Our content this month considers new IBM Rational capabilities based on last week's launch of the V7 toolset. These include introductions to Quality Management and Architecture Management, both evolving disciplines that help businesses with their IT governance practices. We also take a detailed look at the new RUP plug-in for compliance, and we have a roundup of process adoption "anti-patterns" that should help in your transition to iterative development methods.
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Quality governance for software organizations, by Marlene Ellin The article describes the benefits of the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform, which helps companies create a quality governance framework that accommodates organizational transformation needed for today's technological advances.
An introduction to architecture management, by Gary Cernosek Read how the IBM Rational team is expanding what has been traditionally called Analysis, Design, and Construction to include Architecture Management: the discipline of governing software architecture amidst changes to the requirements that drive it and the code that implements it.
Managing compliance with RUP: A starter plug-in, by Thierry Paradan and Lynn M. Mueller Read this general overview of compliance as it pertains to software development and delivery requirements, and learn about the IBM Rational Compliance Management strategy for helping businesses meet those needs.
Grady Booch on empowering the "A" in SOA, and more.
Software development guru Grady Booch explains how the new V7 release of the IBM Rational toolset will help improve your software and systems architecture, quality, and overall design.
Book review -- Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development, written by James O. Coplien and Neil B. Harrison, reviewed by Gary Pollice A review of a book specially geared for organizations trying to introduce process change, a must-read for every member of your organization.
Process adoption anti-patterns: How -- not -- to make a process work for you, by Gary Pollice There are right ways and wrong ways to approach process adoption within a software development organization. Here the author presents common mistakes, known as anti-patterns, made by project leaders attempting to make a transition to iterative development methods.
