The S Curve

Wikidsmart for OpenStack is Live!

We are proud to announce that zAgile has recently engaged with the OpenStack Foundation to create the Activity Board, powered by Wikidsmart.

OpenStack is a leading open source software platform for building public and private clouds. The OpenStack Foundation drives its evolution and is backed by enterprise leaders include IBM, Cisco, HP, Red Hat, RackSpace, AT&T, VMware, Dell, Canonical, and others.

The development Activity Board for OpenStack provides a visual overview of all the OpenStack public activity of community members across multiple dimensions: contributors and organizations, projects and code-related contributions. From a single interface, you can easily surf OpenStack project content, whether it is coming from the Launchpad bug tracker, Git version control system or Gerrit code review application--all mapped against the OpenStack Foundation members database. 

The intention of the Activity Board is to give the community a way to answer very precise questions like: who’s contributing to that particular project? What is that developer working on? Which commits/changes are related to a particular bug? Who’s joined the development community recently? etc.

And for OpenStack corporate members, an additional benefit you may wish to consider is to integrate your own internal tools with the OpenStack community project content to create your own composite internal dashboard, to provide your teams with instant and precise access to community activity and efforts.   Wikidsmart Context Server’s approach enables you to integrate your tools to automatically build a cohesive view of all content. That means you don’t have to do extensive integration work which can be quite costly to build and maintain.  

If you would like to learn more, we are featuring the OpenStack Activity Board in the upcoming events:

• OpenStack Summit , April 15, Portland, OR: one long session to show the state of the art and to gather feedback

• Webinar, May 2, 9am Pacific Time: Introducing OpenStack Activity Board, A Unified View of OpenStack Project Content 
  

-Sanjiva

zAgile Teamwork 3 - Advancing integration and interoperability of JIRA and Confluence

 

Earlier this week, zAgile released Teamwork 3 -- a much anticipated and exciting release with significant focus towards improving the integration and interoperability of JIRA and Confluence for team collaboration and software project management.  

With zAgile Teamwork, teams can capture Features, Use Cases, Requirements, Test Suites, Test Cases and other project artifacts in Confluence and use JIRA for managing the execution and workflow of related tasks through Projects and Versions -- with Teamwork automatically integrating the definitions with executions.  

For example, Requirements may be captured in Confluence.  And within Confluence, engineering managers can initiate Approval and Implementation Workflow Tasks, respectively, in JIRA.  

Similarly, Test Cases may be captured and related to Requirements in Confluence but executed across Versions using JIRA -- with full tracking and traceability.

We believe that by separating definition from execution, organizations are able to get the best of both worlds -- using Confluence for capturing and sharing project artifacts, and JIRA for managing task execution, workflows and notifications.  

The key features of Teamwork 3 include:

• Easy creation of templated and parameter-driven Confluence pages
• A redesigned JIRA plugin for easy installation and support for issue submission from Confluence
• The ability to interact with JIRA workflow tasks from within Confluence tables
• Improved Project Dashboards in Confluence
• Pull-down Action Lists in Confluence for embedding Confluence page and JIRA Issue Creation Actions in simple tables
• Integration of JIRA Users and Groups into zCALM repository
• Integration of CRM concepts (Customer Account, Customer Case, etc) with the Software Engineering Lifecycle 

and ... a lot more.

If you are a JIRA and Confluence user, Teamwork 3 is worth checking out :)

zAgile Teamwork 3 is now available for Confluence 3.5 and JIRA 4.3 (support for JIRA 4.4 coming soon).

-Sanjiva

 

A Big Deal for Small Teams

Atlassian is now offering a great promotion of its highly popular toolset for software engineering teams (JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye, etc.) -- for a price of $10 each (proceeds go to Room to Read).  For small engineering teams, this is a very exciting package since the tools included are full-featured and enterprise-class.  We are also very excited to participate in this introductory offering for small teams,  Now you can also get zAgile Teamwork for $10 for 10 users.  zAgile Teamwork integrates and extends JIRA and Confluence to allow teams to use Confluence for Requirements and Test Case management and link them easily with Tasks and Projects in JIRA.  Imagine -- the potential for achieving Requirements Traceability for only $10.  For startups and small teams, this is a big deal. 

-Sanjiva

"Minimum Ontological Commitments"

In discussions with Professors Ricardo Falbo and Giancarlo Guizzardi -- two of the thought leaders in the domain of Ontologies.  UFES (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo) is one of Brazil's top technical universities.

 

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