Planet Jazz is an aggregation of blogs written about the Jazz-based IBM Engineering products or related technologies by users, fans, and experts from all over the world. You can subscribe to the RSS feed to follow along, or check back here to read the latest.
It’s been a while since I posted anything on the blog, but something happened to me today that I felt compelled to share with the Jazz community. I was out looking at some industry RSS feeds, when I saw a blog posting for the Google...
Leigh Williamson, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, wrote an article last month introducing the idea of developing Android applications collaboratively with IBM Rational Team Concert. Take a look at The Benefits of Developing Android Applications using Commercial Eclipse-based Solutions for a high-level introduction … Continue reading
I’ve been getting a lot of questions recently about using the SCM capabilities in Rational Team Concert (RTC) to manage Rational Method Composer (RMC) library files. The latest release of both products (RMC 7.5.1 and RTC 3.x) support Eclipse shell … Continue reading

Check out this video that shows Android activations on a map of the world. Note the countdown timer that appears in the upper left prior to major launches. The graph jumps up as the launch occurs. It’s a great way … Continue reading
The new Jazz 3.0 server now supports process authoring in the form of a tech preview. That is, the functionality is being made available now but it’s not officially supported yet. There are some great features you can now use … Continue reading

I was working with a customer this week, and talking to them about how transparency in a development organization can be such a good thing. It brings me back to my long time observation that transparency implies accountability, since teams can no longer hide behind...
I was at a customer site this week, and they asked me for a report that shows all of the changes and differences between two different RTC baselines. It bothered me, because it was a pretty simple request. So I got back to the hotel...
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. A...
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet … Continue reading
How big should a project area be? What’s the relationship between Project Areas and Team Areas is an interesting problem and for new users the relationship can be a little hard to understand. This post describes the relationship between them and some experiences of using...

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