Subversion community still #1

Clearly there’s something or other pretty powerful, pretty effective, pretty cool, and pretty popular about Subversion!

Innovation – Not Just For DISA Any More

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 [...]

CollabNet TeamForge Integrated Applications: More Than Ever Before

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 [...]

A community is not a committee

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, [...]

Your native guide in the ALM forest

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, [...]

Enough of this “open core” confusion!

I think what we’re missing here is an exploration of the delicate line between “crippleware” and “added value.”

Drilling down into your site’s usage

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 [...]

What’s behind Subversion’s dominance?

Failure within an enterprise is never “cheap.”

Dr. Dobbs survey finds Subversion #1. But maybe that’s too conservative?

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 [...]

Show your tasks in a calendar

From MASSForge, the software collaboration environment for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, comes a great little add-on to your CollabNet TeamForge site.