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November 29, 2011
TASKTOP PROVIDES MICRO FOCUS CUSTOMERS MYLYN-ENABLED ALM SYNCHRONIZATION AND IMPROVED DEVELOPER
Tasktop extends Borland StarTeam change management features across the enterprise via ALM synchronization and IDE integrations with Eclipse and Visual Studio
VANCOUVER, BC Nov. 29, 2011 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a global leader in ALM integration and developer tools, and Micro Focus (LSE:MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announced the Tasktop Borland StarTeam Connector. The new connector, available for both Tasktop Dev and Tasktop Sync, provides access to Micro Focus’ Borland StarTeam change management assets from within Eclipse or Visual Studio, and enables complete synchronization of ALM servers from multiple vendors and open source projects.
The two companies are demonstrating the Tasktop Borland StarTeam Connector at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit, Nov. 29 – Dec. 1 in Las Vegas (http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/applications/).
“Tasktop, Borland and now Micro Focus have a shared vision of putting the developer at the center of ALM,” said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. “We first started working together by way of Borland’s past contributions to the Eclipse Mylyn project. Today, we’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Micro Focus, a leader in developer-centric ALM tools. With the integrations that we’re releasing today, StarTeam customers will get a first-class Eclipse and Visual Studio experience via Tasktop Dev and can integrate StarTeam with a broad range of third party and open source Agile and ALM solutions supported by Tasktop Sync.”
Developer productivity is increasingly being obstructed due to interruptions and the need to leave the IDE to update status and complete work. Even with the best intentions, developers often forget to relate the code they have changed to the task they were working on. With the Tasktop Dev Borland StarTeam Connector, developers’ work is automatically linked to the task, defect, requirement or custom artifact that the developer was focused on. With Tasktop Sync, enterprise teams using Borland StarTeam can integrate and synchronize mixed and best-of-breed ALM stacks, including HP ALM and HP Quality Center, IBM Rational Team Concert, and two dozen other leading Agile, ALM, and open source tools. It provides single-source traceability and reporting across the tools used for enterprise Agile ALM planning, software development and quality management.
Key benefits of Tasktop Borland StarTeam Connector include:
• Consolidated Visibility: With Tasktop Sync, organizations can now view all artifacts, custom or otherwise, from third-party tools, bringing them into the same unified presentation as native StarTeam artifacts.
• Development Efficiency: With Tasktop Dev, developers are able to stay in their IDE where they are most productive, but still participate in the processes and workflows that management needs.
• Increased Visibility for Management: More accurate and frequent developer status and time reporting provides management with increased visibility for project planning.
• Enhanced Traceability: Organizations now have the flexibility to create traceability between StarTeam source code and change management artifacts and assets in third-party systems as needed to fit existing processes.
• ALM Synchronization: StarTeam is now supported by the industry-standard Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability framework which provides real-time synchronization, configurable automatic conflict resolution, and support for more than two dozen ALM tools’ tracking and reporting facilities.
“We are pleased to announce our collaboration with Tasktop around the Borland StarTeam Connector, which augments our next release of StarTeam 12.0 with new capabilities that are often requested by our customers,” said Archie Roboostoff, Borland Portfolio Director at Micro Focus. “Micro Focus is committed to delivering leading edge developer experience, productivity and ALM solution interoperability and we see Tasktop as a key partner in extending StarTeam’s capabilities in these areas.”
Availability
The Tasktop Borland StarTeam Connector, both through Tasktop Dev and Tasktop Sync, will go into general availability on 16 Dec 2011. For more information please visit (http://tasktop.com/borland-starteam). To read the announcement blog post on the Tasktop Borland StarTeam Connector please visit: (http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/borland-starteam).
About Micro Focus
Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization, Testing and Management software enables customers’ business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com (www.microfocus.com) .
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About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies aims to transform the productivity of software delivery by unifying Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and empowering developers with task-focused tools. Tasktop invented the task-focused interface and created the popular Eclipse Mylyn project, which transformed the developer’s IDE experience to center around ALM tool-based collaboration. Building on top of Mylyn, Tasktop has been unifying the ALM landscape with its broad ecosystem of ALM partnerships that connect disparate tools from leading Agile, enterprise ALM and open source offerings. Tasktop’s Task Federation™ technology builds on this ecosystem to unify heterogeneous ALM stacks by allowing developers, testers and managers to work within their best-of-breed tools of choice, while automatically maintaining traceability and visibility across ALM artifacts. The company’s Tasktop Sync provides the only real-time bidirectional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers. Tasktop Dev is the developer-centric ALM interface for the Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs, making it dramatically easier for developers to work and collaborate, while keeping ALM tools up-to-date with development activity. For more information visit http://tasktop.com
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November 28, 2011
TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES NEW SYNC 2.0 PROVIDES ALM ARCHITECTURE MAPPING AND APPLICATION LIFECYCLE LINKING VIA OSLC
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 – 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 Federation™ 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.
