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TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN AND DAVE WEST TO DISCUSS ALM INDUSTRY TRENDS AND SHARE LIFECYCLE INTEGRATION EXPERTISE AT ECLIPSECON 2013

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:34:03 +0000

Industry luminaries Kersten and West to speak on ALM’s role in the software development industry during EclipseCon 2013 panels and presentations

Who:

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

Kersten is the creator of products that have been transforming application development and lifecycle management tools, including Eclipse Mylyn, Tasktop Dev, and Tasktop Sync. He also is involved in open source community and standards efforts, and serves as a member of the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors and the Open Services for Lifecycle (OSLC) Steering Committee.

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 and former product manager for the Rational Unified Process at IBM. In addition, West serves on the program committee for EclipseCon.

What:

Lifecycle Integration – The Secret Sauce of ALM Success Presenters: Mik Kersten and Dave West Wed., Mar. 27, 2013 10:30 a.m. – 11:05 a.m. EDT, Room 3

Software must enable businesses to innovate, achieve increased customer intimacy and assist managers and executives with decision-making. Essentially, software has transitioned from a support process to a critical business process. As a result of this transition, workplace processes are becoming more efficient and developers are seeing a new level of autonomy.

Viewing ALM as a business process allows software delivery to be managed holistically. In order to take business to the next level, the disconnect between ALM and technology innovation of mobile and cloud interfaces and Agile, Mobile and PaaS process change must be mended. During this session, attendees will gain a greater understanding of how integration is changing the face of ALM and how Agile practices and the DevOps movement is facilitating this change.

Additional panels and presentations by Kersten and West include the following:

The Future of ALM – Moderator: Dave West Tues., Mar. 26, 2013 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. EDT, Room 5

Agile and ALM – What Does Agile Mean to ALM? – Moderator: Dave West Wed., Mar. 27, 2013 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. EDT, Room 5

Building Mylyn 4.0 – Presenter: Mik Kersten Thurs., Mar. 28, 2013 10:15 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. EDT, Room 3

Where:

EclipseCon 2013 and ALM Connect (co-located events) Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center 200 Seaport Boulevard Boston, MA 02210 (http://www.seaportboston.com/)

When:

Mon., Mar. 25, 2013 – Thurs., Mar. 28, 2013

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#Tasktop CEO @mik_kersten and @DavidJWest to discuss future of #ALM at #eclipsecon – Register here: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2013/

Info:

To register for this event, please follow this link: (http://www.eclipsecon.org/2013/registration)

For more information on Tasktop or to speak with Kersten or West about their presentations, 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 DISCUSS THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY THROUGH THE OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT AT SXSW

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:51:01 +0000

Kersten will explore the evolution of software delivery and how open source collaboration tools are enabling developers to easily connect and deepen their impact on the industry

Who:

Mik Kersten

CEO and founder

Tasktop Technologies

(www.tasktop.com)

Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop and lead of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project. His goal is to create the collaborative infrastructure needed to connect knowledge workers in the new world of software delivery. At Tasktop, Kersten drives the strategic direction of the company, developing key partnerships, and fostering a culture of customer-focused innovation. Prior to Tasktop, Mik launched a series of open source tools that changed the way that software developers collaborate. Kersten’s entrepreneurial contributions have been acknowledged by the 2012 Business in Vancouver 40 under 40 and as a World Technology Awards finalist in the IT Software category. His software community involvement builds on his contributions as one of the most prolific committers to Eclipse, and now includes serving on the Eclipse Foundation’s Board of Directors and web service standards bodies

What:

Social Code Graph: The Future of Open Source

The open source movement is as impactful in size and scope as the ongoing social media movement. The evolution of open source is empowering developers and equipping them with tools to drastically change and control the development of the software industry. While developers once simply dumped code into various platforms, open source collaboration tools now allow them to significantly deepen their impact in the world by connecting with one another. These connections are the basis of the “social code graph.” A new breed of tool-supported open source practice is reshaping the economic landscape and making software delivery the most transparent and connected knowledge work process. During this session, attendees will learn about this transformation, why it will impact software development in the next decade, and how one can get involved in helping to shape the digital workplace of tomorrow.

