Application Lifecycle Management
Unified teams and platforms deliver quality software and services faster
Whether you are using formal or agile methods, reduce the high costs, inefficiency and risks of fragmented software development without compromising software quality with proven, integrated ALM solutions. Improve cross-project visibility and automate the flow of people, process and information in an iterative cycle of design-driven software delivery to realize a foundation across multi-platforms for business alignment, improved rationalization, ability to scale, enhanced team collaboration, automation, governance and reporting.
Topics associated with ALM includes portfolio, demand and delivery management, requirements management, architecture and design, application development, software change and configuration management, build and deploy, quality management and testing.
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Recent media
Continuous integration and test virtualization in a mainframe world
By automating the building and testing of z/OS application code in isolated environments using virtualized services, the IBM Continuous Integration Solution for System z helps significantly improve software quality while reducing delivery time and costs.
Introducing the Rational Solution for Electronic Design
Help streamline your workflow to be more productive and reduce your overall development costs.
Conquer complexity with effective ALM and a focus on design
An integrated approach to Application Lifecycle Management that includes design management can help.
Adopting agile methods for safety-critical systems development
IBM Rational's service virtualization and integration testing capabilities are two key ingredients to optimizing your testing process, decreasing the cost of testing and reducing project risk. Our test automation capabilities assist you in getting to market faster while helping you to deliver higher quality software.
Five Application Lifecycle Management imperatives for successful global software development
If you have ever worked on a software development project and wondered how you can eliminate those endless project replans, this webcast is for you.
IBM Rational DOORS and requirements management at Raytheon
IBM Rational DOORS provides Raytheon with the traceability, scalability and extensibility that they need.
Webcasts
The software edge: How effective software development drives competitive advantage
A new IBV software development study found IT and business leaders recognize software is crucial to capitalizing on technology for competitiveness, but they are not successfully executing. Learn how organizations that leverage effective software development can help close the execution gap and gain competitive advantage.
Accelerate development of Mobile apps featuring Rational Application Development and WAS liberty profile
Need to design, develop, and deploy web and mobile applications quickly and efficiently? Rational Application Developer (RAD) delivers a fully featured web and mobile development environment with a powerful page editor, mobile browser simulator, and all the tools you need to make high-quality applications quickly and easily.
Agile development using visual requirement definition and management in Rational Requirements Composer
This webcast provides a framework for evaluating best use of various types of requirements definition and management in agile development.
Agile for Dummies: An overview of agile delivery for dummies and geniuses alike
Confused by all the agile advice? Relax! Join Matt Holitza, Agile Evangelist for IBM Rational, as he provides a brief overview of how agile came to be, how to adopt and scale a disciplined agile approach and how to develop a tooling strategy to best suite your needs.
Agile Testing (Powered by Jazz)
Agile development has numerous benefits to software delivery, including improved quality in the software that is produced. However, in order to gain these benefits, correct and effective Agile practices must be followed.
Agility at Scale IBM Journey of Agile Transformation
A haphazard implementation of Agile may result in more frequent development “turns”, but can also fail to deliver true business benefits.
Agility to Grow: Be as agile as you can be
The evidence that agile approaches result in improved time-to-market, improved quality, and improved developer productivity compel us to tailor agile strategies for these more challenging environments, but where do we start?
ALM a Modern Day Imperative - A Panel Discussion
Grady Booch Talks ALM (Business Partner Webcast). Come hear from our panel, Grady Booch, Carolyn Pampino, and Ken Creager, as they discuss how ALM is evolving and why it is becoming an imperative in today's modern world.
Apples, Oranges, and Acorns - All Agile development tools are not the same
This session will compare/contrast the approaches of different Agile offerings, and will present a method for attendees to evaluate the needs of their own Agile initiative.
Boosting Software Quality and Development Agility
(aka: Transforming the way organizations can improve software quality and development agility)
Build and Deploy Automation Powered by Jazz
Complex software build and deployments can put a business on hold while upgrades and patches are rolled out to critical production environments.
Can Agile Testing Succeed in Complex Application Environments
Monica Luke, Lifecycle Solutions Architect for IBM, and ScrumMaster Priya Raju will share proven Agile testing strategies that eliminate the testing bottleneck on both internal and offshore projects, and enable teams to conduct continuous testing even in the most complex environments.
Collaboration in the Cloud: Application Lifecycle Management as a Service
Today, collaboration is more important than ever in managing the delivery of quality software. This webcast will highlight new IBM SaaS solutions for application lifecycle management.
Podcasts
Innovate 2013: Faster, less costly delivery of quality software with today's ALM
Need to deliver software more effectively? Yesterday's idea of application life-cycle management (ALM) may not get you there. The Lifecycle Management Track will help you consider the latest trends and best practices so you can to increase innovation while balancing speed and quality. Learn from ALM thought leaders and success stories from IBM clients.
