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Analyst reports
EZ Insight: The IBM Rational Jazz Strategy for Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management: Executive Summary
Industry analyst and Agile luminary Liz Barnett evaluates the Rational Jazz strategy in this objective analyst report.
Last updated: 31 Jul 2009
The Rational Jazz Cultural Revolution
This thoughtful report by Ovum analyst Laurent Lachal explores the intersection of the IBM® Rational® Jazz® platform and agile teams, from both an organizational and technical perspective.
Last updated: 07 May 2009
Difficult for competitors to equal. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Impact Brief: IBM Rational Introduces New Quality and Requirements Management Offerings Which Extend the Value of the Jazz Platform
EMA reviews IBM Rational's newest quality and requirements management offerings. The verdict? EMA "continues to be impressed… for companies seeking to improve ROI delivered by software projects, we believe Rational’s value proposition is difficult to match.
Last updated: 13 Apr 2009
Gartner Marketscope for Application Life Cycle Management
Organizations modernizing application development – for example, adopting agile or service-oriented development methods – need to make corresponding changes in ALM to plan, measure and report on development activities. This report assesses the market offerings and their providers.
Last updated: 04 Dec 2008
Data sheets
IBM Rational Requirements Composer
Improving business and IT collaboration for more effective requirements definition
Last updated: 01 Dec 2008
IBM Rational Quality Manager
Collaborate, automate and govern to achieve quality-driven software.
Last updated: 12 Nov 2008
Rational Team Concert Agile Solution Brief
Help your project team become more agile with Rational Team Concert and Rational Service offerings.
Last updated: 12 Nov 2008
Demos
Rational Insight Product Tour
This 8-minute product tour explores the features and benefits of the Rational solution for performance management.
Last updated: 13 Jun 2009
Rational Quality Manager and Twitter Integration Demo
A unique differentiator that supports Rational Quality Management messages around collaboration, open architecture, and Web 2.0. Watch it on YouTube now.
Last updated: 13 Apr 2009
IBM Rational Quality Manager Overview
This product demonstration video explores core IBM Rational Quality Manager functionality, including requirements and defect management, test planning, manual test execution and quality management reporting.
Last updated: 12 Nov 2008
Rational Requirements Composer: Create value through requirements definitions
View this demo to learn about the full scope of Rational Requirements Composer and its capabilities to help you manage evolving business objectives.
Last updated: 12 Sep 2008
Rational Team Concert demos
A collection of demos and tutorials from developerWorks Rational to get your team up and running on Rational Team Concert.
Last updated: 02 Jun 2008
Evaluation guides
A Practical Guide to Choosing the Best Agile Tools
The benefits of agile are clear: faster time to market, and more repeatable results. This evaluation guide is designed to help you identify common criteria and choose the best tools for your needs while protecting your investment as your team and agile maturity grow.
Last updated: 07 Aug 2009
Buyer's Guide: Choose an Application Lifecycle Management solution to meet your strategic needs (Registration required)
Application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions coordinate the lifecycle activities of software development, including requirements analysis, coding, building and testing. This guide discusses capabilities of an effective ALM solution and provides checklists you can use when evaluating vendors and their products.
Last updated: 12 Nov 2008
Podcasts
Developing Software in a Fishbowl: A conversation with Jazz.net technical leads
IBM jazz.net provides customers with a direct connection to IBM Rational development teams and a real-time window into how IBM uses its own Jazz products to build those products. In this podcast, Jazz technical and editorial leads Robin Garside and Seth Packham explore the lessons learned from this living laboratory.
Last updated: 21 Jul 2009
DOORS and RequisitePro Evolution to Jazz
Recently returned from the Rational Software Conference, Dwayne Dreakford, Product Manager for IBM Rational Requirements Composer and RequisitePro, and Richard Watson, Product Manager for IBM Rational DOORS, reflect back on the conference announcements around Rational’s requirements portfolio.
Last updated: 21 Jul 2009
Quickstart: Rational Quality Manager in 4 Steps
In this podcast, Brian Bryson attempts to cut through the clutter and set you on a path to understanding the basics about Rational Quality Manager and how to cherry pick the information you need to become productive today in your quality management efforts.
Last updated: 21 Jul 2009
IBM Rational Team Concert Turns Two!