“Complex sourcing has become the norm for most companies – including off-shoring and open source – and deployment across a multitude of platforms, such as mobile, embedded, cloud and on-premise, drives software development challenges,” said Melinda Ballou, program director for IDC’s Application lifecycle Management (ALM) service. “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.”
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 company’s Task Federation™ technology, Tasktop Sync brings task federation to ALM servers, by providing the only real-time, bi-directional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers. The company’s Tasktop Dev product line supports Tasktop Sync by federating tasks and other ALM artifacts on the developer’s Eclipse and Visual Studio desktops.
“Medium and large organizations’ 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,” said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. “Tasktop has spearheaded a new approach to connecting stakeholders in the application lifecycle, making it possible to capture an organization’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.” (To read Mik Kersten’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 Tasktop’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 Certified™ 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 Sync’s synchronization facilities to support live connectivity and embedding of ALM artifacts in a similar way that social networking tools can embed each other’s feeds (e.g., Twitter within Facebook).
New Features in Tasktop Sync 2.0 include:
• Sync Quick start wizard to dramatically reduce the time to set up the first synchronization.
• Visual editor for configuring synchronization mappings.
• Fine-grained and automated conflict resolution and handling.
• Full support for custom fields, rich text and wiki transformations, attachments and user mappings.
• Synchronization support for all common ALM artifacts, including defects, tasks, work items, test summaries and requirements.
• Unlimited mappings and repositories to connect large-scale ALM stacks with numerous servers and tools.
• Bi-directional synchronization of task associations, ALM artifact hierarchies, and complex fields
• Groovy-based scripting support for complex field transformations.
• 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 HP’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 Tasktop’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 developer’s IDE experience to center around ALM tool-based collaboration. Building on top of Mylyn, Tasktop has been unifying the ALM landscape with its broad ecosystem of ALM partnerships that connect disparate tools from leading Agile, enterprise ALM and open source offerings. Tasktop’s Task Federation™ technology builds on this ecosystem to unify heterogeneous ALM stacks by allowing developers, testers and managers to work within their best-of-breed tools of choice, while automatically maintaining traceability and visibility across ALM artifacts. The company’s Tasktop Sync provides the only real-time bidirectional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers. Tasktop Dev is the developer-centric ALM interface for the Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs, making it dramatically easier for developers to work and collaborate, while keeping ALM tools up-to-date with development activity. For more information visit http://tasktop.com
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Media Contact:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
O: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
M: 303-827-5164
November 21, 2011
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 – 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. Dobb’s 21st Annual Jolt Awards (http://drdobbs.com/joltawards) in the Coding category.
For the past 21 years, Dr. Dobb’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.
“We’re proud Dr. Dobb’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,” said Neelan Choksi, President & COO of Tasktop. “Today’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.”
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 tools’ tracking and reporting facilities. Building on the company’s Task Federation™ 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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Catapult PR-IR
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M: 303-827-5164
November 17, 2011
TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO OUTLINE AGILE ALM STRATEGIES WITH HP’S RAZIEL TABIB AT HP DISCOVER VIENNA 2011
Development professionals will learn how to manage the increasingly complex and heterogeneous set of tools and processes that make up today’s ALM practices
WHO: Mik Kersten – CEO and founder, Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)
Raziel Tabib – product line manager, Software, HP
WHAT: Managing Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Strategies
The reality of today’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 – 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).
November 10, 2011
TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO SHARE LESSONS LEARNED FROM LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN OPEN SOURCE ALM AT MICROSOFT ALM SUMMIT
Kersten to outline why ALM architectures must be untangled and legacy systems connected for modernization in ALM to occur
WHO: Mik Kersten – CEO and founder of Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)
Kersten is the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. At Tasktop he provides the technical vision behind Tasktop Dev for developer productivity and tool integration and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM synchronization.
WHAT: “ALM in the Jungle”
Tue., Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. Pacific
Over the past decade, many ALM stacks have shifted from vertically integrated silos to tangled and disconnected systems reminiscent of the London tube map. Layer upon layer of legacy, piecemeal Agile deployments and open source tools have brought traceability to a halt, forcing us into overloaded email inboxes and lengthy meetings for tracking delivery. The path forward is to either standardize the entire ALM stack, or to embrace heterogeneity. Either way, the ALM architecture must be untangled and the legacy connected for the modernization to happen. For inspiration, we can look to how ALM strategies have formed bottom-up in the very heterogeneous jungle of open source projects. Open source ALM combines distributed teams, heterogeneous stacks, resource constraints, massive amounts of stakeholder input, and an overload of cross-project dependencies. Despite these challenges, the velocity of many popular open source projects is measurably higher than that of their enterprise counterparts. In this talk, we will examine the key lessons learned from the latest developments in open source ALM, and examine how to apply the practices, ALM architecture patterns and strategies for embracing heterogeneity in order to help pave a path for your Agile and ALM modernization efforts.
