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COLLABNET SEES ENTERPRISE CLOUD DEVELOPMENT AS THE NEXT WAVE IN AGILE ALM, DEVOPS INITIATIVES IN 2012

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:48:42 +0000

As Agile and DevOps movements mature so too does cloud development

BRISBANE, Calif., Dec. 19, 2011, CollabNetÂ® (www.collab.net), the global leader for cloud development and Agile ALM products and services, expects the adoption of cloud development practices to increase in 2012 as a growing number of IT organizations build and deploy software directly in the cloud. During 2011, CollabNet saw a 40 percent increase in cloud development projects developed, deployed and hosted on its private and public cloud offerings, with more than 1,500 new customers adopting its Codesionâ�¢ cloud development platform over the past 12 months.

â��The software development industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and we see the convergence of Agile ALM, Continuous Delivery and hybrid cloud strategies making enterprise-wide cloud development practices increasingly attractive to IT organizations,â�� said Bill Portelli, CEO and co-founder of CollabNet. â��In this context, â��enterpriseâ�� applies to the compliance, traceability and security standards that software-driven organizations require from the cloud to increase productivity, global collaboration and the pace of releasing quality software .â��

From an industry perspective, CollabNet cites the following factors that are leading to enterprise cloud development as the next wave in software development: 1) maturing cloud development platforms that provide enterprise-grade security and regulatory compliance, 2) the ability to integrate commercial and open source ALM tools in the cloud, 3) the increase in Continuous Delivery in the cloud, and 4) the mainstream adoption of hybrid computing strategies that blend public and private cloud platforms based on application type and usage requirements.

CollabNet is well-suited to gauge the increased adoption of cloud development practices. The company maintains six world-class data centers that provide up to 99.99 percent average availability and stringent security controls for more than 1.5 petabytes of annual data traffic and 3.5 billion Subversion transactions per year. It maintains a highly trained operations team for managing large enterprise ALM sites, managing more than 10 terabytes of data annually and 1.6 million Subversion transactions per day for more than 25,000 users. It hosts approximately 800,000 documents and 350,000 artifacts for more than 5,000 projects using 7,000 trackers.

â��We see enterprise cloud development as a growing movement in the software development industry and the result of two megatrends in IT â�� cloud computing and Agile ALM,â�� said Guy Marion, vice president of cloud services for CollabNet. â��Just as Agile processes are scaling across IT organizations, cloud development is moving from smaller projects to more strategic implementations that larger IT organizations are using to adopt and scale software development and deployment directly in the cloud.â��

CollabNet enables hybrid cloud development strategies with a portfolio of products and services that provide the performance, security and traceability todayâ��s maturing Agile-based environments require. CollabNetâ��s cloud platforms meet enterprise needs and empowers thousands of developers to streamline the development and deployment process using a growing ecosystem of hosted open source and commercial tools, including Apache SubversionÂ®, Git, Trac, Bugzilla, CollabNetâ��s Agile ALM platform TeamForgeÂ®, and other leading Agile project management tools.

About CollabNet

CollabNet is the recognized leader in enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM, with more than 7,000 global customers that range from single workgroups to large enterprises. Its deep open source roots include the creation of Subversion (now formally known as Apache Subversion), the industry leading version control system with millions of users. CollabNet helps enterprise customers build and deploy better software through its focus on collaboration, enterprise Agile methods and cloud development and computing. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. Its solutions include TeamForge, the industry-leading Agile ALM platform for distributed development, ScrumWorksÂ® Pro for Agile project management, Subversion Edge for managed source code management, Codesion for cloud-based development and deployment, and a range of Agile-based training, consulting and transformation services. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net).

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AGILE ALLIANCE ANNOUNCES DATES AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR AGILE2012

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:38:19 +0000

Industryâ��s leading conference on Agile development seeks community ideas and thought leaders for presentations at event

PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 7, 2011 â�� Agile Alliance, (http://agilealliance.org/), a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the advancement of Agile software development principles and practices, today announced the â��call for speakersâ�� for Agile2012 is now open. The conference is scheduled for August 13-17, 2012 in Dallas, Texas (http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/). Agile2012 is the leading international conference on Agile methods in software development, bringing together many disciplines in the fields of information systems and software development to foster the exchange of fresh ideas and best practices.

