In projects where innovation is taking place, new concepts and possibilities are in the air. Concepts evolve as the team dreams, discusses, designs and delivers working code as the project progresses. New product behaviors and characteristics emerge and change as the team gets feedback and learns more about what is really needed. During this time […]

It seems like just yesterday we announced that Rational Project Conductor (well, at the time it was “Focal Point for Project Management,” but that’s a whole other blog) was available on Jazz.net. In reality, it has already been 5 months – wow, how time flies! In August we posted our first public Beta, and we […]

Thank you for your interest in Rational Focal Point for Project Management. This product is part of the next generation Project and Portfolio Management solutions from Rational. It is the result of feedback over the past several years, and feedback from early access customers like you. In order for us to build and deliver the […]

Last week at the Rational Software Development Conference, IBM Rational announced a new initiative called Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration. This initiative is aimed at simplifying collaboration across the software delivery lifecycle. Its goal is to enable teams to use disparate tools and share lifecycle resources in delivering software, whether the tools are from IBM, […]

Pictures from Wednesday of the Rational Software Development Conference 2008 (click images to view a larger version)… Ryan Manwiller (Jazz Build System component lead) during his session on “Integrating Your Build System with IBM Rational Team Concert” Dejan Glozic (Jazz Dashboards component lead) during his session on “Tracking Project Status with IBM Rational Team Concert” […]

Pictures from Tuesday of the Rational Software Development Conference 2008 (click images to view a larger version)… Grady Booch during his keynote on the future of software development Andre Weinand (Jazz Work Items component lead) during his session on “Customizing Work Items in IBM Rational Team Concert” Dirk Baeumer (Jazz Agile Planning component lead) during […]

This week, many members of the Jazz project are in Orlando, attending the 2008 Rational Software Development Conference. Over the next several days, we’ll post pictures highlighting some of the key Jazz-related events (click images to view larger versions). The opening keynote of the Rational Software Development Conference 2008. IBM Rational General Manager Danny Sabbah’s […]

Normally the term “polish” makes me wince a little. For a long time now I have equated that term with the pejorative notion or belief that user interface design, often specifically visual design, is something that you can stick on at the end. However, as the Jazz Project team recently finished Beta 3, its third […]

If there’s one question that we ask ourselves frequently in software development, it’s “how are we doing?”. All stakeholders, from first-line developers to project managers, from executives to customers, have a keen interest in the progress. The development process, especially on a larger team, produces a lot of information about work items, source control, builds […]

Rational Team Concert ships with a component we call Jazz Team Build. Jazz Team Build provides several build-related features for the day-to-day user and the release engineer. In addition, Jazz Team Build was designed to be used with your existing build infrastructure such as Rational Build Forge, CruiseControl, and the like. In this post, I’d […]