No matter how rough the sea, a lighthouse is always shining in the distance to help you find your way. – Unknown In the days of simple software projects in someone’s garage, we didn’t worry too much about steering projects. Now, even small projects amass large amounts of data. As we improve our collaboration and […]

About a dozen years ago, Tim Berners-Lee coined the term “Semantic Web”. Wikipedia states “The main purpose of the Semantic Web is driving the evolution of the current Web by enabling users to find, share, and combine information more easily.” With Lifecycle Traceability, we not only share and combine information about our projects, we ensure […]

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. – Alan Lakein, writer It’s a bad plan that admits of no modification. – Publilius Syrus, Roman slave and poet (circa 100 BC) When we start a software project we can’t possibly predict all of the possible activities […]

Are you the best programmer on your team?  Would you like to be part of one of the most exciting initiatives in the software tools industry? The Jazz development team is looking for developers with excellent coding skills and a proven track record of delivery to work on Rational Team Concert and Jazz Foundation.  Rational […]

Why is it that some teams release products that provide a great experience, while others, release products that are, well, not quite right? Behind every great experience lies a multitude of design choices that bring to life the stakeholders’ vision. Getting it right requires many conversations on many levels, with stakeholders, with architects and designers, […]

“At some point, you take a step back, and you realize you have an awful lot of siloed systems that are limiting transparency across strategic projects.” Development Director, Temenos, Inc. Back when I was making my career decision, I chose to avoid the medical field. Software, I thought, was safe. I wouldn’t harm anyone if […]

Are you an effective Rational Team Concert Source Control user? If you’re not sure, or simply want to become more effective, here are some essential tips that will help on your way. Before jumping in to these tips, we have some excellent resources that would be worth taking a look at: If you’re new to […]

If you or your organization are doing, or plan to do, C/C++ development with Rational Team Concert, I invite you to follow along in the first four articles that I have posted about the topic.

In a blog post published earlier this month, Scott Rich and John Kellerman wrote about our plans for upcoming fix packs for CLM 2011 (Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer 3.0.1) and our plans for CLM 2012. In this post I’ll let you know how those plans will be realized in […]

With the recent availability of our CLM 2011 release, I want to dive into the new features provided by Rational Team Concert (RTC) to support Collaborative Lifecycle Management. Most notable are: the improved capabilities to “spin” and trace the lifecycle Web, new dashboard viewlets to stay on top of the resources across the lifecycle, and […]