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February 24, 2011

TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES BENJAMIN MUSKALLA TO PRESENT AND DEMO LATEST ADVANCEMENTS OF ECLIPSE MYLYN AT CEBIT 2011

TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES BENJAMIN MUSKALLA TO PRESENT AND DEMO LATEST ADVANCEMENTS OF ECLIPSE MYLYN AT CEBIT 2011

Presentation looks at the rebirth of Mylyn for Agile ALM, demos shows latest advancements with Eclipse Mylyn and Tasktop Enterprise

WHO: Benjamin Muskalla
         Senior Software Developer
         Tasktop Technologies
         (http://tasktop.com)

WHAT: The Rebirth of Mylyn: Eclipse, Agile and ALM
Mylyn was recently promoted to Eclipse top level project status, cementing the role of Agile and ALM as a one of the core pillars of Eclipse. During this talk, users of the Eclipse IDE will learn about new tools that will simplify tasks performed during the workday. Managers of software development activities will learn about the latest breed of Agile and ALM integrations and interoperability tools that are built on the new Mylyn APIs. Anyone building on or deploying Eclipse will learn about the new tasks, contexts, version, builds, reviews and docs frameworks that define the new Mylyn project and its integration opportunities. In addition to conceptual overviews, this talk will feature numerous demos of new features coming in Mylyn, including new support for activities such as Agile task management and code reviews, as well as new integrations with popular open source tools, such as Git and Hudson. The talk will conclude with a roadmap for the future of the IDE and developer-facing ALM tools.
In addition, Muskalla will demonstrate the latest versions of Eclipse Mylyn and Tasktop Enterprise, Tasktop’s task management and Agile ALM integration suite, throughout the CeBIT 2011 conference in the Eclipse Island.. Hall 2, Stand D44.

WHERE:  CeBIT 2011 conference
              (http://www.cebit.de/home)
              Hanover, Germany
              Hall 2, Stand F40

WHEN:  Sat., March 5, 2011
            10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. (CET) 

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

Prediction #4: The single vendor ALM stack becomes extinct in organizations with more than two developers

Prediction #4: The single vendor ALM stack becomes extinct in organizations with more than two developers

by Mik Kersten, February 14th, 2011

Development managers at large organizations with monolithic application lifecycle management (ALM) stacks once had it good. ALM components were well integrated, played nicely with one another, and when they didn’t, there was someone to call. But lightweight issue trackers started to move into the organization, popularized by the need for developer-centric collaboration facilities. At a cheap or free price point, these were often deployed without the corporate IT department’s knowledge or approval. Then the Agile project tracking tools moved in, and with the excitement around Agile, team and product leads pushed them through without consideration of standardizing across the organization. In the meantime, quality management tools like HP Quality Center remained so entrenched in their domain and so valued by management that they did not budge when the newer tools moved in. As a result, the large organization’s tool stack resembles an ALM history museum, ranging from the old in-house defect tracker that’s still running, to the freshly-installed Kanban tools intended to address disillusionment with Scrum.

No two ALM stacks look alike. The success of open-source ALM components has driven diversity into even the smallest software shops, and the new norm for the ALM tool stack is heterogeneity. While this brings the benefits of choosing your best-of-breed solution, it also means dealing with new complexity in terms of navigating the landscape of tools and options when considering how to modernize your ALM stack to support Agile. This post is a brief guide to helping you navigate that complexity by focusing on the options you have for modernizing the most core part of your ALM stack: the issue, project and change management layers. Tool support on this front boils down to capturing different stages and granularity levels of software development tasks, much as Salesforce has succeeded at capturing and tracking tasks across the various stages and stakeholders in the sales process. At the base level, we have tasks related to the code itself, consisting of defects, feature requests and tests. This is the realm of the issue trackers. At the next level, tools abstract over development-specific items to capture tasks relevant to management and planning, such as user stories and requirements. The new breed of Agile tools is popular here. Then, there are the enterprise ALM tools that can capture and track across products, releases and portfolios of projects.

