As you may know, IBM has been involved with creating and delivering complex, embedded systems for over 50 years now, starting with the earliest days of the NASA space program. The acquisition of Rational and then Telelogic further expanded our knowledge and footprint of Systems Engineering and embedded software development over the recent past, and […]

In 2008, the Jazz team released the first version of Rational Team Concert, the first product resulting from the Jazz project. Many of the developers on the Jazz team were also part of the original Eclipse effort, so it’s natural that we’d build on some of the same ideas. While our goal with Eclipse was […]

We are pleased to announce Beta 1 of the Rational Workbench for Collaborative Lifecycle Management. This project is an evolution of our Collaborative ALM effort focused on bringing together software development activities across requirements, development, build, and test. Our goal with the Workbench is to improve collaboration and productivity for teams using joint deployments of […]

In this video we demonstrate (using M6) how teams can link and populate plans by leveraging each other’s work. The demonstration starts from a requirements collection. This collection is linked to a development plan. The development team can populate a release plan with work-items that have links back to the requirements. Next, the testers link […]

I finally found some time to go through the video interviews that I filmed while I was at Innovate 2010 earlier this month in Orlando, FL. I was able to track down a few Jazz developers, including Erich Gamma, and I also got a few customers and partners to share a few thoughts as well. […]

You may have noticed the appearance of a new project at Jazz.net called Rational Workbench for Collaborative Lifecycle Management. This project is an evolution of our Collaborative ALM effort focused on bringing together software development activities across requirements, development, build, and test. Why is this important? The activities involving requirements, development, build and test are […]

It is Sunday in Orlando, FL and the Innovate 2010 Rational Software Conference is in full swing. Here is our quick guide to Jazz at Innovate. You can see (or add to) a growing Flickr pool of photos to get a feel for the atmosphere: (Reproduced with permission of YAHOO! Inc. ©2010 YAHOO! Inc. FLICKR […]

Matt Holitza and I were thrilled to have a great audience for our presentation at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, May 3-6. It was great to see so many people interested in our presentation, Transforming Software Development through Web 2.0 Collaboration. In the spirit of open collaboration, we’ve made the slides available on jazz.net. […]

Quality, the final frontier. These are the blogs of Rational Quality Manager. Our current mission:  to explore strange new defects, to seek out quality objectives, measures, and metrics, and to boldly assist you in going where no quality organization has gone before. Product Managers log, Quality date 1551.91. The Rational Quality Manager team has just […]

Just a quick plug for an upcoming event … In preparation for Innovate 2010 in June, IBM Rational is hosting an online jam, or brainstorming session, called IBM Innovate Jam 2010, March 30-April 1. The event is free, and all are invited to participate. Several of the Jazz leads, including Erich Gamma and Dave Thomson, […]