Project and development management

There are two main development methodologies being exercised by the organization.

• Kanban methodology is used to manage organizational level tasks.
• Scrum methodology is used to manage per project level tasks.

Organizational level tooling

The following tools are part of the organizational level tooling.

• Trac is used organizational level issue tracking and document sharing.
• Jenkins is for continuous integration builds for all projects.
• SonarQube is a platform for quality management used to track organizational level product quality metrics and rules for all projects.

The following cloud services are used for projects as well.

• Visual Studio Team Services. This tool is used for project level project management, issue tracking and version control (using Git). This is used only for private projects.
• Slack is used a the organization team chat tool.

Open source tooling

There are a number of projects that are contributed to the community by the organization mostly under EPL-1.0. Though they are built and deployed from within the confines of the organization, cloud service tooling is heavily used to allow access to the greater community.

• GitHub is used for issue tracking and the source repository.
• Travis is used as a continuous integration build tool to complement Jenkins.
• SonarQube.com is used for quality management, but because the rules cannot be configured the results on SonarQube.com are ignored by the organization.
• GitHub Pages is used to host the project site via Wagon Git as part of distribution management.
• Sonatype OSS is used as the repository as it provides a freely available Nexus server and provides detailed instructions for promoting up to Maven Central.

Authentication and authorization

There is only one way to access organization resources from the Internet and that is through an SSL Client Side Certificates. These certificates must be validated by a trusted certificate authority and the e-mail must be registered with the internal directory.