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Dave West Joins Tasktop as Chief Product Officer

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:54:02 +0000

West to realize his passion for optimizing the value stream of software delivery by driving Tasktopâ��s product vision and roadmap Vancouver, British Columbia â�� April 26, 2012 â�� Tasktop Technologies (tasktop.com),Â creator of Eclipse Mylyn and a leader in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation solutions, today announced that Dave West has joined the company as Chief Product Officer. As one of the foremost software development thought leaders and the most recognized analyst in Agile and ALM, West will lead the strategic direction of Tasktopâ��s product line and market position, and help strengthen Tasktopâ��s executive leadership team as it builds a transformative business that continues to drive major improvements in the software industry. â��Daveâ��s thought leadership has been a key driver in the adoption of Agile and in the ALM modernizations underway at large-scale software organizations,â�� said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project. â��His insights on how cross-vendor integration have become the main bottleneck on the promised ROI, and the massive opportunity that Tasktop has to connect the software lifecycle across the software supply chain and open source ecosystem, will help drive our vision and product roadmap for overhauling the value chain of software delivery.â�� West has helped advance many modern software development processes, including Agile and Lean methodologies, process improvement, and project and requirements management. His experience includes hands-on development, executive consulting, project management and industry analysis. He led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational, and also managed the development of IBM solutions for financial services, product development and government applications. Most recently, West served as vice president, research director at Forrester, where he worked with global IT organizations and solutions providers to define, drive and advance major Agile-based methodology breakthroughs. He is a frequent keynote speaker at industry conferences and is a widely published author of articles and research reports, along with his acclaimed book: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. â��Tasktop is a company that is making a major difference in the evolution and improvement of the software industry,â�� said West. â��Its Tasktop Sync and Dev product lines, as well as the Mylyn open source project and ecosystem of integrations, address some of the biggest issues IT organizations face as they move to automate ALM and improve collaboration across the enterprise. The type of integration, automation and synchronization that Tasktop offers is fostering true ALM success, and I look forward to building on the innovation the company offers to meet the infrastructure-level needs of software organizations.â�� Tasktop helps software organizations implement and automate enterprise-wide Agile and ALM modernization initiatives by connecting both developers, through Tasktop Dev, and cross-functional enterprise teams, through Tasktop Sync. As part of Tasktop Sync, Sync Studio extends the value of its Task Federationâ�¢ platform by making it dramatically easier for organizations to connect, configure and maintain medium- and large-scale ALM infrastructures. Together, all Tasktop products leverage the Eclipse Mylyn task-based integration framework to provide a more strategic and lightweight synchronization solution than standard REST API and pure data-store integrations. Its tools provide visibility into ALM work flow and frameworks, and the real-time data sharing of cross-function activities that IT organizations need to synchronize and automate development and deployment of quality software. West joins Kersten and Tasktop president and COO Neelan Choksi on Tasktopâ��s executive leadership team. He will work side-by-side with Kersten on the product vision, platform design and partner ecosystem strategies, and with Choksi on company growth and business development initiatives. West also will continue his work to advance Agile success at an industry level through thought leadership, and develop new ideas to further streamline and improve the software development and delivery lifecycle. Connect With Others About this Story: Tweet This: @Tasktop today announced @DavidJWest as new Chief Product Officer â�� Read why Dave joined the #Tasktop team at (http://tasktop.com/blog/tasktop/dave-west-joined-tasktop) #ALM Helpful Links â�¢ Tasktop Technologies â�¢ Tasktop Blog on Announcement â�¢ Tasktop Twitter About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is the industryâ��s leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation and integration software. Thousands of IT organizations depend on Tasktopâ��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 â�� the complete disconnect and brittle integrations of ALM tools. Its Task Federationâ�¢ 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 1 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 todayâ��s software-driven economy by providing the ALM Automationâ�¢ needed to gain visibility, predictability and productivity across the software development lifecycle. For more information, visit (http://tasktop.com). # # # Media Contact: Christie Denniston Catapult PR-IR cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com O: 303-581-7760, ext. 13 M: 303-827-5164

TASKTOP AND POLARION SOFTWARE TO PRESENT FREE WEBINAR ON CLOSING THE LOOP BETWEEN SOFTWARE PROJECT PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:32:53 +0000

Webinar to provide practical tips and best practices for increasing productivity and driving innovation in software development projectsÂ Â

WHO:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Benjamin Muskalla, Senior Software DeveloperÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â

Â Â Â Â Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Tasktop Technologies is the industryâ��s leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation and integration software. Thousands of IT organizations depend on Tasktopâ��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.

