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2009 Multimedia event series – Streamline software delivery to gain market advantage

Your customers demand that you deliver robust software assets and enduring quality solutions. To realize, you need to make the right decisions that are aligned to priorities, consider evolving change and risk, and then execute with optimal use of resources that mitigate business risk and reduce cost. But what does it take to better align software investments with organizational goals? What realistically can be done to effectively manage constant change? What works when it comes to improving your software delivery quality and performance?

The Gain Market Advantage multimedia event series highlights the ways that IBM methods and solutions can help reduce complexity and streamline the business process of software delivery to accelerate time to market with lower risk and cost, gaining market advantage over competitors.

The series includes:

• Series overview: Streamline software delivery to gain market advantage

  In this series introduction, Mike O’Rourke, Vice President of Development, IBM Rational Software, shares the ways that Rational methods and solutions can help reduce complexity and streamline the business process of software delivery to accelerate time to market with lower risk and cost, gaining market advantage over competitors.

  This series introduction highlights driving differentiation across the software delivery lifecycle through Rational’s industry-leading platforms and architectural styles, while future episodes dig deeper and explore the ways in which each domain across the software delivery lifecycle contributes to streamlining the delivery process to help customers gain market advantage at reduced risk and cost.

• Episode 1: Achieve consensus with stakeholders early and often to reduce costs and risk

  A key challenge faced by organizations today is delivering effective, innovative software products faster with better quality and fewer resources. The ability to collaborate with the project team is imperative to successful quality software delivery.

  Michael Lundblad, Program Manager for IBM Software Requirements & Quality Management, shares how Rational’srequirements definition and management solution incorporates best practices to help achieve consensus with stakeholders early and often to reduce development and warranty costs and mitigate risks.

• Episode 2: The software blueprint: Designing a software solution that meets stakeholder needs

  Transforming business requirements derived from stakeholder’s demands into a solution that implements these needs is a vital step in the software lifecycle. This is where a project’s architecture takes the business needs and turns them into the solution. The solution architecture discipline has progressed by leaps and bounds in the past few years with agile modeling helping businesses speed up delivery, improve planning, and reduce costs from conception through design and deployment.

  Learn how to transition from well stated requirements to an architecture that maps them to the solution in this webcast. Anson Kokkat talks about data-driven architecture and Scott McKorkle talks about the newest developments in the architecture and modeling landscape for the systems and IT/software realms.

• Episode 3 podcast #63: Developing your Software: How to develop better software, faster, with minimal effort

  The order of the day for software development teams is to build solutions faster, better and with fewer resources. Consider typical code reviews: performed by humans, subjective, error-prone, manually intensive and time consuming. What if this process could be automated and objective in nature? Scott Nordstrom highlights they ways that Rational Software Analyzer seamlessly integrates with Rational Team Concert to deliver this objectivity with continuous quality checks, automated code scans, and visibility into overall code quality, for improved enforcement of best practices.

• Episode 4 podcast #66: Reduce risk and cost by improving software quality, function and performance

  Software testing will consume all of the time and resources it is given. But how does one streamline the quality management process, reducing risk and cost. Join Brian Bryson, Rational Technology Evangelist, as he outlines quality management strategies for test management, test data management, functional and performance testing that streamlines software delivery to help you gain market advantage.

• Episode 5: Pack it, Ship it: Consistent and integrated software builds and packaging

  Episode 5: Pack it, Ship it: Consistent and integrated software builds and packaging

• Episode 6: The Software is out the Door: Strategies for managing released products and how to improve them

  Episode 6: The Software is out the Door: Strategies for managing released products and how to improve them