Helping organizations transform from silo-based software development to a distributed approach that fosters collaboration is CollabNet's sole focus. CollabNet consultants and support staff are industry veterans with unmatched experience. They have deployed CollabNet TeamForge to some of the largest and most complex development organizations in the world, empowering them to work more effectively across functions, geographies, and projects. What's more, this unique expertise can also be rapidly transferred to development teams of any size through CollabNet's Support, Training, and Consulting Services.
Establish Distributed Development Using Trusted Advice and Best Practices
Development organizations can accelerate the evaluation, deployment, and adoption of CollabNet TeamForge by taking advantage of the accumulated knowledge, thought leadership, and best practices built into CollabNet's Consulting Services. With their deep product knowledge and unparalleled implementation experience, CollabNet consultants are uniquely positioned to provide the trusted advice that global companies need to smoothly transition to CollabNet TeamForge and leverage the platform for optimum utilization.
CollabNet TeamForge Implementation Lifecycle
Assess
Deploy
Adopt
Pilot Deployment
Focused and comprehensive evaluation of CollabNet TeamForge
Integration and Custom Consulting
Custom solutions for integrating third-party tools and applications with CollabNet TeamForge, as well as developing enhancements
IGN Entertainment runs ModCenter, a game development management website designed for use by independent developers and mod creators on the CollabNet's TeamForge platform. "We are especially pleased to work with CollabNet and their TeamForge system, a proven leader in tools and community support for open source software development." said Jamie Berger, senior vice president of consumer products & technology for IGN Entertainment.
CollabNet TeamForge Pilot Deployment
This engagement guides companies through planning and implementing the processes, structure, and approach that are critical to successfully launching CollabNet TeamForge. CollabNet consultants guide the evaluation and early adoption process, help install and configure CollabNet TeamForge, and also educate, guide, and advise potential users on the necessary baseline practices.
High-level activities include:
Establishment and measurement of pilot evaluation criteria
Deployment and configuration of CollabNet TeamForge
Education and mentoring of project teams
Workshops to establish baseline processes and best practices
Basic training for core team members and initial adopters
At the end of the engagement, organizations have conducted a realistic and comprehensive evaluation of CollabNet TeamForge and its usage within their development environments, giving them a solid foundation for rolling out CollabNet TeamForge.
A CollabNet Professional Services Engineer will perform a full installation of CollabNet TeamForge on your hardware to ensure that CollabNet TeamForge is operating in a standard and fully supported manner. As part of the installation process your site and system administrators will be mentored on how manage, troubleshoot and maintain the application.
This engagement covers the following areas:
Coordinating and guiding database, application server, and operating system selection
Deploying a scalable and maintainable CollabNet TeamForge server environment
Implementing CollabNet TeamForge administration and maintenance best practices and policies
At the end of the engagement, your organization will have a solid platform on which to manage your complete application lifecycle.
This five-day engagement includes a two-day onsite workshop (with architects, configuration managers, and senior software engineers) that aligns the organization's software development process to its use of Subversion. During the workshop, use cases and software development processes are formulated and mapped into Subversion best practices.
Topics include:
Repository layout
Branching patterns
Tagging: how to deal with internal and external releases
Access control
Release management: how does one team pick up the changes from another
Workspace management: how should developers manage their local workspace
And more
At the end of the workshop, recommendations on how to organize the company's software development processes using Subversion are provided in a document.
CollabNet provides dedicated, practical mentoring, advice, and guidance on rolling out CollabNet TeamForge and establishes strong adoption amongst development groups by using the processes and practices defined during deployment. CollabNet works closely with key stakeholders and the developer community to create and execute a plan for transforming software development within a distributed environment.
Key focus areas include:
Defining collaborative software development processes
Forming adoption teams to drive adoption, growth, and support of the development community
CollabNet advises on and assists with migrating version control data from legacy systems into Subversion. These migration services include executing full history conversions from CVS, for example, as well as advice on migrating from all version control systems.
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