In 2010, some ALM surveys included over 100 different issue trackers and change management tools to choose from. This enormous diversity has driven innovation, as vendors strive to differentiate their offerings in order to win over customers and to add value over the steadily rising bar of commoditization coming from open source. Last year we saw the price points of basic issue tracker support for small teams drop to dumping levels in an effort by vendors to displace their competition. In terms of feature sets, issue trackers are starting to look very much alike and, as with cars, their most visible differences are colour combinations and dashboard designs. In 2011, the issue tracker will be well on its way to becoming a commodity. The key thing to look for is that your issue tracker supports developer collaboration along with good ease-of-use for comments and updates, and that it is integrated with the workflow of the developer. The issue tracker also needs to be integrated with your planning loop. If you are a small team or organization, that may be as simple as managing a field with your release or iteration or setting up a wiki-based Kanban board with hyperlinks to the issues. But once you start scaling beyond a small team, tool-based planning features are required to scale your planning process across teams and geographical locations.

The next layer in the ALM stack is the project planning and tracking tool. With Agile starting its move into the enterprise, competition between vendors in this area is becoming fierce. Numerous ISVs are clamouring to lead the trends, implementing the latest Agile and Lean fashions as quickly as the books and blogs defining them are published. A few vendors, including Rally, VersionOne and ThoughtWorks Studios, have differentiated themselves by combining Agile tools with thought leadership and training. This helps organizations adopt the cultural aspects of Agile while bringing the vendor’s tool-based support for Agile practices along for the ride. These vendors have been key to many of the Agile rollouts to date, and have driven much of the management level adoption of Agile and Lean methodologies. New players have appeared in this space, introduce a wide range of expertise, and provide a spectrum of tools from simple layering of functionality on top of the issue tracker to full-blown enterprise ALM solutions. Picking the best solution here often depends on the size of your development organizations, how opinionated you want your Agile tool to be in terms of enforcing a particular Agile workflow, and selecting a tool that integrates with the rest of your diverse ALM stack. The latter often proves to be the greatest challenge.

If your development process needs to plug into a project, product and portfolio management loop, and also requires a connection to quality and requirements management, you need to reach one more level up the stack into the realm of enterprise ALM. Just as lighter-weight tools offer increasing benefit the closer you get to the developer’s desktop, the visibility, predictability and planning needs of a large organization with thousands of developers are addressed by these more heavyweight enterprise ALM tools. When you have a team of five developers, requirements management can often be handled by a shared understanding of the customer and the problem space. When you have a team of five thousand developers, many of whom are remote or outsourced, it’s almost impossible to be effective at managing delivery without this level of tool support. For large organizations the crux of the problem tends to be that the open source, lightweight issue trackers and Agile tools they have deployed do not provide this level of ALM support. This is the reason why enterprise ALM tools such as IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC), Microsoft Team Foundation Server, and more recently HP ALM, are providing support for the entire change management cycle. The trouble with getting the full benefits of those tools is, once again, the heterogeneity in your stack.

At each of these levels of the ALM stack, the key is ensuring that in the presence of heterogeneity, the code being produced and deployed from the development level is connected to the goals and product strategy determined at the planning and management levels. Failing to automate the connectivity between these layers means that the organization falls back to less reliable communication formats such as excessively long email threads, more tedious meetings, and the wearing new channels into the office carpets as you walk back and forth between cubicles.

What’s needed to bring sanity to ALM stacks is a “task federation” layer. At small organizations, the top-most system of record for the planning loop becomes the issue tracker. At medium-sized organizations it’s the Agile project tracking tool. Issue tracking facilities in Agile planning tools will increasingly displace the standalone tracker, or in the cases where the issue tracker is sticky or provides additional value, a task federation layer will provide linking between the tracker of choice and the Agile planning tool. At large organizations, task federation will become a critical part of the planning loop. For example, if you are deploying IBM RTC as your ALM tool you probably have HP Quality Center deployed already and do not want to lose its benefits for quality management. Task federation provides you with the bi-directional synchronization of tasks between the two systems, while ensuring that a tool like RTC has all the information needed for planning and that the quality management tool is the system of record for tests and defects. Or you could deploy HP ALM’s Agile features in combination with open source issue tracking and change management. What’s important is that task federation provides you with the options needed to modernize and streamline your best-of-breed stack, while ensuring that development is connected to your ALM solution of choice. While no two ALM stacks are alike, in 2011 we will start seeing the developer and manager stakeholders insulated from the intricate details of ALM stack implementation, with ISVs taking on the burden of integration.

To learn more about Tasktop or to view more blog entries, please visit: (http://tasktop.com/blog/).

