This presentation introduces IBM Rational Performance Tester v7.0, a tool for measuring and tuning your application. The presenter gives a demonstration, provides an effective method for performance testing including key steps and goals.

Scott Ambler, Practice Leader Agile Development, discusses the Agile adoption rate, development, how to scale and succeed with Agile.

Roger Dunn, CEO of SourceIQ, Inc. and John Legelis, VP of Enterprise Architecture for Fidelity Investments, discusses key project success indicators in IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Rational ClearQuest.

Andrew Midkiff, Senior Systems Business Analyst and Dianne Mulcahy, IS Program Manager of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, present a case study of how they created a Use Case Resource Center, how to create your own and lessons learned.

Terry Quatrani, Rational Evangelist for IBM, provides an introduction to Unified Modeling Launguage including the importance of modeling, the history of UML, UML diagrams and extending the UML.

Terry Quatrani, Rational Evangelist for IBM, provides an introduction to Unified Modeling Launguage including the importance of modeling, the history of UML, UML diagrams and extending the UML

Stephen Toop of CM-Logic Ltd, reviews 9 best practices of build and release management including; establishing complete reproductability, optimizing processes and supporting architecture design and measuring performance against business objectives.

Larry Holm, Samir Patel and Bruce Hatton of the SQA Team at Landstar System, Inc. presents a case study with lessons learned from providing a la carte quality assurance services using rational test tools.

Scott W. Ambler, Practice Leader Agile Development, reviews Agile adoption rates, success rates, the rational unified process, project management and modeling techniques plus implementation, configuration management and deployment techniques.

IBM Rational IT Specialist Douglas Gulledge, Distinguished Engineer Allan Brown and Rational Prodcut Manager, MDD William Smith discuss Model-Driven Development and Model Driven Architecture. They emphasize a focus on productivity and predictability of running systems alongside focus on integration,...

Steve Wittie, ITS for IBM Rational Software, explains Waterfall Software Development versus Iterative Development. He emphasizes the benefits of the iterative development process including; consistency, predictablility and quality.

Ian Spence, Chief Scientist at Ivar Jacobson Consulting, explains Iterative Development, the benefits, why Iterative is so different plus three levels of iterative adoption.

Christy Thomas and Brent Spivack of Physicians Mutual present how they've used IBM's Rational Requisite Pro to gather and manage data-driven requirements from conceptual business terms to database design.

This presentation shows how to develop a shared business vision, identify driving organizational and business needs and translate these needs to system requirements.

Anthony Kesterton of IBM reveals an introduction and vision to IBM Rational Team Concert. He highlights how the open technology intitiative will transform how people work together to deliver greater value and performance from their software investments.

Arun Zachariah of Capgemini and Julian Holmes of UPMentors, provide and introduction to OpenUP, including core principles, practices, roles, work products, tasks and guidance.

Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist/Agile, discusses the astronomy analogy, the agile scaling model, some industry statistics and scaling strategies.

Mark Roberts, Configuration and Change Management Consultant, discusses the need for distributed source control management and how to effectively enable it across various models of operation.

vPete Eeles, Chief Architect for IT IBM Rational Worldwide Solution Delivery, explains the emerging domain of the Development Environment Architect. He dissects the role and brings to light the benefits of architecting.

Description: Application development today, particularly for the web and mobile, is complicated by an ever-changing world of languages, frameworks, and technologies. Further compounding the problem is the need to support the myriad of runtime platforms, devices, and middleware layers that are typically...

Description: Software and system architecture and designs help resolve the inherent complexity of intelligent, interconnected and instrumented solutions, but there are numerous challenges that go beyond solution complexity. The extended team of subject matter experts is needed to provide insights and...

Description: Imagine being brand new to the mainframe and sitting down to write and test your first IMS application. ISPF, TSO, COBOL, ASCII/EBCDIC, dependent regions, deployment, message queues, etc. And somewhere in there you need to actually write a program. Learn how IBM's newest suite of Eclipse...

Description: "Doing the right things" and "doing things right" are the essential ingredients for successful software and systems delivery. Unfortunately, with distributed delivery spanning multiple disciplines, geographies and time zones, many organizations struggle with teams working...