Download (MP3, 00:08:04, 9.24MB)
Webcast: Curing your time to market blues for software delivery
Get Agile at Innovate 2013
Going "all in" on Agile? Just exploring the potential benefits? Innovate 2013 has something for those that are looking to Go, Grow or Scale Agile! With over 70 Agile sessions dedicated to best practices, customer stories, tips and techniques combined with pre and post conference agile training, Innovate is the premier event for Agile developers. Take a few minutes and listen to the podcast to find out how you can Get Agile at Innovate 2013.
Innovate 2013: Faster, less costly delivery of quality software with today's ALM
Need to deliver software more effectively? Yesterday's idea of application life-cycle management (ALM) may not get you there. The Lifecycle Management Track will help you consider the latest trends and best practices so you can to increase innovation while balancing speed and quality. Learn from ALM thought leaders and success stories from IBM clients.
Download (MP3, 00:08:04, 9.24MB)
Webcast: Curing your time to market blues for software delivery
The power of service virtualization to reduce the costly application footprint
Every agency is under pressure to reduce costs while at the same time increasing the amount of development. Join us to learn how service virtualization can "bend the cost curve" with more agility and less risk. The power of virtualization has moved from the data center floor to mission delivery with new service virtualization reduce the cost of developing and sustaining the complex, integrated systems that are critical for agency programs and operations. Madeline Bayliss and Tamara Kulesa, speakers.
Download (MP3, 00:08:39, 9.9MB)
Webcast: Bring the power of virtualization to mission critical application delivery
IBM Point of View: Measuring Software Quality - Why Your Metrics Don't Make the Grade
Software quality and customer satisfaction are measured by companies more than any other form of measurement. However is the data being captured and analyzed providing an accurate reflection of reality with respect to quality and customer satisfaction? Join Al Wagner as he reflects on the recent IBM sponsored webcast where Capers Jones presented today’s more practical measures and metrics allowing companies to be more predictable with quality.
Go virtual when you want to test the integration of SAP with dependent systems
Join this podcast to know how the virtualization of integrating SAP with dependant systems can help reduce the cost, time and efforts of SAP deployment before actually implementing that change.
The Future of Jazz
John Wiegand and Dan Griffin describe where we are with Jazz, and where we are going in the coming months and years.
IBM's Point of View: Is Early Performance Testing Really Valuable AND Viable?
What if there was a way to test the performance of your applications before their release at a lower cost? Dennis Moya shares IBM's point of view with key messages delivered during the IBM webcast featuring Scott Barber, Performance Testing Thought Leader.
Generate business value with Portfolio Strategy and Management
Reduce waste and increase business value by helping customers make more informed investment and delivery choices. Jon Tollerup describes how IBM's business partner Decision Focus have helped organizations overcome some of their biggest challenges.
Download episode (MP3, 00:15:15, 13.9MB)
Measuring the Total Economic Impact - IBM Rational Application Portfolio Management
Resolve Deployment Bottleneck with Collaborative DevOps
Learn how IBM Rational solutions can reduce cost and time while increasing quality of deployed software. Collaborative DevOps bridges the gap between development and operations, extending agile techniques to resolve deployment bottlenecks.
Download episode (MP3, 00:12:44, 11.7MB)
Webcast: Collaborative DevOps: Bridging the gap between development and operations with automation
Cut The Cost and Complexity of Testing Mobile Applications, Not Quality
What if you could effectively manage the cost and complexity of testing your mobile application without compromising the quality of the result? Leigh Williamson, Distinguished IBM Engineer, shares the ways an effective mobile application testing strategy can help deliver better quality results.
3 Ways to Simplify your IT with Application Portfolio Management
As software plays an increasingly critical role in the business performance of corporations, IT faces considerable pressure to support new business initiatives while cutting costs. Billions of dollars have been invested in software applications, but typically these investments are poorly leveraged. Johan Hedstrom, speaker.
Download episode (MP3, 00:11:28, 10.7MB)
Measuring the Total Economic Impact - IBM Rational Application Portfolio Management
Speed Your Return on Investment for Collaborative Lifecycle Management
Faster, less costly and high quality software delivery can be yours! You'll need a collaborative environment that supports requirements, design, quality and software change and configuration management. And you can have it in one easy-to-install and easy-to-use solution that can be optimized for agile or waterfall teams. Kelli Houston, speaker.
Agile for Dummies
Find out about the complete agile reference for both dummies and geniuses! Confused by all the agile advice? Relax! Join Matt Holitza, Agile Evangelist for IBM Rational, to find out about his new book, Agile for Dummies. He'll discuss some of the key takeaways from the book and talk about some of his observations on the state of agile adoption.
