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This table shows descriptions for all of the sessions offered at the IBM Rational Innovate comes to you briefing. See the agenda for dates and times.
Session descriptions
| Session | Description | Duration | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keynote: IBM Executive Introduction and Innovate highlights | An IBM executive welcomes attendees and shares key video highlights from the keynote presentations during the IBM Rational Innovate 2011 Conference in Orlando. | 75 minutes | Presentation |
| Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices for Managing IBM WebSphere Environments with the IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere | The IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere is an extremely powerful framework for managing IBM WebSphere family product installations, maintenance, configuration, and application deployments. With over 775 actions, this framework provides an incredibly broad set of functionality. This presentation demonstrates various ways to effectively leverage this framework to manage IBM WebSphere environments. The scenarios include monitoring environments for configuration drift, promoting configuration across the environments that make up the software lifecycle, application deployment management between development/operations, and migration of IBM WebSphere versions. | 75 minutes | Presentation |
| Best Practices for the IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management Solution | IBM Rationals solution for collaborative lifecycle management (CLM) is a turnkey application lifecycle management (ALM) solution. Based on work with hundreds of customers, IBM Rational has determined the best practices to consistently delivering high-quality applications on time can be summarized by the key concepts of real-time planning, lifecycle traceability, in-context collaboration, development intelligence and continuous process improvement. These are called the five ALM imperatives. This session demonstrates how the IBM Rational solution for CLM delivers on these ALM imperatives. | 75 minutes | Presentation |
| Agile Planning and Development with IBM Rational Team Concert Hands-on Workshop, Parts 1 and 2 | This workshop dives into the developer and project lead roles of the Rational collaborative lifecycle management solution powered by IBM Rational Jazz. It introduces the out-of-the-box support for scrum and agile development available from IBM Rational Team Concert. A hands-on component covers all the major benefits of IBM Rational Team Concert through a scrum/agile development scenario. These include planning and project/team management, project/customer collaboration, individual planning, collaborative software configuration management, continuous integration, metrics, dashboards, and transparency. The session outlines practical considerations when implementing scrum and agile development practices such as multi-level planning, factoring risk into projects, and managing scrum of scrums (multiple teams). Attendees receive a copy of the workshop materials so they can replicate it within their companies or share it with colleagues. | Half day | |
| Strategies to Ensure Applications are Secure by Design | Security managers worldwide have been tasked with a common goal: to better manage the risks associated with their collaborative business infrastructures. Application security plays a significant role in achieving that goal. Join this session to hear how organizations can protect themselves against application security threats, IBM's vision and roadmap, trends in application security, and how to deliver high-quality software in a secure and cost-effective way. | 1 hour and 45 minutes | Presentation |
| Why Cloud Computing Matters for Development and Test | Cloud computing is more than just the latest buzzword. The combination of technologies that make up "the cloud" can dramatically improve the effectiveness and efficiency of development and test organizations. This session explains IBM Rational's view of what cloud computing is and why it matters for an organization. Presenters introduce IBM Rational's cloud-based solutions that can help whether users responsible for development, test, or deployment. They also lay out the company's vision and roadmap for the future of cloud computing. | 90 minutes | Presentation |