This 2 day event provides several different presentations and
hands-on sessions to help you gain experience with IBM® Rational® software development tools. Each hands-on session provides an opportunity to work with the products in a lab environment. Speakers will take you through the material at a pace designed to let everyone participate. See the agenda information for each city. Start and stop times vary by city.
Developers, professionals, software engineers, academic personnel, business executives
The table below is a collection of sessions offered at various Software development conferences.
Each Software development conference has a subset of these sessions;
Not all sessions are offered in each city.
Schedules and content for each city are listed in the respective sections above.
| Session | Description | Duration | Presentation |
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Keynote - Innovation for a smarter planet
Delivering cost-effective innovation
in challenging economic times | Every system is becoming interconnected, instrumented and intelligent. This innovation will require a significant investment in software and systems. Accelerating this innovation relies on our ability to manage effective software delivery. This session discusses the evolution of software and systems to support a smarter planet, and how Rational software provides capabilities and insight to enable software factories to rapidly respond to changing demands. | 60 minutes | Presentation |
Keynote - Driving value
Driving value and performance in software investment | We kick off the conference with a provocative look into our dependence on a myriad of software and software-based systems running our global businesses today. These interconnected software supply chains, are increasingly complex, multi-sourced and dependent on diverse global teams. Simplifying this complexity is key. This introduction to the two-day event provides a framework, based in reality, to achieving greater value across your software investments. | 60 minutes | Presentation |
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Keynote: Become as agile as you need to be
| Organizations around the world are adopting agile software
development techniques and scaling them to complex development
environments. This presentation highlights the reasons behind the
growth in the adoption of agile techniques, shares data from
recent industry surveys as to what is driving rapid adoption rates and the success rate of Agile techniques. During this session, you will see how agile techniques impact the way business stakeholders and technology professionals can collaborate together -- for the better! | 60 minutes | Presentation
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.NET development
Enhance your .NET development with Rational | This session reviews best practices and solutions from Rational
that will help .Net teams optimize software delivery capability.
Highlighted products: Rational Team Concert for .NET, Rational
Functional Tester .Net Plug-in, Rational Software Modeler. | 90 minutes | Presentation |
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A framework for development and delivery
| A majority of CEOs understand that they must change their business models in response to changing market conditions in order to seize emerging opportunities. To accomplish this, businesses need to manage their software and system development and delivery (SSDD) with the same rigor and discipline as other business functions. Applying business discipline to SSDD is especially challenging as the organization must innovate to take advantage of successful industry patterns such as Agile development (at scale) and gated Open Source communities. This session offers an overview of how to apply standard, closed loop business improvement frameworks to SSDD in a manner that will provide painless governance through automation of traceability, instrumentation, change propagation, and error avoidance. Learn how application of this model can boost productivity and lower bookkeeping, bureaucracy, and scrap/rework costs. | 90 minutes | Presentation |
Agility at scale
Agile software development in the real-world | This session shares data from recent industry surveys as to the
adoption rate and success rate of agile techniques, and explores
scaling issues such as distributed development teams, regulatory
compliance, governance, large teams, complex environments, enterprise issues, cultural challenges, and leveraging legacy assets. Highlighted products: Rational RequisitePro, Rational Requirements Composer, Rational Team Concert, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Asset Manager, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Build Forge. | 60 minutes | Presentation |
Architecture workshop
Architecture, design, and construction using the IBM Rational Software Delivery platform | Get hands-on experience on the latest version of the IBM Rational
software development tools, and see their broad range of
functionality first hand. Learn how they are used throughout the entire software development process: application modeling, design, development, coding, and testing. Highlighted products: Rational Application Developer, Rational Software Architect.
Note: You should sign up for both Part 1 and Part 2. | Half day |
Presentation
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Asset management
Build Forge and IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere | This session examines best practices around planning a process for cataloging, governing, and implementing a strategy within IT and systems development to manage intellectual capital and technical assets. The session includes a product demonstration of IBM Rational Asset Manager.
| 60 minutes |
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Build Forge workshop
Build Forge and IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere | This hands-on workshop highlights Rational Build Forge and IBM’s
latest solution for automating the deployment capabilities
directly to your WebSphere application server environment. Product highlights: IBM Rational Build Forge, IBM Rational Automation Framework for Websphere.
Note: You should sign up for both Part 1 and Part 2.
| Half day |
Presentation
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Change and release management workshop
Accelerating the software and systems delivery lifecycle | IBM Rational software can help solve application deployment
problems that many companies face today. This hands-on session
lets you step through the process for changing, building, and
deploying an application. Highlighted products: Rational RequisitPro, Rational BuildForge, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest.
