History I work as the Automation Lead for the Function Verification Test (FVT) team in the Collaborative Lifeycle Management (CLM) project. This post details some of the efforts we are making to improve our test automation to enable continuous delivery. The CLM FVT team created the CLM Build Verification Test (BVT) scenario to quickly sanity-test […]

This is a quick overview of very recent efforts within the IBM Rational development organization to employ cloud technology coupled with aggressive provisioning, product install and configuration automation to improve and streamline our product System Integration test processes with an eye towards Continuous Delivery. Motivation and challenges Its a common story for sure but our […]

During the last 18 months, the IBM Jazz Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) team has been undergoing a transformation around adopting continuous delivery best practices and methodologies, some of which you may already be aware of through our discussions at Jazz.net and this year’s Innovate conference. Through this blog, I want to share some of those […]

I’ve been working in the Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) team in various development manager roles for the last three years. Recently I’ve moved into a role that will let me focus on helping the CLM organization deliver more frequent releases. After 20+ years working for IBM and 10 years as a development manager, this is […]

I’ve been working for IBM for over twenty years and I’m currently assisting the Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) team in its adoption of DevOps with the goal of enabling continuous delivery. I was previously the development manager for the CLM project and for Rational Team Concert. I’m also a jazz bassist and bandleader. When I […]

When you look at your project requirements and use cases today, how much do you rely on pictures or diagrams? When a project team is documenting ideas for their next development iteration people often draft diagrams to show the flow, user interaction through use cases, or even user interface mock ups to show what the […]

At Innovate 2013 this year I had a chance to talk to lots of customers who are running their business on IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC).  I also had a chance to survey a number of larger customers on their current usage of RTC and got some great insight into what capabilities they are using […]

We are well on our way into the world of continuous delivery with CLM 4.0.3, our second quarterly release of Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management. One of the areas we are changing is how we support our customers. In the past, we’ve maintained separate delivery streams for new function verses fixes to existing releases. That approach is […]

We are constantly striving to reduce the time it takes for you to gain value from our products and solutions. The sooner you can effectively deploy a Rational development environment, the faster you can start using it and gaining value! We are pleased to announce a number of initiatives around improving your deployment experience: A […]

This is the third part of a series of blog posts describing what we’ve learned about the visual display of quantitative information as it relates to CLM predefined reports (continued from part 1 and part 2). How to show data effectively in graphs In part 1 we pointed out that effective design practices are aligned with […]