With the release of CLM 5.0, CLM has started a brand new approach to deliver maintenance to customers via regular, light weight, and cumulative iFix. CLM 5.0 iFix addresses a couple major pain points with maintenance for CLM customers: high cost of adoption of full maintenance releases, manual and error prone installation of test fixes, hard […]

Last week, I traveled to IBM Innovate in sunny (and sometimes randomly extremely rainy) Orlando, Florida.  My team, the IBM DevOps Services team, seemed to be everywhere:  helping people with apps, mingling at the Bluemixer, drinking cognitive cocktails, and talking all about DevOps.  I’ll give you the highlights of our week… The DevOps Keynote Monday […]

In this second video, I explain how to automatically push a component from IBM Rational Team Concert into IBM UrbanCode Deploy. The video shows how the Jazz.net Operation team is using such process to manage their deploy script and configuration used for the continuous deployment of Collaborative Lifecycle Management on Jazz.net. First, I show the […]

I’m very excited to announce that its now possible for you to try out the Beta of our new improved tracking and planning capabilities at IBM DevOps Services.   We’ve been working on these for a while now and have decided we need your help in validating our design and capabilities. To enable or disable […]

Last week I had the privilege of attending IBM Impact 2014, and I had a great time meeting many of you at the DevOps Zone at the expo, working with others of you as you tried out workshops at dev@Impact, and getting social with those of you who tweeted with #ibmimpact. While I was chatting […]

In February, I brought you a virtual tour of JazzHub where I showed off JazzHub’s facelift, features, and fabulousness.  This month, I thought I’d bring you a video tour of IBM DevOps Services’ new authentication, advanced auto-deployment, and awesomeness.  I hope you enjoy! I couldn’t cover all of the new features, so, if you’d like […]

JazzHub has a new name!The JazzHub of today began its life as an experimental development collaboration hub for academia and researchers, based on IBM’s Jazz technology. We learned a lot from that experience and since then we have re-implemented JazzHub in the cloud and opened it up to everyone. We integrated the Eclipse Orion Web […]

Newbie Blogger Hello jazz.net community!  I’m excited to join the blogging world and share my experience and expertise as a project manager from within the depths of the Rational brand development organization.  I’ve been in Rational for quite a while now and the Lotus brand before that.  You may know me from when I was […]

I’ve just released a video explaining how we’re using IBM UrbanCode Deploy to continuously upgrade the staging and production systems on Jazz.net. In the video, I explain the Jazz.net internal architecture, the different staging systems, and the process we use to upgrade the production systems. Finally, I demonstrate how we use UrbanCode Deploy to automate […]

Have you ever wondered if a build includes a fix? Perhaps you’re in QA and you want to ensure you’re testing the right build, or perhaps you’re a developer and you want to make sure that your changes made it into a build. Either way, Rational Team Concert makes it easy. Let’s look at how […]