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February 15, 2011

TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES’ MIK KERSTEN TO OUTLINE LATEST FEATURES OF MYLYN 3.5 FOR AGILE ALM DURING WEBINAR

TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES’ MIK KERSTEN TO OUTLINE LATEST FEATURES OF MYLYN 3.5 FOR AGILE ALM DURING WEBINAR

Newest version of Mylyn makes it easier for developers to work with Agile, enterprise scale and open source ALM systems

WHO:  Dr. Mik Kersten
          Founder of Eclipse Mylyn
          CEO, Tasktop Technologies 
          (www.tasktop.com)

 
WHAT: ”What’s New in Eclipse Mylyn 3.5: Agile, ALM and Developer Tools”

Mylyn has morphed from a hot new developer tool to an entrenched top-level Eclipse project that provides the developer integration and ALM vendor federation that’s critical for organizations deploying Agile. In this webinar, Kersten will review how the new task management, code review, SCM and continuous integration sub-projects of Mylyn are making it dramatically easier for developers to work with Agile, enterprise scale, and open source ALM systems. Mik will present strategies for deploying Mylyn at your organization to get the most out of the collaboration and traceability tools that it provides. The presentation will conclude with an overview of the growing number ALM integrations for available for Mylyn, and demonstrate the latest productivity features made available as part of Mylyn 3.5 and its ecosystem.

REGISTER: (http://tasktop.com/about/webinars/index.php#feb242011)

WHEN:  Thurs., Feb. 24, 2011
            9 a.m. /12 noon Eastern 

CONTACT: For more information or to set up an interview with Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project, please contact Christie Denniston at Catapult PR-IR 303-581-7760, ext. 13 or (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

January 21, 2011

TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES ROLLS OUT WEBINAR SERIES FOR IMPROVED AGILE PRODUCTIVITY AND COLLABORATION

TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES ROLLS OUT WEBINAR SERIES FOR IMPROVED AGILE PRODUCTIVITY AND COLLABORATION

Initial technical “how to” sessions focus on integration benefits to produce high performance development teams

VANCOUVER, Jan. 20, 2011 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of the Eclipse Mylyn project and a leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, today announced the Tasktop Webinar Series. The series will include one to two webinars every month on technical topics that will help software engineering teams improve productivity, increase visibility and transparency, and facilitate collaboration in a development world characterized by remote or outsourced teams and increasing complexity.

For complete information and to register for any of the scheduled Tasktop Webinars please visit: (http://tasktop.com/about/webinars/).

“Our webinars include topics that have been requested directly from our community, and as a result this will provide the in-depth technical content developers and engineers can use to become more productive and collaborative,” said Neelan Choksi, president and COO of Tasktop. “Because of the ubiquitous ability of Mylyn to serve as an integration hub for the leading ALM systems, we want to share some of the technical 'know-how’ that we deliver to customers and help IT organizations gain the utmost value from the array of tools they use to build and release software.”

Integrating HP Quality Center and IBM Rational Team Concert using Tasktop and Mylyn
Thurs., Jan. 20, 8 a.m. – 9 a.m. PST (UTC-8) 
Robert Elves, Tasktop Enterprise integrations architect and Eclipse Mylyn committer will present on how organizations deploying IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) alongside HP Quality Center (QC) have been lacking a robust mechanism for federating and synchronizing defects and work items between IBM Rational products and HP ALM and Quality Center. Developers often have to enter information regarding their activities into multiple systems, and managers lack the visibility and traceability that is needed to be effective. In this webinar, Elves will show attendees how Tasktop Enterprise can be used to provide IDE integration and synchronization between RTC and QC to improve development team productivity and collaboration between developers and QA professional, and to gain visibility into RTC and QC and HP ALM.

What’s New in Eclipse Mylyn 3.5: Agile, ALM and Developer Tools
Thurs., Feb. 24, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. PST (UTC-8)
Dr.  Mik Kersten, Tasktop CEO and founder of Eclipse Mylyn, will outline how Mylyn has morphed from a hot new developer tool to an entrenched top-level Eclipse project that provides the developer integration and ALM vendor federation that’s critical for organizations deploying Agile.  In this webinar, Dr. Kersten will review how the new task management, code review, SCM and continuous integration sub-projects of Mylyn are making it dramatically easier for developers to work with Agile, enterprise scale and open source ALM systems.  He will present strategies for deploying Mylyn within organizations to get the most out of the collaboration and traceability tools that it provides. The presentation will conclude with an overview of the growing number of Mylyn ALM integrations, and demonstrate the latest productivity features made available as part of Mylyn 3.5 and its ecosystem.

