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 […]

(Note – this is part of a series of posts on Jazz-related activities @ EclipseCon 2008. See this entry for background.) Presenter: John Wiegand (IBM Rational Chief Architect) Talk: “Influence of Digital Communities on Software Development” Reporter: James Branigan John started by providing a simple classification of digital communities that exist today. He organized these […]

(Note – this is part of a series of posts on Jazz-related activities @ EclipseCon 2008. See this entry for background.) Presenter: Kimberley Peter (Jazz UI Design Lead) Talk: “Building On Eclipse In Interesting Ways – While Still Respecting Its Look and Feel” Reporter: Patrick Streule Kim gave an overview of four conceptual themes that […]

(Note – this is part of a series of posts on Jazz-related activities @ EclipseCon 2008. See this entry for background.) Presenter: Kai-Uwe Maetzel (Jazz Process Lead) Talk: “What if your tools knew your team?” Reporter: Jim des Rivières Kai set the stage by telling 4 stories from everyday life that each tell us something […]

(Note – this is part of a series of posts on Jazz-related activities @ EclipseCon 2008. See this entry for background.) Presenter: Jean-Michel Lemieux (Jazz Source Control Lead) Talk: “Source Control in Jazz” Reporter: Jim des Rivières Jazz SCM is a modern source control system based on change-sets. Team members make changes to files; these […]

(Note – this is part of a series of posts on Jazz-related activities @ EclipseCon 2008. See this entry for background.) Presenter: Erich Gamma (Jazz Technical Lead) Talk: “Developing Software like a Band Plays Jazz” Reporter: Darin Swanson This afternoon at EclipseCon 2008, Erich gave an overview of how Rational Team Concert, built on top […]

As Jean-Michel mentioned a few weeks ago, we have a strong Jazz team presence at EclipseCon 2008 in Santa Clara, California this week. Since not all Jazz.net community members can be at EclipseCon, but may be interested in Jazz activities there, we’re going to post reports on several of the talks that Jazz team members […]

Chris Daly’s entry “Some Notes on Rhythm” provides a good high-level overview of how the Jazz Project establishes a “rhythm” to make consistent and predictable progress over the course of project milestones and release cycles. In this entry I’d like to drill-down to show how we use our tools to keep a rhythm for day-to-day […]

It’s funny to say, but EclipseCon is much more than just about Eclipse the IDE. It’s about tools, platforms, runtimes, and grassroots hacking. Take Jazz as an example, where I would say the most important part of Eclipse we use is the OSGi runtime on the server. Whereas on the client side our design has […]