Danube Technologies and Tasktop Team Up to Boost Developer Productivity Through Integration...

Danube Technologies and Tasktop Team Up to Boost Developer Productivity
Through Integration With ScrumWorks

ScrumWorks Pro Connector creates a fully integrated environment for Scrum
development

BELLEVUE, Wash., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Danube Technologies, Inc.,
(http://www.danube.com), the leader in software and training for the Scrum
method of agile software development, and Tasktop Technologies
(http://tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse(TM) Mylyn and the task-focused
interface, today announced the release of the ScrumWorks(R) Pro Mylyn
Connector.

The connector, available as an extension to Tasktop Pro, allows software
developers to access all tasks and stories housed in ScrumWorks Pro from
within the Eclipse IDE. With no need to toggle between multiple applications,
developers using ScrumWorks for project management will be able to remain
focused on a single, all-inclusive IDE. For each ScrumWorks artifact accessed
in the IDE, the novel task-focused interface shows only the most relevant
source code, reducing information overload when working on large applications
and resulting in dramatic and measurable productivity gains.

"Scrum helps teams increase productivity, so it makes sense that ScrumWorks
Pro supports both the project management and development tooling needed to
realize those benefits," said Victor Szalvay, CTO of Danube and Product Owner
of ScrumWorks Pro. "The ScrumWorks Pro Connector for Tasktop Pro provides a
rich integration with Eclipse, extending the benefits of ScrumWorks to the
developers' IDE."

As Scrum's popularity increases and more organizations look to ScrumWorks Pro
for project management, this integration marks dramatic strides in
facilitating developer productivity. Historically, developers have lost
valuable time flipping between their IDE, browser, and email client to locate
source code, development tasks, bug reports and so on. The ScrumWorks Pro
Connector for Tasktop Pro will consolidate all relevant task management and
collaboration functionality within a single application. The ScrumWorks(R)
Pro Connector takes full advantage of the productivity benefits afforded by
task-focused interface technology.

"Developers spend more time looking for information than actually working,"
said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies. "This is compounded by the fact
that research shows developers can be interrupted every 11 minutes on average,
resulting in a cycle of time wasted manually restoring the context related to
the user story, task, or defect they are working on. The task-focused
interface eliminates the time spent repeatedly searching for source code by
monitoring a developer's activity," Kersten continued. "It also reduces
information overload by showing only the code relevant to the task-at-hand.
This new connector brings all of Mylyn's benefits to developers using
ScrumWorks Pro for project management and collaboration."

Additional functionality provided by Tasktop Pro and the ScrumWorks Connector
includes:
-- Flexible Integration with Desktop Applications. Tasktop Pro integrates
popular applications, such as Microsoft Outlook and Gmail, with a
developer's task-focused work flow and enabling ScrumWorks stories
to be created from email threads.
-- Convenient Interlinking. By integrating ScrumWorks artifacts with the
IDE, the Connector allows users to "bridge" related artifacts.
For example, if a user story refers to a portion of code, the
developer
can create a hyperlink between them for quick recall.

-- Time tracking. Tasktop automatically tracks time spent for each
ScrumWorks task, so developers no longer need to remember what they
work
on; they can simply generate a report. Developers retain full control
to
adjust the recorded tasks and times as needed to account for meetings.

For more information, please visit http://tasktop.com/connectors/scrumworks.

About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies is the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn software and its
revolutionary task-focused interface technology, which has been rapidly
adopted by hundreds of thousands of software developers. The task-focused
interface is proven to make users more productive by showing only the relevant
information for each task which reduces search time and facilitates
multitasking. Tasktop Pro is the company's full-featured product based on
Mylyn with task-focused support for activities such as web browsing, time
tracking, and working with documents, email and calendars. Tasktop
Technologies also provides training and consulting services to the growing
number of companies adopting the task-focused paradigm and tools.

About Danube
Founded in 2000, Danube Technologies, Inc. provides software and training
exclusively focused on the Scrum method of agile software development. The
company's ScrumWorks(R) Pro and ScrumWorks Basic products are licensed to more
than 105,000 software professionals worldwide, making it the most widely used
software in the industry for managing Scrum projects. Danube complements its
software offering with a comprehensive schedule of ScrumCORE(TM) training
courses, which are taught globally by Danube's five Certified Scrum Trainers.
The company's on-site software delivery model makes it the leading choice for
enterprises of all types, including large corporate and government
organizations, which require the utmost in security, compliance, ease-of-use
and customization. Danube's customers include Adobe, Amazon.com, AMD, F5,
General Electric, HP, Intel, Intuit, Kofax, LexisNexis, Microsoft, Motorola,
Oracle, QVC, Siemens and Sun Microsystems. Danube is self-funded and has
achieved steady organic growth as Scrum has emerged as the preferred agile
method for developers and executives. The company is headquartered in
Bellevue, Wash. and has a sales office in Portland, Ore. Please visit
www.danube.com or call (503) 248-0800 for more information on Danube.

Danube Press Contact:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
Cell: 303-827-5164
cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

Tasktop Press Contact:
Wesley Coelho
Office: 778-588-6896
wesley.coelho@tasktop.com

SOURCE Danube Technologies, Inc.

Christie Denniston of Catapult PR-IR, +1-303-581-7760, ext. 13, Cell,
+1-303-827-5164, cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com, for Danube Technologies, Inc.;
or Wesley Coelho of Tasktop Technologies, +1-778-588-6896,
wesley.coelho@tasktop.com