This is the third in a series of blogs discussing the enhancements in our Collaborative Lifecycle Management 2012 solution.  Take the passenger seat and let me take you through the paces with the new Rational Quality Manager. You will see right away the new gauges and controls that keep you in pole position even in […]

The Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) community is working to standardize the way that lifecycle tools can share data (for example, requirements, defects, test cases, plans, or code) with one another. Linked data concepts are the foundation of OSLC. As a developer on Rational Quality Manager, I had a chance to see how OSLC […]

Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) is a set of specifications that enable the integration of software development and more broadly Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). The intention is to make life easier for software and product developers and tools vendors, by making it easier for tools to work together. Every time we fire up one of […]

If you or your organization are doing, or plan to do, C/C++ development with Rational Team Concert, I invite you to follow along in the first four articles that I have posted about the topic.

I’m pleased to announce that the first release of Design Management has arrived! Design Management 3.0 makes collaboration capabilities for users of Rational Software Architect (RSA) and Rational Rhapsody a reality. Our initial release allows you and your teams to search, browse, comment, discuss, and review your architecture and designs from both the existing rich […]

Released just in time for the new year, Rational Asset Manager (RAM) 7.5.0.1 improves on some of the features we delivered in September 2010: Development teams asked for integration with the recently released Rational Team Concert 3.0 (RTC 3.0): RAM 7.5.0.1 supports OSLC-based linking, and Eclipse client integration with RTC 3.0. Many of you liked […]

I recently spent time in Korea helping our customers understand Jazz Extensions and OSLC.  Many of the questions came from people who are very familiar with Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest.  As we discussed Jazz and Rational Team Concert, they kept trying to tie the Rational Team Concert concepts back to the concepts and terminology that […]

In April I was invited to speak about Jazz, the Jazz Integration Architecture, and Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) at a Mechatronics Council Workshop for the CPDA in Cincinnatti, OH. CPDA stands for Collaborative Product Development Associates, LLC. After some research, I learned that they are focused on product lifecycle management, and that they […]

First of all, what is OSLC? A quick search on Google returns the “Oregon Social Learning Center,” “Our Savior Lutheran Church,” and “Ontario Student Leadership Conference,” but then you will find “Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration.” Lifecycle resources are change requests, test cases, defects, requirements, builds, and all the other things that we use daily […]