In a discussion about the shortcomings of Scrum, Uncle Bob Martin nailed 7 theses to the door. His 7 theses have been widely discussed, and they are liked or disliked by the Scrum community. Let’s take a look at a few of his identified “shortcomings” and how Rational Team Concert can help you get around them: No ... Read more >

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Join Jean-Michel Lemieux, Rational Team Concert development lead, and Tim Klinger, from IBM Research, as they present "Lessons From Teaching Teamwork with Rational Team Concert".

Abstract: There is value in working with others and for most of us it's part of our daily work life. In IBM we found that several of the students we were hiring hadn't been exposed to development in a team environment and were not familiar with the tools and practices that accompany team based development. This talk reviews our work while using Rational Team Concert in the classroom to facilitate team learning, what behavior we wanted to emphasize, and what worked and what didn't. In addition, I'll talk about how we use Rational Team Concert to help new developers on our team learn the "craft" of software development by closer collaboration and coaching within the tool.

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By Kenny Smith - Planning and tracking work items in Rational Team Concert. Team Concert is such a cool flexible tool, and there are so many features that its easy to miss, yet its easy to get started with.

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By Adrian Cho - Software development projects fail all the time. Teams deliver late, blow out budgets, underwhelm or disappoint users with missing or deficient functionality or simply crash-and-burn before reaching their goal. Why do some projects and teams perform so poorly?

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