â��The Agile2012 conference is presented by the community, for the community,â�� said Mitch Lacey, Agile2012 conference chair. â��We invite those who are passionate about providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information to submit a topic of interest to the general Agile community. There will be much competition - we expect more than 1,000 submissions for roughly 200 presentations.â��

As in prior years, public users of the submission system (any registered user) will be able to browse proposals and post comments. Submitters may also post comments on reviews or public comments of their own proposals to provide clarifications, explain revisions and respond to questions. The review committees are distributed by stages. Each stage has an area of focus. Presenters will be able to submit their presentation to the stage that they feel most nearly represents a given topic. In its 11th year, Agile2012 is the leading international conference on Agile methods in software development, bringing together many disciplines in the fields of information systems and software development to foster the exchange of fresh ideas and best practices. It provides independent software vendors, software consultants and in-house corporate development teams with the knowledge and shared experiences that lead to successful Agile programs. Agile2012 connects attendees with the foremost leaders in the Agile domain, enriching the collective body of knowledge and influencing the line of thought in the field. It encourages debate and fosters innovative ideas based on real-world implementations for executives, managers, software development practitioners and researchers from labs and academia.

The submission system is open now and will remain open until Feb. 19, 2012. For more information or to submit a presentation please visit: (http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/for-speakers/).

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 industryâ��s leading event that attracts practitioners, academia, business and vendor-partner community members from around the globe. The Agile2012 Conference is scheduled for August 13-17 in Dallas, Texas. For more information about the organization, please visit (http://www.agilealliance.org/).

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COLLABNET LAUNCHES COLLABNET CONNECT™ FOR FEDERATED APPLICATION DELIVERY ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE CLOUD

