Close the loop between Software Project Planning and Development
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012, 9am-10am PDT
Presenters: Daniel Morris, Polarion Software, and Benjamin Muskalla, Tasktop Technologies
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The webinar showed how to:
- Improve project visibility for all team members
- Drive productivity by connecting the IDE with requirements management, development planning and reporting
- Foster innovation, communication and knowledge transfer by bringing virtual teams together in one integrated platform
- Get the most modern and integrated developer experience for Polarion
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Getting ALM2.0+ to work
Breaking down the silos to provide an integrated value chain for software delivery and beyond
Thursday, April 19th, 2012, 9am-10am PDT
Hosted by: Mik Kersten, Founder and CEO of Tasktop Technologies
featuring Dave West, Vice President, Research Director at Forrester Research, Inc.
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In this talk, featured speaker Dave West, Vice President, Research Director at Forrester described the reality of ALM adoption. West and Mik Kersten, Founder and CEO of Tasktop Technologies presented patterns for successful ALM adoption for mid and large-scale organization, and highlighted how organizations can incrementally obtain the benefits of ALM by connecting siloes, one stakeholder at a time.
This talk:
- Introduced ALM2.0+, its promise and its challenges
- Defined a series of ALM integration patterns
- Described how successful organizations are delivering software more efficiently with ALM2.0+ today
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Transforming Application Development:
Bringing Dev and Test Closer Together with Application Lifecycle Intelligence (ALI)
Thursday, April 5, 2012, 10am PDT other time zones
Presenters: Ronit Soen, Senior Product Marketing Manager
HP Software, and Wesley Coelho, Director of Business Development, Tasktop Technologies
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Today's application teams are under immense pressure to accelerate time-to-market while meeting increasingly complex product feature, functionality and platform demands.
Join HP and Tasktop to learn how to connect application lifecycle management (ALM) systems with development tools and developers' integrated development environments (IDEs) in order to increase both predictability and collaboration and gain insights that make application development and testing more efficient, agile and quality-oriented.
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In this session we will explore how to:
- Bring ALL of your developers – regardless of their tools, technologies, locations and methodologies – into the ALM fold
- Get out-of-box measurements to streamline the Agile sprint
- Allow developers to spend more time generating value to the business rather than dealing with administrative tasks
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Transforming development visibility and productivity with Borland StarTeam 12.0 and Tasktop
Tues February 7th, 2012, 8-9am PST, 11am-12noon EST
Presented by Mik Kersten, CEO Tasktop Technologies
Stuart McGill, Borland General Manager
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StarTeam 12 is here with full Tasktop Dev and Sync support. The new StarTeam release, together with Tasktop, includes a host of new features designed to benefit both developers and management.
Now it is easier than ever to extend the interoperability and co-existence between ALM tools and asset types across software development teams, while management benefit from improved insight into delivery goals and their predictability.
In this webinar you will discover the benefits of our new collaboration, and: |
- Discover how StarTeam customers benefit from Borland's strategic partnership with Tasktop
- Learn how Tasktop Sync delivers visibility by integrating StarTeam with your other ALM tools
- See how developers get the most modern and integrated experience for StarTeam with Tasktop Dev
Learn more about Tasktop's Borland StarTeam connector.
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Making ALM Work Across Multi-Vendor and Open Source Solutions With OSLC
Thurs, January 19th 2012, 8-9am PST
Robert Elves, co-founder of Tasktop Technologies
 For most medium and large organizations the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) stack has become so diverse and disconnected that the traceability and cross-stakeholder collaboration limitations have become a substantial bottleneck for software delivery. OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration – see http://open-services.net ) aims to alleviate this by providing open specifications for diverse systems to communicate and support integrated scenarios. While a growing number of systems implement the specification, it will take more time for OSLC to be widely supported by all leading ALM solution vendors. But there is no need to wait for increased OSLC adoption. Join this webinar to learn how Tasktop is harnessing the thriving open Eclipse Mylyn community of ALM integrations to realize the OSLC value proposition by providing broad multi-vendor OSLC support today.
