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Forum Post: RDDI - IBM Rational Extension experience and directions required, anyone with experience with this add-on to the IBM Rational suite of products(currently using version 4.0), mainly RRC and RQM, but possibility of RTC asw ell

bertpitre — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:55:00 GMT

re: RDDI ( IBM Rational tool extension for extended management reporting)

products: ( RRC-Rational Requirements Management, RQM- Rational Quality Management and possibly RTC- Rational Team Conert, used mainly for Software Defects Management)

was wondering if anyone in this group or elsewhere within the greater community, who would have had the experience, and a bit of knowledge on this additional installation on top of the already delivered products listed. Would appreciate feedback from anyone who has use this utility(RDDI)

Forum Post: Reqpro to HPQC Integration

hfellows — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:28:00 GMT

Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of the HP Quality Centre Synchronizer to integrate Requirements data between RequisitePro and HP Quality Centre?

I'd like to understand how easy it is to use, and how dynamic it is. eg whether its possible to 'click through' from a requirement in Reqpro through to test cases, as with integrated Rational products?

Thanks

Helen

Page: Global Rational User Community Council Elections

Anonymous — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:31:00 GMT

Ricardo Garcia

Senior Information Technology Executive with over 25 years of domestic and international business leadership in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to private companies.

Extensive experience leading multi-national Information Technology teams in emerging markets, Deployment of International Supply Chain Management Systems, Global Fulfillment Systems, Financial Systems (ERP), Enterprise Systems, Customer Facing Applications, Call Centers, Global Data Centers, Business Process Reengineering, Enterprise Architecture, Programs and Projects Management teams and Software Development teams.

Tom Weinberger - current council member

Tom is a 35 year veteran of IT working as a change agent wherever he goes.

Recently returned to private consulting as Methods advisor for both the Nimblestar Group, Inc and ICON/TC, he was recently the lead for the Agile Center of Excellence for CitiGroup Consumer Systems, and leads / coaches teams through the effort of agile adoption. He is also and engagement manager for the adoption of transformational tools and process like Rational Team Concert and Microsoft TFS2010.

He has had a varied career beginning as a mainframe assembler programmer, and managing several types of IT organizations, and his experience includes general management and company responsibilities for two $20M software companies. He has managed or directed multiple QA groups, development groups, several data centers, customer service call centers and even marketing and sales. His experience is varied, including banking, transportation, communications, health insurance, general life and casualty insurance, real estate software and global systems software development and sales for 6000 worldwide corporate customers. He has big and small company IT experience and has led many commercial and business development projects as a master project and program manager.

Much of his efforts have been devoted to managing the organizational change necessary to focus his teams on the best manner of creating software while delivering cost effective, timely, quality deliverables. This has manifested itself through adoption of quality and development best practices and methodologies that are both practical and pragmatic.

He has focused his efforts for the last ten years on being a student of agile best practices and the Rational tools. He is a:

Scaled Agile Framework SAFe Program Consultant (SAFe SPC)
Certified Scrum Master
IBM Certified Trainer “Advanced Disciplined Agile Delivery”
Disciplined Agile Delivery - Yellow Belt Certified
OCUP UML - Fundamentals Certified
IBM Certified Solution Designer - IBM Rational Unified Process V7.0

He has led several companies like BP-AMOCO, NCNU AAA, US Cellular, 2 BCBS orgs, Grainger.com, State Street Financial and SEARS though successful Enterprise level RUP / SCRUM and Scaled Agile efforts including Rational Tool adoptions.

Julian Holmes - current council member

Julian Holmes is the founder of AgileMentors a small international consulting company, promoting an Agile vision for software development, working within the industry and with clients to improve software delivery capability. He has a proven track record in enhancing the software development capability of large and complex IT organisations. These skills stem from the experience of performing many different software development roles over his 20+ years working within the industry, providing him recognition as a proven software development leader.

Julian became known for his work with the Rational Unified Process in 1999, becoming quickly regarded as a leader as to its successful use, and in its implementation for project teams and organisations alike. More recently Julian has been working to expand the use of Agile practices, specifically in the adoption of Disciplined Agile Delivery, working closely with Scott W Ambler and Associates.

