CollabNet has a new release, with features intended to help "corporations create a sustainable advantage in a new era in which applications are developed by decentralized teams collaborating over the Internet." hmm. a bit of marketese, anyone?

Translation: CollabNet, whose business model is built around tools for developing software over the internet, has added process improvement to its bag of tricks. A brilliant move if done correctly.

From their press release:

"Increasingly, software development practices are becoming distributed. Case in point is the fact that a number of today’s leading computing initiatives like SOA, compliance, outsourcing, convergence, open source, and other strategic community development programs all share the need to assemble distributed software development teams," said Bill Portelli, President and CEO of CollabNet.

Portelli cites good indicators that distributed development is increasing in importance. And the more you do it, the more important it is to get it right:

"In this distributed environment it has become essential for CIOs to set, measure, and improve their development processes and for project teams to understand and complete their specific development tasks in view of the overall lifecycle."

The new feature in CollabNet Enterprise Edition 4.0 that offers this is the "Application Lifecycle Manager", which lets project managers select and customize a set of pre-configured process templates. The templates define consistent processes for their particular projects, from requirements definition through design and deployment. Management views into the development effort allow teams to measure and improve their processes - a critical requirement for higher-level maturity organizations.

This is the kind of robust infrastructure many corporations are learning to employ as part of a radical shift in the way we develop, deliver, and maintain software.

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