Team Lab: a collaborative environment for teamwork

In the presence of growing teamwork and geographical separation, it becomes more and more important to develop collaborative environments that provide integrated support for all aspects of work and help to improve efficiency, productivity, and quality. In the area of software development, existing environments are either designed for a single user or do not extend beyond code development. This perceived shortcoming lead to the development of Team Lab. Team Lab is a client-server application for software development teams. It supports concurrent programming activity and allows multiple users to share a central code repository integrated with a collaborative virtual environment that provides tools for communication and other functions. Our current experience with Team Lab is limited to a successful implementation of the experimental architecture, testing of its usability will occur when additional functionality is implemented