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:58:25 +0000

New integration framework delivers change management hub by connecting commercial and open source ALM tools â�� brings Git to the enterprise BRISBANE, Calif., Nov. 30, 2011 â�� CollabNetÂ® (www.collab.net), the global leader in enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM, today announced CollabNet Connectâ�¢, a new integration framework for its TeamForgeÂ® ALM platform. It enables customers to orchestrate and govern application delivery processes across commercial and open source ALM and cloud development tools. In addition to integrations with leading ALM tools like HP Application Lifecycle Management platform and JIRA, CollabNet Connect also brings the Git open source version control tool into an enterprise-grade ALM platform. The Git integration provides users complete freedom of development approach, while simultaneously providing, for the first time, enterprise-grade Git governance and consistency of lifecycle practices for coding practices, release standards and IP reuse. CollabNet will host a free webinar on Jan. 12, 2012, to share insights into ALM interoperability, change management approaches and how IT organizations can accelerate application delivery through Continuous Delivery and DevOps practices. Participants include CollabNet CEO Bill Portelli, Forrester vice president Dave West and Michael Loetzsch, transition manager from Deutsche Post. To register please visit: (www.collab.net/almplus). â��As software delivery becomes a strategic business process, ALM strategies must keep pace with business needs. Modern development teams need a platform that supports diverse and fast-changing requirements for tools, technologies and processes,â�� said Bill Portelli, co-founder and CEO of CollabNet. â��CollabNet Connect addresses that need, providing a complete â��change management hubâ�� for IT enterprises that require central governance without locking customers into rigid software tools, repositories and configurations. Our approach is completely unique in that third-party tools can integrate natively to the TeamForge environment, both from a look and feel, as well as from a lifecycle traceability perspective.â�� Software development and delivery processes, along with associated tool sets, continue to evolve and change with the mainstream adoption of Agile and DevOps practices. As a result, large and distributed organizations are struggling to gain cohesive visibility, traceability and automation from its growing assortment of commercial and open source tools, resulting in â��siloedâ�� practices and limited collaboration. CollabNet Connect with TeamForge accelerates enterprise software delivery by providing development and IT operations teams with a cross-functional, fully integrated governance platform to share and track ALM artifacts, and allow stakeholders to work collaboratively in the tools of their choice â�� on-premise or in the cloud. Bringing Git to the enterprise, CollabNet is the first major ALM vendor to provide a comprehensive platform to govern and secure development with the Git DVCS tool, such as for mobile application development. Enterprises can now join more than 1,000 TeamForge users and take advantage of the speed and flexibility provided by the Git tool, without compromising corporate standards for compliance, security or management efficiency. Also unique in the industry, CollabNet, the founder of the Subversion open source project (now formally known as Apache SubversionÂ®), allows TeamForge projects to use CollabNet Subversion, Git or both SCM environments. Find out more at (www.collab.net/go/Git). In addition, developers can achieve increased productivity by connecting their point tools to an enterprise framework for collaboration, automation and IP discovery and reuse. Tools like Atlassian JIRA now become â��first class citizensâ�� in an enterprise ALM platform, gaining instant access to features for enterprise scalability, traceability and artifact discovery across multiple JIRA instances, and access to corporate templates for consistent software delivery processes. Find out more at (www.collab.net/go/JIRA). Benefits of CollabNet Connect include: â�¢ GUI Integration â�� Incorporates the third-party tools natively into TeamForge as a â��first class citizen.â�� â�¢ Lifecycle Traceability â�� Extends traceability for applications with uniquely identifiable elements (e.g. work items, requirements, tests, etc.) making these elements universally available through TeamForge associations for end-to-end traceability. â�¢ Workflow Extension â�� Extends workflow for applications that need to subscribe, modify or respond to TeamForge transactions, allowing enterprises to implement workflows that cross conventional tool boundaries. â�¢ Collaboration Extension â�� Enables enterprise-grade software and highly collaborative delivery processes across diverse and changing technology stacks and development clouds. â�¢ Tool-chain Visibility â�� Provides unprecedented visibility across software delivery processes, resulting in software release productivity gains through IP sharing and coordination. â�¢ Search Integration â�� Allows ALM stakeholders across the enterprise to search, discover and share artifacts and documents across workgroups and locations, no matter what tools are used. â�¢ Governance Extension â�� Empowers developers to work with the tools they want without compromising any corporate governance mandates. â��ALM is not dead â�� it has become ALM 2.0+.â�� writes Dave West, vice president and Research Director in the October 2010 Forrester Research Inc. report: The Time Is Right For ALM 2.0+. â��ALM 2.0+ tools and strategies accept tool and platform heterogeneity, imposing a boundary above practitioner tools and encouraging ALM to interact with those tools in the context of work and harvest information for traceability, reporting, and management.â�� The TeamForge and CollabNet Connect solution provides: â�¢ Empowerment of developers while, at the same time, enterprise visibility and governance of standards and data of disparate point tools. â�¢ The ability to overcome JIRA scalability issues by providing a framework into which separate JIRA servers may be incorporated using the TeamForge services distribution capabilities. â�¢ A mechanism to create repeatable processes using the TeamForge ALM Process template to create standards for siloâ��d teams that are configuring tools. â�¢ IP reuse to help companies align individual and inconsistently configured point tools into a set of enterprise standards. Availability CollabNet Connect will be available through the release of TeamForge 6.1.1. More information and download instructions can be found at (http://www.collab.net/products/collabnetconnect/). About CollabNet CollabNet is the recognized leader in enterprise Cloud development, powering global software development for more than 7,000 companies, from workgroups to enterprises. As the company that spawned from deep open source roots with the sponsoring of industry-leading Subversion, we are dedicated to leveraging collaboration, Agile methods, and Cloud computing to transform the way software development organizations develop and deploy applications, in their cloud or ours. Through this transformation, CollabNet clients have recognized improved productivity by up to 70 percent and reduced their cost of software development by up to 80 percent due to the implementation of highly Agile and enterprise-wide collaborative and distributed techniques. Our solutions include TeamForgeÂ®, the industry-leading Agile ALM platform for distributed developers, the Codesion cloud hosting and integration platform, ScrumWorksÂ® Pro Agile project management, Subversion Edge for managed SCM, and Agile training and transformation services. For more information, please visit www.collab.net. ### CollabNet, TeamForge, and ScrumWorks are registered trademarks of CollabNet, Inc. Codesion is a trademark of CollabNet, Inc. SubversionÂ® is a registered trademark of the Apache Software Foundation. Other names may be trademarks of their respective holders. Media Contact: Christie Denniston Catapult PR-IR O: (303) 581-7760 M: (303) 827-5164 cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES NEW SYNC 2.0 PROVIDES ALM ARCHITECTURE MAPPING AND APPLICATION LIFECYCLE LINKING VIA OSLC

