Have you always wanted to share an IBM Rational Team Concert plug-in that you developed with other users?  Are you new to RTC and want to see what other users have developed?  Do you want to learn more about the RTC SDK and how to use it to create your own plug-in? A big thank […]

We’ve been busy working on three major themes in IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) 6.0.5 : Ease of Use: Make it super easy to create task boards or plan boards using both tag based and/or process based swim lanes with an all new RTC Quick Planner UI built from the ground up in REACT. Data Scalability:  […]

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As you can see in What’s new in Rational Team Concert 6.0.4, several new features were added to Rational Team Concert (RTC) source control. I would like to highlight a few of the features in this post. Operation History The ability to show the operation history of a stream or workspace has been one of […]

Are you interested in taking advantage of the IBM Jazz Reporting Service (JRS) reports delivered to support enterprise scaled agile environments but aren’t sure how to get started? Maybe you’ve tried to import them but haven’t been successful? Or maybe you aren’t using the Scaled Agile Framework ® (SAFe®) specifically, but still want some of […]

The IBM Rational Team Concert client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE comes with a default file compare utility, but also allows you to use any external compare tool of your choice.  The compare utility that you use will come up in a separate window that you’d need to switch to in order to perform the […]

Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2017 general availability this year, and we are excited to share that starting with the Rational Team Concert 6.0.4 release, Rational Team Concert is integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017. Unlike previous versions, Visual Studio 2017 came with some breaking changes to the extensibility mechanism which made it more than just […]

We’ve been busy working on three themes in IBM Rational Team Concert v6.0.4 : Enable horizontal scaling so deployments can expand and load balance thousands of users. Support the rigor of complex mission critical software development where reuse, traceability and the ability to ensure exactly what goes into a release is paramount. Invest in ease […]

Now that Rational Team Concert (RTC) integrates with Git as an alternative source control provider, we sometimes get asked about our source control management (SCM) strategy. Why Git? Does that mean we’re not going to invest in RTC’s built-in SCM long term? How do they play together? This blog is intended to dispel any such […]

Imagine the challenges of rolling out a new agile planning tool to thousands of developers. Or to onboard new developers quickly in your agile and lean teams. Imagine the productivity gain with quick and effective scrums and easy triaging of defects. Imagine being on top of your personal work schedule, always … When we brainstormed […]