Maximizing Developer Productivity with JBuilder and StarTeam

By: Steve Reynolds

Abstract: Combining JBuilder and StarTeam Enterprise Advantage gives your team the ability to implement and deploy an integrated development process making it easy to get the right information at the right time, reducing confusion and improving productivity. This presentation covers some of the advanced techniques that you can use to customize the change request, task and requirement forms and apply workflows to each of these categories of development process information. In addition to a review of the basic workflow and form customization features, several advanced techniques are discussed and demonstrated using JBuilder including the development of custom tools StarTeam. These techniques include layout techniques, inter-field dependencies, and automatic promotion of changes based on the user-defined workflow. Real-world examples of these techniques used in large development organizations are presented.

As one of the founders of Starbase, the company that created the StarTeam product family, Steve Reynolds served in many roles including product architect and vice president of Strategic Support. Steve designed and lead the development team that created StarTeam Elite, later renamed StarTeam Enterprise Advantage, a customizable workflow-enabled product designed to support large-scale enterprise software development. Steve has worked with many of the largest users of StarTeam including AIG, Manhattan Associates, CAE, and AG Communications.

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