring efforts are allocated to the highest priority activities, elimination of costly and error-prone manual processes, and comprehensive cross-discipline reporting that will facilitate better collaboration between the PMO and development teams. “The adoption of Lean approaches to software delivery has dramatically increased the iteration speed of software projects and introduced a new set of developer-centric task management tools,” said Mik Kersten, co-founder and CEO of Tasktop. “To ensure that software delivery is connected to strategy, it is key to integrate the tools used by the PMO to those used for software development. Tasktop Sync Connector for CA Clarity PPM provides real-time integration between these two tool chains, ensuring the software delivery process meets business goals and objectives, and becomes the basis for competitive advantage.” Tasktop Sync provides real-time, bi-directional and fully automated synchronization between ALM tools. It is already included with CA Clarity Agile and CA Clarity Requirements. With the new Tasktop Sync Connector for CA Clarity PPM, organizations have the ability to extend the overall Clarity integration capabilities to connect CA Clarity PPM with third-party tools used throughout the software lifecycle. The technology will help development organizations become better connected with business activities that were previously separated by process, tooling and culture gaps. Business stakeholders will benefit by having a more meaningful role in the development process due to improved visibility and timely status updates. Tasktop Sync Connector for CA Clarity PPM provides the following: • Progress and status reporting – closes the loop on status reporting, with CA Clarity PPM being able to report on work items that are being updated in other tools. • Visibility – provides automated cross-function visibility and traceability between CA Clarity PPM and software development work items throughout the lifecycle. • Control– ensures that development efforts are in sync with business objectives and that status changes are recognized and managed in the appropriate tool. • Productivity – removes the manual steps that connect the PMO to development by providing automated integration between disparate groups. Tasktop Sync Connector for CA Clarity PPM will be available on May 10th and demos of the technology are available at Tasktop booth #253 at CA World 2013. This first release will include support for connecting CA Clarity PPM to IBM Rational Team Concert, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Atlassian JIRA, HP Quality Center and HP ALM. Share this: #Tasktop new Sync Connector for #CA Clarity PPM at #CAworld bridges dev and business, #PPM in #Agile www.tasktop.com About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is the industry leader for ALM integration. It invented the task-focused interface and created the Eclipse Mylyn project, which transformed the IDE into a developer productivity and ALM collaboration platform. Building on Mylyn, Tasktop unifies the ALM landscape through ALM partnerships that connect leading Agile, enterprise ALM and open source tools. Commercially, Tasktop Sync provides real-time bidirectional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers, and Tasktop Dev is the developer-centric ALM interface for the Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs. Tasktop recently launched the Software Lifecycle Integration (SLI) initiative to connect the entire software delivery lifecycle, consisting of a new technical architecture and data model, repeatable design patterns and a new open source project called Eclipse Mylyn m4. For more information about Tasktop and SLI please visit: http://tasktop.com

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