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Announcing the Tasktop July 2016 Release and what it means to support Enterprise Agile

As predictable as the arrival of the end of July, so too is the predictability of Tasktop’s quarterly release train. Every three months, we release our entire product line, adding additional endpoints, adding support for the new version releases for endpoints we already support and enhancing our products with features that streamline and automate SDLC...

SDLC Tool Integration Requires Domain Understanding

In Nicole Bryan’s latest blog published on Sys-Con Media she asks her readers to, “Consider the following integration scenarios: Moving medical records between EMR systems; financial information between banking systems; HR information between ERP systems; and software development information between SDLC tools.” She explains that at first glance the approaches required for these integrations may...

10 Agile Things to Do This Summer

Summer is here! That means that the internet will be awash with lists of ‘fun outdoor activities’ that you can do in and around your city, from the fairly unimaginative ‘spend a day at the beach’ to the very weird, there’s no end to the suggestions on what to do with the extra hours in...

Automatic Creation of JIRA Issues from SonarQube Code Scan with Tasktop Gateway

Tasktop Gateway can be used to meet a wide variety of integration needs. In this short video, I will demonstrate how Tasktop Gateway can be used to bring Continuous Quality Assurance into your integration landscape by integrating SonarQube with Atlassian JIRA. SonarQube is a continuous code quality inspection tool. It scans your source code and...

Tasktop Gateway and Code Review

Wouldn’t it be great if you could enable visibility across your entire lifecycle management tools and code review systems in your development environment? Wouldn’t it be useful to be able to trace a user story in JIRA back to the code reviews in Gerrit that are associated with it? This can be easily achieved using Tasktop...

Designing Synchronization To The Company Standard

In my previous blog post I discussed how planning is key to success. Once the planning is complete, then comes the design, which can be simple to configure with our suite of integration tools. With some practice, you can configure 8 mappings between 2 projects and 4 types using templates. This includes development of the...

Summer of Agile Reading List

This week marked the official start of summer in the northern hemisphere, and here at Tasktop, we’ve declared this the Summer of Agile. We got started a bit early with last week’s webinar: SAFe & Requirements Management: Oxymoron or Practical Reality? with our VP of Product Management, Nicole Bryan. To be fair, Nicole and I...

Synchronize Targetprocess With Other Tools In Your Agile Stack

Here at Tasktop, we’re excited about the release of our Targetprocess connector. Having used Targetprocess for almost 2 years, we are thrilled to announce the capability to synchronize Targetprocess with other tools in the agile stack. Indeed, the ability to integrate Targetprocess with other tools is something that we ourselves need and have started to...

IT DevOps: Tasktop Gateway and Vagrant

At Tasktop, we talk about Tasktop Gateway to solve a multitude of problems, but mainly it’s centered on the development and testing side of the DevOps lifecycle. So what about the IT teams who also play an integral role in software delivery? Luckily, Tasktop Gateway can help them as well. As an example, the short...

Free HPE ALM to HPE ALM Octane Integration

As we mentioned in our previous post about HPE ALM Octane, Tasktop customers frequently come to us to help alleviate the stress that the rollout of a new tool can bring. To help organizations ease adoption of HPE ALM Octane we’re offering to synchronize your defects between HPE ALM and HPE ALM Octane for free....