Jazz Source Control is ideal for teams that prefer the benefits of a centralized source control system like single source of truth, dependency relationships, complete audit history, reuse, and security.  You may need to answer questions that span the history of a long-running project. You may need to find dependency information about a component that […]

Tools: RTC (with SCM CMD line tool) for source control and builds UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) for deployment automation Docker for test environments Slack for team awareness In recent years, the concepts of continuous delivery, deployment, and integration have been introduced, along with DevOps, and have changed the way we look at producing, testing, managing, and […]

We’re delighted to announce that IBM Quick Deployer version 1.2 is available, free to download and use from Jazz.net under a “Non-warranted Program” license. You can see more details on version 1.2 here. IBM Quick Deployer is installation and deployment automation for IBM’s Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Continuous Engineering (CE) Solutions 6.0.2, 6.0.1 and […]

The journey of a system test organization in transforming itself into a continuous delivery, DevOps model by Mario Maldari and Albert Tabachnik In a DevOps Continuous Engineering environment, with accelerated timescales, it is ever more important to focus testing efforts on those features and platforms that are most critical to your customers. The Collaborative Lifecycle Management […]

This blog post has been a collaborative effort with Marianne Hollier, Cindy VanEpps, Roger LeBlanc and Anita Rass Wan. We are interested in getting feedback on how these scenarios could help to drive customer conversations when introducing the middleware portfolio in support of their DevOps initiatives. Welcome to the first in a series of blog […]

In our pipeline, we use Rational Quality Manager (RQM) to run a lot of tests using dynamically created RQM adapters. While building the products, we also compile and package the tests to be run. After the tests and products to test are built, we create and start several RQM adapters to run the tests. Here’s […]

In IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) 6.0 we have simplified the user experience while adding advanced capabilities. Let’s start with making things easier and more flexible for developers. Easy agile your way: IBM Rational Team Concert Quick Planner 6.0 I recently gave a brief keynote talk at the SCRUM Alliance in Phoenix about “Agile your […]

Do you need to orchestrate software development and delivery in your complex, heterogeneous environment but you’re not sure where to start? Have you heard about SAFe but you don’t know what it is or why you should care? New in Rational Team Concert V6.0 is a feature that supports the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe) out […]

We are nearing the release of Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) 6.0 that will include Configuration Management (CfgM) across lifecycle projects, which we developed using IBM Design principles. One of these principles in our design thinking is the use of release hills to expresses user value, objectives and the scope of the release. Our first hill […]

We’re hiring! IBM is serious about the Cloud. It’s where business is headed and you should be there too. Developing and deploying web and mobile applications in a continuous delivery environment is complex and challenging. IBM Bluemix cloud technology is based on open standards such as Cloud Foundry and Docker, with industrial strength software-defined infrastructure provided […]