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Tasktop Connector for SmartBear CodeCollaborator

We have teamed up with SmartBear Software to provide a task-focused approach to code reviews using CodeCollaborator, a leading peer code review tool. Developers will now be able to manage their code reviews using the collaboration facilities of Eclipse Mylyn's Task List and use the knowledge capture facilities of the task-focused interface to streamline the code review processes.
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Tasktop for Visual Studio Beta

Tasktop for Visual Studio beta is now available for download. The latest build provides access to HP Quality Center and Bugzilla from the Visual Studio IDE. Give it a try and send us your feedback.
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Tasktop Enterprise Downloads

Tasktop's Enterprise version provides connectors for ALM solutions such as HP Quality Center, IBM Rational Team Concert, Microsoft TFS and more. Tasktop Enterprise is now available for download and evaluation directly from tasktop.com.
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Tasktop Top 5 Finalist for Best Employer

Tasktop has been named a top 5 finalist for the Best Employer award, which recognizes companies in the Canadian province of Britsh Coloumbia where Tasktop's Vancouver head office is located. It's an honor to have been named a finalist and we hope to take the top spot when the winner is announced on March 29th.

Mik Kersten's Ten predictions for 2011: Agile, ALM
and developer tools

With open source, Agile, cloud deployment and DevOps trending in 2011, the ALM space is poised to become as action packed as the Java app server space of yesteryear. Mik Kersten, Tasktop CEO and creator of Eclipse Mylyn, is posting a series of predictions on what to watch for in the coming months:

	Prediction #10: Agile adoption continues its managerial rise, developers get annoyed and cause a backlash
	Prediction #9: Majority of developers demand access to Agile/ALM tools from IDE, look elsewhere for pretty colours and oversized fonts
	Prediction #8: Eclipse and Visual Studio dominate the IDE market, become even more boring
	Prediction #7: Web-based code editors become viable, cloud-based IDE platforms remain a pipe dream
	Prediction #6: Continuous integration becomes central to deployment, Jenkins attacks Hudson with a chicken
	Prediction #5: Open source ALM tools continue to gain market share, give the development manager a migraine
	Prediction #4: The single vendor ALM stack becomes extinct in organizations with more than two developers
	Prediction #3: Git and distributed version control invade the enterprise, widespread panic and benefits follow

Introducing Tasktop for Visual Studio

Dr. David Shepherd, Senior Developer at Tasktop Technologies and author of the task-focused best practices blog series

Thursday, March 10th, 9am-10am PST (UTC-8)

In this webinar, Dr. David Shepherd will unveil how the new Tasktop for Visual Studio tool allows Microsoft .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 Microsoft Visual Studio where you are most productive. For managers, this means a much more up-to-date Agile or ALM repository. Dr. Shepherd will demonstrate how to bring work items into Visual Studio so that developers can update them as they work. For team leads and managers he will demonstrate how Tasktop's tooling easily scales to thousands of tasks, keeping them abreast of their team's progress.

HP Quality Center Integration with
Tasktop Enterprise

Wesley Coelho, Director of Business Development at Tasktop

Thursday, March 17th, 9am-10am PST (UTC-8)

Tasktop Enterprise now ships with a HP Quality Center and HP ALM connector that provides IDE and cross-repository integration that enables developers to easily keep Quality Center up to date and stay in the loop and requirements and defects are updated. Developers will also now be able to take full advantage of Mylyn's task-focused interface technology that provides one-click multitasking™ and interruption recovery. This webinar will demonstrate how the new connector improves developer productivity by integrating HP software with the IDE and other ALM products while facilitating collaboration for distributed teams.

Integrating IBM Rational Team Concert and HP Quality Center using Tasktop

Robert Elves, Tasktop Enterprise Integrations Architect and Eclipse Mylyn Committer

Organizations deploying IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) alongside HP Quality Center (QC) 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 will show the audience how Tasktop Enterprise can be used to provide IDE integration and synchronization for RTC and QC to improve development team productivity and collaboration between developers and QA professionals and provide visibility into both RTC and HP QC and ALM.
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How to Increase Development Productivity
by 50-100%

Wesley Coelho, Director of Business Development at Tasktop

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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Contact us if you'd like to schedule a time to meet with a member of the Tasktop team at any of the following events:

	Connecticut JUG, March 1, 2011, Hartford, Connecticut (details)
	CeBIT, March 1-5, 2011, Hannover, Germany (details)
	New York Java SIG, March 2, 2011, New York, New York (details)
	EclipseCon, March 21-24, 2011, Santa Clara, California (details)
	IBM Innovate, June 5-9, 2011, Orlando, Florida (details)
	HP Discover, June 6-10, 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada (details)
	Agile 2011, August 7-13, 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah (details)

New Mylyn 3.5 Release

Mylyn 3.5 RC2 is now available and it includes a slick new UI for working with focused views in Eclipse. Developers can now simply hover over hierarchies to display a widget that displayes filtered childeren when clicked. This provides a more intuitive alternative to the Alt+Click mechanism and will make it easier for new users to learn task-focused programming techniques. Mylyn 3.5 RC2 also includes the first preview version of the Gerrit code review connector!
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So You Think You Can Task? Get 30 Tips in 30 Days

While task-focused basics will take you a long way, a few tips, tricks, and shortcuts from the experts will help you get even more from task-focused productivity techniques. Tasktop's David Shepherd will be tweeting a new tip on each of the next 30 days to help you get from productive to promotion. For example, you can focus source code editors using the toolbar button circled on the right. This causes uninteresting source code to collapse so you can minimize searching and scrolling and stay focused on the relevant code for the task at hand. Click the "expand" icons on the left to open collapsed methods you may be interested in.
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