Where:

SXSW Conference 2013

Austin Convention Center

Ballroom BC

500 E. Cesar Chavez St.

Austin, TX 78701

(http://www.austinconventioncenter.com/)

When:

Monday, Mar. 11, 2013 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. CDT

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#Tasktop CEO @mik_kersten to discuss #opensource movement during #SXSW (http://schedule.sxsw.com/2013/events/event_IAP6213)

Info:

To register for this event, please follow this link: (http://sxsw.com/attend)

For more information on Tasktop Technologies, or arrange an interview with Kersten, 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 BENJAMIN MUSKALLA TO DISCUSS TRACEABILITY IN AGILE AT ECLIPSE FINANCE DAY 2012

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:14:52 +0000

Muskalla will explain how to untangle and reconnect existing ALM tools in order to pave a path for modernization

WHO: Benjamin Muskalla Tasktop Technologies Senior Software Engineer (www.tasktop.com) Muskalla is a software developer at Tasktop Technologies in Munich, Germany. He is an active committer on the Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) project and EGit, the Git integration for Eclipse. Deeply involved in the Eclipse community for more than six years, Muskalla also contributes to several other Eclipse projects including Mylyn, Platform UI and JDT. WHAT: Gaining Traceability in the World of Fragmented Agile ALM Stacks Over the past decade, many ALM stacks have shifted from vertically integrated silos to tangled and disconnected systems. Layer upon layer of legacy, fragmentary Agile deployments and new open source tools have brought traceability to a halt, forcing us into overloaded email inboxes and manual process for tracking delivery in large-scale and regulated environments. The path forward is to either standardize the entire ALM stack, or to embrace heterogeneity. Either way, the ALM architecture must be untangled and the legacy connected for the modernization to happen. In his presentation, Muskalla will examine the key lessons learned from the latest developments in open source ALM and how to apply the practices, ALM architecture patterns and strategies for embracing heterogeneity in order to help pave a path for your Agile and ALM modernization efforts. WHERE: UBS AG Badenerstrasse 574 8048 Zurich Switzerland WHEN: Tues., Oct. 16, 10:30 – 11 a.m. CEST SHARE: #Tasktop @bmuskalla to discuss gaining traceability in #Agile at #Eclipse Finance Day Visit wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Finance_Day_2012 CONTACT: For more information on Tasktop Technologies, or to arrange an interview with Muskalla please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com)

TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES TO SPONSOR AGILE2012 CONFERENCE

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:28:38 +0000

Industry’s leading conference on Agile development brings together the industry’s foremost luminaries to share best practices and techniques

Vancouver, British Columbia, Aug. 8, 2012 – Tasktop Technologies (tasktop.com), creator of Eclipse Mylyn and the leader for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration, today announced its sponsorship of Agile2012, the leading international conference focused on advancing Agile methods for software development set for Aug. 13 – 17 in Grapevine, Texas (http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/). As a Silver Sponsor, Tasktop continues its support of the growing Agile community as development, management and business stakeholders in the software development industry gather to exchange ideas, experiences and best practices. “As we prepare to kick-off Agile2012 we are pleased to have the support of Tasktop as we come together to foster the exchange of fresh ideas and best practices,” said Mitch Lacey, Agile2012 conference chair for the Agile Alliance “Through the support of our sponsors the Agile conference continues to offer the most relevant and current content, while providing the community a forum to exchange information regarding all Agile development technologies.” Agile2012 offers multiple ‘stages’ 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. Tasktop helps software organizations implement enterprise-wide Agile and ALM modernization initiatives by connecting 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 integration framework to provide a more strategic, standardized and scalable synchronization solution than typical point-to point-batch process integrations. Its tools provide visibility into ALM work flow, real-time data sharing of cross-function activities, and insight into actual performance and business value. IT organizations use Tasktop to 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. “Every year, the world's foremost Agile practitioners gather to share the latest techniques, methods and innovations, and we expect Agile2012 to again include a significant portion of the Tasktop partner ecosystem in attendance,” said Neelan Choksi, President and COO of Tasktop Technologies. “Throughout the years, the Agile Conference has been a launching point for a variety of Tasktop initiatives including Tasktop Sync, Tasktop's cross-repository Agile planning tools, and we are excited about our new initiatives that we will unveil at Agile2012. Tasktop is proud of the important role we play in driving adoption of Agile in the enterprise by connecting the industry’s foremost Agile software development tools with the world leading development, project management, and quality assurance tools.” For registration information and to attend Agile2012 please visit (http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/). Share This Story: #Tasktop the leader in #ALM integration is a Silver Sponsor at #Agile2012 http://bit.ly/RAz8UC 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 industry’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/). About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is the industry’s leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) automation and integration software. Thousands of IT organizations depend on Tasktop’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 – the complete disconnect and brittle integrations of ALM tools. Its Task Federation™ 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 2 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 today’s software-driven economy by providing the ALM Automation™ needed to gain visibility, predictability and productivity across the software development lifecycle. For more information, visit (http://tasktop.com).

