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Welcome to the new Jazz.net!

by Seth Packham

If you visit jazz.net often, you probably notice that we look quite different today. This all-new look, however, is just part of the story behind what’s new.
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We heard you loud and clear: Rational Requirements Composer and Rational Quality Manager are now fully onboard at jazz.net, joining Rational Team Concert and Jazz Foundation. … Read more >

User Interface Q4U: What does your dream home look like?

by Kim Peter
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When I was young, I used to wile away time dreaming of what my future ideal home would look like and where it would be. It tended to include things like curved floating staircases, open concept rooms, lots of art, and was usually located in some exotic or ultra-cool location on the planet nowhere near … Read more >

Your voice at “VoiCE” on Jazz Foundation Web UI

by Kim Peter
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This week at the Rational VoiCE of the Client event, a colleague of mine and I will be hosting design feedback sessions on the next rev of the Rational Jazz Foundation Web UI.  If you are planning to be at the event and want to talk Jazz, please stop by the Wakefield Room and sign … Read more >

Motivations behind the design of Jazz Team Build

by Ryan Manwiller
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Rational Team Concert ships with a component we call Jazz Team Build. Jazz Team Build provides several build-related features for the day-to-day user and the release engineer. In addition, Jazz Team Build was designed to be used with your existing build infrastructure such as Rational Build Forge, CruiseControl, and the like. In this post, I’d … Read more >

Refining the Jazz user interface

by Kim Peter
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Something I’ve learned in working as a user interface (UI) designer on an agile development team, as with the Jazz Project, is that you don’t so much prescribe design as you iterate on it.
Ideally you first consider what the viable design options are, and having chosen the best known path, you start with a sound … Read more >