CollabNet TeamForge

CollabNet TeamForge™ is industry’s only completely integrated and open ALM platform for distributed teams. Any size company, working anywhere, will get up to 50% productivity gains and can slash license, administration, and computing costs by up to 80%.

• Plan
• Code
• Track
• Build & Test
• Lab Management
• Release
• Report
• Collaborate
  
  
• Administration
• Certified Integrations

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Capabilities

Features / Benefits

Plan: ALM process and workflow modeling

• New ability to pre-load sample Agile project templates that are customizable and flexible to support other process models.
• Project hierarchy and team portals provide project coordination across the entire code, build, test lifecycle
• End-to-end traceability by associating source code with requirements, issues, tasks, documents, discussions and other artifacts.
• ALM process guidance with customizable project pages and dynamic portlet-like components.
• Project templates capture workflows and best practices promote process standardization – from scrum/agile, to open source, to any user defined process.
• Administration and management

Code: Software configuration and change management (SCCM), optimized for industry-leading Subversion

• Granular path based permissions, for code trunks and branches
• Secure, centralized source code for audit and compliance requirements
• Change management enforces workflow to ensure commits are associated with issues, requirements, and artifacts
• Code commits traceability to assets such as documents, change requests, test cases
• Lifecycle monitoring and event notification provides real time visibility of changes through email notifications
• Easy SCM repository creation, configuration, and browsing
• Post and manage approved file release packages
• Fine-grained access controls and download statistics gauge release effectiveness
• Learn more about SCCM features

Track: Issues and artifacts integrated with change management

• New in 5.3: Dynamic Planning capability which enables development teams to manage and model both project scope and timeline in a single user interface.
• Workflows between development artifacts, requirements, feature requests, defects, issues, support cases, tasks, and more via e-mail, web, or Eclipse.
• Automatically notify stakeholders of changes.
• Automatically assign artifacts based on category or release
• Enforce dependencies, rules, and state flow between artifacts
• Administrative features for controlling state, mass updates, exporting data

Build & Test: Agile-Ready Continuous Integration with Hudson

• Lean development and methodology support
• Integrated with popular Hudson continuous integration engine
• CollabNet certified plugin for Hudson manages authentication and permissions within TeamForge
• Automatically upload files to File Release System & Document Manager
• Access servers provisioned by TeamForge Lab Management - users’ own  servers, or corporate “private cloud”, Amazon EC2, or CollabNet’s OnDemand server cloud
• Share files in Lab Management project build library
• Leverage all Hudson extensions
• Learn more about TeamForge continuous integration and agile

Lab Management: Cloud provisioning for code, build, and test

• New in 2.2.1 Capability to synchronize local file system with the Project Build Library (PBL)
• Self-service, dynamic allocation of development, build, and test services via your browser or IDE
• Profile library for centralized management of build and test software stacks
• Build library for centralized management and reuse of build components
• Governance and reporting provides visibility and control across global pool of computing resources, projects, profiles, and build artifacts
• Access users’ own servers, or corporate “private cloud”, Amazon EC2, or CollabNet’s OnDemand server cloud

Learn more about Lab Management

Release: Control, workflow, and traceability for releases

• Central location for posting and managing complete file release packages
• SCM release images and beyond – including documents, notes, links
• Publish and control approved releases
• Milestone tracking and built-in workflow
• Access controls to limit availability of release packages by individuals or role
• Statistics to track downloads

Report: Visibility across the entire code, build, and test lifecycle

• New in 5.3: Flexible charting capabilities including burndown charts, open by priority graphs and open vs. closed charts for each planning folder.
• Project plans and deliverables provide unified view into development status
• Project-wide metrics provide real-time activity insight
• Integration with Microsoft Project for bi-directional task synch
• Dashboards with graphical trend reports across projects and artifacts

Collaborate: Integrated forums, mailing lists, wikis, and document management

• Structured, traceable, searchable communication across projects
• Archived forum and mailing list history
• Role-based, access for privacy and security across all communication
• Complete history and versioning of all documents and wikis
• Directly view, edit, update documents from Microsoft Office
• Manage document reviews via web and email for comments, approval and publication
• Moderate, approval, append discussion posts
• Use from email, browser, IDE
• Instant email notifications of forum, discussion, wiki, document changes

Administration: User management, permissions, and security

• Role-based access enables enforcement of organizational structures such as development or QA teams, partners, out sourced teams
• Ability to map specific tool or resource access levels; for example such as bug databases, source code repository, wikis, document folders
• Validation against LDAP systems
• Creation of standardized project work spaces and the ability to customize resources, content
• Customization of entire ALM site with corporate branding

Certified Integrations: Extensions to the TeamForge platform

• CollabNet Desktop for Eclipse, Visual Studio, or Windows
• CollabNet Subversion Connector to HP Quality Center
• CollabNet Tracker Connector to HP Quality Center
• CollabNet Subversion Connector to IBM Rational ClearCase
• CollabNet TeamForge Document Management Plugin for Microsoft Office
• CollabNet TeamForge Task Management Plugin for Microsoft Project
• CollabNet TeamForge Explorer
• Learn more about CollabNet Certified Integration availability or how to create custom integrations with the TeamForge CIF