Throughout the early development of Jazz and Rational Team Concert we realized that, although we were accustomed to creating tables and graphs to manage milestones, we had little or no exposure to design practices that optimize their effectiveness. Many people who produce CLM reports might find themselves in the same circumstances. This post (and others […]

The latest beta of Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) demonstrates significant progress in our plans to deliver requirements definition and management capabilities in a single application on the Jazz Team Server*. Our intent is to help teams to employ relatively light-weight requirements processes as part of their agile, iterative, or waterfall project methodologies –- whether they […]

(Hint: Don’t miss the video included toward the end of this entry) Back in 2000, there was an American movie called Pay it Forward. The plot involved an 11-year-old boy who, in response to a school assignment to put into action a plan that would change the world, devised a plan he called “paying it forward.” […]

On September 20, we posted Beta 2 (“CLM Beta 2 is available!”) of the CLM products. If you’ve been following closely, you may be wondering why you see Rational Team Concert’s latest milestone posted as Release Candidate RC1, and Rational Quality Manager posted as Milestone M10, so I’d like to give you an update on […]

This week we made the Release Candidate 0 (RC0) from our three Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) products available as Beta 2 for the release: Rational Team Concert – Beta 2 Rational Quality Manager – Beta 2 Rational DOORS Requirements Professional – Beta 2 When I compare Beta 2 to Beta 1, I get really excited […]

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 […]