Just recently, Armin Müller of ScopeSET has started to blog about the codeBeamer extensions he developed in connection with ScopeSET’s OpenAmeos community platform. In the first article of this new series, he writes about integrating GanttProject, a free desktop project management software, and codeBeamer, our Collaborative ALM tool, to provide a comprehensive project management solution.
Generally speaking, the awesome tracker functionality in codeBeamer makes it a perfect choice for project management. CodeBeamer makes it easy to monitor tasks, manage resources, regulate issue escalation, and measure conformance to Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Unfortunately, the lack of fancy Gantt charts has traditionally been a serious shortcoming for many people, but the open system approach that we keep repeating as our mantra here at Intland, helps to overcome this limitation as well: Armin took an existing tool, and used our web service API to bridge between GanttChart and the serverside.
Armin developed a simple import-export application that uses an XML file to transfer and synchronize information between codeBeamer and GanttChart.
Even better, ScopeSET decided to open source their project and move it to JavaForge. You can read Armin’s original post on the topic here: http://www.scopeset.de/blog/?p=31
Important! We are keen to learn more about the solutions you are developing to integrate with codeBeamer. If you want to chat about it, please drop us a line to info at intland.com. We are all ears!
