As a member of the Rational Requirements Composer product delivery team, working closely with customers and the IBM sales teams, I have the opportunity to see patterns in the challenges that teams are facing.  Considering this from the perspective of requirements and the people who create, refine, and use them to guide their work, these […]

I’m often asked to explain Collaborative ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) and am usually taken aback by the question. It’s like asking me to explain the value of ‘breathing.’ “Uh, because it hurts a lot if you don’t do it?” All joking aside, we recently we kicked off our design partner program for Collaborative ALM (C/ALM), […]

With the release of Rational Team Concert 2.0 and Rational Quality Manager 2.0, our vision for Collaborative ALM begins to come to fruition. This blog post and video demo focus on one scenario that helps testers and developers align on the work involved in completing iterations. One of the biggest challenges for testers is staying […]

At the Rational Software Conference 2009 in June, I busted the common myth that there was no center of the universe by proposing that Rational Quality Manager was the center and core of all things important for software quality. Our team has been busy over the past few months. The key driver for Rational Quality […]

The doc teams are ready to collaborate with you! We are very excited to provide pre-release Online Help information centers, enabled for commenting. These are like regular information centers but they are fully enabled for collaboration, meaning that you can add comments to help the User Assistance teams improve and grow the product documentation. The links […]

Well, I’m back and fully recovered from an exhausting but fun week at the Rational Software Conference 2009. By all accounts, the conference was another smashing success as thousands of Rational customers, business partners, employees, media, and analysts converged on the Swan and Dolphin resort in sunny and hot Orlando, Florida. The Jazz team and […]

If you visit jazz.net often, you probably notice that we look quite different today. This all-new look, however, is just part of the story behind what’s new. More projects on jazz.net We heard you loud and clear: Rational Requirements Composer and Rational Quality Manager are now fully onboard at jazz.net, joining Rational Team Concert and […]

Here we are, five months after the first release of Rational Quality Manager and Rational Test Lab Manager.  We have received great feedback from our early adopters and customers, but we want more.  We want to hear from you and what better way to do it than to open the flood gates and let everyone […]

In the user forum and on other occasions the question has come up about how the Jazz based products Team Concert, Quality Manager, and Requirements Composer play together. To help explain this, I’m pleased to point you to a recording of a demo we recently presented at a Rational VOICE of the Customers event. The […]

This week at the Rational VoiCE of the Client event, a colleague of mine and I will be hosting design feedback sessions on the next rev of the Rational Jazz Foundation Web UI.  If you are planning to be at the event and want to talk Jazz, please stop by the Wakefield Room and sign […]