Julian is a VP of the Global Rational User Community providing support to user groups across Europe and Asia, and leads the UK Group with 800 members. He has attended and presented at Rational’s annual conference every year since 2002, regularly presenting at many IBM regional events.

Julian also became an IBM Rational Champion for Agile in 2011, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to IBM Rational communities.

Carson Holmes - current council member

Carson Holmes is a management consultant, methodologist, software engineer, and educator. He is the community leader at Software Development Experts, the Vice President of Service Delivery at Fourth Medium Consulting Inc., and President of the Global Rational User Community. Mr. Holmes started programming over 30 years ago and for the last 16 years has helped numerous Fortune 500 IT enterprises across a variety of industries achieve their strategic goals. He is a specialist in IT governance and process improvement and leverages pragmatic methods, practices, and tools that benefit the enterprise IT value stream.

Mr. Holmes is a natural leader skilled at building great teams and delivering solutions that maximize business value. As a management consultant, he is an agent for change and often works with senior level executives to fine tune their organization for efficiency and effectiveness. Mr. Holmes is a proponent of process enactment and workflow automation and leads a new virtual user group focused on Jazz and CLM. He regularly presents at user groups and software conferences, and holds a degree in computer science and engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Shawn Doyle - current council member

Shawn Doyle is the CEO and lead consultant of ReleaseTEAM, a consulting company specializing in Software Configuration Management.

Shawn has hands on experience working as a ClearCase admin since 1992, ClearQuest since 1999, ClearDDTS starting in 1991; as well as working as an administrator for many IBM Rational tools such as; RTC, RQM, RRC, Rhapsody, Rose, Purify, Purecoverage, Quantify, APEX, DOORS, RequisitePro, Synergy and Change.

Shawn has been active in the Rational User Groups since starting the Colorado User Group in 1999, which is still going strong.

As an acknowledged expert in his field, he is great to work with because of his calm nature and ability to inspire trust in relationships. He is also an excellent business manager who has great people on his staff, which says a lot about him.

Current Board and Memberships:

Member of the Board GRUG (Global Rational User Groups)
President of the CRUG (Colorado Rational Users Group) since 1999
Launched the FCRUG (Fort Collins Rational User Group) in 2011
Relaunched the TRUG (Toronto Rational Users Group) in 2011
Launching the SLRUG (Salt Lake City Rational Users Group) in 2013
Launching the LVRUG (Las Vegas Users Group) in 2013

Sam Courtney

Sam Courtney is a Senior Sales Engineer with Armstrong Process Group, based in Dallas, TX, with 23 years of experience in the technology field. He specializes in Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Automation and Application Life Cycle Management among other things. As an IBM Business Partner, they are active members of the IBM Enterprise Architecture and Requirements/Analysis Communities of Practice as well as contributing members to the Open Group and Object Management Group. His highly-focused experience lies in successfully developing strategies for implementation of software and technologies for automation of business processes and software development lifecycles.

Fred Carter

Background in Rational User Groups

Fred has played a significant role in rational user groups for the past years and has participated and contributed to the growth and success of several user groups including:

Two year President of Maryland User group for two years
NYCRUG (NY City) active member and Membership Leader
Philadelphia User Group – Leader and Active member
Global Rational User Group (GRUG) – participant , leader for 5 years

Requirements Management background

Fred has a passion for software process improvement and requirements management and enjoys a successful track record implementation IBM Rational Technologies towards these endeavors:

15 years consulting in best practices of writing good requirements and improving requirements management practices.
5 years experience in Rational Requirements Composer
10 years experience in IBM Telelogic Doors
10 year member, IIBA
10 years in software modeling / Visual Modeling using UML
10 years in requirements process automation
Certified scrum master
Certified in Rational Requirements Composer (RRC)

Jazz / ALM Background

6 years of successful deployments using RTC , RQM, and RRC
Certified in RTC and RRC
Guru in improving project planning, requirements management , and project tracking using Rational CLM tools
Led Recent transformation of RTC SCM and Waterfall to Agile for a major US Bank
Significant experience in leading ALM assessments