Â Â Â Daniel Morris, Professional Services

Â Â Â Polarion Software (www.polarion.com)

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Polarion Softwareâ��s success is best described by the hundreds of Global 1000 companies and over one million users who rely daily on its Requirements Management, Quality Assurance and Application Lifecycle Management solutions in their business processes. Polarion is a thriving international company with offices across Europe and North America, and a wide ecosystem of partners world-wide. WHAT:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Close the Loop Between Software Project Planning and Development In a climate of decentralized software tools, a widely integrated project management platform is critical for increased collaboration and enhanced visibility. During this webinar, Muskalla and Morris will share how developers can increase productivity by connecting their IDEâ��s with requirements management, development, planning and reporting. While working in virtual teams is the new reality, Muskalla and Morris will show best practices for increasing communication and knowledge transfer by bringing development teams together in one integrated platform. The webinar will include live demonstrations showing how both developers and development teams can benefit from unified access to project management activity from the IDE, all without disrupting existing systems. WHEN:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Wed., May 2, 12 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) INFO:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â To register for the webinar please visit: (http://tasktop.com/about/webinars). For more information or to set up an interview with Muskalla, please contact Christie Denniston at Catapult PR-IR 303-581-7760, ext. 13 or (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

Tasktop Bolsters ALM Automation Leadership with Addition of New Product Management and Solutions Architecture Directors

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:29:48 +0000

Company continues to add highly experienced technical talent to manage and accommodate strong growth and market momentumÂ

VANCOUVER , BC â�� April 16, 2012 â�� Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a leader in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation solutions, today announced the expansion of the companyâ��s product management team with the appointment of Nicole Bryan as product management director and Lance Knight as director of solutions architect, effective immediately.Â Both positions will report directly to Tasktopâ��s president and COO, Neelan Choksi. â��We are very pleased to welcome Nicole and Lance to our rapidly growing organization, and believe their experience of walking the line between business and technical stakeholders is an essential part of meeting Tasktopâ��s mission of transforming software development and delivery,â�� said Choksi. Â â��Both Nicole and Lance have proven track records that will help strengthen our leadership and organizational infrastructure to better meet the current and future demands of our customers and our growing ecosystem of software partners.Â â�� Bryan brings more than 15 years of product management experience for large software companies to her new role at Tasktop. She has an extensive technical background focused on data analytics, business intelligence, data visualization and software development processes. Prior to joining Tasktop, she served as director of product marketing and management at Micro Focus, formerly Borland Software. Â She also served as director of regulatory technology for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Knight brings nearly 25 years of software development and executive-level sales expertise to Tasktop. He joined the company from Accept Corporation, where he served as senior director of global solutions consulting. In Knightâ��s career, he has shown success as a manager and as an individual contributor helping customers derive tremendous value from their software investments.Â In his role leading the solutions architecture team, Knight will serve as a key technical advocate to actively drive the positioning of Tasktopâ��s enterprise software solutions to clients. Tasktop continues to solve major challenges for software organizations that are implementing enterprise-wide Agile and ALM modernization initiatives by connecting both developers, through Tasktop Dev, and cross-functional enterprise teams, through Tasktop Sync, to automate the entire application lifecycle. In addition, Tasktop recently launched Sync Studio, an extension of its Task Federationâ�¢ platform that makes it dramatically easier for organizations to connect, configure and maintain medium- and large-scale ALM infrastructures. Offered as a new component of Tasktop Sync, Sync Studio provides visual cross-ALM system task and workflow mapping, ALM architecture design, monitoring tools to ease integration maintenance and alert notifications for project and system administrators. All Tasktop products leverage the Eclipse Mylyn task-based integration framework to provide a more strategic and lightweight synchronization solution than standard REST API and pure data-store integrations. Its tools provide visibility into ALM work flow, real-time data sharing of cross-function activities and context into actual performance and business value. Connect With Others About this Story: Tweet This: Tasktop announces new appointments @nicolebryan and @lancedknight to @Tasktop #productmanagement and #engineering team #ALM #Agile Helpful Links