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:27:04 +0000

Tasktop continues to bring order and increased productivity from disparate and disconnected Agile ALM tool stacks within enterprise IT organizations

VANCOUVER , BC Nov. 28, 2011 â�� Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a global leader in ALM integration and developer tools, today announced Tasktop Sync 2.0, the latest version of its Task Federationâ�¢ platform that allows IT organizations to synchronize existing ALM servers from multiple vendors and open source projects. Tasktop Sync 2.0 makes it even easier for administrators to manage their ALM synchronizations through powerful visual tools and extends integration support via change management artifact linking via the Open Services for Lifecycle Management (OSLC) interoperability protocols.

â��Complex sourcing has become the norm for most companies â�� including off-shoring and open source â�� and deployment across a multitude of platforms, such as mobile, embedded, cloud and on-premise, drives software development challenges,â�� said Melinda Ballou, program director for IDC's Application lifecycle Management (ALM) service. â��In this context, lack of coordination across lifecycle management phases and automation undermines business innovation and agility. Companies urgently need ways to effectively connect a broad range of lifecycle tools to enable visibility, metrics and control.â��

Tasktop Sync is built on the industry-standard Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability framework to provide 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 companyâ��s Task Federationâ�¢ technology, Tasktop Sync brings task federation to ALM servers, by providing the only real-time, bi-directional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers. The companyâ��s Tasktop Dev product line supports Tasktop Sync by federating tasks and other ALM artifacts on the developerâ��s Eclipse and Visual Studio desktops.

â��Medium and large organizationsâ�� ALM stacks have become so diverse and disconnected that the lack of traceability and cross-stakeholder collaboration has become the bottleneck of large-scale software delivery,â�� said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. â��Tasktop has spearheaded a new approach to connecting stakeholders in the application lifecycle, making it possible to capture an organizationâ��s ALM architecture in a single tool and deliver real-time connectivity and traceability across a wide variety of open source, commercial and legacy ALM systems.â�� (To read Mik Kerstenâ��s blog post on this announcement please visit: (http://tasktop.com/blog/news/tasktop-sync-2-0-released)

Tasktop Sync 2.0 includes several innovations for connecting ALM stacks and stakeholders. It provides new visual tools that allow ALM architects and administrators to connect to ALM repositories, conduct introspective analysis of repository schemas and intelligently connect previously disconnected tools via ALM artifact mappings. In addition to artifact synchronization, Tasktop Sync 2.0 provides a new software lifecycle artifact linking facility built on the OSLC ALM interoperability protocols to serve as a broker for linking ALM artifacts

Based on Tasktopâ��s continued collaboration with IBM to define the OSLC protocols, Tasktop Sync 2.0 provides OSLC-based REST API access to more than 20 Tasktop Certifiedâ�¢ Mylyn connectors as well as dozens of other community-driven or in-house Mylyn connectors. For example, organization using IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools in the ALM stack, such as Rational Team Concert and Rational Requirements Composer, can now link with artifacts from a broad range of third-party and open-source ALM tools, such as HP ALM and Quality Center, Atlassian JIRA and Mozilla Bugzilla. OSLC linking extends Tasktop Syncâ��s synchronization facilities to support live connectivity and embedding of ALM artifacts in a similar way that social networking tools can embed each otherâ��s feeds (e.g., Twitter within Facebook).

New Features in Tasktop Sync 2.0 include:

â�¢ Sync Quick start wizard to dramatically reduce the time to set up the first synchronization.

â�¢ Visual editor for configuring synchronization mappings.

