CollabNet®, the global leader in enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM, has recently announced CollabNet Connect™, a new integration framework for its TeamForge® ALM platform. It enables customers to orchestrate and govern application delivery processes across commercial and open source ALM and cloud development tools. In addition to integrations with leading ALM tools like HP Application Lifecycle Management platform and JIRA, CollabNet Connect also brings the Git open source version control tool into an enterprise-grade ALM platform.

Any product team in today's world would want to deliver any or every feature right away and right now. Needless to say this not just puts pressure on the development teams but majority of times end up messing the entire hardwork they have done adopting agile to deliver continuous value. The natural course of action is to prioritize the product backlog in such a way that the value reaches the customer as quickly as possible and there is a commitment on minimum deliverable along with some others as should or could deliver kind of scope.

Axosoft, founders of Scrum Management software "OnTime" and an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) on building tools to help development teams manage their projects and ship great software has announced its first acquisition of SlickUpload .NET upload component. As part of the transaction, it has also added the exceptionally talented Chris Hynes as its newest member of its fast-growing Axosoft development team.

I’m reading books on TRIZ and becoming enthusiastic about  its potential  for software development industry. Yes, it is not clear how to apply it directly, since TRIZ focuses on technical systems, but I believe we can apply general rules and even have solution patterns in the future. TRIZ has several patterns of evolution. Here are my thoughts about the most interesting patterns and their applicability to software development.