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 product and 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 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 product and software delivery teams and tool providers, 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 (youtube)

  2. ‣Whitepaper: The Business Value of Open Collaboration

  3. ‣Video: Mik Kersten on OSLC

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

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

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

  7. ‣Whitepaper: The Case for Open Services

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

  1. ‣Wiki: Open Services specifications

  2. ‣Mailing list: OSLC community

  3. ‣Blog: OSLC and More - Steve Speicher’s insider view on OSLC

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

  5. ‣Twitter - follow us: @oslcNews

News and events

  1. ‣PLM workgroup seeks to blend PLM/ALM worlds (SDTimes)

  2. ‣OSLC Core, Change Management, Requirements Management, Quality Management, Estimation, SCM, and Reporting workgroup specs converge on OSLC-Core spec.

  3. ‣Open source projects utilizing OSLC (Eclipse Mylyn, Helios Project - Mantis)

  4. ‣OSLC industry activity highlighted at the Innovate 2010 conference (Jazz keynote)