â�¢ Fine-grained and automated conflict resolution and handling.

â�¢ Full support for custom fields, rich text and wiki transformations, attachments and user mappings.

â�¢ Synchronization support for all common ALM artifacts, including defects, tasks, work items, test summaries and requirements.

â�¢ Unlimited mappings and repositories to connect large-scale ALM stacks with numerous servers and tools.

â�¢ Bi-directional synchronization of task associations, ALM artifact hierarchies, and complex fields

â�¢ Groovy-based scripting support for complex field transformations.

â�¢ For IBM CLM users, full support for IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) synchronization rules and mappings, allowing administrators to update mappings within RTC.

In addition, Tasktop announced the availability of Tasktop Dev 2.2 that brings new connectivity for developers using HP ALM and Quality Center. Tasktop Dev 2.2 builds on HPâ��s Application Lifecycle Intelligence (ALI) feature to provide instant workspace provisioning for developers using Eclipse. Now, developers can simply connect to a release in HP ALM, and Tasktopâ��s Task Federation facilities load into the workspace the SCM and Continuous Integration (CI) artifacts needed to work on the release, for example, source code from Subversion or builds from Hudson/Jenkins. Tasktop Dev 2.2 also extends HP ALI traceability automation to ClearCase.

Availability

Tasktop Sync 2.0 and Tasktop Dev 2.2 are both available for download tomorrow. Tasktop Sync is offered through perpetual licenses with annual support and maintenance, or annual subscriptions. As a limited-time introductory offer, Tasktop Sync is available as a bundle with Tasktop Dev (Enterprise Edition) for $199 per user, per year. More information is available at (http://tasktop.com/sync).

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 developerâ��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. Tasktopâ��s Task Federationâ�¢ 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 companyâ��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://tasktop.com

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COLLABNET’S LAURENCE SWEENEY TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES ON DEVOPS AT GARTNER APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE SUMMIT

Sweeney to explain how enterprise IT departments can increase developer productivity, speed software delivery and realize governance by implementing DevOps

WHO: Laurence Sweeney

Vice President, Enterprise Transformation

(www.collab.net)

Laurence Sweeney helps CollabNetâ��s enterprise customer adopt and scale Agile practices and DevOps programs. He has more than 25 years of software development experience, including director of software at HP. In this role he acquired, deployed and managed multiple Agile ALM platforms for tens of thousands of developers and managers in dozens of divisions. CollabNet also will be exhibiting at the event at booth L.

WHAT: â��Industrializing Agile Software Delivery with DevOpsâ��

Nov. 30, 2011 1:10 p.m. â�� 1:30 p.m. PST

In his presentation, Sweeney will explore the frequency with which code is released to production. He will share why monthly, weekly and daily software releases are increasingly commonplace, and not just for start-ups. Enterprise IT departments have increased developer productivity, saved millions and realized governance by implementing DevOps. Participants who attend this session will hear best practices learned from Fortune 500 implementations. Examples include: 1) U.S. financial services company that cut production release variants by 85 percent, 2) global logistics company that realized flexible delivery cycles ranging from monthly to daily. The session will conclude with an interactive Q & A session from the audience.

WHERE: Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit

Caesars Palace â�� Las Vegas

(http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/applications/about.jsp)

INFO: For more information on this presentation or to arrange an interview with the Mr. Sweeney please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

COLLABNET TO SHARE ENTERPRISE BEST PRACTICES FOR AGILE AND APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT AT HP DISCOVER VIENNA 2011

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:17:57 +0000

CollabNet to showcase its deep experience leading successful continuous integration and enterprise Agile implementations with industry partners and Deutsche Post DHL

WHO: CollabNet (www.collab.net) executives will lead several sessions at the upcoming HP Discover 2011 event in Vienna focused on best practices for scaling Agile methods and continuous integration practices in the enterprise.

WHAT: Agile Adoption is Opening New Doors for Enterprise IT Groups to Work Faster and Closer Togetherâ�¦called DevOps

WHEN: Nov. 29, 2011

11:45 a.m. CET

Speakers:

Paul Peissner, director, Business Development, CollabNet

Russ King, vice president, Product Development, Results Positive, Inc.

