Patent ID: 8707246

Claim:
A process for engineering project event-driven social networked collaboration, the process comprising: logging into a private network; accessing a social network platform which is unavailable outside the private network; and viewing engineering team news items, generated by a news generator which collects engineering events from engineering data sources, on at least one of the following profiles via the social network platform: an individual profile for a member of an engineering team, a team profile for the engineering team, wherein the engineering data sources include at least three of the following: a network administration database, a software source control system, a project issue tracking tool, a test case management tool, a file sharing tool, a web publishing tool, or a virtual machine management tool; and viewing a suggestion for at least one of the following engineering activities: following up on a news item by viewing a product specification; following up on a news item by creating a product test; following up on a news item by creating a virtual machine session; wherein all product development members of the engineering team are employed by the same entity, and the engineering team further includes testing personnel employed by other entities which have confidentiality agreements with the product development entity.