What is an association? TeamForge allows users to easily associate, or link together, any objects in the system to simplify knowledge sharing and provide traceability throughout the lifecycle.
What is change management?
Change management is about monitoring and addressing work items, product defects, feature requirements, and support requests.
What is a feature tree?
A feature tree is a way to look at planned product features hierarchically, so you can quickly understand the relationships among product features you have specified.
What is a discussion forum? TeamForge discussions provide workspaces where project members can work together online or by email.
What is an integrated application?
An integrated application is a stand-alone application that can seamlessly integrate into any TeamForge project.
What is an iteration?
An iteration (also called a sprint) is the period of time it takes to produce something that works well enough to show to the user.
What is a linked application?
A linked application is an external application or site that users can get to from inside a TeamForge project.
What is the look project?
The look project contains special files that can override your site's default appearance and content, such as the default icons, fonts, colors, and labels.
What is a parent project?
A parent project is the base from which a subproject's members, user groups and roles, with their corresponding permissions, are derived. A subproject can inherit project members, user groups and roles from its parent project.
What is a patch?
A patch is a package of code that fixes or adds to the functionality of a CollabNet product. Patches are also known as "component upgrades."
What is a planning folder?
A planning folder is a virtual container that helps you organize and plan the work that goes into delivering a product.
What are Planning, Task and Kanban boards?
When you have set up your planning folders and teams, you have four views available to work with them: List, Plan, Track and Kanban.
What is a product owner?
The product owner works with the users, or customers, to define how a product can address their needs and wishes.
What is a project administrator?
The project leader takes user stories created by the product owner and works with the project team to manage the process of analyzing, scheduling and executing them.
What is a project?
A project is a workspace where people can use the CollabNetTeamForge applications to collaborate and to create, store, and share data.
What is an agile project team?
As a member of a project team, you implement product features according to user stories created by the product owner and planning input from the project leader.
What is in a project template?
When you create a template from an existing project, each project tool contributes its own structure to the template, and its content if you want it.
What is a project template?
Project templates enable you to capture and re-use the structure and content of existing projects, including project pages, custom tracker fields, and work flow definitions, to speed new project creation and standardize lifecycle processes.
What is a release?
A release is a group of one or more files that are published as a unit.
What is a story point?
A story point is a measure of effort that expresses the relative difficulty of implementing a user story. You can use story points, also referred to simply as "points", to help estimate how much work can be done in a sprint.
What is a task dependency?
Task dependencies show what must be done before a given task and what will be done after the task is complete. Project managers can create dependencies between any two or more tasks in a project.
What is a tracker?
A tracker is a collection of records that follow the development of a unit of work from conception through to completion. You can create a tracker to manage almost any kind of work that your project calls for.
What is tracker work flow?
To help users handle their tracker items effectively, you can set up some work flow rules. Workflow rules require a user to do something to a tracker before they can reassign it or update its status.
What is a user group?
To manage multiple users at once, create a group to represent them.
Velocity and average velocity
Your team's velocity is the amount of work the team has shown it has completed in an iteration. You can use this information to help estimate how much work can be completed in future iterations.
What is an activity table component?
An activity table is a special kind of text component that gives project members quick access to a focused set of artifacts, action items and work products.
What is a documents component?
A documents component allows team members to work with documents directly from a project page.
What is a global project role?
A global project role is a ready-to-use role available in all projects. Only site administrators or restricted site administrators can create and manage a ready-to-use role.
What is a project page?
A CollabNet project page is a place where users can see and add information about the project, such as messages from the project manager, open issues or documents you want people to read.
What is a project page component?
A project page is a collection of simple portlet-like components that enable you to add custom HTML content, reports, project tracker queries, and much more to the project home page so your team quickly access what is important.
What is an Available upon Request role?
The Available upon Request role is a role which a project member in TeamForge can submit a request for. You must be a site administrator or project administrator to create an Available upon Request role.
What is a news component?
A news component is a way to get developing information to project members via a project page.
What is a project page component for?
Project page components add functionality to a project page. You can use components to communicate with users or project members, or to invite them to contribute information or resources to the project.
What is a project statistics component?
A project statistics component gives users a graphical view of recent statistics for tasks, trackers, documents, and file releases from the project page.
What is TeamForge? TeamForge integrates software configuration management (SCM), continuous build and test, issue tracking, project management, lab management, and collaboration tools into a single Web-based application lifecycle management platform that empowers distributed teams to deliver great software.
What is a text component?
A text component is a self-contained editor with which you can write anything you want on your project page.
What is a wiki component?
A wiki component lets you link to an existing wiki page from a project page.