These days software developers don’t think twice about putting their source code under configuration management.  The advantages of using configuration management speak for themselves: Creating a shared development context: Each person can load their workspace with the same files and file versions. Managing change: You can make isolated changes, and when you are ready, deliver […]

We see patterns in the ways the tools we develop here on jazz.net are used around the world: in various industries, addressing common challenges, implementing similar development processes, and combined with other tools from multiple vendors in an end-to-end engineering tool chain. To help practitioners adopt best practices and become productive quickly, we have created […]

Over the last ten months the DOORS Next Generation team released four betas with increasing capability and performance.  It’s been fun to see the capabilities emerge milestone to milestone (lots of work, but fun and gratifying too).  We’ve enjoyed the interaction we’ve had with those of you in our beta and design partner programs as […]

In projects where innovation is taking place, new concepts and possibilities are in the air. Concepts evolve as the team dreams, discusses, designs and delivers working code as the project progresses. New product behaviors and characteristics emerge and change as the team gets feedback and learns more about what is really needed. During this time […]

We are pleased to announce the IBM® Rational® DOORS® Next Generation* project on Jazz.net. Through this initiative we plan to shape and deliver capabilities that support collaborative requirements processes as part of the Rational solutions for systems and software engineering. What is DOORS? For more than a decade IBM Rational DOORS has been a leading […]

The latest beta of Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) demonstrates significant progress in our plans to deliver requirements definition and management capabilities in a single application on the Jazz Team Server*. Our intent is to help teams to employ relatively light-weight requirements processes as part of their agile, iterative, or waterfall project methodologies –- whether they […]

Now that Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 is available for download here on jazz.net, I would like to explain our motivation for 2.0, put Requirements Composer in the context of the Jazz vision (specifically with Team Concert and Quality Manager), and provide some pointers so you can learn more. With Rational Requirements Composer, we aim to […]