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, […]

In a discussion about the shortcomings of Scrum, Uncle Bob Martin nailed 7 theses to the door. His 7 theses have been widely discussed, and they are liked or disliked by the Scrum community. Let’s take a look at a few of his identified “shortcomings” and how Rational Team Concert can help you get around them: […]

We get this question all the time: “Does Rational Team Concert integrate with product x or tool y?” or, “How do I continue to use my current solution while beginning to adopt RTC?” Maybe you’ve asked the same question. To help with some answers, we put together a few pages all about Rational Team Concert […]

The Rational Team Concert for Power team is proud to announce that Rational Team Concert for Power Systems Software release 2.0 is now available for download.  Rational Team Concert for Power 2.0 is the new version of Rational Team Concert for i 1.0, expanding support for team collaboration from the IBM i operating system to […]

I just returned from staffing our Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (C/ALM) pedestal at Lotusphere 2010 where we were highlighting a technical preview of the Lotus Connections integration with Rational Team Concert developed by IBM Business Partner, Mainsoft The majority of the audience at this event normally is interested in software other than development solutions. But […]

The Jazz Jumpstart team is a small, customer-focused group from Jazz development. We’ve put together a new deployment guide for Rational Team Concert that is based on our collective experience and expertise in deploying Jazz products at customer sites throughout the world. This lightweight guide (one rather long web page) provides guidance organized by what […]

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 […]

Rational Team Concert has a little-known feature, which you can see in action on jazz.net, to make bug reporting more simple for your stakeholders. With this feature, project owners can specify which work item categories are visible to all users, and which categories are visible to project members only. This means you can configure your […]

At the end of each Rational Team Concert iteration, we organize demos. It’s a great way to show progress, get others to try out your new features, and force features to be runnable. For this release, I’ve decided to share a snippet of an iteration demo and walk through a quick tour of the most […]

Here is a quick follow-up to my previous blog post with the teaser about the upcoming Lotus Connections integration with Rational Team Concert that is being developed by Mainsoft. They’ve now made the integration available for download as a technology preview, and we asked Jonas Martinsson from Mainsoft to give us some updates for our […]