Speaker Bio:
Robert Elves is co-founder of Tasktop Technologies where he is leading delivery of OSLC-enabled integration technologies. Robert has served on the OSLC specification committee since its inception and participates in the OSLC CM, Automation, and Core working groups. In the Eclipse community, Robert is a committer on the Mylyn ALM integration framework as well as the Lyo project, which is focused on providing an SDK to enable adoption of OSLC specifications. At Tasktop, Robert leverages OSLC to improve communication, traceability and reporting across heterogeneous software development solutions including IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational ClearQuest, HP Quality Center, Microsoft TFS, and many others.
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Modernize your ALM Architecture with Tasktop Sync 2.0
Tues, Dec 6th, 9-10am PST
Dr. Mik Kersten, Tasktop CEO, Founder of Eclipse Mylyn
In this must-see webinar, Tasktop CEO Mik Kersten will provide the first in-depth view of Tasktop Sync 2.0. Tasktop Sync 2.0 provides a set of industry-first facilities for connecting your ALM stack. With the massive response to Tasktop Sync 1.0, we have focused this release on features for capturing your ALM architecture in the Sync tool in order to connect all stakeholders with real-time traceability and collaboration. Our goal is to help you transform your ALM stack by allowing you to tailor the best of open source, Agile, in-house, and enterprise ALM solutions.
Tasktop Sync 2.0 provides new wizards and tools that allow ALM architects and administrators to connect to ALM repositories, introspect repository schemas, and connect previously isolated tools with ALM artifact mappings. In additional to synchronization, Tasktop Sync 2.0 provides a new lifecycle linking facility built on the OSLC ALM interoperability protocols, which acts as a broker for connecting ALM artifacts across Tasktop Certified™ Mylyn connectors. For example, organizations using IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools in their ALM stack, such as Rational Team Concert (RTC) and Rational Requirements Composer (RRC), can now link to artifacts across our supported third party and open source ALM tools. This new feature extends Tasktop Sync's bi-directional synchronization facilities to support live linking of ALM artifacts, in a way similar to how social networking tools embed each other's feeds.
The webinar will conclude with a conceptual overview of Tasktop's Task Federation™ technologies and best practices for connecting and modernizing your ALM stack, from business analyst to developer. An overview of what's new in Tasktop Dev 2.2 will show you how to bring this new connectivity and traceability to developers. For example, Tasktop Dev 2.2 builds on HP's Application Lifecycle Intelligence feature to provide instant workspace provisioning for developers using Eclipse. No matter what mix of developer, QA, Agile and requirements management tools, Tasktop Sync and Tasktop Dev empower developers and other stakeholders to use the tools that make them most productive while ensuring that the ALM artifacts are automatically and seamlessly connected to ease collaboration, reporting and traceability.
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Tasktop Sync 1.0 Webinar with Mik Kersten
Wednesday, Sept 28th, 9-10am PST
Dr. Mik Kersten, Tasktop CEO, Founder of Eclipse Mylyn
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.
There is no incentive for software vendors who are increasingly competitive to provide more than check-box integration solutions, making it impossible for any organization to get traceability and visibility from requirements to source code.
During the webinar, Mylyn creator and Tasktop CEO Mik Kersten showed how Tasktop Sync solves these challenges. Kersten showed how Tasktop Sync connects development, QA, and agile project management together. Tasktop Sync provides the only enterprise-scale ALM synchronization solution, built on the 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 over two dozen ALM systems. Building on Tasktop's Task Federation™ technology, Tasktop Sync ensures that each stakeholder has access to the data that they need within their tool of choice.
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Cross-Repository Agile Planning
Thursday, May 26, 9-10am PDT
Doug Janzen, Senior Software Developer and Project Manager at Tasktop Technologies
With the release of Mylyn 3.5 and Tasktop 2.0 in March 2011, a critical problem we tried to address
was helping companies and development teams deal with heterogeneity. Tasktop's cross-repository
Agile planning tools are a perfect example of this.
In this presentation, Doug Janzen explained why it is
so important to have Agile tools be able to reach across repositories to be truly usable by companies.
