Strides in Federated ALM-Mahindra Satyam and TeamForge 7.0 to the Rescue

The software development community has struggled over the years with the debate between best-in-class tools versus integrated all-in-one suites. Evidence is showing that at least at this point in time, a hybrid seems to be winning out. That hybrid approach allows organizations (or teams within those organizations) to choose best in class point tools, while running those tools on a common framework that delivers some or all of the benefits of an integrated suite. Two things need to be considered: The underlying software development framework must embrace multiple tools, multiple methodologies, and be ready to support geographically distributed teams. Artifacts … LEARN MORE »

TeamForge: An Essential Cog Driving CloudForge

Agile CloudForge TeamForge
Posted by Patrick Wolf
June 12, 2013

Recently, we opened up our CloudForge platform to allow unlimited free TeamForge projects; previously only available to CloudForge Agile Enterprise subscribers. This alone represents a big leap forward in the functionality available within CloudForge: issue tracking, document storage, wiki, and discussion forums within a single platform integrated with subversion and Git. However, we also took this opportunity to make a few sizable changes in our implementation of TeamForge to better integrate TeamForge with CloudForge and improve your user experience. The first new feature that users will encounter is single sign-on (SSO) between CloudForge and TeamForge. Whereas CloudForge has been the administrative … LEARN MORE »

Taking Software Lifecycle Integration (SLI) to the Next Layer: Welcome to CCF 2.2

News TeamForge
Posted by johannes nicolai
June 6, 2013

CCF aka CollabNet Connect /synch has been CollabNet’s Software Lifecycle Integration (SLI) solution to seamlessly connect various tools with our ALM platform TeamForge for quite a while already. Over the years, its architecture evolved from a local Windows-only client, to a stable, distributed, platform independent solution. CCF has always been Open Source and defined a common artifact data model from the very beginning. The steps how to write your own synchronization engine are well documented, and we have quite a selection of community integrations, among them MS TeamFoundation Server, Atlassian Jira, Rational ClearQuest (and of course our officially supported integrations … LEARN MORE »

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 »