About a month ago, my wife, who has lived through 20 years of software deliveries with me at IBM, turned to me and asked “Aren’t you guys shipping Rational Team Concert real soon now?  You don’t seem nearly stressed out enough – is it still happening?”  I assured her that we were still shipping on […]

Note: Since this entry was written, some of the linked dashboards have changed substantially, having little resemblance with the pictures below. Jazz.net is a living, breathing repository and this is to be expected. Consider this entry ‘a snapshot in time’ rather than a lasting verdict. For a while I was toying with the idea of writing […]

I am a software developer on the Jazz Team Build Component team. The Jazz project has been self-hosting on Rational Team Concert since before it was called Rational Team Concert . :-) It’s easy to get so used to the tool that I fail to notice how convenient some operations are and how much I’ve […]

Chris Daly’s entry “Some Notes on Rhythm” provides a good high-level overview of how the Jazz Project establishes a “rhythm” to make consistent and predictable progress over the course of project milestones and release cycles. In this entry I’d like to drill-down to show how we use our tools to keep a rhythm for day-to-day […]