WHERE: Microsoft ALM Summit (http://www.alm-summit.com/home.aspx) Microsoft Campus Redmond, WA
INFO: For more information and to arrange an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or by email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).
November 4, 2011
TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO OUTLINE OPEN SOURCE APPROACHES TO ENTERPRISE AGILE AT AGILE BEST PRACTICES CONFERENCE EAST
Many facets of open source development that align with dynamics and challenges of enterprise Agile processes can be leveraged by development teams
WHO: Mik Kersten – CEO and founder of Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)
Kersten is the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. At Tasktop he provides the technical vision behind Tasktop Dev for developer productivity and tool integration and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM synchronization.
WHAT: “Ten Great Practices Learned from Open Source Projects”
Open source development combines distributed teams, resource constraints and an overload of end-user input. Despite these challenges, the velocity of many popular open source projects is measurably higher than that of their enterprise counterparts. The time has come to take the lessons learned from open source and adapt them to enterprise Agile. Kersten begins with an examination of successful open source projects and their approaches to Agile delivery. He will then outline the overlap of open source approaches and Agile methods, identifying 10 great practices that Agile practitioners can apply to improve their collaboration and productivity. Each practice is grounded in empirical data that Kersten collected from public open source websites. To provide an intuitive appreciation for the open style of Agile delivery, he will illustrate with graphics and visual aids how open source collaboration evolves and grows over time. Attendees will learn novel strategies for connecting the Lean/Agile methodologies and open source development for large-scale enterprise projects.
WHEN: Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, 2:30 p.m. Eastern
WHERE: Agile Development Practices Conference East
Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando, FL
INFO: For more information or to arrange an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or by email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).
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October 3, 2011
TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO SHARE INSIGHTS INTO ALM AUTOMATION AND JAVA BUILD AND CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION AT JAVAONE 2011
Kersten to outline ALM Automation with Mylyn and Hudson, and moderate panel discussion on the Future of Java Build and Continuous Integration
WHO: Mik Kersten – CEO and founder of Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)
Kersten is the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. At Tasktop he provides the technical vision behind Tasktop Dev for developer productivity and tool integration and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM synchronization.
WHAT: “Future of Java Build and Continuous Integration”
Mon., Oct. 3, 2011, 11 a.m. Pacific in Hotel Nikko – Nikko Ballroom II/III
Not long ago, developers built and deployed Java applications with brittle scripts and builds invoked from developers’ desktops. Given the complexity of today’s applications and the shift of the deployment destination from data center to cloud, Java build is due for an overhaul. The increased roles of DevOps, Agile planning and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) are putting new requirements on the automation needed in the modern build stack, while the rapid adoption of Hudson is making clear the central role of Continuous Integration (CI) as the hub of a Java application development and deployment. This panel will debate approaches to modernizing the build, CI and ALM infrastructure to help scale the productivity of development teams and leverage the latest array of build, test and deployment solutions.
“ALM Automation with Mylyn and Hudson”
Tues., Oct. 4, 2011, noon – 1 p.m. Pacific in Parc 55 – Divisidero
With the shift to PaaS and a new breed of open source ALM tools, the deployment loop of enterprise apps is going through its biggest transition since the creation of Java. Kersten will explore connecting the enterprise Java stack to cloud deployment via task-focused continuous integration based on Hudson. Distributed version control systems, code review and Agile planning, based on the Eclipse Mylyn interoperability platform, can be used to create a new level of connectivity and automation between the team and the running application. This talk outlines a roadmap for transforming productivity by connecting developers’ desktops to the release, and automating all the steps in between, from provisioning the IDE to monitoring the running application.
WHERE: JavaOne 2011 booth (#5004)
San Francisco, CA
INFO: Tasktop is exhibiting at JavaOne in booth #5004. 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).
September 27, 2011
TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN PRESENTS WEBINAR ON DEPLOYING TASKTOP SYNC TO UNIFY HETEROGENEOUS ALM STACKS
Webinar outlines how enterprise software organizations can integrate and synchronize heterogeneous ALM stacks to remove silos and improve collaboration and productivity
WHO: Mik Kersten – CEO and founder of Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)
Kersten is the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. At Tasktop he provides the technical vision behind Tasktop Dev for developer productivity and tool integration and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM synchronization.
