Attendees will hear a successful case study of a medium size globally distributed team increasing productivity, predictability and reliability by adopting Agile development practices in developing test automation. Learn how to reduce wasted time across time zones and streaming status reporting.

In developing our Jazz strategy, we continually ask ourselves, what if? What if your team could surf the web of development artifacts just like you surf the world-wide-web? What if collaboration spanned teams, geographies, and organizational boundaries? What if silos of development information were integrated? What if instead of proprietary API's, open standards of the world-wide-web inspired the solution? In this session see how we're making this happen today, including a demo, and learn about our roadmap for the future.

The embedded software industry is growing and becoming even more important. This presentation examines how to use IBM(R) Rational Team Concert(TM) to develop, control, and build automatically C and C++ applications integrated with Eclipse and the Eclipse CDT plug-in. Participants see how the embedded software test process is integrated with IBM Rational Team Concert using IBM(R) Rational(R) Quality Manager..

A look at recent developments and upcoming plans for IBM Rational Quality Manager.

Scotiabank's Software Engineering CoE invites attendees to share and discuss the lessons learned it learned in building an enterprise methodology change p rogram with IBM Rational software at its core. This session explores the bank's experiences in building a support process around the IBM Rational tooling platform and how it lead enterprise methodology change across the diverse cultures of its retail and capital IT banking departments. The presentation also reviews the bank's IBM(R) Jazz(R) directions and roadmap, as well as the top change issues and risks being managed as the bank forges ahead.

Presentation of the new and future IBM(R) Rational(R) Synergy(TM) and IBM(R) Rational(R) Change(TM) integrations with IBM(R) Rational(R) products: IBM(R) Rational(R) ClearQuest(R), IBM(R) Rational(R) Quality Manager, and IBM(R) Rational Team Concert(TM).

Agile software development (ASD) and geographically distributed development (GDD) strategies are two of the most important software process trends this decade - which are just now starting to be combined successfully. Regardless of the rhetoric that Agile teams are small and co-located, the fact is that a large percentage of Agile teams are in fact distributed. This talk overviews the challenges associated with GDD, how Agile strategies can be applied to overcome many of these challenges, and how IBM(R) Rational Team Concert(TM) supports Agile distributed development teams.

IBM(R) Rational(R) Developer for i (RDi) provides an integrated set of developer tools for native IBM i application development, including RPG, COBOL, CL, and DDS. These tools, such as the application diagram, help developers better understand their applications and make them more productive. RDi is the perfect on-ramp for all IBM i application developers wanting to start using IBM Rational tools such as IBM(R) Rational Team Concert(TM) for i (RTCi). RTCi extends IBM Rational Team Concert with process, work item, software change management, and build capabilities for native RPG and COBOL development on IBM i. This session introduces the capabilities of both RDi and RTCi and how they are integrated to provide the tools of choice for development on IBM i.

The IBM(R) Jazz(TM) Foundation implements the underlying architecture for a new generation of IBM Rational tools. The foundation includes the IBM Jazz Team Server technology, and the core infrastructure for deploying and integrating tools. This talk covers the architecture and extensibility of the foundation, and illustrates how it can enable tools that make software delivery more collaborative, productive, and transparent.

This session looks at how to drive business value and improve team productivity, team collaboration performance, the quality of releases, and the governance of projects using IBM(R) Rational Team Concert(TM) and the newly available Mainsoft Document Collaboration for Rational(R) Jazz(R). Based on the open and extensible IBM(R) Jazz(R) platform, Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz integrates document collaboration and automates the approval processes using Microsoft SharePoint or Lotus Quickr.

IBM(R) Rational(R) Quality Manager is a test management solution designed to streamline and automate test processes in a distributed environment. Globally distributed environments offer challenges and complications, including team collaboration, acceptance testing, and consolidated reporting. This presentation provides three key lessons learned from an ongoing implementation of IBM Rational Quality Manager for a large, worldwide test team.

Are you responsible for the delivery of applications that span platforms, programming languages, and geographies? Are you impacted by the cost of maintaining separate System z and distributed change management solutions? Is the pressure to deliver more with less making the communication and governance challenges inherent in managing software change across mainframe and distributed teams more apparent? The Rational Change and Release Management Solution provides a unified approach to software delivery. Benefits of this unified approach include decreased costs through consolidation of operations, more efficient teams, and better quality software, effective governance through repeatable processes and secured access with audit trails, and faster deliveries through automation and parallel development This session gives a high level description of how you can implement a consolidated, efficient, governable application lifecycle management solution for cross platform applications using Rational® Developer for System z, Rational ClearQuest, Rational ClearCase with the z/OS extensions, Rational Build Forge, and Rational Team Concert for System z.

This presentation will provide a development team's insight on the evolution of Rational Requirements Composer from a Requirements Tool to an Application Lifecycle Solution. We will focus on the development team's usage of Rational Requirements Composer milestone builds, along with other Rational Application Lifecycle Solution. We will discuss the process of "self- hosting", along with the lessons, tips, and techniques learned along the way

This is a case study of how IBM deployed IBM Rational tools worldwide across 185 IBM projects and realized $2.6 million in productivity benefits within 11 months. Understand the strategy to the IBM Rational program, the deployment roadmap, communication vehicles, development of subject matter experts, tool benefits guidance, closed-loop process, and project-specific lessons learned of adoption. Hear about the IBM 2008 pilot projects and results for IBM(R) Rational Team Concert(TM), test automation, and Web scanning with IBM(R) Rational(R) AppScan(R).