Today, 59% of software projects fail to meet at least one time, cost, or scope objective -- or they fail altogether. Improving the success rate of initiatives requires that teams remain focused on business outcomes, are productive, and can mitigate risks. This requires the right mix of information, collaboration and automation, all at the right time.
IBM Rational® understands that your teams need to deliver high-quality results in record time.
To better manage the execution of projects, portfolios, products and applications, you need solutions that help:
- Manage execution risks that delay and derail results
- Collaborate globally to reduce costs, improve governance, and assess risk
- Measure and manage team performance and project results
- Improve capabilities confidently and incrementally with proven, repeatable approaches
Here are customer and market perspectives on successful software delivery that drives bottom-line results:
- A leading global IT and business process services provider delivers a 30% productivity gain by dynamically managing multiple resources, projects, and priorities without missing a beat.
- Organizations that manage team performance with best practices drive 240% of the market returns of typical companies.
- Automated and transparent measurement improves productivity 10%, and identifies risks before mitigation is required, saving 10-30% of budget.
Key capabilities
IBM Rational announces an array of collaboration, automation, and reporting capabilities that help you to:
- Manage, measure, and iteratively improve your software delivery with IBM Rational Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF). MCIF is a structured approach that helps software and systems delivery teams drive business innovation through measured and continuous process improvement.
- Manage and measure process, resources, and project outcomes with IBM Rational Insight, a performance measurement and management solution to help you drive execution of projects and processes with consistent and predictable results.
- Drive better project outcomes with IBM Rational Project Conductor to improve the return on investment (ROI) of resources by unifying distributed teams, expertise, and resources on a common collaborative project management platform.
- Execute efficiently through global collaboration and agility with IBM Rational Team Concert™, a collaborative software delivery environment, that helps reduce costs, improve governance, and assess risk as a unified team.
