JetBrains team tools include solutions that superpower project management, team collaboration, business process automation, continuous pipeline integration and so much more.
This month’s team tooling showcase includes:
- Code With Me for collaborative coding;
- YouTrack for powerful project management;
- Space for ensuring quality across continuous delivery; and
- TeamCity for flexible CI/CD.
TEAM UP WITH POPULAR JETBRAINS TOOLS
JetBrains team tools proved their desirability once again in 2023, finding popularity with diverse users and environments.
As JetBrains developer advocate Maarten Balliauw says, remote development and dev environments are a great way for teams to standardise their development environment and get new dev machines up and running quickly, even on demand in the cloud. At the same time, the industry is now starting to apply infrastructure-as-code for development machines.
Recent polling reveals that most teams favour source code collaboration tools and also leverage tools for team collaboration, task or project management, workflow management and more.
(Chart source: JetBrains)
IF YOU CAN’T MONITOR, YOU CAN’T MANAGE
We’ve all heard the saying – that you need to know what’s happening in order to manage it better. That’s why the adoption of project management and issue tracking solutions – such as YouTrack – is on the rise.
With YouTrack, for instance, technicians are attracted to its ability to combine project management with workflow management and robust issue tracking functionality. At JetBrains, about half of customer teams selected YouTrack Cloud for its ease of set-up, with the others plumping for self-hosted control. Read more here.
It’s all about how the right tools make teamwork more effective, enhancing collaboration, productivity, and security, partly through improved workflows and processes.
CODE BETTER, CODE WITH ME
JetBrains’ collaborative coding and pair programming service Code With Me, bundled with most JetBrains IDEs, is adding support for JetBrains Rider and Android Studio.
BENEFITS INCLUDE:
- Remote collaboration in real-time across the dev team. Forget staring at the same screen and constantly asking team mates when to scroll.
- By adopting remote collaboration, devs can increase the efficiency of code investigations by working more closely together.
- Expand collaborations to trainees or students, live coding and navigating together to deliver feedback effectively or transfer skills and knowledge at pace.
YOUTRACK, YOU SUCCEED
Project management is a thorny issue for all organisational teams, but with YouTrack from JetBrains, developers benefit from increased oversight and streamlining of what’s actually happening at grassroots level, ensuring efforts don’t dead-end through unneeded task duplication or lack of initiative.
WITH YOUTRACK TEAMS ENJOY:
- Full knowledge-base documentation, detailed reporting and dashboards.
- Interactive Gantt charting and planning for teams across software development, devops, HR or marketing.
- Easy team collaboration on projects of any size, even Helpdesk projects for customer support.
- Customised Agile boards and worker time management, including the ability to track and check results on Timesheets.
- Automated business processes via Workflows.
In short, YouTrack is packed with features for streamlining work and boosting productivity through easy tracking of and collaboration on projects, however large (or small).
FLEXIBLE DEVOPS IN TEAMCITY
The JetBrains general purpose CI/CD platform TeamCity represents flexible, fast delivery and deployment. Empower devops with powerful continuous integration of the software development pipeline.
TRANSFORMATION AT PACE:
With TeamCity’s enablement of flexible workflows, collaboration and development practices, dev teams can deliver quality software faster.
- Enjoy continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment within devops processes.
- Better understand testing through test history retention, flagging of unstable tests, and help identifying flawed commits.
- Adopt remote run and pre-tested commits.
- Choose from TeamCity Cloud for cloud-native teams and CI/CD newcomers, TeamCity Professional for full professional-level control including unlimited users and build time, or TeamCity Enterprise for full-scale CI/CD pipeline management.
TeamCity is like an IDE for continuous integration, integrating with building and testing tools, visualising pipelines in detail, and setting up a first pipeline is quick and simple, with no need to code.
SPACE TO TRANSCEND TEAM LIMITS
The Space platform enables dev teams to ensure code quality and stable, continuous flows for project delivery. A focus is intelligent code collaboration, with Jira integration for a smoother transition.
With Space, you can roll up activities via Git hosting or BitBucket, native JetBrains IDE integration, code quality control (add Qodana for static analysis), build and publish with CI/CD, packaging and deployment, and track or plan with boards and checklists.
FOR INSTANCE:
- With Space you can enforce code standards with quality gates, including acquiring team member or code-owner approvals and set up checks by Space CI, TeamCity or other external CI services.
- You can also merge with more confidence using the Safe Merge feature, which shows how your main dev branch would appear post-merge.
- Of course, you can also manage code reviews and merge requests direct, via Space code review native integrations with IntelliJ-based IDEs.
WANT MORE?
When teams seek to take development to the next level, ever-evolving JetBrains team tools have a lot to offer any organisation. Just get in touch to discuss specific requirements.