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As companies move to a geographically distributed development model they face new challenges of securely managing change and assets across geographic boundaries. The Geographically Distributed Development Information Kit provides resources to help you overcome these obstacles and let your development organizations realize the benefits of a distributed software development environment. |
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Video: "Why does your business need a Geographically Distributed Development strategy? This video discusses ways to use GDD to improve team efficiency and automate the development process."
Geographically distributed development, or GDD, can be a powerful IT strategy, providing many advantages -- if executed correctly. A well-crafted and orchestrated GDD solution can give team members the tools and resources they need to continue to work collaboratively -- whether they’re in San Jose or Shanghai. The video includes a customer story of how GDD was implemented successfully.
Buyer's Guide: "Realize expected results with the IBM Rational geographically distributed development solution"
A Buyer's guide on geographically distributed development - a comprehensive review of the lifecycle development tools and collaborative environment needed to support and execute a successful distributed strategy. This guide can be used as a reference document as you develop your RFP.
Webcast: "Tackling the Challenges of a Distributed Development Environment"
In today's global economy, many companies are shifting their development strategy to one that is geographically distributed. With this shift, many companies have experienced a high degree of project failure rather than success, due to several challenges magnified by a distributed staff. This webcast is for Project Managers and Technical Leaders responsible for the success of distributed teams who want to identify the best way to leverage distributed software development capabilities while maintaining a unified team approach. To achieve success, the challenges that are faced throughout the development lifecycle need to be addressed and the concepts, processes, and tools within the IBM Rational Software Development Platform (IRSDP) solution examined, which will allow us to achieve the benefits for each area within the development platform.
Rational Edge Article: "Geographically Distributed Development: A day in the life of a GDD project"
Rational Edge Article: Geographically Distributed Development (GDD) is a mode of software development that allows businesses to coordinate project teams located in different regions, countries, and time zones. This article presents a generic scenario that illustrates how GDD operations proceed over a 24 hour cycle, unifying the efforts of teams based hypothetically in Bangalore, India, and Denver, USA.
White paper: "Successfully managing geographically distributed development"
This paper outlines some key challenges that companies face when moving to a distributed development environment. Real customer stories illustrate how companies have used IBM Rational software configuration management (SCM) products to overcome these challenges-and help them lower development costs, increase staff productivity, decrease time-to-market, and improve product quality.
White paper: "Thomson Financial - Corporate Group Drives Full-Lifecycle, Geographically Distributed Development with IBM Rational"
This white paper explores how IBM Rational tools and methodology enabled Thomson Financial's distributed team to develop systems effectively. It discusses the challenges of a geographically distributed development environment, how one customer was able to unite its worldwide development team with a common process and tools, and the benefits in time, cost and quality that they were able to realize.
Data sheet: "Tackling the complexities of geographically distributed development with IBM's Software Development Platform"
In today's global economy, many companies have begun shifting from a localized development staffing structure to one that is geographically distributed. Along with the benefits of a distributed development environment come many challenges. This data sheet discusses the potential pitfalls of moving to a distributed development structure and explains how the IBM Software Development Platform tools and the IBM WorkPlace tools provide a solution to help make geographically distributed development successful.
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