Process enactment

Specialist in Process Authoring and Process Management using RMC
Certified in RMC and Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Guru in integrating RTC with RMC for process driven software/web development
Extensive background in identifying solid metrics for process improvement

Yaron Norani, Manager of Ycon

Yaron Norani is the Manager of Ycon, a privately held consulting company located in Israel. We help our customers to face the challenges through the development processes. Through analyzing the process, evaluate the tools in use and build a methodology that will take the customer a step ahead. We work closely with IBM in order to assist our customers to get more out of their team. I work with Rational tools and methods since 1997. Implementing tools such as ClearCase, ClearQuest and Req. Pro. for leading companies in Israel. Customers from the telecom, Defence High-tech and banking sectors. In the last 4 years I have a private held consulting company that helps our customers to get more out of their team. Through our efficient and simple methodologies and best practices we can identify the development process weak links and address them.I am implementing tools such as RTC for our customers and have the ability to use my wide experience in order to assist our customers.

John Kosco, Director, IT Operations | Diversified Financial Services Technology (DFST) | Insurance & Annuities

John is accountable for the day-to-day business events and transactions made by TC Life Operations, the health of the production applications that comprise the Technical Platform, and the continuous improvement cycle of the Software Factory, Agile Practices, and Continuous Delivery Automation.

He fosters a constructive change culture, spearheads new operational initiatives, and drives the adoption of new the new tooling.

John leads the Agile lessons learned sessions which have driven the learning culture resulting in the broad adoption of the Software Factory / Agile Principles across the unit.

GRUC Council Elections

To promote the effective use of Rational software solutions through an active, collaborative community of customers, partners, and IT professionals.

File: Reunião de 09/05/2013 - Introdução

garzonif — Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

File: Reunião de 09/05/2013 - IT Architecture Program at Petrobras

garzonif — Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Blog Post: IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager Hands-on Workshop (May 29th)

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:59:00 GMT

IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager Hands-on Workshop

Wednesday, May 29th 12:00 (noon) PM - 5 PM

Location: IBM TEC Center 404 Wyman St (North Entrance), Waltham MA

Lunch will be provided Free parking

This Hands-on Workshop will introduce the new IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager (RELM) , a tool that can help users visualize, analyze and organize engineering lifecycle data and its traceability/relationships across the Rational solution for systems and software engineering. This interactive workshop will guide you through various scenarios that provide an introduction to RELM capabilities, including:

Search, view, query and report on engineering data and artifacts regardless of their source and location
Facilitate impact analysis by viewing the functional, procedural or structural relationships between data
Define project, product, physical and logical system hierarchies for organizing and reusing your engineering data
Support reuse of engineering data in multiple products or systems through versions and variants

Prerequisites: Some familiarity with the tools in the Rational solution for systems and software engineering

Cost:This session is offered free of charge. Complimentary lunch will be provided, and parking is free. However, participants are responsible for their own business travel expenses.

To Enroll: Contact Don Cunningham at don.cunningham@us.ibm.com

Blog Post: IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation Hands-on Workshop (May 21st)

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:49:00 GMT

IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation Hands-on Workshop

Tuesday, May 21st 12:00 (noon) PM - 5 PM

Location: IBM TEC Center 404 Wyman St (North Entrance), Waltham MA

Lunch will be provided and free parking

The objective of this session is to demonstrate through an interactive, hands-on experience, the power of collaboration and visual techniques for requirements definition and management enabled by IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation. Attendees will learn key concepts surrounding IBM Rational’s Jazz platform and have the opportunity to experience this new tool with realistic data.

Introductions plus an overview of the strategy for Rational DOORS and Rational DOORS Next Generation product lines.
Hands-on using DOORS NG web client.
Importing external documents plus using modules with the rich client.
Q&A with the experts.

Cost: This session is offered free of charge. Complimentary lunch will be provided, and parking is free. However, participants are responsible for their own business travel expenses.

