Adrian Holland discusses challenges with project management, effective solutions, and how Rational Tools will support the identified solutions.

Christina Skaskiw of Real Solutions deconstructs the idea of software as engineering and encourages you to see it as more like film productions. For example, software is not an orderly, predictable and stepwise process.

Gary Blowe of Real Solutions discusses process improvement and the SEI Ideal Model. Blowe emphasizes that process improvement does not have to be complicated and in fact can be quite simple.

This presentation takes a deep dive into Watchfie an IBM company. Included in this presentation is the following: Rational Quality Management The evolution of customer priorities IBM Rational software IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform Introducing Watchfire, an IBM Company And much...

Russell Kearn explains Project Console & Automated Metrics including data collection/distribution, Rational Software, chart generation and other imporatant aspects of metrics systems.

This presentation takes a deep dive into features of profiling. Included in this session: Profiling Overview Memory Leak Detection Thread Bottleneck Detection Code Coverage

This presentation reviews Rational Buildforge. Agenda: Introductions Company Overview Build & Release Challenges Technology Overview Next Steps

David Clack of Black Pepper Software LTD, discusses the changing environment and changing role of the Agile Project Manager. Clack reveals how attitudes and believes have changed, requiring more predictability, more ability to change and innovate faster while reducing cost.

Nik Teshima, Product Manager, Jim Zhang, Development Manager and Adeel Omer, Marketing Engineer come together to bring you a sneak preview of the Rational Application Developer V7.5 and a look at why Web 2.0 Rich Internet Applications. The following is also included: Key Concepts Customer Pain Points...

Jolene Eichorn and Joe Patock of BlueCross BlueShield of Minnesota review a situation they faced in 1999 with a Rational tool set where little training was provided, presenting many problems. They discuss their solutions and how they achieved buy-in to the plan.

Bill Nelson discusses the business intelligence and report tools project for BlueCross BlueShief of Minnesota. He reviews why his team uses BIRT, how they are using it and how they measure success.

Jog Raj, Market Engineer for IBM and Richard Hurst, Senior Product Specialist for IntelliCorp explore the challenges in deploying and maintaining SAP and how to run and optimize SAP using Intellicorp Software.

Scott Darlington, Sr. Product Manager and IBM Rational System Architect, reviews Enterprise Architecture portfolio and strategic objectives, provides a multi-year roadmap and vision plus bonus charts.

This document is the System Architect User Group Constitution, which outlines the objectives of the User Group, membership guidelines, financial policies and meetings criteria.

Olliver Robinson, Enterprise Architecture Profession Lead for the National Policing Improvement Agency, explains what the NIPA is, its priorities, stakeholders, costs and why ICT reform is needed.

Description: Update GRUG on latest CICS and RDz solutions with focus on Banking sector. Financial institutions are facing tremendous challenges to adapt, yet often have siloed and constrained legacy systems that are not well suited to a world that is flatter, riskier, and smarter. Watch how the New features...

Description: Complex software build and deployments can put a business on hold while upgrades and patches are rolled out to critical production environments. Architects have a need to explicitly describe the deployment needs of their software and communicate these to IT operations professionals. To address...

Description: You’ve invested a great deal in your existing tooling for software development and your teams have been successful delivering quality software as part of increasingly complex systems and products. Now, Agile is in your future, or even part of your existing set of practices. Join IBM’s...

Scott W. Ambler, Chief Methodologist/Agile, IBM Rational highlights the Agile Scaling Model items that anyone using the program should know. Featured in this presentation: Agile Scaling Model The Agile Development Lifecycle What is Agility at Scale? Some More Industry Statistics Applying...