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TASKTOP’S WESLEY COELHO TO SPEAK ON ECLIPSE MYLYN AT JAX CONFERENCE 2012

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:55:01 +0000

Coelho to demonstrate how Mylyn can boost Java coding output and unify distributed teams

WHO: Wesley Coelho Director of Business Development and Partner Programs Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com) Coelho is director of business development and partner programs at Tasktop Technologies, which leads the open source Eclipse Mylyn integration framework for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Through his strong background and understanding of the Mylyn technology and community, Coelho has dramatically grown the community of vendors leveraging existing technologies to provide integration solutions. WHAT: Mind-Meld Across Teams, Tools and Time Zones with Eclipse Mylyn In this presentation, Coelho will explain why the time is now to embrace developer-centric lightweight collaboration and social coding tools to increase velocity. For many Java developers, Mylyn has become the tool of choice for connecting team communication with coding. Mylyn is now a top-level Eclipse project backed by a thriving open source community of integrations connecting developers to more than 70 tools. This talk will highlight how Mylyn can double Java coding output and unify distributed teams by reorganizing the IDE around collaborative tasks. Live demos presented by Coelho will showcase how Mylyn’s task-focused interface integrates existing open source, enterprise and Agile tools and supports knowledge capture and reuse. WHERE: JAX Conference 2012 Mission Bay Convention Center at UCSF 1675 Owens Street San Francisco, CA 94142 WHEN: Tues., July 10, 2:15 p.m. Pacific SHARE: #Tasktop @wesleycoelho to share thoughts on #EclipseMylyn at #JAXConference12 More info @ tasktop.com/about/events CONTACT: For more information on Tasktop Technologies, or to arrange an interview with Wesley Coelho, please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

TASKTOP CREATES OEM VERSION OF TASKTOP DEV FOR HP

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:51:02 +0000

VANCOUVER, BC, March 22, 2012 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leader in application lifecycle management (ALM) automation tools, today announced that a new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) version of Tasktop Dev (http://tasktop.com/support/new/index-dev22) is now embedded in HP Application Lifecycle Intelligence. With today’s announcement, developers can now accelerate delivery of new innovative applications to the business by automatically provisioning their development environments. The collaboration capabilities provide application delivery teams with visibility, predictability and intelligence that ensure business continuity and customer satisfaction. . The enhanced offering enables end-to-end traceability across the application lifecycle. Developers can gain better visibility into data by breaking down information barriers with contextual reporting spanning the entire application lifecycle. The integration improves productivity with contextual information so that enables developers to view ALM artifacts in their IDE while coding tasks, requirements, defects and test results. This results in a clear understanding of the functionality needed by the code. With this integration, developers can now reduce cycle times and increase collaboration with the ability to automatically connect to their IDE of choice with new out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse as well as a wide variety of development tools including Subversion, Concurrent Versions System (CVS), Hudson, and Jenkins. This also provides developers with access to ALM artifacts right from their IDE. In addition, the new Tasktop Workspace Provisioning (tasktop.com/hp) technology enables developers to automatically provision development environments comprised of IDEs, SCM and build management systems to reduce time-consuming and administrative tasks that erode developer productivity. “With the growing complexity and heterogeneous make up of today’s ALM stacks, it is imperative that developers have a single and integrated ‘pane of glass’ that keeps them connected to other stakeholders while staying focused on the flow of coding activity,” said Mik Kersten, CEO, Tasktop Technologies. "Working together with HP, we have created a seamless developer experience that brings all information connected by HP ALM into integrated development environments (IDE), from provisioning of source code for a new release to receiving a build notification from the continuous integration (CI) server of choice." “Application development teams need to work with their choice of tools and systems without being constrained by time-consuming, administrative development tasks,” said Matthew Morgan, senior director, Product and Solution Marketing, Software, HP. “This solution enables developers to automatically provision development environments, while enhancing context-driven collaboration across application delivery teams. This allows them to focus on what really matters – accelerating delivery of new, innovative applications.” Both Tasktop Dev, a developer desktop ALM integration, and Tasktop Sync, (http://tasktop.com/support/new/index-sync20) an ALM middleware integration, are built on the industry-standard, open source Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability framework. The Tasktop Dev Enterprise Edition (http://tasktop.com/support/new/index-dev22) provides more than 80 additional integrations beyond what is available in the OEM version of Tasktop Dev for HP. With Tasktop Sync, users have real-time synchronization, automatic and configurable conflict resolution, and support for more than two dozen leading Agile and ALM change management tools. Building on and extending the developer-centric Tasktop Dev experience, Tasktop Sync’s integration with HP ALM furthers collaboration in the application lifecycle by unifying heterogeneous ALM stacks. This enables developers, testers, business analysts and managers to work within their best-of-breed tools of choice, while automatically maintaining traceability across ALM artifacts. For more information please visit the Tasktop blog at: (http://tasktop.com/blog/news/hp-oem-announced) About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is transforming the productivity of software delivery by unifying Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and empowering developers with task-focused tools. Tasktop invented the task-focused interface and created the popular Eclipse Mylyn project, which transformed the developer’s IDE experience to center around ALM tool-based collaboration. Building on top of Mylyn, Tasktop has been unifying the ALM landscape with its broad ecosystem of ALM partnerships that connect disparate tools from leading Agile, enterprise ALM and open source offerings. Tasktop’s Task Federation™ technology builds on this ecosystem to unify heterogeneous ALM stacks by allowing developers, testers and managers to work within their best-of-breed tools of choice, while automatically maintaining traceability and visibility across ALM artifacts. Its Tasktop Sync provides the only real-time bidirectional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers. Tasktop Dev is the developer-centric ALM interface for the Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs, making it dramatically easier for developers to work and collaborate, while keeping ALM tools up-to-date with development activity. For more information please visit: http://tasktop.com.

