Telelogic Synergy is a suite of tools for task-based Change Management and Configuration Management. Synergy provides lifecycle control for a company's digital assets (i.e. source code), enabling the assessment and authorization of change requests, from both internal and external sources, using a customizable change control workflow.
Task-Based Configuration Management
The Task-based approach is a main notion in Synergy. It allows teams to create work tasks or assignments that may be linked to defects or change requests. When developers work on tasks, impacted objects are automatically linked to the task and delivered into the process with it. Configurations and releases are created by selecting the tasks to include. The objective of this approach is to provide top-down traceability (how change requests were implemented) and bottom-up traceability (what changes are included in a build). Traceability can be viewed to original requirements for DO-178B initiatives.
Transparent CM
Synergy includes a user interface know as "ActiveCM". The version control commands run in the background to automatically tracking edits, additions, deletions or renames in the file system. This feature is targeted at non-developers and integrations to third-party products.
Features
* The Synergy Suite also includes Telelogic Change, a Change request, problem tracking and workflow solution.
* Synergy also includes MultiSite functionality, known as DCM. This feature enables different sites to exchange source code, tasks, change requests and process definitions. The elements that are exchanged can be defined by the GUI and filtered so only the desired information is sent to the other sites.
* Synergy comes with a set of out-of-the-box models for common processes, such as agile software development and CMMI.
Reactions
Telelogic Synergy has been recognized as a higher-end change and configuration management solution by analysts (cf. Ovum evaluates - Configuration management) and received the Yphise Award for Best Application Change Management Solution in 2006.
Task-Based Configuration Management
The Task-based approach is a main notion in Synergy. It allows teams to create work tasks or assignments that may be linked to defects or change requests. When developers work on tasks, impacted objects are automatically linked to the task and delivered into the process with it. Configurations and releases are created by selecting the tasks to include. The objective of this approach is to provide top-down traceability (how change requests were implemented) and bottom-up traceability (what changes are included in a build). Traceability can be viewed to original requirements for DO-178B initiatives.
Transparent CM
Synergy includes a user interface know as "ActiveCM". The version control commands run in the background to automatically tracking edits, additions, deletions or renames in the file system. This feature is targeted at non-developers and integrations to third-party products.
Features
* The Synergy Suite also includes Telelogic Change, a Change request, problem tracking and workflow solution.
* Synergy also includes MultiSite functionality, known as DCM. This feature enables different sites to exchange source code, tasks, change requests and process definitions. The elements that are exchanged can be defined by the GUI and filtered so only the desired information is sent to the other sites.
* Synergy comes with a set of out-of-the-box models for common processes, such as agile software development and CMMI.
Reactions
Telelogic Synergy has been recognized as a higher-end change and configuration management solution by analysts (cf. Ovum evaluates - Configuration management) and received the Yphise Award for Best Application Change Management Solution in 2006.
Unisys Agile Business Suite is the next step in the LINC_4GL lifecycle.
Unisys are currently migrating LINC_4GL installations to the new Unisys Agile Business Suite.
This will provide many benefits to the clients, in particular it will provide a Microsoft Visual Studio front end for the developer.
History
Strengths
Weaknesses
Websites
Unisys Agile Business Site Website
Unisys are currently migrating LINC_4GL installations to the new Unisys Agile Business Suite.
This will provide many benefits to the clients, in particular it will provide a Microsoft Visual Studio front end for the developer.
History
Strengths
Weaknesses
Websites
Unisys Agile Business Site Website
Taj Anton Brown (born November 14, 1978) is the Senior Manager of Capacity and Development in the Freedom Schools division of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) in Washington, DC.
CDF Freedom Schools are literacy and cultural enrichment summer and after-school programs CDF operates in partnership with community based organizations. Modeled after the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) led 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, CDF Freedom Schools have served more than 60,000 families across the United States since 1995.
Background
At 13, Brown became one of the youngest members ever elected as President of the Pennsylvania Youth and College Division of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). At 17, he was elected unanimously to the the NAACP's National Board of Directors where he served for two terms. At 18, he was appointed by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond to the Executive Committee and as Vice-Chair of the National Education Committee. Every summer since 1997 he has helped manage Camp Dreamcatcher, an annual retreat for children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. While still a teenager, Brown was enlisted by Pennsylvania State Senator Andy Dinniman (then a Commissioner in Chester County, Pennsylvania) to help reduce elder abuse in communities of color and launch a gleaning program to unite food growers with under resourced food providers across the County.
Brown joined CDF in 2002 and coordinated a wide variety of initiatives in the roles of New York Senior Field Organizer including Youth in the Movement which engaged over 7,000 New York City young adults in civic education, policy advocacy and community organizing, and Deputy Manager of National Field Operations including CDF's first voter empowerment project in 2004 which registered over 30,000 new voters entitled "Children Can't Vote. You Can." Following Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in September 2005, he relocated to Jackson, Mississippi on special assignment as Director of the CDF Freedom Schools Katrina Project, an emergency response initiative that provided 37 weeks of after-school care and wrap-around services for over 600 displaced children and families through 9 sites in Cleveland, Columbia, Jackson and Metcalfe, Mississippi. Backed by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, this project piloted the program's after-school model and launched the spread of sites throughout Mississippi and Louisiana.
Education
Downingtown Senior High School; Political Science, Lock Haven University; Social Enterprise, Executive Education Program, Harvard Business School; Spanish Culture and Language, International Program of Spanish Studies, University of Málaga at Ronda (Spain).
CDF Freedom Schools are literacy and cultural enrichment summer and after-school programs CDF operates in partnership with community based organizations. Modeled after the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) led 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, CDF Freedom Schools have served more than 60,000 families across the United States since 1995.
