We are very pleased to announce the new IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery (SCCD) project on Jazz.net. With the SCCD initiative, we plan to develop capabilities that help organizations reduce cycle times and deliver changes that are operationally-ready. What does this mean? In a nutshell we are providing functionality that enables development teams to deliver features […]

I’ve been working as a developer on Jazz.net since the very beginning, but I’ve never blogged on the Jazz Team Blog!!  Can you believe it? Well today that changes. I just got back from an amazing trip to IBM Innovate Australia events in Melbourne and Sydney, and I want to share what I learned, LOUDLY, […]

Yes, you read it right. With Rational Team Concert 4.0 (part of the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management 2012 release), the source control functionality of Jazz has a new avatar – a new client offering that supports the Microsoft® Source Code Control Interface (referred to as MS-SCCI, henceforth). So, what is MS-SCCI? For the […]

I was terrible at sports as a kid, but everyone on the team got a trophy. Come to think of it, I may still have a few of those in the attic. When I was in high school, trophies were a little harder to come by, but I did manage to win my fair share in my […]

I am very pleased to announce the availability of DOORS Next Generation Beta 4. This is the fourth (and likely final) beta download before the product is made generally available at the end of the year. DOORS Next Generation beta 4 contains over 50 new features as well as significant improvements in stability and performance. These improvements […]

This is the final part of a 3-part series of blog posts about Linked Lifecycle Data (continued from Part 1 and Part 2). Getting more from your data Understanding data and relationships between pieces of data is critical in successfully working on – and managing – systems and software projects. During the course of systems […]

This is part 2 of a 3-part series of blog posts about Linked Lifecycle Data (read part 1). What is Linked Lifecycle Data? Linked Lifecycle Data is simply the application of Linked Data principles to data created and maintained during the lifecycle of systems and software development projects. The traditional approach to data integration Traditionally, […]

We pleased to announce availability of the 3rd installment for DOORS Next Generation, Beta 3. DOORS Next Generation has been available on Jazz.net since October last year, and we are now fast approaching our final Beta release in August and the first commercial release towards the end of 2012.  We are excited by the enhancements […]

“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” –Mark Twain. When we interact with software, we require it does what we want it to and that it responds to our wishes quickly. The domain of software performance is all about understanding where the time goes when we […]

The results are in and the team has crunched through the data. In my previous post, Now that’s how we jam, I gave a breakdown the roles, ideas and votes cast. In this blog, I’ll focus on the popular content items by vote. With over 400 ideas expressed (see final tag cloud in image at […]