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Software development projects leave a large amount of data in repositories of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools. These data contain detailed histories of their respective projects, their results and decisions made along the way. Analysis of such data helps uncover various interesting facts about projects, e.g. their socio-technical structures and the actual (vs. purported) roles of team members. Based on experiences with tools supporting our research we are convinced that it is feasible to consolidate data from different ALM tools, tapping into the situation common in real-life projects. In this paper we report on our work towards a shared common data model and tool integration aimed at improved project analysis. We discuss how this can help in the identification of architects in the project organizational structures, their activity patterns and collaboration with other team roles.