When I was asked if I wanted to help out at a hackathon at North Carolina State University (NCSU), I enthusiastically said, “Yes!”  As a former Wolfpacker myself, I didn’t need to know any of the details of what technology we’d be using or how the event would be run; I was simply thrilled to […]

I have worked for IBM for about 20 years, moving back and forth between development, customer support and IT operations roles. Working in these different roles helped give me perspective for my current role as the manager for Jazz Continuous Deployments/DevOps. In this role I am responsible for ensuring that our multiple staging and self-hosting […]

“I have edited the files you wanted me to look at”, I told a team member over coffee. “I will check them in once I finish this cup.” So, after I was back, I opened the pending changes view in the Rational Team Concert Shell control panel, and began to check in the changed files. […]

“I have delivered some new files to the stream”, said a teammate at our morning scrum. “Can you please edit them?” We’re agile.  I promised to return the files within three working days. Then, I grabbed some coffee, opened Rational Team Concert Shell, and tried to remember what it was that the task bar icon […]

“It can do source control management (SCM) stuff. It is almost like the Rational Team Concert client for Eclipse IDE”, I was told, “but simpler.” “Aha! A margherita”, I thought and, being of a nature that prefers bare bones over raiments, I downloaded and installed Rational Team Concert Shell (I’m using version 4.0.2) with the […]

One of the advantages of using the SCM capabilities of Rational Team Concert (RTC) is the traceability of change sets across multiple streams and workspaces. When a developer completes a new feature or fixes a bug, they deliver one or more change sets to their team stream. These change sets can then be accepted into […]

This week we released CLM 4.0.4, the next version of Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM), and the latest quarterly release using our new continuous delivery model. Here we grow again As we continue to grow and evolve, we’re getting more familiar with the quarterly release cadence. Our continuous delivery pipeline was up and running consistently […]

I had the opportunity to travel to Agile 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee at the beginning of August to represent Jazz at the IBM booth.  I had a lot of fun chatting with other Agilistas and learning how they’re using Jazz applications to successfully run their projects. This was my first time representing Jazz at a […]

At Innovate 2013 this year I had a chance to talk to lots of customers who are running their business on IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC).  I also had a chance to survey a number of larger customers on their current usage of RTC and got some great insight into what capabilities they are using […]

We are well on our way into the world of continuous delivery with CLM 4.0.3, our second quarterly release of Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management. One of the areas we are changing is how we support our customers. In the past, we’ve maintained separate delivery streams for new function verses fixes to existing releases. That approach is […]