August 2005 | IT Execs Face Need to Link Dispersed Developers
Microsoft
Delays Team Tool as Users Look to Collaborate - Some users, meanwhile, are ramping
up other tools to better manage development teams.
TextWise LLC,
a builder of text-processing tools in Rochester,
N.Y., began using an enterprise blogging tool
in April from Traction
Software Inc. to replace e-mail threads for
collaboration.The TeamPage blog software allows
the company's development teams in Rochester,
Baltimore, Boston and Syracuse, N.Y., to post
design notes and status reports, said Rob Rubin,
TextWise's chief technology officer. To date,
the company has had 1,200 blog postings, and this
month it was able to avoid a 30-day setback to
the development cycle because one group noticed
a planned testing duplication on the blog, Rubin
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