Introducing Tasktop for Visual Studio
Thurs., March 10, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. PST (UTC-8)
Dr. David Shepherd, senior developer at Tasktop Technologies and author of a task-focused best practices blog series, will unveil how the new Tasktop for Visual Studio tool allows Microsoft .NET and Visual Studio developers to bring HP and open-source ALM solutions into the Visual Studio UI to seamlessly integrate work items alongside coding activities. For developers this results in spending more time inside Microsoft Visual Studio where they are most productive. For managers, this means a much more up-to-date Agile or ALM repository. Dr. Shepherd will demonstrate how Tasktop’s tooling easily scales to thousands of tasks, keeping managers abreast of their team’s progress.

About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies is the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework and its revolutionary task-focused interface technology. The task-focused interface is proven to make developers more productive by showing only the relevant information for each task, dramatically reducing search time and facilitating multitasking. Tasktop Enterprise is the company’s commercial product based on Mylyn, with task-focused support for web browsing, time tracking, documents, email, calendars and commercial ALM components. Tasktop also provides consulting, connector development services and training to the growing number of companies adopting the task-focused paradigm and tools. For more information please visit (www.tasktop.com).

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Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com
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M: 303-827-5164

November 15, 2010

TASKTOP TO DELIVER ECLIPSE MYLYN FOR HP QUALITY CENTER

TASKTOP TO DELIVER ECLIPSE MYLYN FOR HP QUALITY CENTER

New connector provides full Eclipse Mylyn IDE integration for developers and testers using the Eclipse IDE

Munich (W-JAX 2010), Nov. 15, 2010 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leader in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, today announced a collaboration with HP to develop the Tasktop HP Quality Center Mylyn Connector. The new connector will integrate Mylyn’s task-focused interface technology with HP Quality Center, resulting in improved developer productivity from requirements through defects by providing integrations with leading commercial and open source ALM platforms and Eclipse IDE.

 ”HP Quality Center is one of the most widely used quality management solutions by our customers,” said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. “Connecting the IDE environment directly with HP Quality Center will make it dramatically easier for developers to collaborate and connect their development process with HP’s leading quality management tools.”

The HP Quality Center Connector will fully support Tasktop’s award-winning productivity technology called the task-focused interface, which automatically tracks and presents the “context” of source code, documents and web pages that are most relevant for a given defect, story or task. This will improve developer productivity by making it effortless to multitask and recover from interruptions with a single click. The end result is that developers will no longer have to waste time repeatedly searching and scrolling for the information they need to write code, since the IDE shows only the relevant information.

Thanks to the Tasktop Certified integration program, the new connector will also extend HP Quality Center integration with more than 50 leading development solutions, including commercial platforms from Accept, Atlassian, CollabNet, IBM, Polarion, Rally Software, ThoughtWorks Studios and VersionOne, and open source tools such as Bugzilla, Hudson and Subversion. Tasktop Certification ensures compliance with guidelines for completeness, UI design and interoperability and enables discovery and installation of the integration from within the Eclipse IDE itself via the Mylyn Connector Discovery.

“As Agile practices become mainstream, it is vital that quality management and developer tools integrate to address application risks early in the life cycle,” said Jonathan Rende, vice president and general manager, Business Technology Optimization Applications, Software and Solutions, HP. “With integrations between HP Quality Center and Eclipse Mylyn, software developers and QA teams will be able to effectively speed the time for development and increase the quality of their applications.”

Availability
The Tasktop Certified HP Quality Center Mylyn Connector is bundled with the fully supported Tasktop Enterprise product, which provides advanced productivity features and integrations with commercial ALM solutions. Tasktop Enterprise with the HP Quality Center Connector will be available November 30, 2010, along with a free version of the basic Eclipse IDE integration version and integration support for open source tools including SVN and Hudson.  Tasktop will be demonstrating the Connector at its booth at HP Software Universe 2010 in Barcelona. (http://h41112.www4.hp.com/events/software-universe-2010).

About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies is the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework and its revolutionary task-focused interface technology. The task-focused interface is proven to make developers more productive by showing only the relevant information for each task, dramatically reducing search time and facilitating multitasking. Tasktop Pro is the company’s enterprise-ready product based on Mylyn, with task-focused support for web browsing, time tracking, documents, email and calendars. Tasktop Technologies also provides consulting, connector development services and training to the growing number of companies adopting the task-focused paradigm and tools. For more information please visit www.tasktop.com.

