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For many organizations the ability to deliver software is fundamental to business success. New products, services, updates to channels, pricing or promotion require changes to applications and websites. Organizations are now looking to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to provide visibility into this increasingly core business process.

ALM promises the benefits of business management to the practice of software delivery. ALM2.0+ describes the next generation of practices that broaden the lifecycle to include operations and the business and add functionality for planning and collaboration.

But introducing ALM is difficult, with developers, business analysts, operations, project managers and QA professionals all having their own tools and working practices. Bringing order to this chaos requires a different way of thinking about ALM – one based on stakeholder inclusion and cross-vendor integration.

In this talk, featured speaker Dave West, Vice President, Research Director at Forrester will describe the reality of ALM adoption. West and Mik Kersten, Founder and CEO of Tasktop Technologies will present patterns for successful ALM adoption for mid and large-scale organization, and highlight how organizations can incrementally obtain the benefits of ALM by connecting siloes, one stakeholder at a time.

This talk will:

	Introduce ALM2.0+, its promise and its challenges
	Define a series of ALM integration patterns
	Describe how successful organizations are delivering software more efficiently with ALM2.0+ today

All webinar attendees will be automatically entered in a drawing for a new Apple iPad 3.

This year’s Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit was held in Vegas. What better place to learn both blackjack and IT strategy especially when two of the Tasktopians were on the MIT Blackjack team. We had a cool handout highlighting the pain points that Tasktop Dev and Tasktop Sync help solve, as well as a basic strategy table for Blackjack. Tasktop was a silver sponsor of the event and we had a blast networking and strategizing with fellow innovators and industry leaders.

We had a lot of fun hanging out with our new partners from Borland who attended the show as well. We’re proud to announce that customers of Borland StarTeam can now gain interoperability and integration via Tasktop Dev and Tasktop Sync. The desserts at Serendipity were bigger than Borland product manager Nicole’s head.

Congrats to Naji from California who won a new iPad2 in the Tasktop giveaway draw.

This year, Tasktop Technologies and VMware co-hosted the Eclipse Indigo DemoCamp in Vancouver. The event was a smashing success with some 60 developers in attendance, awesome networking and even cooler talks including:

		Presentation by Ralph Muller from the Eclipse Foundation
		Benjamin Cabé from Sierra Wireless presenting on Koneki
		Rafael Chaves from Abstratt Technologies presenting: “Full code generation with AlphaSimple” (AlphaSimple is an online modeling tool built on Eclipse technology)
		Kris De Volder from VMware presenting on Cloud Foundry
		Presentation by Ed Merks, project lead of the Eclipse Modeling Framework project
		David Green of Tasktop Technologies presenting the latest Mylyn integrations for Git, Gerrit and Hudson (see photo below)

To get a sense for what Demo Camps are all about, watch the video of the opening talks from VMware’s Andrew Eisenberg, Eclipse’s Ralph Mueller, and Tasktop’s David Green available here: http://vimeo.com/25746826. We were not able to capture the sessions, but hope to do so next time.

After the event, we all headed out to a nearby Lennox Pub for more fun and networking…

In this picture, Ralph Muller of the Eclipse Foundation, as well as Andrew Eisenberg of VMware and other developers networking in the background.

For more information about the DemoCamp please see the Vancouver Eclipse Indigo DemoCamp wiki

Hope to see you all there next year!

In this webinar, Dr. Mik Kersten will showcase how Tasktop 2.0 can bring the benefits of task-focused collaboration to your Agile development and planning activities. For developers, Tasktop 2.0 provides the Eclipse Mylyn and ALM integration needed to keep you productive in your home environment: the IDE. For technical leads and product owners, Tasktop 2.0 provides the first cross-repository planning tools, all available from your IDE or from the desktop-based client, with planning information stored in your existing Agile and task and defect tracking tools.

In addition, Tasktop 2.0 introduces a new task federation facility for linking and synchronizing plans across your various Agile, enterprise and open source ALM systems, ensuring that you always have automatic traceability between tasks, source code and builds.

This webinar will provide an overview of features in Tasktop 2.0, including new Mylyn connectors for Accept360, HP’s Agile Accelerator, Polarion and Hudson/Jenkins. Mik will showcase Tasktop for Eclipse and provide an overview Tasktop for Visual Studio as well as the standalone Tasktop desktop app.