The benefits of “lean” are taking shape. More organizations than ever before have shifted from simply pursuing an interest to actually doing something about it. And in this world of growing systems and software complexity, the need to effectively and efficiently coordinate the delivery of value across distributed teams is no longer a choice… it’s […]

IBM Rational Quality Manager (RQM) v6.0.6 brings a large set of user experience enhancements in various areas such as test execution, manual test scripts, configuration management or Excel importer. To learn more about those enhancements, I invite you to read the New & Noteworthy details. The team has also started to work on a new […]

Reporting is critical in helping organizations lead lean enterprise transformations, and we’re listening and responding… In the latest drop of the Enterprise Scaled Agile reports for your IBM Continuous Engineering (CE) and IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) environments, we’ve included some of the most important industry-standard reports — like Cumulative Flow, Burn-Up and Burn-Down […]

Version 6.0.6 of the IBM Continuous Engineering (CE) and Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions is now available! This release continues to help teams engineer, deliver, and maintain the smart and connected products and systems that contribute to an industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and that drive innovation and productivity in our societies. Similar to previous […]

One of our best practices for administering the IBM Continuous Engineering (CE) solution is to establish an enterprise monitoring strategy allowing administrators to proactively and reactively monitor the application environment. In v6.0 of the IBM CE Solution, we introduced the ability to version artifacts across the lifecycle domains.  With it came three new applications – […]

In my job, I spend a lot of time thinking about very complex things. Like the definition of IoT. Or the challenges of connected product engineering. Or how industries are becoming increasingly regulated.  Because in my IoT world, “continuous engineering” means working with increasingly connected things in very complex systems, and developing the software that […]

As part of our continuous improvement efforts,  the Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) team is excited to announce the following changes in our CLM Maintenance Model that will include more fixes in our most current streams. Based on client feedback, this will provide a better upgrade experience for current releases that are not an Extended Maintenance […]

We’re currently calling for papers for the next Watson IoT Continuous Engineering Summit. After very positive feedback from the past two summits in the US, we are excited to announce a summit in Europe this year: When: 14-16 May 2018 Where: Westin Grand Hotel, Munich Link & registration: http://conference.learnquest.com/CE-Summit-Europe/ Due date for abstracts: 7 March 2018 The event […]

Organizations across all industries are under great pressure to quickly adapt to new market conditions. They need to transform their approach to systems engineering and software development to deliver new features and offerings faster and respond to feedback — continuously. Most of them have been experimenting with lean and agile principles to reach that goal. […]

IBM Rational Quality Manager (RQM) v6.0.5 release comes with a set of new features in multiple areas such as manual testing, test execution tracking and reporting, automated test execution adapters or data spill redaction. Let me highlight three of those new capabilities: email notifications, redlining manual tests, and manual step count. Email notification for Execution […]