C/ALM

Matt Holitza and I were thrilled to have a great audience for our presentation at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, May 3-6. It was great to see so many people interested in our presentation, Transforming Software Development through Web 2.0 Collaboration. In the spirit of open collaboration, we’ve made the slides available on jazz.net. … Read more >

As a member of the Rational Requirements Composer product delivery team, working closely with customers and the IBM sales teams, I have the opportunity to see patterns in the challenges that teams are facing.  Considering this from the perspective of requirements and the people who create, refine, and use them to guide their work, these … Read more >

Planning is in full gear for our annual user conference next year, which was renamed Innovate 2010: The Rational Software Conference. The conference will be held June 6-10, 2010 in Orlando, Florida. The Call for Papers is open from now until December 31, 2009. This is a great opportunity to share your experiences and ideas … Read more >

Now that Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 is available for download here on jazz.net, I would like to explain our motivation for 2.0, put Requirements Composer in the context of the Jazz vision (specifically with Team Concert and Quality Manager), and provide some pointers so you can learn more.
With Rational Requirements Composer, we aim to help … Read more >

I’m often asked to explain Collaborative ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) and am usually taken aback by the question. It’s like asking me to explain the value of ‘breathing.’ “Uh, because it hurts a lot if you don’t do it?”
All joking aside, we recently we kicked off our design partner program for Collaborative ALM (C/ALM), and … Read more >

First of all, what is OSLC? A quick search on Google returns the “Oregon Social Learning Center,” “Our Savior Lutheran Church,” and “Ontario Student Leadership Conference,” but then you will find “Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration.” Lifecycle resources are change requests, test cases, defects, requirements, builds, and all the other things that we use daily … Read more >

With the release of Rational Team Concert 2.0 and Rational Quality Manager 2.0, our vision for Collaborative ALM begins to come to fruition. This blog post and video demo focus on one scenario that helps testers and developers align on the work involved in completing iterations.

One of the biggest challenges for testers is staying in … Read more >

At the Rational Software Conference 2009 in June, I busted the common myth that there was no center of the universe by proposing that Rational Quality Manager was the center and core of all things important for software quality. Our team has been busy over the past few months. The key driver for Rational Quality … Read more >