About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is the industryâ��s leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation and integration software. Thousands of IT organizations depend on Tasktopâ��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.Â By automating and connecting the software lifecycle, Tasktop is solving one of the biggest challenge facing large-scale software delivery organizations â�� the complete disconnect and brittle integrations of ALM tools. Its Task Federationâ�¢ 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.Â Tasktop created and leads the Eclipse Mylyn project, with more than 1 million downloads per month, upon which its commercial Tasktop Sync ALM middleware and Tasktop Dev IDE tools. All Tasktop tools are built to enable organizations to gain a competitive advantage in todayâ��s software-driven economy by providing the ALM Automationâ�¢ needed to gain visibility, predictability and productivity across the software development lifecycle.Â For more information, visit (http://tasktop.com).

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TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN AND INDEPENDENT RESEARCH ANALYST DAVE WEST TO PRESENT WEBINAR ON DEPLOYING ALM2.0+ ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:38:32 +0000

Tearing down IT organizational silos and promoting collaboration through ALM tool integration strategies lead to successful Agile2.0+ initiativesÂ Â

WHO:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 desktop-based developer productivity and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM automation and synchronization. Featured Speaker: Dave West â�� vice president and research director at Forrester Research, Inc. (www.forrester.com) West is a leading expert on software development process, Agile development, Lean thinking, process improvement, project management and requirements management. His interest in software modelingÂ and application development led to his authoring of the book,Â Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. He also covers the area of product development and its relationship with software systems development. WHAT:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Getting ALM2.0+ to Work For many organizations, the ability to deliver software is fundamental to business success. New products, services, updates to channels, pricing or promotion require changes to applications and websites. Organizations are now looking to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to provide visibility into this increasingly core business process.Â ALM promises the benefits of business management to the practice of software delivery. ALM2.0+ describes the next generation of practices that broaden the lifecycle to include operations and the business, while adding functionality for planning and collaboration. West and Kersten will present patterns for successful ALM adoption for mid- and large-scale organizations, and highlight how organizations can incrementally obtain the benefits of ALM by connecting siloes â�� one stakeholder at a time.Â The pair will draw on their year of software development experience to define a series of ALM integration patterns and describe how successful organizations are delivering software more efficiently with ALM2.0+ today. WHEN:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Thurs., April. 19, 9 to 10 a.m. Pacific (Noon Eastern) INFO:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â To register for the webinar please visit: (http://go.tasktop.com/forrester-webinar-registration.html).Â 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 New Sync Studio Provides First Visual ALM Mapping and Monitoring Tool for ALM Architects

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:24:14 +0000

Â IT Organizations Gain New Levels of Visibility into Heterogeneous ALM Architectures to Author and Manage Task and Data Flow between Best-of-Breed ALM Tools