Rolf Nelson, IBM Rational Team Concert product manager, discusses the evolution of Rational Team Concert and the addition of new platform support, translations, document collaboration and enterprise scalability and security.
Last updated: 11 May 2009
A Look Ahead: The Future of Agile Development
Walker Royce, Vice President, IBM Rational Software Services , explores the cultural and economic trends impacting agile teams; the critical link between team agility and software economics; and patterns of success in achieving agility at scale
Last updated: 24 Apr 2009
Early, Often and Aligned: Requirements Definition for Business-Driven solutions, an IBM case-study.
Learn how IBM used Requirements Composer to define the product, shipping early and often iterations, and using scenario driven approaches to deliver a business-driven application.
Last updated: 02 Dec 2008
Wiegand and Abrams on the Open Services for Life Cycle Collaboration (OSLC) Initiative
John Wiegand, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Rational Chief Software Architect , and Steve Abrams from the Rational CTO Team and OSLC Lead architect talk about the OSLC initiative, a key element of the Jazz integration architecture, and explore the basics and benefits of an open services approach.
Last updated: 12 Nov 2008
Outside-in software development and Rational Requirements Composer
A question and answer discussion about Carl’s book Outside-in Software Development, and how it relates to key client needs and the new IBM Rational Requirements Composer.
Last updated: 01 Sep 2008
Beta partners talk about Rational Team Concert
Matt Pomroy of Ascendant Technology and Carson Holmes of Noblestar join Kartik Kanakasabesan, Rational Team Concert product lead, to talk about the latest with Rational Team Concert and lessons learned from the beta test.
Last updated: 29 Jul 2008
Millard Ellingsworth on the Scrum project management method
Developer Millard Ellingsworth is the author of the developerWorks article on How to use the Scrum project management method with IBM Rational Team Concert and the Jazz platform, and he talks about it with the developerWorks podcasts editor, Scott Laningham.
Last updated: 01 Jul 2008
developerWorks Interviews: Swinging with Jazz and Rational Team Concert
Rational leaders Lee Nackman, Mike O'Rourke, and John Wiegand riff on Jazz and the Rational Team Concert beta release in this developerWorks podcast.
Last updated: 08 Jan 2008
Interview with Erich Gamma on Software Engineering Radio
In this interview with Software Engineering Radio, Erich Gamma talks about design patterns, the Gang-of-Four book, JUnit, Eclipse and The Eclipse Way, and the Rational Jazz project.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2007
Spotlight on IBM software solutions: IBM Rational Team Concert and Jazz
Kartik Kanakasabesan, product manager for Rational Team Concert, talks about the first offering on the Jazz platform.
Last updated: 17 Nov 2007
developerWorks Interviews: Scott Ambler on Agile development
IBM Agile Development Practice Lead, Scott Ambler, explains this iterative and incremental approach to development, lays out the business case for it, and dispels some myths in the process.
Last updated: 10 Apr 2007
Redbooks
Collaborative application lifecycle management with Rational products
This IBM Redbooks publication provides a blueprint for collaborative application lifecycle management and how the new IBM Rational products support this evolving market.
Last updated: 23 Dec 2008
Videos
Elevate your view with Rational Insight
This three-minute video provides an overview of the Rational Insight solution for performance management.
Last updated: 13 Jun 2009
Rational Insight Case Study: Rational Executive Dashboard
This video shows how IBM executives leverage Rational Insight to manage their business and operational objectives by accessing live data from a variety of sources and Jazz-based products, including Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager.
Last updated: 13 Jun 2009
Introducing IBM Rational Team Concert
A 3 minute executive level introduction to the benefits and functions of IBM Rational Team Concert.
Last updated: 12 Nov 2008
Next Generation of Requirements Driven Software Quality
IBM Rational Marketing VP Scott Hebner introduces the next generation of requirements-driven software quality with Rational Requirements Composer and Rational Quality Manager.
Last updated: 12 Nov 2008
Next generation of requirements driven software quality
This IBM TV video highlights Rational Requirements Composer and Rational Quality Manager, two offerings based on the IBM Rational Jazz technology platform.
Last updated: 01 Aug 2008
Rational Requirements Composer: An In depth look
Rational Requirements Composer is a requirements definition solution that enables organizations to enhance their requirements processes with easy-to-use elicitation and definition capabilities. Join this demo and learn about the full scope of the tool and its capabilities to help you manage evolving business objectives.
