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Strategic papers, media, and thought leadership content from IBM Rational software

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As the critical differentiator for your business's competitive strength, software innovation will play a leading role in your company’s future. Over the years, we've worked with the best and brightest innovators in software and systems delivery. Together, we've learned what works, what doesn't, and we've captured those insights in the papers and other media that you'll find on these pages.

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The IBM Rational® software organization is dedicated to helping customers improve their business by realizing greater value from their investments in software. These papers explain the concepts behind the Rational methods and practices, all focused on better results at the bottom line.

New! Three steps to rapid development of high-quality medical devices
Keith Collyer, Martin R. Bakal, and Paridhi Verma

Medical device developers face challenges that are different from those in developing products within most other industries. Chief among these is the imperative of compliance with safety regulations and industry standards. Three IBM experts describe ways to enhance key processes and improve and integrate to accelerate development, yet still produce high-quality devices that comply with regulations.
New! Collaboration in the mobile device industry: How to partner, produce, and stay competitive (PDF, 0.97MB)
Scott Niemann, Charles Rivet, and Martin Bakal

Mobile is the future for all companies that have a stake in communicating information, regardless of their industry. Read how higher levels of collaboration can help create winners in the mobile device market.
New! Integrate, collaborate, optimize—and thrive Embracing the changing role of developers in the global business environment (PDF, 777KB)
Neil Patterson

Technical skills and the ability to build software have always been valued. But developers matter more to their organizations than ever before. Read how software developers are providing higher levels of value in today’s global business environment.
New! The challenges of agile delivery for today’s software quality management teams (PDF, 269KB)
Serge Lucio and Alan Wagoner

Read how an agile approach to quality management helps teams reduce the cost of quality, while relieving some of the complexity and time to market pressures faced by today’s software delivery teams.
New! Adopting agile methods for safety-critical systems development (PDF, 554KB)
Bruce Powel Douglass and Leslie Ekas

Because of their discipline and efficiency, agile development practices can be applied to the development of safety-critical systems. This paper addresses concerns that some traditional practitioners in the safety-critical space have about agile methods, and it shows how agile methods are well-suited for delivering safety-critical systems.
New! Driving and managing innovative mobile banking applications (PDF, 1.17MB)
Learn how to leverage the full development lifecycle to help meet and exceed customers’ ongoing mobile banking needs.
Article: Continuous integration in agile development: How agile methods, continuous integration, and test-driven enhance design and development of complex systems

Martin R. Bakal, Jennifer Althouse, Paridhi Verma

Learn how agile development, continuous integration (CI), and test-driven development (TDD) techniques can be employed in embedded software development as part of an architecture-based approach.
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In the media

Spotlight on IBM Rational mobile expertise

ALM goes Mobile
Neeraj Chandra
Mobile DevOps - Why should you care?
Michael Rowe
Mainframe to Mobile: A key IBM value proposition
Leigh Williamson
Announcing the IBM Mobile Development Lifecycle Solution
Find more content and news on mobile development at The Mobile Frontier blog
Implementing Agile in very large enterprises (Link resides outside of ibm.com)
Read what Harish Grama, IBM vice president of Rational product development and customer support, and other industry leaders have to say about agile development practices within the global 2000 companies.

Archives from The Rational Edge

Back issues of The Rational Edge ezine offer eight years of thought leadership and technical innovation from experts inside and outside the IBM Rational organization.