Note: You should sign up for both Part 1 and Part 2.
| Half day |
Presentation
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Compliance costs
Strategies and best practices for application security and compliance | Application security now represents the #1 and #2 attacks reported on the internet. Gartner estimates that 75% of attacks are now targeting applications. Moreover, compliance requirements, like the PCI standard are increasingly highlighting the need for increased security in software applications. This session discusses the latest trends and best practices among companies who are reducing their security risk and cutting costs by building security into their process versus bolting it on at the end. | 90 minutes | Presentation |
DOORS workshop
An integration workshop - DOORS, Rational Team Concert, and Rational Quality Manager | This hands-on session will show how you can manage DOORS requirements with tight integrations to the team-based software development and delivery platform Jazz using Rational Team Concert while providing the necessary traceability using Rational Quality Manager to capture and report on test results.Highlighted product: IBM Rational DOORS.
Note: You should sign up for both Part 1 and Part 2. | Half day | Presentation |
Driving differentiation
Driving business differentiation with Rational's Software Delivery Platform | Businesses must make decisions aligned to priorities, take into account evolving change and risk, and execute with optimal use of resources. Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (CALM) enables teams to develop and deliver software solutions leveraging globally distributed resources and tools from a variety of vendors. This session discusses Rational's Software Delivery Platform in both IT and Systems Development and discusses integrations to achieve CALM. | 60 minutes | Presentation |
Enterprise architecture
Using enterprise architecture to act quickly and seize new opportunities | Enterprise architecture provides a platform that connects,
analyzes, and communicates strategy, business architecture,
information systems, and technology domains. This briefing covers topics that can help you mitigate risk, successfully target areas for expense control, and optimize your organization’s business and IT infrastructure. You'll also hear about customers who have successfully deployed enterprise architecture. Highlighted product: IBM Rational System Architect. | 60 - 90 minutes (check agenda) | Presentation |
Enterprise modernization
Connecting applications and people across teams to improve business and IT flexibility | This session provides an overview of how the IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions enable customers to reduce project risk by extracting information from your application portfolio to make intelligent decisions, exploit new technologies to deliver more flexible business solutions, and empower new and existing IT staff to build multi-platform applications. Hear how you can increase productivity with a modern software delivery platform and improve efficiency by enabling collaboration between multiple teams. | 90 minutes | Presentation |
Good requirements
Techniques for eliciting good requirements | This session will focus on ensuring stakeholders needs are met
through the effective solicitation of project requirements and
using Rational technology. Highlighted product: Rational
Requirements Composer. | 60 - 90 minutes (check agenda) | Presentation |
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Hacking 101
| Learn first-hand the fundamentals of hacking - how to find Web
application vulnerabilities through a combination of manual and
automated approaches, and what to do when a vulnerability has been identified. Highlighted product: Rational Appscan.
In Cincinnati only: Learn how products from newly acquired Ounce Labs, a proven leader in Static Code Analysis Security, can help you identify security vulnerabilities in application source code, automate and integrate security analysis in the SDLC, and connect source code analysis to enterprise security and GRC platforms. Highlighted product: Ounce Labs. | 90 minutes | Presentation |
Hacking 102/Ounce Labs
Integrating application security testing into development
| Learn about Web application security risks and commonly used Web
attacks, the importance of identifying and mitigating Web
application risks and vulnerabilities early in the software
development lifecycle, code changes that can introduce new
vulnerabilities, how to scan the code and find the
vulnerabilities, the risk and exposure associated with the
disclosed vulnerabilities, how to change the code to remediate the vulnerabilities, and how to rescan to verify risk mitigation. Highlighted product: Rational Appscan. Also, learn how products from newly acquired Ounce Labs, a proven leader in Static Code Analysis Security, can help you identify security vulnerabilities in application source code, automate and integrate security analysis in the SDLC, and connect source code analysis to enterprise security and GRC platforms. Highlighted product: Ounce Labs. | 90 minutes | Presentation |
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Harmony and systems engineering
| Learn about an easy-to-follow process that can be used to capture
requirements and specify system architecture using SysML, validate
those requirements using model execution and transition to
software development using UML® models. By using SysML for
the representation and specification of system characteristics, it is possible to make a seamless transition from SysML-based systems design to UML-based software development. Highlighted products: IBM Rational Rhapsody, IBM Rational Doors, IBM Rational Change, and IBM Rational Synergy. | 90 minutes | Presentation |
Improved quality
Lower costs/improved quality: How to deliver enduring quality for less via automation | We will begin with a look at how organizations are searching for ways to do more with less – to improve operational efficiency and performance and achieve greater cost savings while also driving greater business value and growth. A disciplined approach to software quality helps organizations align their investments in data and software with their business goals, more strategically use software as a competitive differentiator, and drive product differentiation. We will also discuss the critical role automation plays in accelerating time to market by simplifying labor-intensive activities and increasing the predictability and consistency of data and software. | 60 minutes | Presentation
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Jazz and RTC workshop
Jazz and Rational Team Concert | This hands-on session shows how to extend the capabilities of the
team with integrated work item, build, software configuration
management (SCM) and the collaborative infrastructure of the Jazz
team server. Learn why product offerings that are built on the Jazz
platform are able to leverage a rich set of capabilities for team-based software development and delivery. Highlighted product: Rational Team Concert.