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Catapult PR-IR
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O: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
M: 303-827-5164

November 11, 2010

TASKTOP EXTENDS REACH OF ITS OPEN SOURCE, ENTERPRISE, AND AGILE ALM OFFERINGS IN GERMANY

TASKTOP EXTENDS REACH OF ITS OPEN SOURCE, ENTERPRISE, AND AGILE ALM OFFERINGS IN GERMANY

Active and innovative development community around Eclipse Mylyn and Agile methods leads Tasktop to expand German team and sponsorship of W-JAX 2010 community events

VANCOUVER AND MUNICH, Nov. 11, 2010 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, today announced several initiatives aimed at supporting the growing Agile software development community in Germany and the entire European region. The company now has three representatives based in Germany, including two Eclipse open source committers and a sales and business development specialist. Tasktop also is increasing its commitment to the region with a Gold Sponsorship of the W-JAX 2010 conference and having company founder and CEO Mik Kersten present a keynote session on bringing open source collaboration and ALM tools to the enterprise.
 
“The European market, and Germany in particular, has long been an innovator in open source adoption and at the forefront of Eclipse innovation,” said Tasktop’s Kersten. “Tasktop’s offerings fill the gap between the developer and ALM system that’s needed to get the ROI promised by Agile deployments.  To better serve our European customers’ needs for integrating their Agile and ALM deployments, we are very pleased to announce our new presence in the region and support of leading events such as W-JAX 2010 and the upcoming JAX 2011.”

At the W-JAX 2010 conference slated November 15-19, Tasktop will provide event support through a Gold Sponsorship. Kersten will present a Keynote session scheduled for Wed., Nov. 17, titled: Bringing Open Source Collaboration to the Enterprise. This presentation will look at how during the past decade heavyweight ALM tools tended to get in developers’ way by emphasizing process over collaboration. The adoption of Agile and Lean development methodologies was a reaction to this trend, emphasizing people over process, but often leaving the tools necessary to scale collaboration behind. Kersten argues we are now on the cusp of a new phase in the evolution of ALM, being driven by a new breed of tools that successful open source communities have created to support their own collaboration. This keynote will outline how the recent developments in open source collaboration sets the stage to build and improve on Agile principals and how this trend is transforming other areas of knowledge work connected to software development, and beyond. To see the full abstract please visit: (http://jax.de/wjax2010/keynotes/).

Additionally, Kersten will be giving a session scheduled for Thursday, November 18, titled The rebirth of Mylyn: Eclipse, Agile and ALM.  This session will focus on the new tools now available and coming soon to developers, architects and development managers who are looking to maximize productivity and accountability in a world where development efforts are growing increasingly complex.

For more information about Tasktop, its products and services within Germany and the region please contact Sigrid Haberkorn at sigrid.haberkorn@tasktop.com or stop by the Tasktop booth at W-JAX.

About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies is the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework and its revolutionary task-focused interface technology. The task-focused interface is proven to make developers more productive by showing only the relevant information for each task, dramatically reducing search time and facilitating multitasking. Tasktop Enterprise is the company’s enterprise-ready product based on Mylyn, with task-focused support for web browsing, time tracking, documents, email and calendars. Tasktop Technologies also provides consulting, connector development services and training to the growing number of companies adopting the task-focused paradigm and tools. For more information please visit www.tasktop.com.

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Catapult PR-IR
cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com
O: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
M: 303-827-5164

September 24, 2010

TASKTOP EXECUTIVE TO OUTLINE LATEST VERSION OF MYLYN FOR SCRUM DEVELOPMENT AT JAX LONDON 2010 CONFERENCE

TASKTOP EXECUTIVE TO OUTLINE LATEST VERSION OF MYLYN FOR SCRUM DEVELOPMENT AT JAX LONDON 2010 CONFERENCE

Green to share how latest Mylyn integrations can increase Agile team productivity

WHO:  David Green
VP of Engineering 
Tasktop Technologies  
(www.tasktop.com)

WHAT: The following presentation will be given at JAX London 2010

Mylyn 3.4: from Stack Trace to Scrum
The rapid adoption of Mylyn has made the next big evolution of the IDE clear. Stories and tasks are more central than source code, focus is more important than features, and integration with the Agile workflow is the biggest productivity boost since code completion. In this presentation, Green will review how new features in the latest Mylyn release and new integrations can make the entire Agile team more productive.