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TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES ENJOYS BREAKOUT YEAR IN 2011 AS AGILE ALM INTEGRATION HITS CRITICAL MASS

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:17:09 +0000

Enterprise IT organizations turn to Tasktop to synchronize ALM tool stacks and improve productivity, collaboration and software delivery velocity

VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 20, 2011 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tools and a leader in Agile ALM integration and productivity, experienced strong organic growth during 2011 as maturing Agile development practices mandate tighter integration of project management, quality assurance, release management and development tools to achieve success at the enterprise level. Tasktop responded to this growing need with the launch of Tasktop Sync, the most powerful and broadest reaching synchronization server that unifies ALM tool stacks and provides team members working throughout the application lifecycle the ability to collaborate across functions within their tool of choice.

“By focusing on the needs of the developer and creating the Mylyn open source frameworks, we long ago established ourselves as the leaders of ALM integration. But it was not until this year’s release of Tasktop Sync that we were able to meet the ALM integration needs of mid and large scale Agile deployments and ALM modernizations.” said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. “The interest and adoption of Tasktop Sync since that release has been tremendous, and indicative that integration has now become a leading concern of ALM deployments. For a growing number of industries like banking, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing, software is becoming a core aspect of what they do, and many organizations need the cross-vendor traceability, visibility and collaboration that Tasktop provides.”

Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tasktop now has offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, and has seen its staff grow to more than 30 employees. In 2011, it was named a Best Company to Work for in British Columbia and Best Employer by Small Business British Columbia, was a finalist for the prestigious software industry Jolt Award and received the 2011 AllianceONE Partner of the Year Award from HP. Tasktop now offers integrations with more than 80 leading open source, Agile and enterprise ALM suites recently adding or expanding integrations with Borland StarTeam, Accept360, Microsoft Visual Studio, and IBM Rational Team Concert.

Both Tasktop Sync and Tasktop Dev (for desktop productivity and integration) are built on the industry-standard, open source Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability framework. Tasktop Sync provides real-time synchronization, automatic and configurable conflict resolution, and support for more than two dozen ALM tools. It unifies heterogeneous ALM stacks by allowing developers, testers, business analysts and managers to work within their best-of-breed tools of choice, while automatically maintaining traceability across ALM artifacts. Built on the company’s Task Federation™ technology, Tasktop Sync brings task federation to ALM servers, by providing the only real-time, bi-directional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers. Tasktop Dev supports Tasktop Sync by federating tasks and other ALM artifacts on the developer’s Eclipse and Visual Studio desktops.

