Rational Harmony

To optimize your development lifecycle, you must closely link people, best practices, processes, and tools.

Process improvement enhances effectiveness, and development tools increase efficiency. Together, they can significantly improve productivity and quality.

With the IBM® Rational® Harmony™ family of domain-specific processes, you can build better systems and software by leveraging both IBM's proven practices and IBM Rational Method Composer®, a flexible process management platform. You can also promote best practices, processes, and tools throughout your organization, enabling you to develop systems and software that better meet your customers' needs.

Rational Harmony offers the following benefits and features:

Benefits

• Increase productivity by enabling the adoption of best practices.
• Improve collaboration by integrating processes and tools.
• Minimize risk and coordinate development with the right amount of development process for your project.
• Pass audits that require proof that a current, documented software development lifecycle (SDLC) is in use.

Features

• IBM tool extensions offer a two-way connection between the tools and the Harmony process Web site.
• Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) plug-ins are compatible with Rational Method Composer and EPF Composer.
• Professional services for IBM Soffware Services for Rational offers rapid deployment packages for project teams.
• IBM Software Services for Rational offers process framework workshops for process engineers.

The Rational Harmony family of processes is available as Rational Method Composer plug-ins with related services to help your software and systems engineering teams adopt best practices and improve development productivity.

Our solutions provide a complete and automated SDLC, which enables most projects to get up and running quickly. If you have unique requirements or want to preserve your existing practices, you can tailor Rational Harmony with Rational Method Composer to meet your organization’s specific needs.

Rational Harmony service package offerings, targeted for specific domains, improve productivity and quality through tool automation, mentoring and assessment, and process improvement consulting.

The Rational Harmony family comprises:

• IBM Rational Harmony for IT Software Development
• IBM Rational Harmony for Embedded RealTime Development
• IBM Rational Harmony for Systems Engineering