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Traditionally, organizations have managed Power Systems development separately from other platform development with disconnected processes and tools. This separation not only hinders collaboration and productivity across the software lifecycle, but also leads to application failure or downtime.

A solution to this dilemma is to improve Lifecycle Collaboration with Application Lifecycle Management, a team-based approach to synchronize software development, management, quality, and release activities across all your development platforms.

Application Lifecycle Management solutions coordinate people, processes, and tools in an iterative cycle of integrated software development activities, including planning and change management, requirements definition and management, architecture management, software configuration management, build and deployment automation, and quality management. In addition to the capabilities, the fundamental features of an ALM solution include traceability across lifecycle artifacts, process definition and enactment, and reporting. Collaborative Lifecycle Management helps your development teams improve their time to delivery by coordinating their software development activities across business and system requirements, design, development, build, test, and delivery.

Choosing an ALM solution for your team

The IBM Rational Solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management consists of IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational Quality Manager, and IBM Rational Requirements Composer.

Rational Team Concert integrates work item tracking, source control management, continuous builds, iteration planning, and highly configurable process support to adapt to the way you want to work, enabling developers, architects, project managers, and project owners to work together effectively. Multi-platform development such as Java, .NET, Power Systems and mainframe environments are all supported. Rational Team Concert has built-in integrations with Requirements Composer and Quality Manager, along with many other popular development tools.

Teams seeking to add rich requirements definition and management use Rational Requirements Composer. Requirements Composer is being extended to provide both requirements definition and management capabilities for fast-paced, market-driven project teams. Requirements Composer has built-in integrations with Team Concert and Quality Manager, along with many other popular tools.

Teams seeking to improve their ability to meet quality goals use Rational Quality Manager, which has built-in integrations to Rational Team Concert and Rational Requirements Composer. IBM Rational Quality Manager helps organizations optimize project quality with a single, shared test management hub that provides integrated lifecycle support across virtually any platform and type of testing. It provides a customizable, role-driven solution for test planning, creation, and execution as well as workflow control, tracking, and end-to-end traceability.

By using these products together teams improve their ability to deliver high quality software innovation. Teams don't have to use all three to reap the reward. The products can be used in any pair, or all together.

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