To Enroll: Contact Don Cunningham at don.cunningham@us.ibm.com

Blog Post: Real vs. Perceived Security

John McDonald — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:30:00 GMT

Let’s say you wanted to buy a new book. You go to Amazon.com on your computer, and you select the book you want. Then you get to the page where you type in your credit card information, and you freeze in your tracks.

Why? You know it’s safe: it’s Amazon, after all. You know that the data you’re sending is probably encrypted, and the chances are so low that you’d be the one who’s card is stolen. But still, as you type the number, you get that feeling in the pit of your stomach, hoping it’s all OK.

That feeling in your stomach turns into a growl, and so you decide to get up and go get some lunch. At the end of your meal, the bill comes, and you reach into your wallet and hand over your credit card.

And the waiter walks away with it. For ten minutes. With all your numbers. And the numbers on the back. And your signature.

And you think not a thing about it.

So what is the difference? Why do you “feel” less secure when you type those numbers into your browser, but much more secure when you hand over your credit card to the waiter? Clearly the card handover is much less secure in reality, but your perception of security is so opposite of the facts.

The answer lies in how people process trust. Specifically, it’s very difficult for humans to trust objects or institutions or companies. Said succinctly: people can only trust other people.

The difference between Amazon and your lunch is that with Amazon, you are interacting with a computer: your own, connected to a web server. You have just enough trust in Amazon to know that it’s probably OK, but no more: because your interaction is with a computer, not with a human being.

In the case of the lunch appointment, in spite of your limited interaction, you actually build a simple but powerful trusted relationship with the waiter. So much so, that you know that if an errant charge appears on your card, your mind will immediately go back to that waiter, and you will try to assess if that person betrayed your trust. You will think of that first, before any computers, vendors, stores or other places who have your card number on file.

That’s the core of the difference between real and perceived security, and it’s the core of resistance to the cloud that’s based on security concerns. At CloudOne, we are necessarily compliant with every security standard available for the cloud, including ones that are emerging and ones we are helping to develop.

But none of that really matters to potential customers of CloudOne. In the end, they are most interested in having a trusted relationship with the people of CloudOne. It trumps all other considerations and worries about security if you know the people who are managing your data and systems.

This is why companies have abided extremely lax security within the four walls of their own organizations, because they are in the end trusting the employees to do the right thing. Once those systems leave the trusted envelope to the cloud, that implicit trust relationship disappears, and must be rebuilt by the vendor supplying the cloud service.

Blog Post: The Deployment wiki and community needs you!

Jazz.net — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:31:00 GMT

We are constantly striving to reduce the time it takes for you to gain value from our products and solutions. The sooner you can effectively deploy a Rational development environment, the faster you can start using it and gaining value! We are pleased to announce a number of initiatives around improving your deployment experience: A new ... Read more >

Page: GRUC Videos

Anonymous — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:19:00 GMT

Blog Post: IBM Partners for Automotive Systems

John McDonald — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:57:00 GMT

CloudOne is proud to be a founding member of a new group of IBM Business Partners dedicated to helping companies in the automotive industry adopt new practices, technologies and skills.

The automotive industry has always been a competitive place. The drive to source components at a lower cost, on-demand, anywhere in the world has created a dynamic ecosystem of supplier and vendor relationships. Concepts like globalization, contract suppliers and integrated development may be new to other industries, but they are a way of life for the automotive company.

Recently, though, new regulations such as ISO 26262 and processes such as Automotive SPICE have driven the need for tighter integrations and hand-offs between different companies. Propagating change requests to your own supplier network becomes even more important when you’re relying on them for innovation in your own product, and ensuring safety standards compliance is critical when you are being held accountable yourself.

This need for tighter, seamless integration is the unifying theme behind IBM Partners for Automotive Systems. We’re proud to count as members:

BigLever Software, who brings you Gears, the industry-standard product line engineering tool and lifecycle framework for systems and software.
Electric Cloud, who automates and accelerates your software build, test, deploy, and release processes for faster time to market and improved quality.
Method Park, who produces Stages, the leading Business Process Management (BPM) system for managing and improving development and engineering processes.
Sodius, who delivers interoperability solutions that unlock your assets and accelerate your engineering processes, empowering innovation.

