The process of developing software takes place in tools well beyond a developer’s IDE. Often it involves a number of specialized tools to manage all sorts of aspects of planning, design, implementation, and testing. By enabling information to flow seamlessly between each tool, integration can help enable this whole process to work a little …
A common challenge we come across is that while you may want to send all data from your DevOps or Event-based tools to a database for analysis, you dont want to have all of those same events synchronized across your software lifecycle tools. Selectively syncing the events within your DevOps tools allows you to have …
Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) provides a set of standards that enable software lifecycle tools to share information for collaboration and traceability. Sharing information across tools is essential to Tasktops mission to connect the world of software delivery and Tasktop has supported OSLC since its inception. Tasktops integration technologies take advantage of standard OSLC APIs where available and even …
I recently read an article titled Four Must-Have Rules for Scaling Enterprise Agile. Its an excellent article. There is nothing in the article that I can argue with. It covers the fundamentals of most of the things a company needs to do in order to scale their agile development. The problem? Its incomplete. Theres at least one …
Developing and testing changes in an environment that is the same as the deployment environment is one of the magic ingredients of the DevOps way. For engineers at Tasktop working on the Integration Factory, provisioning a new VM can occur multiple times in a day, so any inefficiencies in the process are painful. I recently …
Development managers at large organizations with monolithic application lifecycle management (ALM) stacks once had it good. ALM components were well integrated, played nicely with one another, and when they didnt, there was someone to call. But lightweight issue trackers started to move into the organization, popularized by the need for developer-centric collaboration facilities. At a …