It has been a busy fall and winter for the Rational Team Concert (RTC) development teams. We shipped 1.0.1 in October, followed by 1.0.1.1 in February, and we are working on 2.0. It’s probably not uncommon to have many releases on the “go” at the same time, but I must admit that it has been […]

Rational Team Concert 1.0.1.1 is a significant event! Besides some functional enhancements, defect fixes, and the inclusion of the Client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, RTC 1.0.1.1 is now globalized in 13 languages. This is a major accomplishment, involving a lot of hard work from all component teams. You all deserve a pat on the […]

We are trying hard to do something different with open commercial development at Jazz.net. Besides being able to directly interact with the development team in the forums and work items, the other important transparency goal is to share with you our plans and schedules. Let me take you on a tour of the Rational Team […]

I like to regularly follow highscalability.com, which is all about the practices of extremely scalable web sites. Over the four years that we have been evolving the Jazz platform, we’ve investigated and learned a lot about the principles and standards of scalability, and even discovered a few good ideas of our own. In other words, we’re […]

Notice: The webcast mentioned in this blog is no longer available. We are looking into recovering the webcast. Rational Team Concert is being developed by a globally distributed team. Since we strongly believe in consuming our own output/dogfood it should be no surprise that we are use using Team Concert intensively for our own development […]

When we began the Jazz Project and opened it to the public last year, we had two goals in mind: we had a vision for a platform on which to build a new generation of collaborative software development tools, and we wanted to work in the open to build a first product on that platform […]

The recently released IBM Rational Build Forge 7.1 has added support for integration between Rational Team Concert and Rational Build Forge. By combining the powerful software assembly automation of Rational Build Forge with the collaborative, agile environment of Rational Team Concert your software development teams can now easily: Manage software assembly for Jazz and traditional […]

In the user forum and on other occasions the question has come up about how the Jazz based products Team Concert, Quality Manager, and Requirements Composer play together. To help explain this, I’m pleased to point you to a recording of a demo we recently presented at a Rational VOICE of the Customers event. The […]

This post was contributed by Philippe Cohen, Vice President of Products at Mainsoft, and edited by Adrian Cho, Development Manager for Rational Team Concert. Is your team using Microsoft SharePoint to collaborate on project documents, such as design, architecture diagrams, process, and methodology? The Document artifact If you answered “yes,” then try out the Team Concert Document […]

Many of you have asked if we support integrating automated Visual Studio builds with Rational Team Concert. The short answer is yes, but you’ll have to use the Eclipse Team Concert client to control and view the results. When talking about build, it helps a lot to look at a picture. The following diagram taken […]