Your path to business agility
Ever wondered what is going on inside the brain of people working at Tasktop? Last week, I had to honor to speak at Skills Matter, Europe’s largest provider of open-source and agile trainings in the London area. It was a great time in London and Skills Matter was kind enough to provide a recorded version...
In January, most of the EGit committers met at the “EGit Summit” in Walldorf, Germany. We had a blast hanging out together, planning the future direction for EGit/JGit, and implementing new features. Thanks again to the SAP team for hosting the event. As you can see on the whiteboard, there were numerous ideas suggested by...
Developers that work with an issue tracking system are torn between two extremes. They often would like to know everything that is happening on their project yet their main focus is on tasks assigned to them. In practice, neither an overly nosey or a hermit-like approach works well, as developers are either overwhelmed by the...
The new 2.0 release of the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse provides the latest and most complete access to Atlassian’s development and collaboration tools from within the Eclipse IDE. This provides developers with an integrated platform for managing issues, source code, builds, and code reviews. Combining the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse with Tasktop Pro delivers a...
Over the past year I’ve been working closely with those in the Tasktop and Mylyn community at large to define best practices for task-focused programming and collaboration. My goal has been to share what I’ve learned about how the leaders in task management use Tasktop and Mylyn to collaborate effectively. To this end, I’ve created...
Summary: Learn how to become a master of the Eclipse Change Set Toolset, increasing your individual effectiveness and improving your team’s communication. Applies to: Tasktop Dev Pro, Eclipse Mylyn Supported Connectors: Bugzilla, ClearQuest, CollabNet, JIRA, Mingle, Rally, ScrumWorks Pro, Trac, VersionOne (coming soon) Supported SCMs: CVS, Subversion (SVN), ClearCase (coming soon) “An apprentice carpenter may...
Summary: Learn how to submit the right files for a given fix every time, even when working on multiple bugs concurrently, avoiding the sin of breaking the build. Applies to: Tasktop Dev Pro, Eclipse Mylyn Supported Connectors: ClearQuest, ScrumWorks, JIRA, Rally, CollabNet, Bugzilla Supported SCMs: CVS, Subversion (SVN), ClearCase (coming soon) (Photo courtesy of seeb’s Photo...
Applies to: Tasktop Pro or Eclipse Mylyn Level: Beginner Summary: Learn how to focus your Java programming efforts with Tasktop, increasing your personal productivity Which files was I working with before lunch? In the course of a day of programming developers often work on many tasks, where each task involves a different set of...
Applies to: Tasktop Dev Pro, Tasktop Dev Starter, and Mylyn Level: Intermediate Summary: Learn how to create tasks with good style, speeding your personal workflow and facilitating collaboration Tasks are a vehicle for communication. Tasks that you create may be completed by others, and next month you might resume tasks that you create today. Whether communicating with...
Applies to: Tasktop Pro, Tasktop Starter and Mylyn Level: Introductory Summary: Learn how to track tasks with Tasktop’s Queries, eliminating task update emails UPDATED on January 30, 2009: We’ve revised the best practice to simplify the configuration and avoid duplicate tasks in the task list. We will address more advanced configurations in an upcoming...
