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Bing Xu, Development Lead for Rational Method Composer, is going to join me on this webcast to demonstrate the integration capabilities between RTC and RMC. Configuring Rational Team Concert , Feb 26, Noon EST (2 hours) The final webcast in this...

“Ambition is a very pretty thing; but sir, we must walk before we run.” 1851 G. Borrow Lavengro II. ii. This truism applies to many areas of life and is highly appropriate for large organizations when attempting to adopt agile within a...

Building jQuery Mobile Web Applications in Rational Application Developer - This video shows step by step how to build a complete jQuery mobile application using the Rich Page Editor. You will see examples of how to graphically build, navigate through...

On Saturday, February 9 a group of people got together in Whistler British Columbia to discuss the importance of context as it pertains to software development.  The workshop was organized by the good folk at Software Development Experts (once again,...

IBM has recently published updates to the DAD process template for IBM Rational Team Concert and their DAD process definition for IBM Rational Method Composer. ...read more

The fine folks on Jazz.net have recently published a new workshop and labs to guide you through Process Enactment Workshop for the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management 2012! This self-guided workshop will walk you through...

Hello GRUC! The IBM Champion program, recognizes exceptional contributors to the technical community -- clients and partners who work alongside IBM to build solutions for a smarter planet. For Rational, IBM Champions are clients or partners who lead...

Guide Share Europe was formed many years ago by the merger of G.U.I.D.E. and SHARE Europe and is a non-profit association of people who are involved in solutions based on IBM architectures. You can find more information about GSE at http://www.gse.org...

Enterprise awareness is one of the key aspects of the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) framework.  The observation is that DAD teams work within your organization’s enterprise ecosystem, as do all other teams.  There are often existing systems currently...

Last year we made a big move with our jazz.net forums, moving from an older, thread-based, hierarchical model to a question and answer tag-based one. People acclimated to the new approach pretty quickly — plenty of questions still got asked and...

Hello GRUC!! Hope everyone had a great weekend! We have some exciting webcast plans for all of 2013 and tomorrow will kick off a really exciting event to close out January. Carson Holmes will be speaking tomorrow about Rational Team Concert in the...

Effective Collaboration for Better Design with IBM Rational Software Architect v8.5 - This presentation from the "Good Design is Good Business" webcast series focuses on the Design Manager extension for Rational Software Architect and the design...

Yesterday, I was co-presenting an InformationWeek webcast on Agile Development: Three Pillars of Success . With Vishy Ramaswamy , the lead architect for Design Manager, we talked about some agile architecture practices and how these practices were adopted...

Hello GRUC Members, I can't believe that it is almost February! January seems to have moved very quickly. With that being said, I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of some of our HOT content this month from two of our user groups! ...

Scott Ambler and Michael Vizdos are conducting our DA101: Disciplined Agile Experience workshop in Washington DC in March. Early bird and group discounts are available.  Attendees will receive White Belt certification. You can register here… .....

In this posting I explore the goal-driven aspect of the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process decision framework.   This goal-driven approach enables DAD to avoid being prescriptive and thereby be more flexible and easier to scale than other agile...

Sometimes I wish I had a crystal ball so I could see what you want to read on developerWorks. But I don’t, so I turned to what I do have: History. I went through all of the reports and identified the 12 most popular articles in 2012. I chose twelve...

I'm delivering a three part Webcast Series this month and next: Introduction to Rational Team Concert , Jan 29, Noon EST (1 hour) If you are new to Rational Team Concert, attend this webcast to get an overview of Rational Team Concert and the...

SURVEY: Help Define the Innovate 2013 Agenda! What do you most want to learn about at Innovate 2013? Now's your chance to help set the agenda by taking this survey to share your opinion on your most pressing information needs about software and...

I wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year for 2013 !! I hope 2012 was a great year for you and that 2013 is even better. I'd also like to take this opportunity to tell you about an exciting SDE event happening in February. It would be great if you...

Nominations for IBM Champions are now open. Do you know someone who is an exceptional contributor to the Rational software technical community? Nominate him or her as a Champion for Rational software today. We know you've been working hard polishing...

Mark was interviewed on DAD at the IBM Innovate conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lkDBs1Gf4TA ...read more

The world of requirements management has developed significantly in the last decade or so and has increasingly become one of the corner stones of successful software and systems engineering projects. We have been discussing various aspects of the domain...

This has been a very active website in 2012.  Thank you all for your interest and participation.  We are looking forward to some great discussions again this year. Mark & Scott Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes...

So 2012 is in the past and it's time for your team to look ahead to 2013. Brian Bryson, Rob Retchless and I recently discussed New Year's Resolutions in our latest Software Threads podcast. We agreed that 2013 is about fostering an environment...