Is CLM a product or concept? Is there a best practice in using CLM?
Hi all,
Our company is trying to migrate from CC/CQ to Jazz platform and I encountered one serious problem in this migration path. The IBM consultant from Taiwan ask us to migrate to RRC/RTC/RQM with a manual integrated process. However, I found that the CLM is designed for the integration with RRC/RTC/RQM and I wish that IBM can provide the best practices in using CLM.
The BAD news is that the IBM consultant from Taiwan tells me that the CLM is NOT a product but a concept . We still have to integrate RRC/RTC/RQM by a manual process and he also tells me that to the page I refer is wrong. (https://jazz.net/products/clm/)
Could anyone tell me where I can find the useful information to support my recommendation to use CLM as the ALM product from IBM?
Regards,
Paxson Yang
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JL Marechaux (199●6●11)
| answered Feb 21 '13, 8:24 a.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER edited Feb 21 '13, 8:53 a.m.
Hi Paxson,
IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (aka CLM) is a set of integrated products that provides capabilities for effective ALM. CLM is not a concept but an integrated product offering to support the ALM concepts.
For information to support your recommendation to use CLM for ALM, I suggest the Q4 2012 Forrester report where IBM obtained the highest ranking for ALM.
For best practices in using CLM, I suggest the Money that Matters scenario where we provide examples on how to use CLM in a fictitious but realistic scenario. The scenario demonstrates the CLM integration (RTC/RRC/RQM + DM)
Regards,
/JL
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Interesting question. I would agree that Rational CLM is not a concept, but rather an integrated solution. It enables you to realize the value described in the 5 Imperatives, which could be described as concepts.
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CLM ofcourse is a concept wherein it provides you with three tools (RQM,RRC and RTC) as a package.
RRC for Requirement Management
From v3.0 onwards you dont really have to integrate these tools as they make use of the same JTS server.
You could try creating a lifecycle project which would create and link project areas in each of these applications without any hasstle.
You can get more information here:
Best Regards
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I understand your explanations but I think that calling the CLM a concept is pretty strange in my point of view. In metaphysics, and especially ontology, a concept is a fundamental category of existence. How can you download, configure, or setup a concept? There must be a product that can be used to realize this concept. Otherwise, you can call the CLM a solution as what IBM describes in the CLM main page.
Never mind, I still appreciate your answers even I don't agree with this kind of definitions. Thanks.
Regards,
Paxson Yang
Comments Perhaps a good way to think of CLM is that the "product" is the integration between the vertical products (RQM, RTC, RRC). JTS helps to manage the integrations and is required for any of the 3 products. The integration exists automatically, though you need to purchase licenses to use portions of the functionality depending on your roll.
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I'm with you Paxson. CLM makes a great ALM solution and as JL mentioned, Forrester agrees. There is a lot of experience and best practices associated with integration or migration from other solutions. Feel free to give your IBM Consultant my name and I can see how we can assist.
Ginny Ghezzo
FYI: If you are looking for information on the migration there are a couple of Jazz.net articles that might also help:
https://jazz.net/library/article/813
https://jazz.net/library/article/785
in addition to the help topics: