IMPROVE VISIBILITY AND ADJUST TO CHANGES QUICKLY WITH DYNAMIC PLANNING
Dynamic Planning provides a level of flexibility in software development that is missing in most application lifecycle management platforms – the ability to model release scope and timeline in a single view that is easy to manipulate and adjust to changes in your release. Features  that enable flexibility include:

• N-level Scope Hierarchy: Organize features and work items (epics, stories, tasks, defects, etc.) into parent/child relationships, all in an intuitive tree view
• Planning Folders: Model products, releases, iterations, or any arbitrary “backlogs” in folders that are easy to create and manage
• Agile Burn Down Charts: Get state-of-the-art burn down charts to assess progress and projected completion time for any planning folder you have created.

ESTABLISH TRACEABILITY WITH UNIVERSAL ASSOCIATIONS
CollabNet TeamForge allows users to easily associate, or link together, any objects in the system to simplify knowledge sharing and provide traceability throughout the lifecycle. Associations enable development organizations to improve information sharing, capture institutional knowledge, and simplify regulatory compliance.

ENABLE GLOBAL COLLABORATION WITH INTEGRATED WEB-BASED ALM TOOLS
CollabNet TeamForge allows global team members to securely access and manage all project assets in a single location. From their favorite Web browser or desktop tool, authorized users can:

• Manage source code and Subversion repositories, including fine-grained permissions
• Integrate with continuous build and test servers for Agile development
• Track requirements, user stories, issues, defects, customer cases, or any other artifact
• Manage project plans and personalized task lists
• Collaborate with discussion forums, mailing lists, wikis, and document management
• Provision and manage virtual servers in a public or private cloud

In addition, users can receive change notifications, add comments or attachments, and even submit new artifacts via e-mail, making collaboration even easier!

MODEL PROCESSES WITH CUSTOMIZED WORKFLOWS
Unlike traditional siloed tools designed to manage only one type of artifact, CollabNet TeamForge is flexible enough to track everything from requirements, user stories, and feature requests, to defects, build issues, and customer support cases. Project administrators can model any desired lifecycle process by customizing tracker fields to correspond to the different states required, defining a workflow that governs the transition between those states, and specifying what roles can make those transitions.

Project templates enable administrators to capture and re-use the structure and content
of existing projects, including project pages, custom tracker fields, and workflow definitions, to speed new project creation and standardize lifecycle processes.

CENTRALIZE MANAGEMENT OF USERS AND PROJECTS
CollabNet TeamForge allows you to:

• Centrally manage users and assign fine-grained permissions
• Easily model and enforce organizational structures and relationships (such as outsourced teams, contractors, or partners) with a rich role-based access framework
• Map specific tool- or resource- access levels within projects to the needs of a particular role or group to comply with security policies
• Validate users against existing LDAP systems for centralized access control

As the founder of the open source subversion project, CollabNet knows how to foster collaboration and leverage distributed talent. More than 1.8 million users are already using CollabNet to successfully manage their distributed software projects. As an active member of the user community, you will benefit from sharing ideas and knowledge in an open forum.

CollabNet TeamForge has a proven track record of reducing administrative costs, increasing productivity, and improving visibility.

Developers can access a full-featured development platform over the web, in Windows, or directly from their IDE. TeamForge enables collaboration directly in the ALM platform, reducing the need for additional meetings and administrivia. Developers can also link to continuous integration servers and provision build and test servers in a public or private cloud, as needed.

Using CollabNet TeamForge, managers are able to create and roll-out new projects quickly using project templates. TeamForge improves visibility into project status, and its centralized repository improves collaboration while reducing administrative overhead. Team members can access software development assets via the web, from within their IDE, or via their Microsoft Windows desktop.

CollabNet TeamForge allows executives to consolidate and centralize assets related to software development thereby reducing administration, licensing, and infrastructure costs throughout the application lifecycle. It also facilitates governance and regulatory compliance. Using CollabNet TeamForge, executives can improve predictability of their development organization and release higher quality software more quickly.

COMPANY INFORMATION

CollabNet is the leader in application lifecycle management (ALM) for distributed software development teams. CollabNet’s flagship product, CollabNet TeamForge, provides an integrated suite of development tools with a centralized repository that helps companies improve productivity by 10-50% and reduce the cost of software development by up to 80%.  TeamForge combines support for multiple development methodologies with a collaboration platform that is unique in the industry.  Millions of users at more than 800 organizations, including Applied Biosystems, Capgemini, Deutsche Bank, Oracle, Reuters, and the U.S. Department of Defense, have transformed the way they develop software with CollabNet.

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www.collab.net

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