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In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we provide a blueprint for Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (CALM) and show how the new IBM Rational® products support this evolving market. Driven by the business demands of global software delivery, many large organizations are seeking guidance in how to incorporate agile methods. In this book, we provide a reference scenario and tool architectures for deploying the new IBM Rational products into an existing enterprise environment. We also provide a set of blueprints that define each of the key disciplines in the development life cycle to help you understand the domain and how the Rational products support the need of that discipline. Our primary focus is to highlight the value of CALM by providing a user view of the solution that is used to support a distributed enterprise development team that incorporates aspects of the "Agility-at-Scale" approach. While most Redbooks publications provide details about a single product, this book provides a "green-thread" reference scenario that details one end-to-end path through an iteration of a software development project. The scenario demonstrates a reference architecture for an enterprise that uses the new Rational Jazz technology-based products along with the existing Rational team products. The scenario includes Rational Build Forge® Enterprise Edition, Rational ClearCase®, Rational ClearQuest®, and Rational RequisitePro®, and introduces Rational Quality Manager, Rational Requirements Composer, Rational Soft

In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we describe how you can implement an application lifecycle management solution with Rational® Developer for System z® , Rational ClearQuest® , Rational ClearCase® with the z/OS® extensions, and Rational Build Forge® . Our target audience includes java and COBOL developers, architects, team leads, and release and production management staff who are responsible for managing the life cycle of cross-platform or enterprise-wide applications that are composed of host z/OS and distributed components. In this book, we present an approach that we call Enterprise Software Configuration Management (ESCM) and discuss the problems with releasing cross-platform applications in a secure, robust, and reversible manner. In chapter 1, we explain the rationale for producing this book and present a few case studies. In chapter 2, we describe the challenges that we observed in many IT enterprises as they struggle to integrate the distributed and mainframe sides of the house. We also discuss both the costs and benefits of implementing an ESCM process and the risk of not doing so. In chapter 3, we describe the idealized ESCM model, specifically, what a successful ESCM looks like from an organizational and functional perspective (as opposed to from a technical perspective). We present some suggested (and effective) best practices. In chapter 4, we present a detailed implementation with several alternative strategies that we use in this book in the context of an overall ESCM life cycle,

This IBM Redbooks publication explains the concepts and practice of developing service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based solutions using the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform (SDP). It uses the latest version of IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) that includes service-oriented modeling and architecture (SOMA) content from IBM Global Business Services. This book aims to help practitioners that are working on SOA-based projects. Practitioners can learn the core concepts behind SOA as well as how to use the tooling to automate the tasks involved in developing SOA-based solutions. The main thread of this book takes business requirements, business architecture, and existing assets as input, and derives the elements of a service-oriented architecture that are needed to realize the business requirements. The book covers architecture in detail, and shows how the architecture is realized through service identification, specification, realization, implementation, and testing. The book is organized around a practical example case study and provides tool and process guidance as well as additional references around key topics.

Information technology (IT) governance has assumed a prevalent spot in technical and management publications. When academics and practitioners alike pose such questions as "Does IT matter?", those of us in the IT field cannot help but to sit up and take notice. We must manage with a focus on articulating the value of IT investments so that the CEO understands what a dollar spent on technology yields in real earnings impact. We must also focus on helping the CIO feel comfortable with balanced risk exposure. The development of a management system that ensures IT can consistently deliver on these objectives is what IT governance is all about. Guidance in building this type of solution is what this IBM® Redbooks® publication is about. It explores key concepts that underpin the successful development of your IT governance solution. This book explains the following concepts: The right amount of flexibility to yield more effective results Approaches to measuring the value of IT's contribution to the business The linkage between systematic reduction of variance in reducing project risk The role of automation in providing executives the information necessary to adjust to changes on projects These lessons are codified in the IBM IT Governance Approach, which you instantiate within your organization. By applying this approach with the guiding principles and automating with technology, you will yield a governance solution that is adopted and viewed as an enabler to your teams. Most importantly it will ensure that IT deli

This IBM Redbook is intended to help you design your processes and solutions using Rational products to manage compliance. It shows how Rational solutions can be applied by an organization to realize a controlled, auditable software development environment to help alleviate specific challenges imposed by standards, policies, and regulations. This book provides a usage model and product configuration guidance to help a tools administrator implement and configure some or all of the Rational tools to address compliance challenges. This book is intended help you and your partners understand the design and deployment of IBM Rational's Business Driven Development for Compliance solution. This book focuses on problems addresses by Rational products. The emphasis is on auditable change processes, in particular using ClearQuest and ClearCase. We provide additional coverage of requirements for compliance using RequisitePro, and compliance attestation using ClearQuest Test Manager, IT governance using Rational Portfolio Manager, Rational Method Composer, and the Rational Unified Process (RUP). This book presents a solution for compliance management that demonstrates support of all three dimensions of business driven development of software for compliance, say what you do, do what you say, and be able to prove it.