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 […]

Some of you may have noticed the absence or removal of Rational Project Conductor from Jazz.net. This is a part of our strategy to strengthen our Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) solution by making project management a core CLM capability, by better integrating Project Portfolio Management with CLM, and by simplifying our product portfolio. Strengthening project […]

If you want to become a real expert in Rational Team Concert, continue reading to find out about some cool features that can help you become even more productive. In this post, I direct your attention to a series of articles around the topic of cool, “hidden” features in Rational Team Concert. If you want […]

Rational Team Concert 3.0 is now available. Visit the RTC project page to learn more and get the highlights of what’s new! Or go download it now if you’re ready to dive in. This blog entry continues the tour around new & noteworthy features in Rational Team Concert 3.0, with a focus on Work Item […]

We are pleased to announce the availability of Rational Team Concert 3.0, and invite you to download it and enjoy. It’s loaded with cool features, many of which you asked for, including a few that I’ll summarize here: Any Plan (Agile, Formal, or Hybrid) We’ve added support in the core planning component for more traditional […]

In Part II of this blog series, I included a couple of sneak peaks into how Team Concert is continuing to be used everywhere with the new clients for  z/OS. We’ve always investment heavily in supporting different client environments, and this year we’ve raised the bar with a lot of new coolness in the client […]

Today we are announcing that Rational Team Concert 3.0 will be generally available on November 23, 2010. Visit the Rational Team Concert project page to learn more and get the highlights of what’s new! In addition to the enhancements in the main product functions, there have been significant changes to the licensing and deployment models […]

This is a follow-up to Part I and the next in a series of posts highlighting what’s coming in our next version of Rational Team Concert. In this entry, I will focus on the Source Control enhancements*. I’ll talk about enhancements in the core Source Control engine that enable distributed source control, a native client […]

In preparation for our upcoming release of Rational Team Concert, this is the first in a series of blog posts that will dive into some of the more noteworthy features*: Enterprise administration and process tooling – Shared master project areas, CAC card auth support, LDAP wizard, and extra process extensions in SCM and Work Items […]

(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.” […]