He also demonstrated how Tasktop's cross-repository Agile planning works highlighting how
sub-tasks in a user story or on a Scrum board can have dependencies on issues from other systems.
Lastly, Doug highlighted how all
of this information can be available from within the Eclipse IDE as well as offline.
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Getting Your Workload Under Control: Using Mylyn/Tasktop to Organize Your Tasks in CFEclipse or CFBuilder
May 19th, 12 noon PDT
Dr. David Shepherd, Senior Developer at Tasktop Technologies and author of task-focused best practices blog series
In this webinar for the Online ColdFusion Meetup, Dr. David Shepherd explained how
developers are currently facing a crisis of productivity. They're spending more time on meta-work (e.g., searching, handling interruptions, communicating, switching applications, etc.) than on actual work (e.g., editing code, testing, debugging, etc.). This talk focused on eliminating many of the common time-wasters from the developers' day by using Mylyn (Open Source Framework) or Tasktop (Commercial Extension).
David discussed how bringing tasks into the IDE saves time and enables task-specific views of source code. These and
other highlights, demonstrated in commonly used ColdFusion IDEs, provided a roadmap for developers on how to optimize their own workday and leave work on time.
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Code Reviews Don't Have to SUCK
Thursday, May 5, 9am PDT
Roy Paterson, SmartBear, and Dr. David Shepherd, Tasktop
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We all know code reviews are good for software quality like vegetables are for your diet.
Regular reviews help developers share expertise, and find bugs earlier avoiding the 10x increase
in the cost of correcting defects in production.
Still, it's easy to put off code reviews when under
pressure no matter how counter-productive to quality that is.
In this webinar, Dr. David Shepherd from Tasktop and Roy Paterson from
SmartBear demonstrated the latest in code review best practices, task focused development,
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Best Practices covered included:
- Using Eclipse Mylyn task-focused programming to speed up code reviews directly from Eclipse
- Automatically viewing and tracking only relevant code changes
- Freeing up time by managing a central list of coding, reviews, and other project tasks using Mylyn
- How to effectively and efficiently communicate with multiple code reviewers
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Agile Workflow in the Mylyn Framework: Tasktop, Perforce, and Eclipse
Wednesday, April 27, 11am PDT
Dr. David Shepherd, Senior Developer at Tasktop Technologies and author of task-focused best practices blog series, and
Randy DeFauw, Technical Marketing Manager at Perforce Software
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Agile is all about working smarter - creating rapid change to deliver business value, fast.
Tasktop's Mylyn framework coordinates developer activity using tasks and stories from popular Agile management tools such as VersionOne, JIRA and RallyDev. Mylyn's task based workflow, integrated with Perforce's best-of-breed version control, allows developers to focus on and respond to change faster in highly dynamic and collaborative environments.
In this webinar, David Shepherd, from Tasktop, and Randy DeFauw, from Perforce, demonstrated how you can use Tasktop and Perforce to support an Agile workflow without leaving your IDE so you can focus on your tasks, not your tools.
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They demonstrated how:
- Tasktop's integrated Task List keeps developers up-to-date on their tasks without causing them to leave the IDE.
- Developers need Perforce to manage the rapid change in source code, dealing with dependencies between projects and merging changes from concurrent development.
- Tasktop and Perforce integrate, automatically associating tasks with versioned assets and allowing developers to easily review each other's pending changes.
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Introducing Tasktop 2.0
Thursday, March 31st, 9-10am PDT
Dr. Mik Kersten, Tasktop CEO, Founder of Eclipse Mylyn
In this webinar, Dr. Mik Kersten showcased how Tasktop 2.0 can bring the benefits
of task-focused collaboration to your Agile development and planning activities.
For developers, Tasktop 2.0 provides the Eclipse Mylyn and ALM integration needed
to keep you productive in your home environment: the IDE. For technical leads and
product owners, Tasktop 2.0 provides the first cross-repository planning tools,
all available from your IDE or from the desktop-based client, with planning information
stored in your existing Agile and task and defect tracking tools.
In addition,
Tasktop 2.0 introduced a new task federation facility for linking and synchronizing
plans across your various Agile, enterprise and open source ALM systems, ensuring
that you always have automatic traceability between tasks, source code and builds.
