Subversion community still #1
Clearly there’s something or other pretty powerful, pretty effective, pretty cool, and pretty popular about Subversion!
Clearly there’s something or other pretty powerful, pretty effective, pretty cool, and pretty popular about Subversion!
In The New York Times opinion pages, The U.S.S. Prius – NYTimes.com,Thomas Friedman reports Department of Defense work on a number of green power initiatives. Just as at Forge.Mil, the DoD seems to be putting real effort into well thought out, efficient and promising ideas, leading the way for government in general, and arguably even [...]
Despite all the features of CollabNet TeamForge, sometimes you just need one more thing. Maybe it’s some in-house application you’ve developed, maybe it’s a legacy service you’re migrating from, maybe something else, but from time to time, you need to integrate some other web application into the TeamForge project. Jack RepenningJack Repenning is Chief Technology [...]
From time to time, you'll hear people disparage communities (open-source and otherwise) as "design by committee." But it's just not true! Communities are the antithesis of committees. Communities get everything right that committees so notoriously get wrong: Community members are here because they're interested, not because it's their job. Community members are here to contribute, [...]
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is hard. If you're reading this blog, you probably already know that. ALM is not primarily about the individual tools (the "trees"), important as they are, it's all about the forest: pushing business management into wider and wider expanses of the development process. Vendors and practitioners have been driving traceability, governance, [...]
I think what we’re missing here is an exploration of the delicate line between “crippleware” and “added value.”
How can you understand how your CollabNet site is really being used? This simple question has many implications but few answers. Generic web monitoring tools can do their generic best, but they don’t know anything about the structure of your CollabNet site and the CollabNet product: projects, components, and actions are all key to how [...]
Failure within an enterprise is never “cheap.”
An analysis of several Forrester surveys, by Forrester analyst Jeffrey Hammond, was recently published in Dr.Dobb's online (www.ddj.com). The analysis compares what developers say about their work environments with what their IT managers think is going on. Hammond calls out "seven trends that could have major implications for your IT strategy." Looks good to me [...]
From MASSForge, the software collaboration environment for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, comes a great little add-on to your CollabNet TeamForge site.