Background
At 13, Brown became one of the youngest members ever elected as President of the Pennsylvania Youth and College Division of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). At 17, he was elected unanimously to the the NAACP's National Board of Directors where he served for two terms. At 18, he was appointed by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond to the Executive Committee and as Vice-Chair of the National Education Committee. Every summer since 1997 he has helped manage Camp Dreamcatcher, an annual retreat for children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. While still a teenager, Brown was enlisted by Pennsylvania State Senator Andy Dinniman (then a Commissioner in Chester County, Pennsylvania) to help reduce elder abuse in communities of color and launch a gleaning program to unite food growers with under resourced food providers across the County.
Brown joined CDF in 2002 and coordinated a wide variety of initiatives in the roles of New York Senior Field Organizer including Youth in the Movement which engaged over 7,000 New York City young adults in civic education, policy advocacy and community organizing, and Deputy Manager of National Field Operations including CDF's first voter empowerment project in 2004 which registered over 30,000 new voters entitled "Children Can't Vote. You Can." Following Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in September 2005, he relocated to Jackson, Mississippi on special assignment as Director of the CDF Freedom Schools Katrina Project, an emergency response initiative that provided 37 weeks of after-school care and wrap-around services for over 600 displaced children and families through 9 sites in Cleveland, Columbia, Jackson and Metcalfe, Mississippi. Backed by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, this project piloted the program's after-school model and launched the spread of sites throughout Mississippi and Louisiana.
Education
Downingtown Senior High School; Political Science, Lock Haven University; Social Enterprise, Executive Education Program, Harvard Business School; Spanish Culture and Language, International Program of Spanish Studies, University of Málaga at Ronda (Spain).
Natural mathematics is the polemical position which asserts that arguments striving for internal consistency, inherently lead to paradox. Therefore, it is necessary to arbitrarily insert into arguments the idea that mathematics is an inherent human activity. For adherents of natural mathematics, this sacrifices any possibility that arguments may have logical content. However, they feel that the gain is to avoid paradox. For an extended treatment of the natural mathematics polemical position, see P. Maddy, NATURALISM IN MATHEMATICS (1996).
History
Natural mathematics is at least as old as Artistotle, who felt argumentation was challenged by Zeno's paradox. It is as recent as intuitionism, formalism and logicism, which were developed at the turn of the century in order to cope with the supposed paradoxes of set theory. See Alejandro Garciadiego, BERTRAND RUSSELL AND THE ORIGINS OF THE SET-THEORETIC 'PARADOXES' (1992). In the worlds of mathematics and physics, natural mathematics is overwhelmingly favored, so strongly favored that most practitioners are unaware that they are even using it.
Application
The most famous current use of natural mathematics is the relativity of simultaneity. In his train experiment, Einstein (see RELATIVITY), writes that at a crucial stage of the formulation of the notion, point M "naturally" coincides with point M'. This is a statement outside the argument--it is neither an assumption nor a deduction. But it IS a complete application of natural mathematics. Einstein enthusiastically adopted the expression of natural mathematics found in Poincaré, SCIENCE AND HYPOTHESIS (1902), which, it turns out, was written in response to set theory controversies of the 1890s. Einstein called his own brand of natural mathematics, "practical geometry."
Controversy
Today, natural mathematics is under assault by new work on the history of set theory. Many of the set-theoretic 'paradoxes' are no longer considered to be so, thus undermining the program of natural mathematics. See I. Grattan-Guinness, THE SEARCH FOR MATHEMATICAL ROOTS (2000). In the various disciplines where there are theories using it, the criticism of dominant theories seems to take the form of exposing the natural mathematics roots of the arguments. See, for example, Peter Woit, NOT EVEN WRONG (2006).
Advocates of natural mathematics mainly count on there being some logical content to the various known paradoxes. There is, for example, still controversy about whether Zeno's paradox has any logical content at all. The idea is that if there is even one paradox rattling around in argumentation, all argumentation is implicated, thus making vital the natural mathematics program.
History
Natural mathematics is at least as old as Artistotle, who felt argumentation was challenged by Zeno's paradox. It is as recent as intuitionism, formalism and logicism, which were developed at the turn of the century in order to cope with the supposed paradoxes of set theory. See Alejandro Garciadiego, BERTRAND RUSSELL AND THE ORIGINS OF THE SET-THEORETIC 'PARADOXES' (1992). In the worlds of mathematics and physics, natural mathematics is overwhelmingly favored, so strongly favored that most practitioners are unaware that they are even using it.
Application
The most famous current use of natural mathematics is the relativity of simultaneity. In his train experiment, Einstein (see RELATIVITY), writes that at a crucial stage of the formulation of the notion, point M "naturally" coincides with point M'. This is a statement outside the argument--it is neither an assumption nor a deduction. But it IS a complete application of natural mathematics. Einstein enthusiastically adopted the expression of natural mathematics found in Poincaré, SCIENCE AND HYPOTHESIS (1902), which, it turns out, was written in response to set theory controversies of the 1890s. Einstein called his own brand of natural mathematics, "practical geometry."
Controversy
Today, natural mathematics is under assault by new work on the history of set theory. Many of the set-theoretic 'paradoxes' are no longer considered to be so, thus undermining the program of natural mathematics. See I. Grattan-Guinness, THE SEARCH FOR MATHEMATICAL ROOTS (2000). In the various disciplines where there are theories using it, the criticism of dominant theories seems to take the form of exposing the natural mathematics roots of the arguments. See, for example, Peter Woit, NOT EVEN WRONG (2006).
Advocates of natural mathematics mainly count on there being some logical content to the various known paradoxes. There is, for example, still controversy about whether Zeno's paradox has any logical content at all. The idea is that if there is even one paradox rattling around in argumentation, all argumentation is implicated, thus making vital the natural mathematics program.