Integrated Product Change Management

Is your organization feeling the pressure to get more products into the pipeline faster at the same time that your design and development teams are becoming more organizationally and geographically distributed? Are you aware that the more versions, team members and sites involved in product delivery, the greater the risk of product quality issues and project delays caused by unmanaged changes?

Integrated product change management for successful systems development
Change originates from a variety of stakeholders throughout the product development life cycle. With IBM Rational® integrated product change management solutions, you can manage change in the various disciplines—software, electronics and mechanical—to ensure strong collaboration and track the impact of change wherever and whenever it occurs. You can also reduce the time it takes to propagate changes throughout the entire design team and increase the visibility of Change originates from a variety of stakeholders throughout the product development life cycle. With IBM Rational® integrated product change management solutions, you can manage change in the various disciplines—software, electronics and mechanical—to ensure strong collaboration and track the impact of change wherever and whenever it occurs. You can also reduce the time it takes to propagate changes throughout the entire design team and increase the visibility of schedules, including the impact of requirement and product changes.

IBM Rational Integrated Product Change Management Solution Components
With our integrated development products, IBM delivers the technology that supports change management between all disciplines and throughout the product development life cycle:

• Rational Change transforms your efforts to manage change efficiently with an end-to-end change management solution.
• Rational Synergy helps software development teams work faster and easier by increasing communication and collaboration.
• Rational ClearQuest® provides defect tracking, process automation, reporting and life cycle traceability for better visibility and control of the product development life cycle.
• Rational ClearCase® provides sophisticated version control, workspace management, parallel development support and build auditing to improve productivity.
• Rational DOORS®, improves quality by optimizing communication and collaboration and by promoting compliance and verification.

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