VANCOUVER and RESTON VA (EclipseCon 2012, Booth #25), March 27, 2012 â�� Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a leader in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation solutions, today announced Sync Studio, an extension of its Task Federationâ�¢ platform that makes it dramatically easier for organizations to connect, configure and maintain medium- and large-scale ALM infrastructures. Offered as a new component of Tasktop Sync, Sync Studio provides visual cross-ALM system task and workflow mapping, ALM architecture design, monitoring tools to ease integration maintenance and alert notifications for project and system administrators. â��As weâ��ve been rolling out Tasktop Sync over the past year to IT organizations trying to automate Agile ALM and DevOps architectures across the enterprise, the process of taking inventory and managing integrations between all of their disparate tools has become extremely messy, frustrating and time-consuming,â�� said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project. â��Sync Studio makes it possible for software delivery organizations to gain control of this chaos by providing a single tool for viewing the design, integration and performance of todayâ��s complex ALM architectures with an easy-to-use visual design and authoring tool.â�� Tasktop continues to solve major challenges for software organizations that are implementing enterprise-wide Agile and ALM modernization initiatives by connecting both 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 task-based integration framework to provide a more strategic and lightweight synchronization solution than standard REST API and pure data-store integrations. Its tools provide visibility into ALM work flow, real-time data sharing of cross-function activities and context into actual performance and business value. With Sync Studio, the company continues to help IT organizations 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. â��Standard integration of ALM tools is typically limited since it only addresses point-to-point functionality and can then lack the comprehensive visibility, interoperability and traceability needed for a fully synchronized ALM tool stack,â�� said Melinda Ballou, program director for the Application Lifecycle Management and Executive Strategies service at IDC, a research advisory firm headquartered in Framingham, MA. â��With software driving innovation and with challenges resulting from complex ALM infrastructure, complex sourcing and silo-ed departments, IT organizations need to be able to architect and gain control of automated ALM solutions. This automation is sorely needed to help drive effective software delivery and competitive benefits.â�� To help IT organizations scale Tasktop Sync deployments and better manage the growing number of ALM systems in a typical tool stack, Sync Studio provides a whole new set of ALM infrastructure management tools. Capabilities include:

A Unified View across the ALM Stack: Sync Studio presents ALM architects and administrators with a comprehensive and â��liveâ�� architectural view of current tools and processes, and the associated interdependencies and roadblocks that need to be addressed.
Visual Mapping for ALM Administrators: Sync Studio provides automated mapping capabilities for ALM administrators to author and configure task, data and workflow connectivity and integration between ALM servers.
Cross-repository Monitoring and Administration: Sync Studio helps maintain the health and performance of enterprise-wide ALM architectures through the regular monitoring of inter-tool functionality and centralized administration of changes, maintenance, trouble-shooting and alert notifications.
End-to-end Traceability for the Lifecycle: through its Task Federation platform, Sync Studio provides complete ALM traceability that is available through the visual mapping and visibility capabilities now available in the tool.

In addition to Sync Studio, Tasktop also is introducing Tasktop Sync 2.3 with new integrations for ThoughtWorksâ�� Mingle and Accept360, as well as an updated Mylyn-based Sync integration for IBM Rational Team Concert. It is part of a coordinated Tasktop rollout that also includes Tasktop Dev 2.3 and builds on the new Eclipse Mylyn 3.7. Tasktop Dev now includes support for Gerrit and the Jenkins continuous integration server, and new workspace provisioning tools for HP ALM. With these additions, Tasktop now supports more than 70 ALM tools. Availability Tasktop Sync 2.3 with Sync Studio is being demonstrated now at EclipseCon 2012 (http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/) and will be generally available on April 17.Â Tasktop Dev 2.3 is available today. About Tasktop Technologies Tasktop Technologies is the industryâ��s leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation and integration software. Thousands of IT organizations depend on Tasktopâ��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.Â By automating and connecting the software lifecycle, Tasktop is solving one of the biggest challenge facing large-scale software delivery organizations â�� the complete disconnect and brittle integrations of ALM tools. Its Task Federationâ�¢ 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.Â Tasktop created and leads the Eclipse Mylyn project, with more than 1 million downloads per month, upon which its commercial Tasktop Sync ALM middleware and Tasktop Dev IDE tools. All Tasktop tools are built to enable organizations to gain a competitive advantage in todayâ��s software-driven economy by providing the ALM Automationâ�¢ needed to gain visibility, predictability and productivity across the software development lifecycle.Â For more information, visit http://tasktop.com.