The company’s thought leadership also was very strong during 2011, with Kersten and other Tasktop experts presenting more than 30 times at leading industry events, including CeBIT, EclipseCon, JAX, JavaOne, IBM Innovate, Agile2011, Microsoft ALM Summit, SQE East and HP Discover. Kersten also is sought-after source for media and industry analysts, and contributes to a widely read blog at (http://tasktop.com/blog/). In 2011, Tasktop was active in the open source community with contributions and support for more than a dozen open source projects.

“Tasktop is helping a growing number of enterprise IT customers build better software faster and more efficiently,” said Neelan Choksi, Tasktop’s president and chief operating officer. “Over the past year, we made significant strides, nearly doubling our revenue and headcount. In conjunction with our ever-growing and deepening ecosystem of partners, we are advancing the productivity of software teams and IT organizations. The next year will be even more exciting and rewarding as we roll out new, innovative technology that helps bring teams together by expanding not just across the software development stack but beyond to an even broader set of constituents.”

For more information on Tasktop Sync or Dev please visit: (www.tasktop.com).

About Tasktop Technologies

Tasktop Technologies aims to transform the productivity of software delivery by unifying Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and empowering developers with task-focused tools. Tasktop invented the task-focused interface and created the popular Eclipse Mylyn project, which transformed the developer’s IDE experience to center around ALM tool-based collaboration. Building on top of Mylyn, Tasktop has been unifying the ALM landscape with its broad ecosystem of ALM partnerships that connect disparate tools from leading Agile, enterprise ALM and open source offerings. Tasktop’s Task Federation™ technology builds on this ecosystem to unify heterogeneous ALM stacks by allowing developers, testers and managers to work within their best-of-breed tools of choice, while automatically maintaining traceability and visibility across ALM artifacts. The company’s Tasktop Sync provides the only real-time bidirectional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers. Tasktop Dev is the developer-centric ALM interface for the Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs, making it dramatically easier for developers to work and collaborate, while keeping ALM tools up-to-date with development activity. For more information visit http://www.tasktop.com

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TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN PRESENTS WEBINAR ON MODERNIZING ALM ARCHITECTURE WITH TASKTOP SYNC

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:09:25 +0000

Webinar provides in-depth overview of Tasktop Sync 2.0 WHO: Mik Kersten – 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 developer productivity and tool integration and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM synchronization. WHAT: Modernize Your ALM Architecture with Tasktop Sync 2.0 In this must-see webinar, Tasktop CEO Mik Kersten will provide the first in-depth view of Tasktop Sync 2.0. The latest version of Tasktop Sync 2.0 provides a set of industry-first facilities for connecting an ALM stack. Kersten will highlight the new features of Sync 2.0 which connect all stakeholders with real-time traceability and collaboration. The webinar will conclude with a conceptual overview of Tasktop's Task Federation™ technologies and best practices for connecting and modernizing the ALM stack, from business analyst to developer. An overview of what's new in Tasktop Dev 2.2 will show attendees how to bring this new connectivity and traceability to developers. For example, Tasktop Dev 2.2 builds on HP's Application Lifecycle Intelligence feature to provide instant workspace provisioning for developers using Eclipse. No matter what mix of developer, QA, Agile and requirements management tools, Tasktop Sync and Tasktop Dev empower developers and other stakeholders to use the tools that make them most productive while ensuring that the ALM artifacts are automatically and seamlessly connected to ease collaboration, reporting and traceability. WHEN: Tue., Dec. 6 - 9 – 10 a.m. PST INFO: To register for this webinar please visit: (http://tinyurl.com/6lsj8zs). Updates from the webinar will be available by following the live Twitter feed at #TaskSync. To learn more about Tasktop Sync please visit (http://www.tasktop.com/sync). 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 MIK KERSTEN TO SHARE LESSONS LEARNED FROM LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN OPEN SOURCE ALM AT MICROSOFT ALM SUMMIT

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:34:10 +0000

Kersten to outline why ALM architectures must be untangled and legacy systems connected for modernization in ALM to occur

WHO: Mik Kersten – 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 developer productivity and tool integration and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM synchronization.