Together with CloudOne, the supplier of dynamic, cloud-based storage, processors, software and managed services for systems development, the united partner’s mission is to help automotive companies become more dynamic, produce at a lower cost, and collaborate globally.

You can check out all the partner’s information on our website at http://oncloudone.com/customers/automotive/

Page: GRUC Leader Council

Anonymous — Thu, 09 May 2013 19:55:00 GMT

To promote the effective use of Rational software solutions through an active, collaborative community of customers, partners, and IT professionals.

Beth Beese

I love hosting the Toronto Rational User Group. I am an Account Manager with Web Financial Solutions and support the sales cycle from lead generation through contract negotiation and engagement fulfillment. ! I consistently achieve sales goals while operating within budget. I am well versed in traditional marketing strategies as well as social media outlets. I initiate and maintain positive relations with partners, vendors, clients and staff alike.

Olivier Béghain

Shawn Doyle

Shawn Doyle is the CEO and lead consultant of ReleaseTEAM, a consulting company specializing in Software Configuration Management.

Shawn has hands on experience working as a ClearCase admin since 1992, ClearQuest since 1999, ClearDDTS starting in 1991; as well as working an administrator for many IBM Rational tools such as; RTC, RQM, RRC, Rhapsody, Rose, Purify, Purecoverage, Quantify, APEX, DOORS, RequisitePro, Synergy and Change.

Shawn has been active in the Rational User Groups since starting the Colorado User Group in 1999, which is still going strong.

Current Board and Memberships:

Carson Holmes

Julian Holmes

Lea Ann Luter

LeaAnn W. Luter has been a member of the North Florida Rational Users Group for eight years, six of those years participating as a board member. Currently, she is the Finance Director for the group and enjoys the challenge of fundraising for the not-for-profit group. She has participated in the Global Rational User Group Community for approximately two years. Currently LeaAnn is an independent contributor in her area working as a Customer Liaison/Deployment Lead with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, allowing her to work with both Business and IT teams on projects. She has the opportunity to work closely with the SDLC shop, and utilize Rational Tools when working with Project Teams.

Tom Weinberger

Tom works as Program Manager or Project Manager of Enterprise roll-outs of Rational Unified Process and Rational tools.

Also works with Rational Methods Composer (RMC) or Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) as process engineer and methodologist to deliver System Development Methdodologies to companies at the enterprise level.

He also mentors teams on SDM adoption utilizing Iterative and Agile methods to achieve rapid, quality product development.

Agile Process Engineer, Chief Methodologist and Master Project Manager
Rational Software Process and Tool Mentor / RUP Mentor and Coach
Certification: IBM Certified Solution Designer - IBM Rational Unified Process V7.0 (2007)
Certification: Agile Scrummaster (2004)

2012-2013 GRUC Council Members

Blog Post: Meet the 2013 GRUC Leader Council Nominees

dtaylor — Mon, 06 May 2013 07:30:00 GMT

We're getting excited, because the elections for the 2013-2014 GRUC Leader Council are right around the corner! The Leader Council is an elite group of outstanding people with a passion for the Global Rational User Community. It is comprised of leaders from numerous Rational User Groups worldwide. The council meets on a monthly conference call to brainstorm new community initiatives and provide feedback to the IBM Rational brand.

The mission of the Council is to extend the effectiveness of Rational user groups by providing operational feedback for the improvement of Rational's products and services by working proactively with Rational on planning, strategy and development prioritization, as well as expanding Rational user group networking capabilities globally. This exciting team will help lead the Global Rational User Community into ever more useful, rich and valuable directions for Community members worldwide!

You can meet the 2013 candidates here. You can also see the current Council members here, some of who are up for re-election. Voting will take place from May 30th - June 4th, and the elected candidates will be announced at Innovate on June 4th.

Stay tuned!

Blog Post: Agility@Scale: Strategies for Scaling Agile Software Development

Scott Ambler — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT

This blog originally posted on IBM.com.