Todd DeCapua, vice president, Services, Shunra Software Ltd.

Rainer Heinold, senior director, Technical Services, CollabNet

The Vivit Special Interest Roundtable at HP Discover will cover:

1. How DevOps improves IT through development and testing efforts focused on continuous integration including application development integrations with HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and HP Unified Functional Testing.

2. Development and release efforts focused on continuous delivery and continuous improvements including application development for HP Operations Orchestration and HP Server Automation.

3. Development and corporate alignment focused on project optimization including development cost-cutting and speeding up time-to-market, as well as Agile and HP Project and Portfolio Management integrations.

WHAT: Automation and Control of IT Run Services at Deutsche Post DHL

WHEN: Dec. 1, 2011

11:30 a.m. CET

Speakers:

Ralf Knobloch, senior expert, IT Service Control, Deutsche Post DHL

Dominique Wurzler, vice president and EMEA general manager, CollabNet

Guillaume Runser, worldwide solutions marketing manager, Software, HP

Every working day 70 million letters are delivered by Deutsche Post DHL in Germany. This requires exceptional technology and an integration of tools from the development and IT operations domains.. This case study session will outline how the organization went through a massive transformation, from common siloed processes and manual-driven IT to a reliable, consistent and automated Application Lifecycle Management platform with cloud-enabled elements. The presentation examines the implementation and deployment of a simplified governance framework through the standardization of tools, processes and requests. It will highlight the benefits Deutsche Post DHL gained with the help of automation, DevOps tools consolidation and the power of cloud computing.

WHAT: An Automated End-to-End DevOps Solution with CollabNet and HP

WHEN: Dec. 1, 2011

12:30 p.m. CET

Speakers:

Paul Peissner, director, Business Development, CollabNet

J.R. Horton, senior product line manager, Software, HP

Industry research shows that up to 80 percent of development handoffs to production are unsuccessful. This is a growing concern for IT decision makers responsible for cost-effectively meeting the changing business needs, while delivering critical undisruptive services. This session will showcase a new approach to solving the challenge of managing IT with a business-centric DevOps model. The session will show how HP Server Automation, HP Operations Orchestration, HP Application Lifecycle Management, and CollabNetâ��s TeamForge framework work together to align IT with business needs. Attendees will learn how this end-to-end solution creates graceful transitions from the business need, to IT project, to application release, and to the new business service while providing visibility, traceability and robust tracking capabilities, creating effective applications and relationships between IT and the business. Explore customer use cases that will illustrate how IT teams can increase productivity as the result of HP and CollabNet bridging the business and IT gap through defining the direction of DevOps.

WHERE: HP Discover 2011

Vienna, Austria

INFO: For more information on these presentations or to arrange an interview with CollabNet please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

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TASKTOP’S AGILE ALM SYNCHRONIZATION TOOL NAMED FINALIST FOR THE 2011 JOLT AWARD

Tasktop Sync recognized in coding category for enabling developers to increase their productivity and collaboration

VANCOUVER , BC Nov. 21, 2011 â�� Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a global leader in ALM integration and developer tools, today announced that its product, Tasktop Sync (http://tasktop.com/sync) has been selected as a finalist for Dr. Dobbâ��s 21st Annual Jolt Awards (http://drdobbs.com/joltawards) in the Coding category.

For the past 21 years, Dr. Dobbâ��s Jolt Awards have been presented annually to products that have "jolted" the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier and more efficient. This year, finalists are selected on an ongoing basis across several categories.

