CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise Services

CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise Pilot Deployment

This engagement guides companies through planning and implementing the processes, structure, and approach that are critical to successfully launching CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise. CollabNet consultants guide the evaluation and early adoption process, help install and configure CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise, and also educate, guide, and advise potential users on the necessary baseline practices.

High-level activities include:

• Establishment and measurement of pilot evaluation criteria
• Deployment and configuration of CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise
• Education and mentoring of project teams
• Workshops to establish baseline processes and best practices
• Basic training for core team members and initial adopters

At the end of the engagement, organizations have conducted a realistic and comprehensive evaluation of CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise and its usage within their development environments, giving them a solid foundation for rolling out CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise.

Details:

Typical Duration
4 - 8 weeks

Delivery
Onsite and offsite

CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise Jumpstart

A CollabNet Consultant will evaluate your organization's current development processes and help you understand the best way to implement these in CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise.

Details:

Typical Duration
3 days

Delivery
Onsite

CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise Onsite Installation

CollabNet helps install the CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise server(s). CollabNet also mentors and guides the system administrator on how to manage, troubleshoot, and maintain the application.

This engagement covers the following areas:

• Coordinating and guiding database, application server, and operating system selection
• Deploying a scalable and maintainable CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise server environment
• Implementing CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise administration and maintenance best practices and policies

At the end of the engagement, organizations have a solid foundation for effectively rolling out software development projects using CollabNet Enterprise Edition, along with recommendations for organizing software development processes using Subversion and an ALM template that reflects their processes.

Details:

Typical Duration
1 day

Delivery
Onsite or remote

Subversion Applied Workshop

This five-day engagement includes a two-day onsite workshop (with architects, configuration managers, and senior software engineers) that aligns the organization's software development process to its use of Subversion. During the workshop, use cases and software development processes are formulated and mapped into Subversion best practices.

Topics include:

• Repository layout
• Branching patterns
• Tagging: how to deal with internal and external releases
• Access control
• Release management: how does one team pick up the changes from another
• Workspace management: how should developers manage their local workspace
• And more

At the end of the workshop, recommendations on how to organize the company's software development processes using Subversion are provided in a document.

Details:

Typical Duration
Delivered over 2 weeks

Delivery
2 days onsite, the remaining offsite

Collaboration Management

CollabNet provides dedicated, practical mentoring, advice, and guidance on rolling out CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise and establishes strong adoption amongst development groups by using the processes and practices defined during deployment. CollabNet works closely with key stakeholders and the developer community to create and execute a plan for transforming software development within a distributed environment.

Key focus areas include:

• Defining collaborative software development processes
• Forming adoption teams to drive adoption, growth, and support of the development community
• Coaching and training project owners
• Tracking clear and measurable site objectives

Details:

Typical Duration
As scoped

Delivery
Onsite and offsite

Source Code Repository Migrations

CollabNet advises on and assists with migrating version control data from legacy systems into Subversion. These migration services include executing full history conversions from CVS and VSS repositories, for example, as well as advice on migrating from other version systems.

Details:

Typical Duration
As scoped

Delivery
As scoped

Project Artifact Migrations

CollabNet's artifact migration services include helping companies:

• Migrate legacy defect and enhancement records from legacy systems (like Bugzilla) into Project tracker
• Create the appropriate artifacts for receiving legacy records
• Perform the necessary field-mapping definitions
• Execute data migration in a test and production environment

Details:

Typical Duration
As scoped

Delivery
As scoped

Integration and Custom Consulting

CollabNet's custom solutions include:

• Integrating CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise with third-party tools and applications
• Customizing CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise, including developing enhancements
• Generating custom statistics and metrics

Details:

Typical Duration
As scoped

Delivery
As scoped