Recently, Scaled Agile released SAFe® 6.0 which offers the newest and most effective Lean-Agile practices, enabling forward-thinking enterprises to navigate today’s rapidly changing challenges and opportunities. SAFe 6.0 is a comprehensive update from version 5.1 and includes many new and advanced practices alongside a new Big Picture and terminology updates. I am very pleased to […]

Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) is scalable, extensible and integrates with third party tools for establishing an end-to-end DevOps toolchain. EWM (formerly Rational Team Concert) provides plugins to integrate with Jenkins, an open-source automation tool used for building and deploying software. The EWM-Jenkins integration provides traceability between Jenkins builds and EWM artifacts across the development lifecycle. […]

This new release of IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) brings additional capabilities in all the product areas: agile planning, source control, build, Git integration as well as enterprise extensions. Similarly, in this new release of IBM Engineering Test Management (ETM) version 7.0.1, you will find many improvements in several functions including test planning, test execution […]

We’ve made a lot of progress on some key themes such as usability, enterprise agile, and support for complex regulated development at scale in the v7.0 EWM release.  I’ll cover some of the high level enhancements related to those themes. UX Modernization in EWM UX modernization is all about user experience redesign and usability improvements. […]

Monitoring the increasing footprint of IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) project areas can help customers develop accurate sizing and forecasts for future enterprise upgrades, in particular for customers who have been using RTC for some time. Moreover, the varying level of activity of individual projects provides valuable information which can drive the enterprise decision to […]

To help with your IBM Continuous Engineering (CE) and Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) planning, here are some release updates. Feel free to ask questions in the comments section below this post, or follow up with your IBM Support team to discuss any questions or implications. Extended Maintenance Release Version 6.0.6 is an Extended Maintenance Release (EMR), which […]

The benefits of “lean” are taking shape. More organizations than ever before have shifted from simply pursuing an interest to actually doing something about it. And in this world of growing systems and software complexity, the need to effectively and efficiently coordinate the delivery of value across distributed teams is no longer a choice… it’s […]

We’ve been busy making IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) even better for teams who are doing complex, regulated development.  We’ve focused on the following main areas in this release: Usability: Making the simple things easier to do My favorite feature in this release is a one-click Create Child Work Item option in the work item editor.  […]

Reporting is critical in helping organizations lead lean enterprise transformations, and we’re listening and responding… In the latest drop of the Enterprise Scaled Agile reports for your IBM Continuous Engineering (CE) and IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) environments, we’ve included some of the most important industry-standard reports — like Cumulative Flow, Burn-Up and Burn-Down […]

Version 6.0.6 of the IBM Continuous Engineering (CE) and Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions is now available! This release continues to help teams engineer, deliver, and maintain the smart and connected products and systems that contribute to an industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and that drive innovation and productivity in our societies. Similar to previous […]