WHERE: JAX 2010 – London Autumn Edition
The Conference for Java, Enterprise Architecture & SOA
Novotel London West
1 Shortlands
London, W6, UK

WHEN:  Tue., September 28, 2010
Room Location: Bouzy 
16:50 – 17:40 BST

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

September 14, 2010

TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES AND ACCEPT360 TO PROVIDE SNEAK PEEK OF MYLYN CONNECTOR DURING UPCOMING WEBINAR

TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES AND ACCEPT360 TO PROVIDE SNEAK PEEK OF MYLYN CONNECTOR DURING UPCOMING WEBINAR

Tasktop to demonstrate how direct access to Accept360 Agile from Eclipse IDE boosts developer productivity and product management visibility

WHO:  Wesley Coelho
Product Marketing Manager 
Tasktop Technologies  
(www.tasktop.com) 

John Haniotis
Senior Vice President Products
Accept Corporation
(www.accept360.com)

WHAT: ”Sneak Peek of Tasktop Accept360 Mylyn Connector”
In partnership, Tasktop and Accept provide the first seamless integration between day-to-day development activity and product portfolio and innovation management. In this webinar Tasktop and Accept Corporation will explain how linking Accept360 to the developer’s Eclipse-based desktop will provide an unprecedented level of visibility into an organization’s project management, enabling more accurate tracking and planning for products, requirements, ideas and Agile delivery.

The Accept360 Mylyn Connector supports Tasktop’s award-winning productivity technology called the task-focused interface, which automatically tracks and presents the 'context’ of source code, documents and web pages that are most relevant for a given task. During the webinar participants will learn how the Accept360 Mylyn Connector reduces information overload for large-scale projects while enabling one click multitasking and interruption recovery. Finally, during the webinar attendees will discover how they can leverage the Accept360 Mylyn Connector to deliver a new level of visibility – from the developer’s desktop up to R&D decision-makers – and provide a single, integrated solution that spans the entire product innovation management process, better aligning customers, business strategy, products and development efforts.
  
REGISTER: (http://www.accept360.com/news_events/webinars.html)

WHEN:  Sneak Peek of Tasktop Accept360 Mylyn Connector
Wed., September 15, 2010
10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern 

CONTACT: For more information or to set up an interview with Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project or Wesley Coelho product marketing manager for Tasktop, please contact Christie Denniston at Catapult PR-IR 303-581-7760, ext. 13 or (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

August 9, 2010

TASKTOP NAMES NEELAN CHOKSI PRESIDENT AND COO

TASKTOP NAMES NEELAN CHOKSI PRESIDENT AND COO

Choksi appointment latest addition to Tasktop executive team
as it continues rapid growth

ORLANDO (AGILE 2010), Aug. 9, 2010 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, today announced Neelan Choksi as its president and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Choksi, a long-time board member of Tasktop, brings extensive experience from his track record of successful leadership roles at technology companies such as SolarMetric (acquired by BEA), SpringSource (acquired by VMware) and Lexcycle (acquired by Amazon). Choksi will be responsible for managing and further accelerating Tasktop’s rapid growth and will also head the US operations of the Vancouver-based company.  

“Neelan has that very rare ability to repeatedly turn pain points with the status quo into thriving start-ups, communities and product offerings,” explain Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project.  “Neelan helped create one of the largest open source acquisitions as COO of SpringSource, followed by his success with Stanza, the first massively popular ebook reader, in his role as CEO of Lexcycle. This unique breadth of expertise provides Tasktop the experience needed to continue scaling our enterprise-focused Agile and ALM offerings, while paving the road to transforming the productivity of all knowledge workers with the task-focused desktop.”

Choksi brings extensive technology management experience to Tasktop. Most recently he served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Lexcycle, the company that developed Stanza, which became the most popular ebook reader for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Lexcycle was acquired by Amazon in 2009. Prior to Lexcycle, Neelan served as the COO for SpringSource, the venture-backed open source infrastructure software company behind the Spring Framework, acquired for $420M by VMware in 2009. Before joining SpringSource, Choksi served as co-founder and president of SolarMetric, a leading object relational mapping provider, which was acquired by BEA Systems in 2005. At BEA, Neelan was instrumental in open sourcing the acclaimed object/relational mapping tool Kodo as OpenJPA. Prior to SolarMetric, he held positions at Accenture and Exxon. Choksi is a graduate of MIT (and was part of the often-publicized MIT Blackjack team) and holds a graduate degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

“Tasktop has a massive community and has reached the tipping point of commercial adoption,” said Choksi. “I’m thrilled to join the company during this rapid growth phase and help more organizations realize the transformational productivity benefits of the task-focused collaboration paradigm.”

