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 […]

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, […]

The theme of Agile 2009 this year was “Making Agile Real”, and the keynote given by Alistair Cockburn is available for your watching pleasure. Although Alistair is a great speaker, during his talk I was yearning for some hints on how to map his concepts into practices. While the eternal pragmatist in me was waiting […]

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), […]

Rational Team Concert has always supported newsfeeds as the preferred mechanism to track events in teams and projects. Are you still relying on old school e-mail notifications? Have you never thought about configuring Team Central and your personal Dashboard to use feeds efficiently? Then this post will give you some inspiration. To keep things short […]

In Rational Team Concert 2.0 one of our plan items was to enable the product for people with accessibility needs. Accessibility enablement is the enablement of an application to allow  people with physical and cognitive challenges to interact with it.  The US government has provided directives to follow in its section 508 legislation, which IBM […]

As we near the end of the release cycle for Jazz Foundation 1.0 and Rational Team Concert 2.0, and close on the heels of these will be Rational Quality Manager 2.0, one of the areas that gets more attention is guideline and pattern documentation. As a design team, we have much to catch up on […]

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 […]

You might have noticed a new look to the Rational Team Concert Web UI login screen and banner in recent weeks. These changes are a step toward an updated look for a number of user interface elements that will help to unify the presentation of our Jazz-based Rational web products. As we take steps toward […]