WHAT: “ALM in the Jungle”

Tue., Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. Pacific

Over the past decade, many ALM stacks have shifted from vertically integrated silos to tangled and disconnected systems reminiscent of the London tube map. Layer upon layer of legacy, piecemeal Agile deployments and open source tools have brought traceability to a halt, forcing us into overloaded email inboxes and lengthy meetings for tracking delivery. The path forward is to either standardize the entire ALM stack, or to embrace heterogeneity. Either way, the ALM architecture must be untangled and the legacy connected for the modernization to happen. For inspiration, we can look to how ALM strategies have formed bottom-up in the very heterogeneous jungle of open source projects. Open source ALM combines distributed teams, heterogeneous stacks, resource constraints, massive amounts of stakeholder input, and an overload of cross-project dependencies. Despite these challenges, the velocity of many popular open source projects is measurably higher than that of their enterprise counterparts. In this talk, we will examine the key lessons learned from the latest developments in open source ALM, and examine how to apply the practices, ALM architecture patterns and strategies for embracing heterogeneity in order to help pave a path for your Agile and ALM modernization efforts.

WHERE: Microsoft ALM Summit (http://www.alm-summit.com/home.aspx) Microsoft Campus Redmond, WA

INFO: For more information and to arrange an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or by email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

TASKTOP EXECUTIVES TO KEYNOTE AND PRESENT AT JAX 2011

Tue, 03 May 2011 01:14:06 +0000

TASKTOP EXECUTIVES TO KEYNOTE AND PRESENT AT JAX 2011

In keynote, Kersten to explore Continuous Integration and how cloud computing is creating a shift in software development and lifecycle management

WHO:  Mik Kersten
CEO of Tasktop Technologies
  Creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project
  Tasktop Technologies
  www.tasktop.com

  Steffen Pingel
  Senior Software Developer
Tasktop Technologies
  www.tasktop.com

  Benjamin Muskalla
  Software Developer
  Tasktop Technologies
  www.tasktop.com

WHAT: The following presentations will be given at JAX 2011

Keynote - Mik Kersten
Task-focused Continuous Integration: Bringing Code to Cloud and Back Again
(May 3, 2011 - 8:15 p.m. - 9 p.m.)

The deployment destination for enterprise applications is going through its biggest transition since the creation of Java. Cloud infrastructure is changing the game for both application deployment and lifecycle management. Over the past decade, open source technologies such as Spring and Tomcat have defined how we build and run enterprise Java applications. Recent developments in open source collaboration Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools are now transforming how we evolve and manage those applications.

Kersten will explore connecting enterprise Java stack with cloud deployment via a task-focused continuous integration loop. The SCM, code review, and Agile ALM technologies, based on the Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability platform, will be used to demonstrate how to achieve this new level of connectivity and automation between the team and the application. The talk will conclude with a roadmap of how we can apply these new lessons to define the next decade of enterprise Java productivity.

Q & A: State of Continuous Integration - Mik Kersten
(May 4, 2011 - 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)

The latest changes in the Hudson/Jenkins case cause quite a stir. But how important are these changes for Continuous Integration? What is the technical roadmap? Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Steffen Schluff, Mik Kersten and Björn Feustel will give some advice and answer your questions.

Git, Gerrit, Hudson and one Mylyn to Rule Them All - Steffen Pingel and Benjamin Muskalla
(May 5, 2011 - 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.)

Git, Gerrit and Hudson are being increasingly adopted. While these tools enable exciting improvements for developers, learning how to push, pull and fetch can be daunting. For tasks, Mylyn already streamlines workflow by providing first-class integration with the IDE. The recent project restructuring now enables the same integrated workflows for code reviews, builds and version control systems.

Mylyn 3.6: Agile, ALM and Task-Focused Continuous Integration - Mik Kersten
(May 5, 2011 - 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.)

A decade ago, heavyweight ALM tools did more to impede developers than to support collaboration. With the move to Agile methodologies, the time has come to embrace lightweight collaboration and social coding tools to increase our velocity. For many Java developers, Mylyn has become the tool of choice for connecting team communication with coding. In 2010, Mylyn became a top-level Eclipse project and grew to support the entire Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) stack. This talk will outline how Mylyn can double Java coding output by bringing the entire workday into the place where developers are most productive - the IDE. Demos will showcase how Mylyn's task-focused interface integrates all leading task and Agile tools, SCM tools such as SVN and Git, and build/CI tools including Hudson. We will then review productivity best practices learned from deploying Mylyn at scale both in open source projects and large organizations. The talk will conclude with a vision of how realigning collaboration around a unified notion of tasks can yield a measurable productivity and knowledge capture benefit across the entire organization.

WHERE: JAX 2011 - The Conference for Java, Enterprise Architecture & SOA
Rheingold Halle Mainz
Rhein Strasse 66
55116 Mainz
Germany

CONTACT: For more information or to set up an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at Catapult PR-IR 303-581-7760, ext. 13 or (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com)