[rpalomo]

Hello, forum... newbie here. Hope I'm posting in the right place, and that this is an appropriate post. Flame away if not -

Polarion Software has an interesting approach to ALM tools, imo. They've taken several open source systems (Eclipse, SVN, Apache HTTP among others) and built proprietary ALM functionality on top. SVN users in particular might find the way they've leveraged SVN into something way more than just source control interesting.

The company is offering some personalized online demos- info here - slots seem limited, but probably they will do more.

Before you ask - yes, I have a client relationship with this company (I do doc and other editorial work for them). But I use a couple of their free SVN tools to manage my own projects and though aimed at Java development, the ALM product also works well for managing my website and documentation projects.

[rick]

Welcome to our brand new forums, rpalomo - we're glad to have you here and appreciate you helping us get things kicked off.

Rick

[fg82183]

Thanks, I happen to be one of two lead developers with technology choice responsibilities at a new startup..will check it out..

[NickEntin]

Originally Posted by fg82183

Thanks, I happen to be one of two lead developers with technology choice responsibilities at a new startup..will check it out..

Hello, I would be very interested to know your impression. Typically, full ALM coverage is not a primary scope for a startup companies (there are plenty of higher priority things to do at the very beginning). Therefore heavy-weight features, which possibly need preparation of the team or some strickt discipline, would be out of interest in such situation.
The [ALM] solution providers target all possible customers, but to different extend. Some are better for huge companies with thousands of developers and hundred managers in hierarchical tree, some target small teams with primitive coverage of ALM basis, some try to balance and have best possible solution in the world (like we do )
I would expect that if you evaluate some technologies, you'll concentrate on some parts of ALM, which you believe are more important to have at the beginning with potential to extend in the future.
As employee of Polarion, I'd very appreciate to hear your opinion how good does it meet your expectations for your startup goals.

Good luck and a lot of success in your projects!
Best regards,
Nick

[scmadmin]

Hi All,

According to me for startups it would be good to spent some time in setting few components of ALM such as Project management and bugtracking.

If you have a system in place before hand you will not face problem in scaling up.

I am into ALM implementation. I will recommend few opensource tools worth looking two thumbs up to Subversion, tortoise svn, mantis, bugzilla.

Apart from them I believe luntbuild can be good choice for build and release management.

If u looking for commercial stuff than you can go for JIRA, clearcase, perforce.

But full potential of ALM lies in the way it's implemented.

I would suggest to first understand your need than analyze the tools

[rpalomo]

Polarion has just posted the Q2 schedule for their online ALM demos. These are 2-way with opportunity for questions and discussion, and you can sit your whole team in on a session if you want.

Available dates/times and sign-up form here:
Register for Free ALM Online Demo

There are a limited number of sessions, and I noticed they booked up pretty fast early in Q1. FWIW.

<robert>