The Crossroads - Podcast series from CM Crossroads
Join the CM Crossroads Editors in lively discussions with industry thought leaders, analysts and software providers about the latest trends and news for the Configuration Management community.
Today CollabNet a leader in agile application lifecycle management announced the acquisition of Danube, the worldwide leader in Scrum project management solutions and developer of ScrumWorks Pro. In an interview with Patrick Egan, CollabNet CEO Bill Portelli and Danube CTO Victor Szalvay discuss the acquisition. Overall it seems like this acquisition is a net benefit for Agile and ALM which at times seem to be at odds.
During the interview Bill Portelli talked about what CollabNet found most attractive about Danube and the strategic thinking behind the deal? Since ScrumWorks Pro is a SCRUM project management tool, we were also interested if this acquisition indicated that CollabNet will now have a special focus on Scrum as opposed to other Agile methods?
From Danube's point of view Victor Szalvay talks about how the combination of CollabNet TeamForge provides a safe and easy transition for companies moving to agile. We also talked about what ScrumWorks customers can customers can expect to see in the future.
We wrapped up the interview with a discussion by Bill Portelli on the future of the three product lines, CollabNet TeamForge, CollabNet Subversion, and ScrumWorks as both stand-alone products and as an integrated suite.
For more information about this release you can visit the CollabNet website at www.collab.net
In part II, join Bob Aiello and Marvin Waschke for a discussion on how to implement a configuration management database (CMDB) using virtualization and cloud computing. Marv explains that maintaining the mappings between the virtual configuration and the physical configuration is one of the key features to implementing the CMDB in the Cloud. They also discuss how to leverage federated CMDBs to support specialized devices such as routers and networks devices. Marv also explains how open industry standards are making this effort much easier to bring in information from distributed sources and help achieve success with implementing CMDBs!
Bob Aiello talks with Marvin Waschke, Senior Advisor for Product Management at CA, Inc., about the newly approved Industry wide specification for sharing information between CMDBs and other data management repositories. CMDB best practices are discussed along with tips on how to integrate a CMDB with a Configuration Management System (CMS). This interview also covers Marv's advice on how to leverage a Change Advisory Board (CAB) to keep environment configuration information up to date and accurate.
Executives often neglect requirements or mistakenly assume a requirement process is in place, yet requirements have a major impact on project and ultimately business success. David Hauck and Patrick Egan discuss the reason for that disconnect. David goes on to talk about about how the typical requirements definition and management process take place and some of the challenges associated with it. Finally we wrap up discussing the implications of not having a proper requirements definition and management process in place.
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Today CollabNet a leader in agile application lifecycle management announced the acquisition of Danube, the worldwide leader in Scrum project management solutions and developer of ScrumWorks Pro. In an interview with Patrick Egan, CollabNet CEO Bill Portelli and Danube CTO Victor Szalvay discuss the acquisition. Overall it seems like this acquisition is a net benefit for Agile and ALM which at times seem to be at odds.