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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.
August 9, 2010
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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June 23, 2010
TASKTOP ANNOUNCES LATEST RELEASE OF TASKTOP PRO WITH IMPROVED INTEGRATIONS AND SOCIAL MEDIA CAPABILITIES FOR AGILE ALM
Tasktop continues to lead innovation around connecting task management activities
with leading Agile ALM platforms
VANCOUVER, June 23, 2010 - Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a leading provider of task management for application lifecycle management (ALM), today announced Tasktop Pro 1.7, which builds on the release of Mylyn 3.4, the latest version of the most widely adopted ALM integration suite for the Eclipse IDE. The latest version of Tasktop Pro includes new and updated integration connectors with leading ALM platforms, enhancements for Windows 7 and integrations with Twitter for social media collaboration.
June 15, 2010
TASKTOP NAMES DAVID GREEN VICE PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERING
Green to lead development of company's flagship product Tasktop Pro and
Eclipse ALM integration services
VANCOUVER, June 15, 2010 - Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a leading provider of task management for application lifecycle management (ALM), today announced David Green as its vice president of engineering. Green will be responsible for the delivery of Tasktop's line of products based on its revolutionary task-focused interface technology, and will lead associated development consulting and support services for the company.
June 7, 2010
TASKTOP ANNOUNCES IBM RATIONAL TEAM CONCERT
New connector provides Agile task management and ALM interoperability
for Rational Team Concert
VANCOUVER, June 7, 2010 - Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a leading provider of task management for application lifecycle management (ALM), today announced the IBM Rational Team Concert Mylyn Connector. The new connector enables Mylyn's task-focused interface technology for Rational Team Concert, which is designed to improve developer productivity by displaying only the source code that is relevant for each work item. This reduces information overload and provides a mechanism for one-click multitasking and interruption recovery. In addition, this latest ALM connector from Tasktop has successfully completed the "Ready for IBM Rational Software" technical validation.
