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Rational Workbench for Collaborative Lifecycle Management
Weave a "web" of ALM resources
The Rational Workbench for Collaborative Lifecycle Management project is focused on coordinating the software development activities across requirements, development, build, and test. In this project you can find out how our current Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer/Rational DOORS Requirements Professional products work together, and you can participate in our 2010 effort to bring these disciplines even closer together with more highly-integrated capabilities.
What are we doing in 2010?
In 2010 this project is focused on bringing Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and a new requirements product called Rational DOORS Requirements Professional* together with simplified install, simplified licensing, centralized administration, and improved integrations to support lifecycle scenarios.
We call this the Rational Workbench for Collaborative Lifecycle Management.
"What's a 'workbench'?" you ask. A Workbench is a term we use to describe a combination of products, services, and best practices that are designed to work well together to solve a particular problem. This Workbench is focused on the software development activities across requirements, development, build, and test.
You can learn more about what we're doing by looking at our plans, browsing the wiki, and asking questions in the forums. You can also download our in-progress development builds to follow along, and provide feedback by submitting workitems or bug reports.
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What can you do today with existing products?
Integrations are now available for Rational Team Concert (including System z and Power systems), Rational Quality Manager, Rational Requirements Composer and ClearQuest.
- Weave a 'web' of ALM resources to collaborate, navigate, and track status
- Create transparency with mashup dashboards
- Collaborate across the team while working in the tool that best suits your role
- Choose the tools that best suit your needs by providing flexible and open integrations
Integration features are built into each product, allowing you to choose which product combinations matter most to you. The integrations are provided in an open and flexible way as implementations of the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaborations specifications.
Supporting IBM Agility@Scale
The Collaborative ALM integrations help you scale your Agile practices across the development lifecycle.
As your team adds Agile practices, add a product and additional integrations are at your disposal. Scale in the direction that best fits your team.
- Elaborate user stories using Rational Requirements Composer combined with the Collaborative ALM integrations to Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager or both
- Support the Agile core using Rational Team Concert. When you're ready to add requirements management or test management practices, add the Collaborative ALM integrations to Rational Requirements Composer and/or Rational Quality Manager
- Support concurrent testing, test management and/or independent testing with Rational Quality Manager combined with Requirements Composer and/or Rational Team Concert
Surf the Collaborative ALM web
Teams collaborate by sharing information. The trick is making it easy for team members to find and link related artifacts in another repository without losing or changing their context.
The Collaborative ALM integrations provide the following features:
- Artifact Creation and Linking across disciplines
- Artifact trace-ability
- Mashup dashboards
- Configuration for cross-repository communication
Click to learn more about the Collaborative ALM features in RTC 2.0, RQM 2.0, and RRC 2.0
A Common Foundation
The C/ALM integrations build upon the Jazz Foundation, which provides a common approach or security, artifact linking, dashboards, and user interface frameworks. In particular the 2.0 versions of Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirement Composer build upon this foundation. See the Jazz Foundation project, the Jazz Vision or Jazz Architecture pages for more information.
What others are saying
"[IBM] is therefore one of the few vendor organisations perceived to be large or significantly powerful enough (with access to internal resources, cross group services, a large and broad customer base providing implementation feedback and a commanding ecosystem of partners) to be the custodians of the Application Lifecycle management and control framework.
-- Bola Rotibi, MWD Advisors
