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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: Highlights from Innovate | An IBM executive will share key video highlights from the keynote presentations during the IBM Rational Innovate 2011 conference in Orlando. | 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 |
| 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. | 75 minutes | Presentation |
| Get the most out of your Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, Synergy, and Change Investment | As a Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, Synergy, or Change customer, you know change happens. Team are going agile, new regulations are driving the need to govern and automate new processes, and people and projects constantly move around. | 75 minutes | Presentation |
| Strategies to Ensure Applications are Secure and Accessible by Design | Security managers 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, IBMs vision and roadmap, trends in application security, and how to deliver high-quality software in a secure and cost-effective way. | 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 | Presentation |
| Manage Quality and Automate Testing with IBM Rational Quality Manager and IBM Rational Functional Tester Hands On Workshop, Parts 1 and 2 | This workshop dives into the quality professional role in the IBM Rational collaborative lifecycle management (CLM) solution powered by IBM Rational Jazz. Experience how IBM Rational Quality Manager may be used to perform quality management activities such as test planning, test authoring, manual and automated test execution, and test reporting. Learn how integrating IBM Rational Functional Tester simplifies the quality professional role by accelerating the test process through creation and execution of automated test scripts. Explore IBM Rational Quality Manager's role in CLM by linking test assets to IBM Rational Requirements Composer requirements and IBM Rational Team Concert development work items to deliver traceability across the software development process. | Half day | Presentation |
| Bringing Collaborative Lifecycle Development to Mobile Software | Software development for mobile devices is getting more and more focus across all industries from banking and insurance to retail and broadcasting. Everyone wants "an app." How can IBM Rational help with best practices for the creation of mobile software? How can organizations achieve full lifecycle management and governance for mobile software projects? This session covers the IBM Rational strategy for developing mobile software using enhancements and plug-ins to IBM Rational products. | 1 hour and 45 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. | 1 hour and 45 minutes | Presentation |
| Applying Requirements Management to a Development Lifecycle Using IBM Rational Requirements Composer | This presentation provides an overview of IBM Rational Requirements Composer and how it can be applied to the IBM Rational collaborative lifecycle management (CLM) solution (working with IBM Rational Quality Manager and IBM Rational Team Concert). See the cost savings and business benefits of applying requirements definition methods and requirement management practices using IBM Rational Requirements Composer to capture business requirements and manage them through testing, development, and delivery. Learn how to navigate and expose current and changed information from other development disciplines (test and development) to keep project leaders up to date and maintain the quality of business-critical data. | 90 minutes | Presentation |
| IBM Rational Solutions for SAP | SAP says "Our collaboration with IBM Rational brings together the best of our combined application lifecycle management market leadership and can help customers reduce costs, manage change, and improve quality across the enterprise applications lifecycle." In this session, participants discuss new capabilities from IBM Rational to support organizations that are preparing for a business transformation using SAP, implementing a new SAP package solution, or looking to add application lifecycle management to an existing SAP environment. | 90 minutes | Presentation |