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 the first half of this 2-part series I discussed my tips, tricks, and experiences in using Rational Team Concert to get up to speed with the world around me. In this article I’ll discuss the features and time savers I use when I’m developing in this environment. Some of the tips are specific to […]

Being a recent graduate and a new member of the Jazz Foundation and RTC Reporting Team, I have had to learn Jazz from the ground up. In doing so I accumulated several tips and tricks along the way. I have divided these tips into two posts. This first part deals with finding the information that […]

I finally found some time to go through the video interviews that I filmed while I was at Innovate 2010 earlier this month in Orlando, FL. I was able to track down a few Jazz developers, including Erich Gamma, and I also got a few customers and partners to share a few thoughts as well. […]

The Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2 iFix 3 M1 milestone build is now available on jazz.net. The most notable addition to iFix3 is the support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. During the last month we’ve been hard at work testing the Client for Visual Studio with various configurations including standalone Visual Studio 2010 installs and configurations that […]

NOTE: This offer has ended and is no longer available. We’ve done two things to make Rational Team Concert more affordable for small teams: Made all editions start with a total of 10 Developers (three included + seven free) Dropped the server prices (by approximately half) for a limited time We heard feedback that users […]

Rational Team Concert has always been free of charge for open source projects and academic purposes. So, we love it when popular open source projects adopt Rational Team Concert and report back to us their experience and feedback. Now, I am one of the developers for Rational Team Concert, but I also happen to be […]

In a discussion about the shortcomings of Scrum, Uncle Bob Martin nailed 7 theses to the door. His 7 theses have been widely discussed, and they are liked or disliked by the Scrum community. Let’s take a look at a few of his identified “shortcomings” and how Rational Team Concert can help you get around them: […]

I just returned from staffing our Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (C/ALM) pedestal at Lotusphere 2010 where we were highlighting a technical preview of the Lotus Connections integration with Rational Team Concert developed by IBM Business Partner, Mainsoft The majority of the audience at this event normally is interested in software other than development solutions. But […]

As a member of the Rational Requirements Composer product delivery team, working closely with customers and the IBM sales teams, I have the opportunity to see patterns in the challenges that teams are facing.  Considering this from the perspective of requirements and the people who create, refine, and use them to guide their work, these […]