IBM^® Engineering Workflow Management

IBM Engineering Workflow Management (formerly RTC) is a collaborative software development tool that teams use to manage all aspects of their work, such as iteration and release planning, change management, defect tracking, source control, and build automation.

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One tool for all teams

Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, waterfall... development, release and deploy, ops, test, engineering, z Systems... use Engineering Workflow Management to manage the work across them all.

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Engineering Workflow Management allows work items to be linked to plans, source code, and builds, allowing team members to better understand relationships between these artifacts. Traceability views help teams identify and close gaps to improve quality.

Planning

The Planning component of Engineering Workflow Management provides tools to assist with the planning and execution of both agile and traditional projects. For agile projects, it provides tools to create product, release, and sprint backlogs for teams, to create individual plans for developers, to track the progress during an iteration, and to balance the workload of developers.

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Work item tracking

Work items are the fundamental mechanism in Engineering Workflow Management to track and coordinate development tasks and workflows, all governed by your team's associated process. In addition, work items are the hub for linkage between many Engineering Workflow Management artifacts (e.g. builds, work items, and change sets) and provide support for integration with other products.

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Source control

The Source Control component of Engineering Workflow Management is a component-based version control system built on the Jazz platform. It focuses on supporting geographically distributed teams and has strong support for parallel and agile development.

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Continuous builds

The Team Build component integrates the team's build system into Engineering Workflow Management, providing build awareness, control, and traceability to the team. Team members can track build progress, view build alerts and results, request builds, and trace builds to other artifacts like change sets and work items.

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Planning
Work item tracking
Source control
Continuous builds

Plan more efficiently

Try Quick Planner, a web-based interface that lets the team create and plan work items in a more streamlined and efficient way.

Reliable integrations

Git and Jenkins users can enjoy the advantages of Engineering Workflow Management tracking and planning capabilities, process control, dashboards, and reports. Engineering Workflow Management integrates with these tools and more.

Git, GitHub, and GitLab integration

Engineering Workflow Management supports integration with the Git version control system. This integration is particularly useful if there are pockets of Git use in your teams and you want to use RTC for project and process management, permissions, defect and task management, and planning across all teams, regardless of whether you use the built-in RTC source control or Git.

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Jenkins integration

Jenkins is an open-source automation tool with plugins for continuous integration. Engineering Workflow Management integrates with Jenkins in multiple ways. You can either use the predefined Hudson/Jenkins build template in your RTC build definition, or you can get Jenkins to work directly with EWM Source Control.

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Built-in integrations

Engineering Workflow Management has built-in integrations with other products such as Engineering Test Management, Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next, ClearQuest and ClearCase. It also integrates with a variety of third-party products and tools.

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Integrating Engineering Workflow Management with Git, GitHub, or GitLab
Integrating Engineering Workflow Management with Jenkins
Built-in integrations

In compliance and in sync

You define the processes, Engineering Workflow Management enforces them. You define the teams, Engineering Workflow Management keeps them informed and synchronized.

Process awareness and customization

Engineering Workflow Management can improve the productivity of your teams and the quality of the work they produce by allowing each team to teach the tool its best practices. Engineering Workflow Management uses this knowledge to automatically detect violations of your teams' process the moment they happen.

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Team awareness

Engineering Workflow Management knows your project teams, their internal organization, and the artifacts they are working on. It greatly enhances collaboration and simplifies team-related operations.

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Social software

Engineering Workflow Management has a built-in integration with IBM Connections. This integration brings the power of social software to development teams and empowers business stakeholders to easily connect with development projects.

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Monitor easily

Dashboards and reports present real-time status of what you care about most.

Transparency and project health

Dashboards provide an at-a-glance view of work item queries, event feeds, reports, and other items that are critical to understanding your progress. Reports provide both real-time views and historical trends of builds, streams, work items, and other artifacts that your team works with.

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Leveraging dashboards

Use Engineering Workflow Management dashboards to improve the productivity of your status reviews. Data on dashboards is always available, current, and updated as part of the natural development process.

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Transparency and project health
How the CLM team leverages dashboards

RTC Dashboard

A community at your service

Jazz.net, the website for Engineering Workflow Management, gives you the unique opportunity to interact with a vibrant user community, as well as with developers of Engineering Workflow Management itself. With an active forum, library, blog, and more, support is always at your fingertips.

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Benefit from other users

Make the most of jazz-community.org, the website that Siemens Building Technologies created to share knowledge and extensions with other Jazz users.

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Work from more places

Engineering Workflow Management offers a variety of client and platform options. Where you work is up to you.

Clients

Engineering Workflow Management includes an Eclipse-based client interface, a Microsoft Visual Studio client interface, and a Web interface. Additionally, it provides a Windows shell integration within Windows Explorer for source control of files within the Engineering Workflow Management repository.

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Enterprise platform extensions

Engineering Workflow Management includes support for IBM enterprise level platforms such as System z and the various operating systems that can run on the IBM Power platform such as IBM i, AIX and Linux on Power.

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The big picture

Engineering Workflow Management is part of the following solutions for systems engineering, embedded software development, and application software development.

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Getting started roadmap	CLM YouTube videos	Support Community	developerWorks: Engineering Workflow Management
Knowledge Center			developerWorks Technical Library
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