Are there any alternatives to Rational Team Concert at the moment?

Question

Hi,

we are a team of about 100 developers working in an iterative development style. We are looking for a solution that will allow us to aggregate all development artifacts in one collaborative environment. Rationals Team Concert is bringing a lot of what we are looking for issue tracking combined with project management and soure code management integration as well as reporting.

While Team Concert is bringing a lot of features it is also quite expensive.

Thats why I am looking for alternatives. I wasn't able to find a product which is providing the same functionality so I guess Rational is ahead of other companies in this market.

Do you know of any competitive products? Can you suggest a combination of preferrably Open Source products that could serve us well?

Thanks in advance for your help!

cheers Mike

Answer 1

You can get very good project management plugins for JIRA such as GreenHopper. JIRA also integrates with CVS and SVN. The overall effect probably won't be a smooth as with Team Concert, but it should be an awful lot cheaper.

Answer 2

I guess a Redmine setup plus a DVCS (like Git), combined with eclipse and Mylyn would be the closest open-source alternative to Rational Team Concert.

You still would miss some nice features like instant messaging and stack debugging transfer (the ability to freeze a live execution and transfer it to a colleague), but that would be a good start.

Answer 3

Trac with svn (and possibly hudson) will fulfil many of these goals. (all are open source)

This article is a good start:

Using Trac for agile project management