Tasktop Newsletter - Nov 2011



November is upon us and with it comes a busy schedule including a new release, a new webinar from Tasktop CEO Mik Kersten, and a gaggle of Tasktop participating in industry events. Register now for the "Introducing Tasktop Sync 2.0" webinar.

Also, we would love to see you in person if possible. Tasktop will be attending conferences in the USA and Europe, including the Better Software Conference, Gartner Summit, and HP Discover, where we will present a number of talks on ALM integration, open source, agile development and developer productivity. We are looking forward to meeting you during one of the upcoming Novemeber and December events listed below.

Modernize your ALM Architecture with Tasktop Sync 2.0 -
Tues, Dec 6th, 9-10 am PST

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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Agile Development Practices East, Nov 6-11, Orlando, Florida

Tasktop is attending the Agile Development Practices East where you will discover the latest in agile methods, technologies, tools, and leadership principles from thought leaders who deliver inspiring keynote presentations, in-depth tutorials, and a wide range of conference classes. During this event, Mik Kersten will be giving a presentation titled: 'Ten Great Practices Learned from Open Source Projects'. Contact us to schedule a time to meet with Mik during this event.

   
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Better Software Conference East, Nov 6-11, Orlando, Florida, USA

Tasktop is attending the Better Software Conference East where software professionals can become more informed about an outward, customer-focused view of development. Contact us to schedule a time to meet with Mik during this event.

  

Microsoft ALM Summit, Nov 14-18, Redmond, WA, USA

Meet us during the Microsoft ALM Summit where Dr. Mik Kersten (CEO of Tasktop) will be presenting "ALM in the Jungle" and will sit on the "ALM Tools Vendor Panel" as part of the ALM Leadership Track. Kersten also served on the ALM Summit Conference Committee. Contact us to schedule a time to meet with Mik during this event.

  

Devoxx Conference, Nov 14-18, Metropolis Antwerp

Meet us at the Devoxx Conference, the JAVA community conference, where Steffen Pingel will be giving a presentation titled: "Eclipse Mylyn: Connecting Agile, ALM and the IDE". Contact us to schedule a time to meet with Steffen during this event.

  

QCon Conference, Nov 14-18, San Francisco, USA

Tasktop is attending QCon International Software Development Conference where Ryan Slobojan will be giving a presentation titled: Automating (almost) everything using Git, Gerrit, Hudson and Mylyn. Contact us to setup a time to meet with Ryan during the conference.

  

Microsoft Visual Studio ALMDays 2011, Nov 23-25, Munich, Germany

Tasktop's Benjamin Muskalla will be presenting: "Taskop Sync – Unify Your Application Lifecycle" during the upcoming Microsoft Visual Studio ALMDays 2011 Conference, formerly "Conference for Application Lifecycle Management and Testing /Quality Assurance with Visual Studio". Contact us to schedule a time to meet with Benjamin during this event.

  

Gartner AADI Summit, Nov 29-Dec 1, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Tasktop Technologies is a Silver Sponsor at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit, the Annual Gathering for Application Leaders. Contact us to schedule a time to meet with us during this event or just stop by Booth N.

  

HP Discover 2011, Nov 29-Dec 1, Vienna, Austria

Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop, and HP's Raziel Tabib will be presenting HP ALM Development Management Solutions on December 1 at 12:30pm during HP Discover 2011 in Vienna. Contact us to schedule time to meet Mik at HP Discover 2011 and learn about the latest Tasktop / HP initiatives.

  

Contact us if you'd like to schedule a time to meet with a member of the Tasktop team during any of these events.


Check out some of our most popular webinars that we have recorded for our users:

Tasktop Sync Webinar with Mik Kersten (watch now)
Cross-Repository Agile Planning by Doug Janzen (watch now)
Code Reviews Don't Have to SUCK by Roy Patterson (Smartbear) and Dr David Shepherd (watch now)
Introducing Tasktop 2.0 by Dr Mik Kersten (watch now)
HP ALM and Quality Center Integration with Tasktop Enterprise by Wesley Coelho (watch now)
Introducing Tasktop for Visual Studio by Dr David Shepherd (watch now)
Integrating HP ALM and IBM Rational Team Concert using Tasktop and Mylyn by Robert Elves (watch now)

For a full list of webinars please visit our webinars page.

 

Steffen Pingel explains how to contribute to Mylyn throught Gerrit code reviews in his latest blog post...

Contributing to Mylyn through Gerrit Code Reviews

If the length of the CC list is any indication of interest in a bug, a lot of committers are looking forward to Gerrit support at Eclipse.org. The webmasters are working hard on making that happen but for Mylyn we were so eager to integrate code reviews in our workflow that we went ahead and deployed a Gerrit instance outside of Eclipse.org. Read our blog to learn how to setup your workspace to start contributing to Mylyn....

Read the full blog post.

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