For more information on Tasktop and Tasktop Pro, its commercial product, please visit (www.tasktop.com). 

About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies is the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework and its revolutionary task-focused interface technology. The task-focused interface is proven to make developers more productive by showing only the relevant information for each task, dramatically reducing search time and facilitating multitasking. Tasktop Pro is the company’s enterprise-ready product based on Mylyn, with task-focused support for web browsing, time tracking, documents, email and calendars. Tasktop Technologies also provides consulting, connector development services and training to the growing number of companies adopting the task-focused paradigm and tools. For more information please visit www.tasktop.com.

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Catapult PR-IR
cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com
O: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
M: 303-827-5164

TASKTOP INTRODUCES AGILE PLANNER FOR ECLIPSE AT AGILE 2010

TASKTOP INTRODUCES AGILE PLANNER FOR ECLIPSE AT AGILE 2010

New product enables Agile planning from the IDE and integrates multi-vendor Agile ALM solutions

ORLANDO (Agile 2010), Aug. 9, 2010 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, today announced the Tasktop Agile Planner, a new product that leverages Mylyn connectors to provide Agile teams the ability to manage existing defect and project management systems with planning support that spans across multiple vendors’ solutions.  The planner provides a rich and Eclipse-based user interface for accessing Tasktop Certified Agile project management integrations, including ThoughtWorks Studios’ Mingle, IBM Rational Team Concert, Rally, CollabNet’s ScrumWorks, Atlassian’s JIRA and VersionOne. 

The Tasktop Agile Planner provides a unique Eclipse-based native user interface for Windows, Mac and Linux that enhances the web-based interfaces of those solutions and additionally provides offline access to plans. Only the Tasktop Agile Planner offers cross-repository planning facilities that enable user stories to be associated with defects stored in external systems, such as HP Quality Center and Bugzilla. The Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) integration supports automatic linking between plan items and source code artifacts, and enables developers and team leads to create and monitor Agile development plans directly from Eclipse, making it effortless to maintain project status awareness and keep plans up-to-date.

“The problem of plans becoming disconnected from development activity is rampant in enterprise adoptions of Agile,” said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. “The Tasktop Agile Planner addresses this by ensuring that all ALM systems involved with planning are linked and accessible directly from the Eclipse IDE, where developers and team leads spend the majority of their workday.  When combined with the Tasktop developer tools this additional level of integration enhances the best-of-breed Agile project management solutions that we integrate with by ensuring that plans are a real-time representation of development activity.”

Tasktop Agile Planner provides project managers, developers, and quality assurance team members with a lightweight yet complete planning platform for managing the entire Agile planning process. Core features of Tasktop Agile Planner include:

• Task Planner: allows for plan creation of releases and iterations, supports plans that span multiple systems, for instance, a plan can include a story in Rally that is linked to defects in a JIRA repository (which also are displayed on the plan).
• Task Board: provides a visual display of tasks not started, in progress and complete, right in the developer’s IDE.
• Burn Down Charts: provides a graphical representation of outstanding work over time.
• Time Tracking: automates the tracking of time spent on stories and the ability to view of actual time tracking information recorded in the IDE on the plan

 Availability
The Tasktop Agile Planner is available now in a beta version through Tasktop’s early access program, with general availability set for mid-September. Learn more at http://tasktop.com/agile or contact Tasktop to join the early access program at http://tasktop.com/about/contactus/. Tasktop also will be demonstrating the product at its booth at Agile 2010 (www.agile2010.org). When released, the Tasktop Agile Planner will support in-IDE planning for Tasktop Certified ALM solutions, such as IBM Rational Team Concert, Atlassian JIRA, CollabNet’s ScrumWorks, Rally, ThoughtWorks Studios’ Mingle and VersionOne.

About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies is the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework and its revolutionary task-focused interface technology. The task-focused interface is proven to make developers more productive by showing only the relevant information for each task, dramatically reducing search time and facilitating multitasking. Tasktop Pro is the company’s enterprise-ready product based on Mylyn, with task-focused support for web browsing, time tracking, documents, email and calendars. Tasktop Technologies also provides consulting, connector development services and training to the growing number of companies adopting the task-focused paradigm and tools. For more information please visit www.tasktop.com.

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