“At some point, you take a step back, and you realize you have an awful lot of siloed systems that are limiting transparency across strategic projects.” Development Director, Temenos, Inc. Back when I was making my career decision, I chose to avoid the medical field. Software, I thought, was safe. I wouldn’t harm anyone if […]

The Rational User Experience & Design team is undertaking a study to better understand the users of our offerings and solutions.  We work closely with development and other groups to create products that are easy to use and meet your needs through a variety of research, design, and evaluation activities. The study involves interviewing a […]

While participating in the festivities at Innovate 2011 down in Orlando, I had an opportunity to speak with many of our customers about the CLM 2011 solution. Everyone that I spoke with was excited about our new capabilities, and was impressed with the cross product capabilities.  Whether they were our customers or part of an […]

Are you an effective Rational Team Concert Source Control user? If you’re not sure, or simply want to become more effective, here are some essential tips that will help on your way. Before jumping in to these tips, we have some excellent resources that would be worth taking a look at: If you’re new to […]

If you or your organization are doing, or plan to do, C/C++ development with Rational Team Concert, I invite you to follow along in the first four articles that I have posted about the topic.

In a blog post published earlier this month, Scott Rich and John Kellerman wrote about our plans for upcoming fix packs for CLM 2011 (Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer 3.0.1) and our plans for CLM 2012. In this post I’ll let you know how those plans will be realized in […]

My name is Catherine Burrows and I am a User Experience professional at IBM.  I am working with the Jazz.net team these days, looking to expand online collaboration with you, our customers. To that end, the team and I are interested in knowing a bit more about you and your experiences using Jazz.net.  We are […]

Whew!  What a couple of months.  In June we wrapped up development of the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) 2011, had a great time at Innovate – our yearly Rational Conference – in Orlando, pushed the button on the final bits while in Orlando to send them to manufacturing, and celebrated that by […]

I am excited that the team recently updated IBM Rational Asset Manager to provide the milestone 3 download for our next release!  This will be the final milestone for 7.5.1 as the team now shifts focus to finalizing the product for delivery later this year. All of the features planned for this release are included […]

Requirements solutions like Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) are a major advance in information traceability for program and project teams when compared to doing it manually in documents or spreadsheets.  RRC helps teams achieve a new level of creating, maintaining, analyzing, and reporting traceability. In RRC 3.0.1 we introduced the ability to define custom relationship types […]