You might remember that in August I asked Dekel Cohen of Mainsoft to write a blog posting about their document collaboration product.  My motivation to ask him came from our technical conversations. While our conversation is still going strong the topics we talk about have changed. He and his team are busy working on a […]

Now that Rational Requirements Composer 2.0 is available for download here on jazz.net, I would like to explain our motivation for 2.0, put Requirements Composer in the context of the Jazz vision (specifically with Team Concert and Quality Manager), and provide some pointers so you can learn more. With Rational Requirements Composer, we aim to […]

It seems like just yesterday we announced that Rational Project Conductor (well, at the time it was “Focal Point for Project Management,” but that’s a whole other blog) was available on Jazz.net. In reality, it has already been 5 months – wow, how time flies! In August we posted our first public Beta, and we […]

The theme of Agile 2009 this year was “Making Agile Real”, and the keynote given by Alistair Cockburn is available for your watching pleasure. Although Alistair is a great speaker, during his talk I was yearning for some hints on how to map his concepts into practices. While the eternal pragmatist in me was waiting […]

Hot on the heels of announcing our first-class presence on Jazz.net, the Rational Team Concert for System z team is very proud to announce the general availability of our 2.0.0.1 release, now available for download. Rational Team Concert for System z 2.0.0.1 contains all the functionality and supports all the distributed platforms that Rational Team […]

I’m often asked to explain Collaborative ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) and am usually taken aback by the question. It’s like asking me to explain the value of ‘breathing.’ “Uh, because it hurts a lot if you don’t do it?” All joking aside, we recently we kicked off our design partner program for Collaborative ALM (C/ALM), […]

Rational Team Concert has always supported newsfeeds as the preferred mechanism to track events in teams and projects. Are you still relying on old school e-mail notifications? Have you never thought about configuring Team Central and your personal Dashboard to use feeds efficiently? Then this post will give you some inspiration. To keep things short […]

One thing that is great about having an open community at Jazz.net is that we get feedback from users very promptly. We didn’t want to wait too long before we provided you with an update to 2.0 which contains many your feature requests and important bug fixes. I’m glad to report that the team pulled […]

First of all, what is OSLC? A quick search on Google returns the “Oregon Social Learning Center,” “Our Savior Lutheran Church,” and “Ontario Student Leadership Conference,” but then you will find “Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration.” Lifecycle resources are change requests, test cases, defects, requirements, builds, and all the other things that we use daily […]

Most organizations are unlikely to invest in separate infrastructures and separate tools to cater to teams working on different technology stacks. If you are working towards a common solution, then irrespective of technological affiliations you are likely to have the teams follow one plan, one process, one common build infrastructure, common feeds and one common […]