Features for the IT Professional Network
In addition to the core features, these features will help IT professionals and organizations:
- Make better decisions through peer research and advice
- Implement enterprise initiatives for IP re-use and open source adoption
- Get notified of issues and updates for the technology they are using
- Solicit resources and talent as needed
- Effectively manage distributed or global workgroups
COLLABORATION
Additional features for collaborating with a team, a company, outsourcers and contractors, industry peers, or the entire open source community. The Assembla portal lets you work with a secure circle of collaboration that is appropriate for any particular project or workspace.
- Attach tools for managing a software development project. We support Trac and Subversion in the first version.
- Extend the software to include new types of collaboration tools for your teams
- Get alerts by email or RSS when new information appears in the workspace.
- Post questions to any set of workspace teams
- Post structured questions to get bids and proposals for project resources, full-time staffing, and software.
- Receive notifications about new versions and critical issues of software you are using
- Propose or join shared projects . Industry projects and collaboratives squeeze out the redundancy and make everybody part of something better. The shared project features allow you to share requirements with a particular group, get feedback and requirements, explore sourcing options, and work with Assembla to organize a joint effort.
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT AND REPOSITORIES
The portfolio workspace provides a centralized view of your assets – proposals, projects and software resources
- List assets by age, name, status, or stage
- Specify default permissions and circles of collaboration for any new asset
- Configure branding
- Keep track of incoming ideas, requests, components, and new proposals.
- Rank, sort, and annotate the proposals in a shared planning process.
- Configure standard stages that will apply to any asset in this portfolio
- Specify standard planning deliverables for each stage. Create and distribute templates
- Manage and approve stage transitions
RESEARCH
The research workspace helps you make time-saving decisions about software acquisition, adoption, components, or development. Find resources, and organize and present your research. Explore open source options, re-use private resources, and tap the wisdom of the community.
- Search for relevant resources. Search the Internet, search by tag, search the Assembla database of open source resources, and search resources in any private workspaces that you have access to. Use ranking, tagging, and comments from other users to sort your results.
- Collect links to potential resources and components, del.icio.us style. Annotate and rank the links.
- Add your collected links to the knowledge base. The system will automatically use rankings for future relevancy scoring.
- Build a requirements list. Compare requirements to collaborator requirements or candidate features.
- Post questions and include the answer threads in your research workspace
- Share your results with teammates and managers in a presentation format
EXCHANGE
Exchanges are a structured form of questions.
- Software to share – Propose software for sharing, either publicly, or through a discrete brokerage service.
- Software wanted – Post requirements and collect proposals from vendors or collaborators.
- Project help wanted - Post project requirements to selected workspaces and collect proposals for contract work or outsourcing. Rank proposals and manage communications.
- Full-time help wanted – Post job requirements to selected workspaces and collect candidate submissions. Rank submissions and manage communications.