Note: You should sign up for both Part 1 and Part 2.
| Half day | Presentation |
Leverage architecture
Leveraging architecture management to drive business results | Despite decreased budgets and increased scope and complexities, businesses must continue to deliver high quality business results in less time. Leveraging and managing the value of investments in software, for IT and Systems, can help drive business results. This session discusses how customers can deliver results in record time by shifting focus from the traditional activities of modeling and implementation to that of architecture management to help drive operational efficiencies.
| 60 minutes | Presentation |
Measurement drives performance
Make your development team relevant to business leadership through metrics | Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF) provides a systematic approach to elicit desired business results, determine the right set of products/services/usage models to address those business results, monitor the adoption of the technology, and tie the results of the technology adoption back to the business results realized. In this session we walk through MCIF and show how to effectively apply it to improve the performance of your IT delivery organization. | 60 minutes | Presentation |
Operational efficiencies
Improve operational efficiencies and speed applications into production | The focus in this session is on bridging the gap between development and operations, helping teams develop and deploy software applications as quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. | 90 minutes | Presentation |
Packaged applications
Optimize delivery of your packaged applications | This session will focus on best practices and solutions from
Rational that will help companies optimize their packaged
application delivery. RequisitePro, Rational ClearQuest, and Rational Quality Manager are discussed as a triad for overall ALM of packaged applications, and will include some details on how each piece contributes in the lifecycle. Highlighted products: RequisitePro, Rational ClearQuest, and Rational Quality Manager. | 90 minutes | Presentation |
Portfolio management
Making objective portfolio management decisions | It is easy to become focused on the execution of a project or
product, and lose sight of the business value the project is
intended to provide. Learn how to align your portfolio with business value and see an introduction to IBM Rational Focal Point. Highlighted product: IBM Rational Focal Point. | 60 minutes | Presentation |
Quality by design, Part 1
Moving quality up the lifecycle | Learn how to improve the quality and security of your
applications, while lowering costs by moving quality to the
forefront development. Highlighted products: Rational Software Analyzer, Rational AppScan Developer, Rational Quality Manager.
Note: You should sign up for both Part 1 and Part 2. | 90 minutes | Presentation |
Quality by design, Part 2
Quality driven software delivery | Quality software delivery has never been more critical to
businesses; in fact, it’s critical to business survival. Hear how
modern software delivery teams enable quality management
throughout the lifecycle, detecting defects early and in the process reducing cost and improving credibility. Highlighted products: Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality.
Note: You should sign up for both Part 1 and Part 2. | 90 minutes | Presentation |
Quality management workshop
Quality driven software delivery: Achieving greater value and performance from software and systems investments | Quality software delivery has never been more critical to businesses; in fact, it’s critical to business survival. Hear how modern software delivery teams enable quality management throughout the lifecycle, detecting defects early and in the process reducing cost and improving credibility. Highlighted products: Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality.
Note: You should sign up for both Part 1 and Part 2. | Half day | |
Rational Asset Manager
Maximize your reuse strategy & investment | This session examines how the new capabilities of IBM Rational Asset Manager are enabling customers to better catalog, govern and plan, and implement their business and technical assets. The session includes an in-depth product demonstration of IBM Rational Asset Manager.
| 90 minutes | |
Rational Insight workshop
Improving project and process performance using Rational Insight | This hands-on session demonstrates IBM's next-generation enterprise reporting solution, Rational Insight, for objectively and transparently measuring real-time and historical project health and status, enabling better control and governance over projects and programs.
| Half day | |
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Real insight, real results
| This session provides an overview of IBM Rational Insight. IBM
Rational Insight delivers measurement best practices to help organizations reduce time to market, improve quality, and take greater control of software and systems development and delivery. It provides objective dashboards and measures for transparency and control into risks, status, and trends. Featured product: IBM Rational Insight.
| 90 minutes | |
Requirements workshop
IBM Requirements definition and management: Define, design,
develop, and deploy better business-driven solutions | This hands-on session provides an in-depth look at the process of
defining and managing requirements throughout the software
development lifecycle, and the IBM Rational tools used throughout
the process. Highlighted products: New Jazz collaborative technology, Rational
Requirements Composer, Rational RequisitePro, Rational Quality Manager.
Note: You should sign up for both Part 1 and Part 2.
| Half day | Presentation |
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Rhapsody and model driven development
| This session introduces the advantages and key technologies that
are associated with model driven development. Topics include:
UML2 and SysML, requirements traceability, full code application
generation, design for testing (DFT), and reuse of legacy IP.
Highlighted product: IBM Rational Rhapsody.
Note: This session is a prereq for the 3-part Rhapsody workshop. | 60 minutes | Presentation |
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Rhapsody workshop
| This interactive hands-on workshop steps you through the development
process of a small project. You will analyze the requirements,
perform system functional analysis, simulate and validate that the
system meets the system requirements, software analysis and design activities, completing with code generation and execution on both the host PC, and down to an embedded target device.
Highlighted product: IBM Rational Rhapsody.
Note: You should sign up for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, as well as Rhapsody and model driven development. | Full day | Presentations Part
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