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TASKTOP CREATES OEM VERSION OF TASKTOP DEV FOR HP

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

VANCOUVER, BC, March 22, 2012 â�� 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 todayâ��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.Â . 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.Â 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. â��With the growing complexity and heterogeneous make up of todayâ��s ALM stacks, it is imperative that developers have a single and integrated â��pane of glassâ�� that keeps them connected to other stakeholders while staying focused on the flow of coding activity,â�� 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." â��Application development teams need to work with their choice of tools and systems without being constrained by time-consuming, administrative development tasks,â�� said Matthew Morgan, senior director, Product and Solution Marketing, Software, HP.Â â��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 â�� accelerating delivery of new, innovative applications.â�� 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)Â provides more than 80 additional integrations beyond what is available in the OEM version of Tasktop Dev for HP.Â 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 Syncâ��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 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. 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’S MIK KERSTEN TO KEYNOTE AT ECLIPSECON 2012 ON THE IMPACT OF OPEN SOURCE PRACTICES ON ENTERPRISE AND AGILE ALM

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:27:42 +0000

Beyond the impact of open source tools is the emergence of new collaboration and workflow practices that are shaping how software is built

WHO:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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 desktop-based developer productivity and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM synchronization. WHAT:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Future of ALM: Developing in the Social Code Graph Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is transforming before us. A new breed of tool-supported open source practices is reshaping the ALM landscape and making software delivery the most transparent and connected knowledge work process. During this keynote, Kersten will explore this transformation, show how it will impact software development in the next decade and illustrate how today's developers are helping to shape the digital workplace of tomorrow. Just as the world changed when social networking tools made it trivial for us to externalize our relationships and activity streams, a new collection of open source ALM tools has made it easy for developers to go far beyond dumping code into SCM. Developers are now externalizing their collaboration practices and workflows into a loosely coupled social code graph connected by tasks and relationships. WHERE:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â EclipseCon 2012

Hyatt Regency Reston

Grand Ballroom DEFG

1800 Presidents St.

Reston, VA 20190

WHEN:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Thurs., March 29, 9 â�� 10 a.m. EST CONTACT:Â Â Â For more information on Tasktop Technologies, or to arrange an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

TASKTOP AND BORLAND TO PRESENT WEBINAR ON TRANSFORMING DEVELOPMENT VISIBILITY AND PRODUCTIVITY

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:35:31 +0000

Webinar outlines how developers and managers benefit from broad ALM interoperability and the most modern IDE experience for StarTeam 12

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

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

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Stuart McGill â�� General Manager of Borland Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â (www.borland.com)

As general manager of Borland and CTO of Micro Focus, McGill is responsible for shaping future product innovations and bringing world-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â class software solutions to market.

WHAT:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Transforming Development Visibility and Productivity with BorlandÂ StarTeam 12.0 and Tasktop In a climate of decentralized software tools, a widely integrated project management platform is critical for increased collaboration and enhanced visibility. During this webinar, Kersten and McGill will outline how Tasktop Sync delivers interoperability between StarTeam and many other ALM systems for unprecedented visibility across teams and tools. Kersten and McGill will further explain how Tasktop Dev provides developers with the most modern and integrated experience for StarTeam. The webinar will include live demonstrations showing how both developers and managers benefit from unified access to multiple repositories from within StarTeam or the IDE, all without disrupting existing systems. WHEN:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Tue., Feb. 7, 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. PST INFO: To register for this webinar please visit: (http://www.microfocus.com/starteam12). To arrange an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or by email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

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 â�� 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.

â��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 yearâ��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.â�� said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. â��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.â��

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 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. Tasktop Dev supports Tasktop Sync by federating tasks and other ALM artifacts on the developerâ��s Eclipse and Visual Studio desktops.

The companyâ��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.

â��Tasktop is helping a growing number of enterprise IT customers build better software faster and more efficiently,â�� said Neelan Choksi, Tasktopâ��s president and chief operating officer. â��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.â��

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 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://www.tasktop.comÂ

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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 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: 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 Federationâ�¢ 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 â�� 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).