Tasktop Newsletter - September 2010


Tasktop recently announced a new Agile Planner for Eclipse and a partnership with Accept Corporation to develop a Mylyn connector for Accept360. The open source Mylyn framework has now become a top level project, which recognizes its role as the de facto standard ALM integration framework for Eclipse.

Read on for more details, news, events, and tips.

Introducing the Tasktop Agile Planner

The Tasktop Agile Planner leverages Tasktop's Mylyn connectors to offer Agile teams the ability to manage existing defect and project management systems with planning support that spans across multiple ALM systems. The planner provides an Eclipse-based native user interface and key features include release and iteration planning, a task board, burn down charts, and integrated time reporting.
Learn more.


Mylyn promoted to top level Eclipse project

We're excited to announce that Mylyn has become one of the 13 top-level Eclipse projects among more than 250 individual projects. A top level project is defined as "an open source, robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, industry platform for the development of highly integrated tools and rich client applications". Newly created subprojects have been established under the Mylyn umbrella such as "Tasks", "SCM", "Build", and "Review".
Learn More.


Tasktop partners with Accept to deliver
Accept360 connector

The new connector will be bundled with Tasktop Pro and provide direct access to Accept360 Agile from within the Eclipse IDE. This will provide the first seamless integration between day-to-day development activity and product portfolio and innovation management. With the connector, Accept360 teams will benefit from an unprecedented level of visibility from the developer's desktop up to R&D decision-makers via a single, integrated solution that spans the entire product innovation management process.
Watch the webinar.


Tasktop will be participating in several events over the coming weeks. Contact us to schedule a time to meet with a member of the team.

 

JAX London, September 27-29th
London, England

Join us at JAX London where Tasktop's VP Engineering David Green will present a talk titled Mylyn 3.4: from Stack Trace to Scrum.

SpringOne, October 19-22
Chicago, USA

Meet us at the Tasktop booth at SpringOne or contact us to schedule a time to meet with a specific member of the Tasktop team.

Eclipse Summit Europe, November 2-4
Ludwigsburg, Germany

We'll be at Eclipse Summit Europe where Tasktop Software Developer and Mylyn committer Steffen Pingel will present a talk titled Simplifying update and extension install for RCP applications.

W-JAX, November 15-19th
Munich, Germany

Meet us at the Tasktop booth at W-JAX or contact us to schedule a time to meet with a specific member of the Tasktop team.

Neelan Choksi named Tasktop President and COO

Neelan Choksi brings extensive experience from his track record of successful leadership roles at technology companies. He most recently served as the CEO for Lexcycle, the company that developed Stanza, which became the most popular ebook reader for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Prior to Lexcycle, Neelan served as the COO for SpringSource, the venture-backed open source infrastructure software company behind the Spring Framework. This unique breadth of expertise provides Tasktop the experience needed to continue scaling its Agile and ALM offerings.
Learn more.


Create tasks from Outlook or Gmail messages

Email messages can be sent to Tasktop so that they appear in the integrated task list. This enables the message to be prioritized, scheduled, and activated so that task context can be captured. To configure an email connector, click new task > add task repository > select either Outlook or Gmail. You can then create queries that display Outlook messages in a given folder or Gmail messages with a given tag.

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You can also submit bugs or feature requests directly from your Tasktop software
via the "Help > Report Bug or Enhancement" menu item.

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