Something I’ve learned in working as a user interface (UI) designer on an agile development team, as with the Jazz Project, is that you don’t so much prescribe design as you iterate on it. Ideally you first consider what the viable design options are, and having chosen the best known path, you start with a […]

I joined the Jazz project while it was still in its very early days, roughly two and a half years ago. At that time, the Raleigh team was just finishing up a short-lived experiment of trying to build an extensible platform using J2EE. This experiment demonstrated that the J2EE classloader hierarchy was not the right […]

I’ve been a software developer for about 14 years and been involved with too many projects where the schedules shifted and slipped – frustrating the developers and losing the interest of customers. So it was an epiphany to me several years ago to see the way the Eclipse project used “rhythm” to get great output […]

From Techworld.com – How not to deploy an application over a WAN, “Although the medical appointment application was advertised as being client/server based, it wasn’t. In particular, the application was designed in such a way that the data in each field was sent character by character over the network. Hence, this was another example of […]

Early on in the development of the Jazz Team Build component, we looked at the common pain points that developers had around builds. One of these pain points was a lack of control. Many automated build setups did not enable the developer to run a build on demand, or did not make it easy and […]

This was an exciting Christmas for me. For the first time ever, I couldn’t wait to give my in-laws their Christmas gift, which I bought some 2 months ago. For those without in-laws, you can’t even start to imagine how many brownie points this added to my small savings. The gift idea came to me […]

Every existing SCM tool allows you to fix a bug in a previous release. But the reality is that most SCM tools focus primarily on allowing you to change the code whereas there is more to fixing a bug than simply making the code changes. It turns out that even with simple projects there are […]

When filing a defect with Team Concert, I often like to include a screenshot of the problem. Including a screenshot can make it much easier for the receiver of the defect to see what you’re talking about. Screenshots can be easily added to new, or existing, work items. Start by clicking the camera button in […]

Jazz provides a lot of goodness for software developers. Source control. Work items. Builds. Much more. With the announcement of Rational Team Concert Beta 2, there are several resources on jazz.net to help you get started. Along those lines, I’ve got several tips in mind that I’ll be sharing over the coming weeks. These are […]

Hello and welcome to the Jazz team blog! We’ve decided to start a team blog so that members of the Jazz team can write about topics we think will be interesting and informative to the community, such as: Tips and tricks on how to better use Jazz-based tools How we ourselves use Jazz-based tools to […]