Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration

open community. open interfaces. open possibilities.

 

Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (also known as OSLC or Open Services) is a community effort to help software delivery teams by making it easier to use lifecycle tools in combination. The OSLC community is creating open, public descriptions of resources and interfaces for sharing the things that software delivery teams rely on, like change requests, test cases, defects, requirements and user stories.


By agreeing on common specifications for lifecycle resources and the services to access them, we can eliminate traditional barriers between tools and open the door to new forms of collaboration. OSLC can bring value to software delivery teams and tool providers alike, from the most Agile to the most ceremonial of projects, and for commercially-licensed, open source, and internally developed tools.


See a snapshot of what’s happening with OSLC today.

Learn more

Quick links

  1. ‣Video: Intro to OSLC

  2. ‣Video: Mik Kersten on OSLC

  3. ‣Presentation: ALM Integration in a Web 2.0 World

  4. ‣Presentation: RESTful Work Items: Opening up Collaborative ALM

  5. ‣Podcast: Open Services bears first fruit. A conversation with Steve Abrams, Mik Kersten, and Carl Zetie.

  6. ‣Whitepaper: The Case for Open Services

  7. ‣Podcast: John Wiegand and Steve Abrams introduce the OSLC initiative

  1. ‣Wiki: Open Services specifications

  2. ‣Mailing list: OSLC community

  3. ‣Blog: Let’s try something different - Carl Zetie’s commentary on OSLC

  4. ‣Twitter - follow us: @oslcNews

News and events

  1. ‣Quality management converging on final 1.0 spec.

  2. ‣Reporting and SCM workgroups kick off.

  3. ‣Implementations delivered for Change management 1.0 spec (release)

  4. ‣Change management 2.0 spec workgroup expanding participants.

  5. ‣Requirements management and Asset management workgroups draft specs.

  6. ‣Primer authored for Software Estimation and Measurement