Download episode (MP3, 00:08:52, 8.1MB)
Effective Application Lifecycle Management Jazz Revolution Demos
Preview: Is early performance testing really valuable AND viable?
Many organizations are neglecting to adopt a comprehensive performance testing process as it is too expensive or time consuming to measure the stability and scalability of business critical functionality prior to releasing to production. What if there was a way to test the performance of your applications before deploying to production at a lower cost? Join Al Wagner as he offers insight for a webcast featuring Scott Barber, Performance Testing Thought Leader.
Download episode (MP3, 00:07:39, 7.0MB)
Webcast: Is early performance testing really valuable AND viable?
Rational Team Concert Turns Four!
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Videos
Service virtualization. Innovation increasing team agility and reducing testing bottlenecks
Are you challenged with testing complex applications? Is unavailable software and services creating testing bottlenecks for your development projects? IBM Rational's service virtualization and integration testing capabilities are two key ingredients to optimizing your testing process, decreasing the cost of testing and reducing project risk.
Agile in the Enterprise: IBM's Agile Transformation (00:03:56)
Find out how IBM leveraged Agile practices, Rational Team Concert and Rational Asset Manager to improve software delivery, increase innovation and reduce costs. Scaling Agile in the enterprise is possible! Learn how IBM approached this challenge and the benefits IBM obtained by increasing collaboration and code reuse.
Agility@Scale - Just enough process, methodology and tooling (00:06:43)
Susan McNeice, with global research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, discusses how large, decentralized and geographically distributed teams can still employ agile development methodologies using IBM Rational's collaborative solutions for requirements, build and test management.
Are you Agile Enough? (00:03:29)
See how Rational Team Concert automates core Agile practices—like consistent team collaboration, rapid response to change, and frequent delivery of working software with robust version control and change management.
Accelerating Smarter Computing with IBM zEnterprise (00:02:24)
Smarter Computing helps IT deliver breakthrough economics and accelerate innovation. It’s designed for data, tuned to the task and managed in the cloud. Find out how IBM Systems and Enterprise Modernization solutions help drive greater performance and efficiency for superior economics.
The Business Challenge — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z (00:01:30)
Companies that can cut costs, reduce complexity and make effective use of existing investments may be better positioned for growth and increased profitability. IBM Rational Enterprise modernization solutions for System z can extend your business value to provide optimum return on your investments.
Reuse Proven Applications — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z (00:01:08)
Are you still maintaining those green screen applications? Watch this video to learn how you can improve customer satisfaction, lower employee training costs, and minimize overall business impact, by modernizing your existing CICS or IMS applications to leverage modern web, rich client and mobile interfaces.
Manage Your Application Portfolio — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z (00:01:48)
Is your application portfolio a draining your IT budget? Watch this short video to see how you can get a handle on your complex application portfolio and apply proven techniques to understand, optimize, consolidate and transform your portfolio and ensure your investments align to your business needs.
Discover and Manage Business Rules — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z (00:01:27)
Are you spending way too much time trying to track down and change all those hard-coded business rules across your line-of-business applications? IBM business rule modernization solutions can make rule identification practical by helping companies identify and extract source statements that implement business rules.
Low Cost and Low Risk Migrations — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z (00:01:40)
Are you paying astronomical annual software license and maintenance fees to keep your legacy business applications from going out of support? The IBM Rational Migration Extension family of solutions automates the conversion of applications written in Software AG Natural/Adabas, CA Gen, CA Ideal/Datacom, RPG and COBOL to an open, modern and modular software delivery platform.
Accelerate Mainframe Development — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z (00:01:13)
Is your organization facing a growing skills gap, resulting from a shrinking pool of experienced mainframe developers? Did you know that modern mainframe development tools can bridge your mainframe skills gap? These tools can improve developer productivity by up to 40% while also reducing training costs. Developers without mainframe skills can build multiplatform applications in a matter of days.
Portable Mainframe Development — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z (00:01:24)
Are you struggling to balance the load of both application development and your production systems in your mainframe environment? The latest development and unit test environment from IBM can empower your developers to build and test System z applications anywhere, anytime, without impacting operations.
Increase Company Agility — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z (00:01:02)
Are you struggling to keep your global software teams on track? The IBM collaborative application lifecycle management solution can help you take back control of your projects and teams by streamlining end-to-end multiplatform software development and delivery across System z, Power Systems and distributed platforms.
Increase Application Performance — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z (00:01:23)
Operating on a limited budget may mean wanting a quick, low-risk way to improve performance and scalability of existing IT infrastructure, all while keeping costs down. IBM’s latest compilation technology for languages like COBOL, PL/I, C and C++ can help you exploit the latest advancement in IBM middleware and platforms, measurably boost performance, and keep your overall costs to a minimum.