â��Weâ��re proud Dr. Dobbâ��s has recognized Tasktop Sync for its ability to help large organizations produce and deliver software more efficiently and effectively communicate across multiple stakeholders with increased traceability,â�� said Neelan Choksi, President & COO of Tasktop. â��Todayâ��s modern software development world is fraught with chaos characterized by decentralized decision making, frequent iterations, outsourced and remote workers, and information overload. Tasktop Sync is our response to those challenges. It provides the only real-time and transparent connectivity between the various stakeholders in the software delivery process from management, business analysts, testers and developers, allowing each stakeholder to be successful while improving the combined results of the organization.â��

Unlike previous approaches to ALM synchronization, Tasktop Sync is built on the industry-standard Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability framework to provide real-time synchronization, automatic and configurable conflict resolution, and support for more than two dozen ALM toolsâ�� tracking and reporting facilities. Building on the companyâ��s Task Federationâ�¢ technology, Tasktop Sync ensures that each stakeholder in the software development lifecycle has access to the data that they need within their tool of choice, even if the data resides across requirements management, Agile development and traditional quality management systems.

For more information on Tasktop Sync please visit: (http://tasktop.com/sync)

About Tasktop Technologies

Tasktop Technologies, the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration and task-focused interface framework, provides desktop and enterprise-grade solutions that improve productivity, collaboration and Agile ALM success. Its Tasktop Dev products provide task-focused support for Agile planning, tool integration, web browsing, time tracking, documents, email and calendars. Its Tasktop Sync provides real-time ALM server synchronization to unify and connect heterogeneous technologies with development and IT operations teams that are scaling Agile methods in the enterprise. Tasktop also provides consulting, connector development services and training to IT organizations that are adopting the task-focused paradigm and Agile ALM. For more information please visit (www.tasktop.com) .

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TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO OUTLINE AGILE ALM STRATEGIES WITH HP’S RAZIEL TABIB AT HP DISCOVER VIENNA 2011

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:38:48 +0000

Development professionals will learn how to manage the increasingly complex and heterogeneous set of tools and processes that make up todayâ��s ALM practices

WHO: Mik Kersten â�� CEO and founder, Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)

Raziel Tabib â�� product line manager, Software, HP

(www.hp.com)

WHAT: Managing Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Strategies

The reality of todayâ��s development world is agility; speed and time to market are no longer a luxury but are essential ingredients to maintaining market leadership. Organizations have to move fast and embrace changes without any compromise on quality. In order to execute successfully on such goals, organizational process and culture will need to adjust. During this session, Kersten and Tabib will outline and demonstrate how HP and Tasktop provide development managers with visibility and traceability across heterogeneous tools, processes and technologies to address challenges and provide best practices for organizations. Wherever development teams are located and whatever tools or technologies they work with, HP ALM solutions can serve as a single system of record, providing development managers with the intelligence they need to increase quality and shorten release cycles.

WHEN: Thurs., Dec. 1, 2011 â�� 12:30 p.m. CET

WHERE: HP Discover 2011

Vienna, Austria

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).

COLLABNET’S ANIL BAKSHI TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES FOR ENTERPRISE AGILE DURING KEYNOTE AT INDIA AGILE TOUR

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:29:26 +0000

Bakshi to present and explain how Agility is being redefined in the enterprise

WHO: Anil Bakshi

General Manager and Country Head - India

CollabNet

(www.collab.net)

Bakshi is responsible for the corporate management of CollabNet Software Private Limited, CollabNet's subsidiary in Chennai, India. He oversees market development and growth of CollabNet in the Indian market, as well as other APAC countries like Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore.

WHAT: â��Agility Redefined: Ways to be Agileâ��

Nov. 12, 2011 â�� 9:30 a.m. IST

Agile software development continues to evolve and mature. During this keynote, Agile expert Bakshi will provide insights into current best practices for establishing an Agile enterprise and outline breakthrough thinking on extending the value of Agile beyond small teams. Topics to be addressed include: defining software agility, the need for â��Agile Absorptionâ�� across the enterprise, steps to become and remain Agile, and how to maintain a culture of agility. He then will present â��10 Ways to Build Agile Absorptionâ�� that attendees can use to gain the utmost value from Agile methods.

WHERE: Agile Tour 2011

Chennai

Hotel RainTree

(http://www.isec.co/)

INFO: For more information on this presentation or to arrange an interview with the presenter please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or 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 â�� CEO and founder of Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)

Kersten is the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. At Tasktop he provides the technical vision behind Tasktop Dev for developer productivity and tool integration and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM synchronization.

WHAT: â��ALM in the Jungleâ��

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).