Rational Team Concert 2.0 includes project level read permissions, which allow for read-protecting artifacts in a project area. Read access control applies to all artifacts in the project and all its sub-teams. The simplest usage of this feature is to mark a project as read-protected and then carefully control the membership of this new protected […]

Rational Team Concert (RTC) 1.0.1 provides rich functionality in all the areas it touches: work item management, source control, build, planning, reports, and dashboards. A brief look at the capability overview is a good reminder of that fact. Although you can get started with RTC quickly, it can take some time to understand the whole […]

You might have noticed a new look to the Rational Team Concert Web UI login screen and banner in recent weeks. These changes are a step toward an updated look for a number of user interface elements that will help to unify the presentation of our Jazz-based Rational web products. As we take steps toward […]

In the jazz.net forums Roman Smirak posted the contents of a blog entry he wrote for his company. In the posting Roman provides his personal views and opinions on the advantages and disadvantages of using Rational Team Concert, and he relates this to other tools he has used. See his forum post here: https://jazz.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4383 We’ve known […]

Ferran “Ferdy” Rodenas does a great job re-telling the Jazz story and vision in this blog entry: http://www.rodenas.org/blog/2009/04/20/from-the-eclipse-platform-to-the-ibm-rational-jazz-platform/  Ferdy is not an IBMer, but he has been playing along enthusiastically in the Jazz community. While we always appreciate positive words like this, I’m even more encouraged that someone outside the team seems to really grok and […]

If you’ve been reading some of our previous blog posts (wan performance testing using metronome, selfhosting sizing numbers, repository workspace scalability, scaling to new heights), you’ll know that performance and scalability are very important to our team. Now that we are neck deep in testing Rational Team Concert 2.0 (RTC), it’s time to share how […]

One of our major goals for Rational Team Concert 2.0 (RTC) is to support significantly larger development teams on a single server than were supported by our 1.0 release. We knew our Jazz Technology could support more than 250 Developers as soon as we finished our scalability testing and published the Rational Team Concert 1.0 […]

I’ve had a lot of positive reaction to my developerWorks article on this topic, and many have requested a video version.  So here it is, at last: Like the article, the video follows the fictional Havannah team while they develop a Product Backlog and then a Sprint Backlog and execute their first Sprint.  The case […]

I was chatting with users of a rather large Rational Team Concert deployment today and they asked a very common question, “what is the footprint overhead of having repository workspaces?”. The easy answer is, don’t worry about it because disk space is cheap. But in reality, we do care about it, a lot. Imagine what […]

Here we are, five months after the first release of Rational Quality Manager and Rational Test Lab Manager.  We have received great feedback from our early adopters and customers, but we want more.  We want to hear from you and what better way to do it than to open the flood gates and let everyone […]