Last updated: 01 Aug 2008
EclipseCon 2007: Building Jazz with Jazz (Video, 57:46min)
From EclipseCon 2007, get an overview of the IBM Rational Jazz technology platform from the Jazz development team.
Last updated: 01 May 2007
Webcast
Delivering Continuous and Measurable Improvement in Your Business
Learn how to drive necessary changes in your organization with a proven, repeatable approach – Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF). Per Kroll discusses this phased approach that can empower teams to measure, manage and incrementally improve their software delivery capability.
Last updated: 21 Jul 2009
Rational Team Concert Turns Two: Jazz Embraces the Enterprise
The IBM Jazz platform for collaborative software delivery has come a long way since the initial launch of IBM Rational Team Concert. Join Robert Kennedy, IBM Rational Change and Configuration Management Market Manager, as he discusses innovations of the past year.
Last updated: 21 Jul 2009
Overcoming Information Blind Spots with Lifecycle Performance Management
In today's challenging economy, organizations must be able to make the right decisions at the right time, based on verifiable, accurate real-time information. Learn how the new IBM performance management and measurement solution -- Rational Insight, delivers faster improvements to your organization.
Last updated: 13 Jun 2009
Accelerating Software Delivery with Rational Test Lab Manager
Some of the most significant barriers in the software delivery process are the time and cost associated with scheduling, setting up, tearing down, and managing a build/test environments. Discover how Rational Test Lab Manager and Build Forge can help you automate these processes.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
Creating software like a band plays Jazz: A conversation with visionaries Grady Booch and Erich Gamma
Join us as two IBM luminaries, renowned software futurist Grady Booch and Eclipse luminary Erich Gamma, explore IBM's vision of the future and what IBM is doing to realize this vision with the Jazz project and Rational Team Concert.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
Agile Requirements: Collaborative, contextual and correct
For successful Agile requirements, the main idea is to do just enough initial eliciting and modeling, and gather details as needed on a just-in-time (JIT) basis. Join this webinar and learn about best-practice approaches and techniques for Agile requirements definition from Scott Ambler, IBM Rationals' Agile evangelist.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2009
Adopting Requirements Definition Principles and Practices with Rational Requirements Composer
Learn about IBM Rational Requirements Definition and Management solutions and best practices are helping companies overcome their challenges, and speeding delivery of business capabilities that deliver positive business outcomes.
Last updated: 02 Dec 2008
Capturing Business Value using Rational Requirements Composer
Learn about how our new IBM Jazz™ based requirements definition solution.
Last updated: 17 Sep 2008
White papers
Agility at Scale: Become as Agile as You Can
Agile software development techniques are becoming widespread because they work. But how agile should your organization be? This eBook begins with an overview of a framework we use to provide context to the plethora of agile methodologies out there today – agile, disciplined agile.
Last updated: 21 Jul 2009
Scaling Agile with C/ALM (Collaborative ALM)
This 64 page eBook, authored by the technology leaders of IBM's ALM solution, provides pragmatic, solution-based scenarios for organizations that are eager to break down organizational and cultural silos and become a finely tuned software delivery machine.
Last updated: 21 Jul 2009
Seamlessly connect your development teams, large and small
Learn how to seamlessly connect and collaborate using IBM Rational Team Concert with Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest and Rational Build Forge software.
Last updated: 13 Apr 2009
Rational Team Concert for i software: Working with IBM Rational Developer for i to provide a comprehensive application development environment
Based on the extensible IBM Jazz platform, IBM Rational Team Concert for i software works with IBM Rational Developer for i to provide a collaborative software development environment.
Last updated: 19 Mar 2009
Jazzing Up Software Development Teams with Rational Team Concert—A Rocket Gang Whitepaper
Agile practices are now mainstream. IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) supports all the pillars of agile development, including adaptive planning, continuous integration, project and team dashboards, build management, integrated chat and flexible team notification.
Last updated: 06 Mar 2009
Expanding the value of IBM Rational Team Concert software with IBM Business Partners (registration required)
Learn about integrated business partner offerings that help you manage software licensing risk; manage business and architectural policies; track project actuals vs. plan; access project and team health information; manage documents and workflows; and access document portals like Lotus Quickr and MS SharePoint.
Last updated: 12 Nov 2008
