Rational Measured Improvement overview

The IBM Rational® Measured Improvement guidelines offer a structured approach to helping software and systems delivery teams drive business innovation through measured and continuous improvement of their processes.

The Rational Measured Improvement process helps you gain competency in the core development practices that have the most impact on business outcomes.

Because it is optimized for agile development teams and methods, the Rational Measured Improvement process can automate the implementation of any method.

Although it is product-independent, the process is supported by IBM Rational Jazz™ technology offerings that transform software delivery by helping teams collaborate, automate, and report more effectively.

This process encapsulates 25 years of experience in helping teams incrementally improve their practices to get better business results.

To improve software delivery capability, teams must:

• Scale agile practices

• Deliver more for less

• Correlate business outcomes with investments in processes and tools

• Produce higher quality in faster delivery times.

Rational software consultants provide industry expertise to empower teams to measure, manage, and incrementally improve their software delivery capabilities in these ways:

• Adopt an incremental, measured approach to transformation

• Focus on the core practices that matter most

• Accelerate adoption through ready-to-use assets

• Describe capability improvements in terms of business value

• Support any method, particularly optimization for agile practices