2013 August

This is part three in our blog series describing the transformation of our internal ALM development organization toward a Continuous Delivery model. The previous post in this series was How does Rational ‘do Continuous Delivery?’ In this series, we describe the motivations behind adoption of a Continuous Delivery model and the many challenges we faced as […]

Part 2a of “Using Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager to answer hard Systems Engineering questions” blog series Preamble: Our users have been asking us for more practical examples about how to unleash the power of linked lifecycle data in Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager (RELM), so we have decided to kick off a blog series on the […]

I am one of the developers in the Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) project contributing to the Tracking and Planning (TAP) functionality of Rational Team Concert (RTC). I have been part of the TAP team from last four years and involved in delivering RTC in longer and shorter release cycles. You would have read posts […]

Part 1b of “Using Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager to answer hard Systems Engineering questions” blog series Preamble: Our users have been asking us for more practical examples about how to unleash the power of linked lifecycle data in Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager (RELM), so we have decided to kick off a blog series on the […]

Part 1a of “Using Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager to answer hard Systems Engineering questions” blog series Preamble: Our users have been asking us for more practical examples about how to unleash the power of linked lifecycle data in Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager (RELM), so we have decided to kick off a blog series on the […]

In a recent blog post, Pete Steinfeld casually mentioned that over the past year the time to build the full Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) pipeline was cut in half, but didn’t elaborate on how that reduction was accomplished.  Since I was involved with analyzing and improving the pipeline, I thought I would share, at a […]

Rational Team Concert (RTC) has started releasing quarterly. Since large features rarely fit into such short cycles, we’re making heavy use of RTC’s branching and merging functionality. That could result in merge hell, but it doesn’t. This post will give you an idea of how the RTC team uses our own source control management system, […]

This is part two in our blog series describing the transformation of our internal ALM development organization toward a Continuous Delivery model. The previous post was Walking the talk – Our journey to Continuous Delivery. In this series, we describe the motivations behind adoption of a Continuous Delivery model and the many challenges we faced as […]

You may have been reading the blog posts of my colleagues around continuous delivery including the motivation behind it, our focus areas as we transformed from annual to quarterly releases, and some process improvements that we implemented. Continuing this theme, in this blog I’ll write about one of the most dramatic changes that we underwent […]

Introduction This is the first in a series of blogs describing the transformation of our internal ALM development organization toward a Continuous Delivery model. In this series, we describe the motivations behind adoption of a Continuous Delivery model and the many challenges we faced as we embarked on this transformation from both the planning and […]