Workshops are a special type of service offering that are intended to produce tangible assets for your organization through a collaborative approach. Workshops are facilitated by senior Rational consultants who can guide your team through building the shared understanding needed to make decisions. Workshops can range in type and scope from prioritizing your software development initiatives and establishing a management strategy for your software projects to a custom workshop for producing a set of deliverables for a single project, such as business or system use cases.
Software management strategy workshop
This workshop is designed to promote consensus among the decision makers associated with any significant software initiative. Senior IBM Rational consultants serve in the role of objective third-party software industry experts to facilitate the workshop. Workshop participants are guided through a situational assessment, aimed at gaining a common understanding of business priorities, constraints, and the current approach to software project management. Next, participants are lead through a consensus-building exercise to gain agreement on priorities for your particular software initiative in light of modern software economics and principles for successful software management.
The goal is to gain agreement on priorities and to move the software management strategy forward. IBM Rational makes recommendations to improve the initiative's chances for success, based on many years of experience introducing modern software development technologies and management practices to a wide variety of organizations.
Rational Build Forge optimization workshop
This workshop is designed to provide a detailed analysis of a single build and release process or a well-defined set of such processes. This process may or may not be currently implemented within Rational Build Forge. As such, this workshop is appropriate for both new customers as well as customers who are more experienced. During this workshop, an IBM technical consultant is on-site at your location to serve as an objective third-party industry expert to facilitate the workshop. Workshop participants are guided through a whiteboard session to help define the overall requirements, the various systems that are part, and the major logical steps, of the process.
Work that is more detailed is conducted in those areas, which appear to require significant processing time, especially steps involving check-in, check-out, labeling, and view creation within a commercial source control system or steps that compile or deploy large blocks of source code. Wherever possible, the IBM technical consultant obtains actual processing times for these key steps to accurately identify areas where improvement can be gained.
Upon completing the workshop, the IBM technical consultant produces a document that details the understanding of the current process and a set of technical recommendations for optimizing that process. The optimization spans efficiencies specific to Rational Build Forge as well as other optimizations not strictly covered within the Build Forge adaptive framework.
The goal is to gain agreement on processes and a set of technical recommendations for optimizing the processes.
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