This webinar summarized some of the main features of Tasktop 2.0, including new Mylyn
connectors for Accept360, HP's Agile Accelerator, Polarion and Hudson/Jenkins.
Mik also showcased Tasktop for Eclipse and gave an overview of Tasktop Dev for Visual Studio
as well as the standalone Tasktop desktop app.
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HP ALM and Quality Center Integration with Tasktop Dev Enterprise
March 17th, 9am-10am PDT
Wesley Coelho, Director of Business Development at Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Dev Enterprise now ships with a HP ALM connector that provides IDE integration to effortlessly keep Quality Center
up to date and stay in the loop as requirements and defects are updated. Furthermore, developers
will now be able to take full advantage of Mylyn's task-focused interface technology that provides one-click multitasking and interruption recovery.
In this webinar, we showed a variety of demos that highlighted the functionality in Tasktop's HP ALM connector
focusing on integration into the IDE and other ALM products, collaboration between teams across geographies, and significant
team productivity gains.
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Introducing Tasktop Dev for Visual Studio
March 10th, 9am-10am PDT
Dr. David Shepherd, Senior Developer at Tasktop Technologies and author of task-focused best practices blog series
In this webinar, Dr. David Shepherd discussed how the new Tasktop Dev for Visual Studio tool allows .NET and Visual Studio developers to bring HP
and open-source ALM solutions into the Visual
Studio UI to seamlessly integrate work items alongside coding activities. For developers, this means spending more of your day inside Visual Studio
where you are productive. For managers, this means a much more up-to-date Agile or ALM repository. Dr. Shepherd demonstrated how to bring work
items into Visual Studio so that developers can update them as they work. For team leads
and managers he demonstrated how Tasktop's tooling easily scales to thousands of tasks, keeping them abreast of their team's progress.
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What's new in Eclipse Mylyn 3.5: Agile, ALM and developer tools
February 24th, 9am-10am PDT
Dr. Mik Kersten, Tasktop CEO, Founder of Eclipse Mylyn
Mylyn has morphed from a hot new developer tool to an entrenched top-level Eclipse project that provides the
developer integration and ALM vendor federation that's critical for organizations deploying Agile. In this webinar,
Mik Kersten will review how the new task management, code review, SCM and continuous integration sub-projects of Mylyn
are making it dramatically easier for developers to work with Agile, enterprise scale, and open source ALM systems.
Mik will present strategies for deploying Mylyn at your organization to get the most out of the collaboration and
traceability tools that it provides. The presentation will conclude with an overview of the growing number
ALM integrations for available for Mylyn, and demonstrate the latest productivity features made available as part of
Mylyn 3.5 and its ecosystem.
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Accept360: How to Increase Product Development Productivity by 50-100%
February 23th, 9am-10am PDT
Wesley Coelho, Director of Business Development at Tasktop Technologies
A new system integration paradigm is enabling an unprecedented level of collaboration and
visibility throughout the innovation process, from engaging customers and optimizing product decisions, to
maximizing developer efficiency to get better products out to market faster. Join Wesley Coelho from Tasktop
Technologies and Hari Candadai of Accept Corporation for an overview of the end-to-end process with special
focus on enabling productive, transparent collaboration between product owners and developers to maximize the output from R&D investments.
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Integrating HP ALM and IBM Rational Team Concert using Tasktop and Mylyn
January 20th, 8am-9am PDT
Robert Elves, Tasktop Dev Enterprise Integrations Architect and Eclipse Mylyn Committer
Organizations deploying IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) alongside HP ALM have been lacking a robust
mechanism for federating and synchronizing defects and work items between IBM Rational products and HP ALM and Quality Center.
Developers often have to enter information regarding their activities into multiple systems and managers lack the visibility and
traceability that is needed to be effective. In this webinar, Robert Elves showed the audience how Tasktop Dev Enterprise can be
used to provide IDE integration and synchronization for RTC and HP ALM to
improve development team productivity and collaboration between developers and QA and provide visibility into both RTC and HP ALM.
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