On April 25, 2013 I gave a webcast for the Global Rational User Community entitled Disciplined Agile Delivery: Going Beyond Scrum. During the webcast, a large number of questions were asked, but unfortunately I could not get to all of them. So, I've taken the opportunity to write up the answers in this blog posting.

Fequently asked questions. Many of the questions are addressed in the DAD FAQ.
DAD elevator pitch - I will be starting work in a couple of weeks for a company that has just started its Agile journey this year by implementing Scrum. What would Scott put in an elevator chat as to why they should be moving towards DAD. The Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) decision process framework is a people-first, learning-oriented hybrid agile approach to IT solution delivery. It has a risk-value delivery lifecycle, is goal-driven, is enterprise aware, and is scalable. There are clearly some interesting aspects to the DAD framework. DAD is a hybrid approach which extends Scrum with proven strategies from Agile Modeling (AM), Extreme Programming (XP), Unified Process (UP), Kanban, Lean Software Development, Outside In Development (OID) and several other methods. DAD is a non-proprietary, freely available framework. DAD extends the construction-focused lifecycle of Scrum to address the full, end-to-end delivery lifecycle from project initiation all the way to delivering the solution to its end users. It also supports lean and continuous delivery versions of the lifecycle: unlike other agile methods, DAD doesn’t prescribe a single lifecycle because it recognizes that one process size does not fit all. DAD includes advice about the technical practices such as those from Extreme Programming (XP) as well as the modeling, documentation, and governance strategies missing from both Scrum and XP. But, instead of the prescriptive approach seen in other agile methods, including Scrum, the DAD framework takes a goals-driven approach. In doing so DAD provides contextual advice regarding viable alternatives and their trade-offs, enabling you to tailor DAD to effectively address the situation in which you find yourself. By describing what works, what doesn’t work, and more importantly why, DAD helps you to increase your chance of adopting strategies that will work for you. The article Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery provides a more detailed description.
The book: Could you please repeat the name of the book that Scott is talking about? The book is Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner’s Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise published by IBM Press, June 2012. The Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) website and the Disciplined Agile Consortium website are also good DAD resources.
The Surveys: Where is the data published about geographic distribution and effectiveness? All of my survey data, the original questions as asked, and my analysis can be downloaded free of charge from my IT Surveys page. If you ever see a request from me to fill out a survey, please take a few minutes and do so. I think you'll agree that my surveys page is in fact a very useful resource, so please contribute when you can.
Project success criteria: Where would a goal of defining success criteria fall? In the DAD book we describe how the success criteria for the project should be initially identified during Inception. Success criteria, like other things, could evolve throughout the project. You might find theIT Process Success Surveys to be of interest as several of them explored what success criteria projects actually have. Interestingly, its rarely “on time, on budget, to specification”.
Transitioning to DAD: How would you typically phase a DAD implementation, let's say in a project pilot where they haven't been exposed yet to Agile? Same question, any variance if the development team has already started Scrum? This is a fairly complex question to answer. The short story is that you need to invest some time to understand what your strengths and weaknesses are so that you can identify what you need to focus on. You will then likely need to pilot strategies/techniques which are new to your organization before rolling them out widely. You may also need to invest in training and coaching/mentoring depending on your needs. My company, Scott Ambler + Associates, offers these sorts of services and more for organizations interesting in adopting disciplined agile strategies.
Skills: I am aware that ideally developer should also be able to test but in reality theses are usually separate roles. Is it in line with your beliefs\suggestions? Many organizations that are new to agile still have roles that reflect their existing strategy. Non-agile approaches often have people in specific roles such as programmer, tester, designer, and so on. In DAD we promote a different set of agile roles that reflect agile thinking. The implication is that you’re going to have to help individuals transition over to the new way of thinking, something we cover in Chapter 4 of the DAD book. You might also find Mark Line’s blog, No role in DAD for an Analyst? to provide some insights into issues surrounding the transition from traditional to agile roles.
Teaming: What happens with the Product Owner and the Architecture Owner don’t Agree? See my blog What Happens When People Don’t Agree
Skillsets: Different people of the team have different skills, experience, and time horizons. We can't all be generalists, can we? There are several agile roles in DAD, each of which have different rights, responsibilities, and skillsets. So we’re not promoting the idea that everyone have the same skillset. However, we do promote the philosophy that people should strive to be T-skilled generalizing specialists so as to improve their productivity.
Teaming: What are your thoughts on team cohesion? Teams will gel over time. Being co-located helps. Having people who are dedicated 100% to the team helps. Building a team of people who want to be there helps. Self organization helps.
Tool support: Is there an RMC plug-in for DAD + Is there any software behind DAD... or some software that supports it... such as Jazz (RTC) for Agile/Scrum? Yes, IBM Rational does in fact have an RMC plug in for DAD. There is also a templatefor Microsoft TFS from RDA Corp,Software Development Expert’s Practices Advisor supports DAD comprehensively, and I’m currently working with MethodPark to do so too. Stay tuned to the Disciplined Agile Delivery website for information about tool support.
Governance: Regarding enterprise governance and enterprise IT, how do you start taking a culture that imposes common-process, common-tools, central (often outsourced) IT services, and heavyweight stage/gate across all organizations, and get that evolving toward a (still enterprise aware) lean/agile approach? This is a hard one. I’m often called into organizations to help with this very issue. The challenge is that you need to have a deep understanding of IT governance techniques as well as how to govern agile teams. Governance is something we discussed in detail in the DAD book as well as on the DAD site, see Adopting Agile Governance Requires Discipline.
Executable specifications: TDD was mentioned, can you comment on Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and any impact on this lifecycle? BDD is a slight nuance to acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). BDD/ATDD and TDD are both potential practices that you might choose to follow on a DAD team. I’ve written a fair bit about agile testing and quality strategies and about TDD in detail.
Architecture: When does the first version of architecture gets established and what would require to establish it? You typically start thinking about architecture early in a DAD project during Inception following a practice called architecture envisioning. I’ve also written a fair bit aboutagile architecture techniques and the potential misconceptions about agile architecture that you may find interesting.
Travel plans: Will you becoming to South Africa at some point? I hope to be visiting SA later this year but exact dates haven’t been set yet. So, please stay tuned on Twitter at @scottwambler for further announcements.
Other travel plans: If you'd like me to speak at a local event, including corporate conferences or training events, please contact me.

