Your path to business agility
The Center for Collective Intelligence (http://cci.mit.edu) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is established around the basic research question: “How can people and computers be connected so that-collectively-they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?” I think this is a fantastic opening question to any software (or services) company...
The Mylyn JIRA Connector has been developed as part of the Eclipse Mylyn project since 2006 (Bug 109905), when Wesley Coelho and I met in a Vancouver coffee shop and decided to start collaborating on an idea for a startup that involved extending Mylyn’s open source integrations to commercial tools. A year later Wesley became...
When a new customer signs up with Innotas and begins working with their Customer Success Manager, one of the first topics centers around Time Management. While most customers want to track time for their IT resources, they don’t always know what types of activities to track, how granular to track, or what the benefits they...
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...
Today marks the start of a major extension of Eclipse and Mylyn’s reach into Agile project management. We’re very pleased to announce a partnership with VersionOne to develop an Eclipse Mylyn connector for VersionOne’s Agile planning and project management platform. The Planview Certified VersionOne Connector will be included in Tasktop Pro and available as a...
Open discourse brings conflicts out from behind closed doors. A while back I was involved with an open source conflict that degraded technical discussions to power struggles. I looked to Bjorn Freeman-Benson and Mike Milinkovich the help resolve that conflict. This week, countless eyes were peeled on Planet Eclipse as a very public conflict arose...
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...