WHAT: Synchronizing the ALM Stack for Enterprise Development Webinar
In modern application development and delivery, heterogeneous best-of-breed ALM stacks have become the norm. Driven by open source, outsourcing, remote development and testing, Agile tools, IT decentralization, and in larger organizations, mergers and acquisitions, tool fragmentation is here to stay. In today’s competitive environment, there is little incentive for software vendors to provide more than check-box integration solutions, making it nearly impossible for organizations to gain traceability and visibility – from requirements to source code. During this webinar, Kersten will outline successful strategies and demonstrate how Tasktop Sync solves these challenges. He will show how Tasktop Sync connects development, QA, and Agile project management together through its industry-standard Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework. Unlike previous approaches to ALM synchronization, Tasktop Sync provides real-time synchronization, automated conflict resolution and support for more than two dozen ALM systems. Building on Tasktop’s Task FederationTM technology, Tasktop Sync ensures that each stakeholder has access to the data that they need within their tool of choice.
WHEN: Wed., Sept 28, 9 – 10 a.m. PST
INFO: To register for this webinar please visit: (http://tinyurl.com/3o4a5dw). 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.
August 5, 2011
TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO PRESENT WITH HP’S VICTORIA VOINIGESCU AT AGILE 2011 CONFERENCE
Kersten and Voinigescu to explain why continuous delivery loop fails to take into account the need for bi-directional communication with quality assurance
WHO: Mik Kersten
CEO of Tasktop Technologies
Creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project
Tasktop Technologies
Victoria Voinigescu
Product Manager
HP Software
WHAT: “Solving the 1-10-100 Problem: Extending Continuous Delivery to QA and Ops”
In many medium and large organizations, friction between Agile application development, quality assurance, and operation teams kills productivity. During their presentation, Kersten and Voinigescu will discuss how the typical continuous delivery loop fails to take into account the need for bi-directional communication with QA. The growing role of IT operations in the application lifecycle means it needs to be connected to the same continuous delivery loop, and be linked directly into the Agile planning processes. The presenters will explore how extending the collaboration loop to operations potentially flattens the exponential 1-10-100 cost curve into a linear one.
WHEN: Wed., Aug., 10, 2011
3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Mountain
WHERE: Agile 2011
(http://agile2011.agilealliance.org/)
Grand America Hotel
555 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Stage: Testing and Quality Assurance
Venue: LA: Idaho Room
CONTACT: For more information or to set up an interview with Mik Kersten, please contact Christie Denniston at Catapult PR-IR 303-581-7760, ext. 13 or (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).
June 17, 2011
TASKTOP’S BENJAMIN MUSKALLA TO PRESENT ON MYLYN TASK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AT JAZOON 2011 CONFERENCE IN ZURICH
Tasktop continues to transform the Eclipse IDE into a productivity hub for Agile ALM
WHO: Benjamin Muskalla, Senior Software Developer
Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)
WHAT: Muskalla will present two talks at the upcoming Jazoon 2011 Conference (http://jazoon.com/)
Eclipse Mylyn: Redefining the “I” of the IDE
Tuesday, June 21
In less than four years, the Mylyn task-focused interface has evolved from its inception on a university whiteboard to support of developers using IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC), ClearQuest, ClearCase, Microsoft Team Foundation Server and HP Quality Center. Not long ago, the notion of a tool that hides more of the program than it shows sounded crazy. To some, it probably still does. However, as Mylyn continues its rapid adoption developers are making the next big step in the evolution of the IDE clear – tasks are more important than files, focus is more important than features and task-focused collaboration yields the biggest productivity boost since code completion. This talk will provide an overview of how teams can get the most out of using Mylyn within the current ALM tool stack for enterprise Java, C/C++, .NET, System z and PHP development.
Tired of SVN? Pimp your productivity with Git, Gerrit, Hudson and Mylyn
Wednesday, June 22
Each year the organizers of Jazoon recognize bright, young (aged 26 or younger) Java, .NET and Open Source developers through its Jazoon Rookie award. Muskalla received this award at last year’s conference and will “defend” his status with the following presentation:
The Git versioning system is being increasingly adopted by the developer community. Using Git for version control makes Gerrit the natural choice for code reviews. Source code, requirements and build artifacts also play an important role in the development cycle and for many projects Hudson and Bugzilla are the first choices. While these tools enable exciting development process improvements, adapting to new workflows and learning how to push, pull and fetch can be daunting. For tasks, Mylyn already streamlines workflow by providing first-class task integration from within the IDE. The recent Mylyn project restructuring will now enable the same integrated workflows for code reviews, builds and version control systems like Git. In this talk, Muskalla will demonstrate how the tools available in the Mylyn project work together to seamlessly integrate development artifacts in Eclipse – all the way from tracking requirement to the final merge into the production branch.
WHERE: Jazoon 2011 Conference (http://jazoon.com/)
Zurich
CONTACT: 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).
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