Read the original blog post here.

Blog Post: What Happens When People Don’t Agree?

Agile Transformation — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:39:00 GMT

I was recently asked the question “What happens when the Product Owner and the Architecture Owner don’t agree?” and realized this is an issue for everyone on DAD teams in general. Here’s my advice: Talk it out. People aren’t always going to agree, and that can often be a very good thing. So talk it out amongst [...]

Forum Post: RE: How to remove users from JAZZ Team Server.

Madhu — Thu, 02 May 2013 04:17:00 GMT

Thanks Sam.

Forum Post: How to remove users from JAZZ Team Server.

Madhu — Thu, 02 May 2013 04:16:00 GMT

There are many users (500+) who are registered in JTS , and we need to delete the users from JTS who don't need access anymore.

We were able to archive the user, but could not find the option to delete.

Can you please suggest the ways to delete the user?

Forum Post: RE: Webinar recording: Developing an Enterprise Architecture Practice using IBM Rational System Architect and TOGAF 9

Sam Courtney — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:43:00 GMT

Updated link for webinar above:

www14.software.ibm.com/.../signup.do

Forum Post: RE: APG TOGAF 9 and 8 to 9 Bridge WBT year end discount of 25%!

Sam Courtney — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:29:00 GMT

This offer has been extended thru the end of Q2, June 2013. Please contact APG if you are in need of this bridge exam or the normal test preparation to get your certification. Don't miss this opportunity to save quite a bit in cost and time! Use this code for approval for discount "APG-2013-Q2".

Blog Post: Oh, the places you’ll work (when you use RTC)!

Jazz.net — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:55:00 GMT

With Yahoo’s latest change of policy that restricts employees to only working in the office, people have been buzzing about working from home and distributed teams. At IBM, it’s common for teams to be distributed across nations and even continents. Working from different physical locations and various timezones brings its own set of challenges, but ... Read more >