Some might consider RTC and HP ALM to be an odd combination of flavors. But in reality, organizations require both solutions on an ongoing basis for optimal software delivery. In some cases, specialized practitioners are most effective using the tools and workflows they’ve honed for years.
In other cases, acquisitions or the need for control over the software supplier ecosystem make using both HP ALM and IBM RTC necessary. Software development requires tight collaboration across practitioner roles. However, having information in only HP or IBM means that teams lack visibility, comprehensive reporting, and traceability across their incompatible systems.
Tasktop Sync solves these problems by providing instant bi-directional synchronization with the sophisticated enterprise capabilities needed to stick HP QC together with RTC. Furthermore, we see integration patterns emerging that provide simple solutions to common integration scenarios. Join this webinar to see why the HP and IBM flavors are much better when put together.
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Ever wonder how Tasktop is able to manage and maintain over 70 ALM connectors from over 20 different vendors? As with most software companies, our “software supply chain” is complex ranging from open source to enterprise software. Each partner has their own development process, release cadence and testing approach and it is very hard to encourage them to change. In fact, we pride ourselves in being flexible on how we build and maintain the myriad of connectors we have so that we can accommodate our partners.

So how do we do it? Well, our story is probably not unlike many others out there…. And it is top of mind, because Tasktop has recently embarked on a journey to evaluate our own integration ecosystem in order to ensure we can support and grow for our next generation of products and connectors. During this evaluation we have learned quite a bit, not only about how to work with different vendors, but how integration can form a currency for collaboration and communication.

In this webinar, Nicole will demonstrate how Tasktop Sync plays such a crucial role in the development of our connector ecosystem and also discuss the human element of software development that, ironically, is exposed precisely because of a back end integration tool.

Attend this webinar if you want to learn more about what happens during your company`s Tasktop Sync implementation and how it lets you integrate your ALM tools and open your channels of communication in a simple way you’ve only imagined.
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Chronon 4 is new kind of monitoring tool from Chronon Systems that allows you to monitor anything in your IT infrastructure without the need for log files Learn more about Chronon 4
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Long have the business analysts and project managers who create software requirements been marooned on an island, removed from the developers and testers tasked with ensuring that these requirements actually come to fruition. The reality for most organizations today is that requirements are still disseminated to developer teams in batches of spreadsheets, as are their updates, in a manner that is often lagging and removed from the tools that developers work with. Yet without the complete and up-to-date requirements, QA can't write valid tests, and Dev can't implement to spec.

Enter the new integrations in Tasktop Sync that now bi-directionally connect requirements to development and test artifacts. Through these Tasktop Sync integrations between IBM RRC, IBM ReqPro, CA Product Vision, and HP Quality Center, Tasktop now enables requirements information to flow in real time between the business analysts who create them, the developers who implement them and the QA professionals who test against them.

In this webinar, Robert Elves, co-founder of Tasktop Technologies, will describe how Business Analysts using Rational Requirements Composer can successfully create and revise Requirements while automatically keeping the Testing team up-to-date on the latest changes through the use of Tasktop Sync.
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In this webinar Dave West, Tasktop's Chief Product Officer and former Forrester analyst, describes how organizations can start thinking about ALM from an architectural perspective and what the implications can be to software delivery organizations. He describes a world where ALM is a key business process for organizations and shows how, with some careful architecture, software delivery can be optimized to deliver real business value.
In this webinar Dave West will cover:

• The current state of ALM in the software industry
• Real customer examples of ALM
• Best practices for Lean ALM
• How you can get there

Lean teaches us that the best processes focus on value while reducing waste. But for many organizations their tools, process and people have become disconnected. There are multiple processes for planning, development, deployment, support and maintenance; unfortunately, all of these processes are disconnected. Each department has selected their own tools, none of which work together. Additionally, complex matrix organizations have resulted in people having too many masters and confused priorities. This is a long way from the ALM and Lean ALM pipedreams.
But does it have to be like that? It is time to stop thinking about tools and start thinking about ALM in a structured, systematic way.
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It's true. Secure Delivery Center is the first Eclipse-based software for enterprise license management and distribution with a revolutionary policy driven security set-up rather than a tedious technology set-up. Gain control of existing Eclipse installations in your company while distributing newer installations and plugins behind your firewall for a truly secure installation.
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Watch how to download and install Eclipse 4.2, the Juno release from Eclipse.org, securely behind your firewall using Genuitec's Secure Delivery Center (SDC) server. This video takes you step-by-step through the installation of your private server through to the download and installation of the Eclipse 4.2 install itself. Enterprises use SDC to manage open source in the enterprise as a means to prevent projects from breaking, and for reporting and analytics on the use of open source in the enterprise. The video is 10 minutes long.
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In this 2 minute video from Genuitec, briefly learn how you can distribute your own Private Eclipse Marketplace (or App Store), similar to the public Eclipse Marketplace from Eclipse.org -- isolating your company's enterprise open source usage in a consolidated catalog. This video very briefly introduces you to On-Demand delivery inside Secure Delivery Center and highlights the simplicity of key services you would use behind your firewall.
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Software is everywhere, running everything. No matter what industry, an organization's ability to innovate is increasingly tied with its aptitude to build and release differentiating software. Software developers who are responsible for changing software, are increasingly becoming empowered to make decisions on what tools they use, how they work, and even what devices they work on. But if software is now so critical to the business, it's management is even more critical.

ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) is the discipline that describes the application of business management to the practice of software development, from idea to delivery. The idea of empowering developers and ALM may seem contradictory on the surface, one being about freedom, the other one management control. In actuality, this seemingly contradictory idea presents a very interesting opportunity.

In this webinar Dave West and Mik Kersten of Tasktop describe why developer autonomy is occurring, its roots in open source, and how managers need to embrace this motivating and flexible force to help deliver better software. Dave and Mik will discuss how developers need to engage with their management and other constituents in the software value chain to ensure that ALM continues to work. If successful, the developer has the opportunity to reach a nirvana state: allowing management oversight with developer freedom.
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In this webinar, we show how both Visual Studio and TFS are connected with external systems. We then present common ALM architecture integration patterns for cross-tool team collaboration with TFS. In many organizations, Microsoft TFS is part of a tool stack that includes other ALM solutions such as IBM Rational Team Concert or HP Quality Center. In this case, integration between TFS and third party tools is necessary to enable communication, traceability and reporting across tool boundaries.
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