TeamForge for Free…That’s Right, Free. With CloudForge.

CloudForge News TeamForge
Posted by Bill Portelli
May 21, 2013

Tuesday was a big day for CollabNet. We announced some long-planned disruptive changes to CloudForge™ pricing and packaging. A key component of these changes was making TeamForge® available as an entry point to all CloudForge users. The initial feedback on this development has been extremely positive with strong press, analyst and partner feedback as well as large spikes in both new and free users. Of course, CollabNet continues to ride the market wave of development and deployment moving to the public and privately managed cloud. But we’ve had CloudForge for a while, so this begs the question as to “what’s different?” Basically, … LEARN MORE »

Getting Started with CollabNet GitEye

Git
Posted by Mark Phippard
May 14, 2013

We released GitEye a couple weeks ago. See my earlier blog post Introducing CollabNet GitEye if you missed it. This is a followup blog post that is aimed at new users and should help get you started using GitEye as your Git client. I have created three initial videos that walk through different aspects of using GitEye. The videos are all short, just a few minutes, so you should be able to just watch the videos you need. For example, the first video shows how to setup an SSH key. If you do not need help with this, or do … LEARN MORE »

Forecasting in Agile

Agile
Posted by Caleb Brown
May 13, 2013

This question came in and I was asked to see about answering it: We are struggling with how to forecast feature delivery to stakeholders / customers in Agile – esp for a client data migration project where we seem to keep finding bugs and exceptions. How is forecasting handled in Agile? I spend a lot time answering this question, primarily because our software ScrumWorks assists in doing this in a variety of ways, and it’s my job to sell ScrumWorks. The underlying concepts and methods are not software dependent however, just easier. So I am going to run through some … LEARN MORE »

CollabNet TeamForge Datamart

TeamForge
Posted by Vishwajyoti Bhattacharjee
May 13, 2013

Definition and Purpose A datamart, generally spoken, is a repository containing a subset of data collected in a data warehouse. It’s usually deployed to simplify and accelerate information access, often for a variety of stakeholders, which may include internal and external stakeholders. A datamart may support tasks such as data analysis, content presentation, reporting, trending analysis etc. Often datamarts don’t exist in isolation, however alongside other datamarts, each one focusing on specific business needs. About TeamForge Datamart Historical data can be reported for analytic purposes, and trending reports can be generated. Users can write ad-hoc queries or use many of … LEARN MORE »

New Agile Guru Q&A Sessions!

Agile
Posted by Cameron Bernard
May 7, 2013

Curious, anxious, or just plain frustrated with Agile? Be calm- our Agile Guru’s are here to help! In these complimentary 1-hour sessions, our Scrum trainers will cover the most daunting issues that Agile practitioners like yourself are experiencing, suggest solutions, provide best practices for adoption, and provide you with knowledge to accelerate your organization’s path to success. CollabNet’s Agile Gurus are some of the most versed Scrum trainers around and each trainer has an abundance of first-hand examples that they would love to share with their peers. Each trainer’s perspective can be used to apply to a variety of different situations, so … LEARN MORE »

Matching identities across ALM boundaries: Dynamic user lookup in CollabNet Connect

TeamForge
Posted by selvakumar
May 3, 2013

ALM integration challenge #1: Same users but different accounts in different systems CollabNet Connector Framework (CCF) aka CollabNet Connect/sync is an Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) middle-ware that integrates and synchronizes data between CollabNet TeamForge and various ALM platforms like HP Quality Center/ALM 11, ScrumWorks Pro, MS Team Foundation Server and Rational ClearQuest. One of the most common use cases we encounter when doing artifact synchronization with CCF is that user accounts are not identical on source and target systems. A user called John Doe may have an account jdoe in TeamForge and john_doe in Quality Center. To complicate things, certain users may not even … LEARN MORE »

More Tips on Subversion

Subversion
Posted by Vishwajyoti Bhattacharjee
April 29, 2013

In my last post I had shared a few tips on subversion addressing issues that I felt were challenging. To add to that list I would like to share a few more. One of the most common issues that I had encountered (while working with subversion and TortoiseSVN) is that the working copies stop displaying the shell overlays (icons), and sometimes a few icons may appear and the other icons might not. The Windows explorer sometimes ignores refresh notifications. The reason behind such behavior is too many application notifications that can jam TortoiseSVN. So to avoid this, the explorer sometimes ignores … LEARN MORE »

Introducing CollabNet GitEye

CloudForge Git TeamForge
Posted by Mark Phippard
April 23, 2013

Today I have the pleasure of announcing a new graphical client for Git that we have been working on — CollabNet GitEye. GitEye is a Java GUI client for Git written on top of the Eclipse RCP framework. We are providing downloads for Windows, OSX and Linux though we can theoretically produce builds for a few other operating systems as well if the demand is there. Leveraging the Eclipse RCP framework allows us to provide a native GUI experience on all of these different operating systems, while still benefiting from the cross platform nature of Java. This approach also allows … LEARN MORE »

Spring Awakening – New Look and Feel for Our TeamForge Git Integration

Git TeamForge
Posted by johannes nicolai
April 18, 2013

As Spring finally arrived in town, we thought it’s time to give our Git repo browser a fresh new look and released a new point upgrade of our TeamForge Git Integration. Apart from the fresh look, we also took this opportunity to fix some bugs reported in the last quarter. For further details, please refer to our release notes. If you dig deeper, you will figure out that we also added some more features to our repo browser, namely blaming support for changed files, gravatar support and linkification for TeamForge artifacts. If your commit message or file content contains a reference … LEARN MORE »

BED Time Stories – Sharing Gerrit, Jenkins and Eclipse Knowledge

Agile DevOps/CI Git
Posted by johannes nicolai
April 11, 2013

We had a really great time on BED – Berlin Expert Days last Thursday and Friday. The conference was very well attended – we heard about 700 participants – and the talks gave invaluable insights into what’s hot in Java, DevOps, NoSQL and everything related to it. Among many other things we learnt how SoundCloud scales (technically as well as organizationally, Ruby has already crossed its peak as new stuff is written in Scala), why Adam Bien typically removes 60 percent of production code on his gigs and how ImmobilienScout24 managed to establish a DevOps culture by encouraging every single … LEARN MORE »