Yes, the cover is correct -- it's the summer issue of The Rational Edge. Not the belated June issue, nor the on-time July issue. With the change of the season, we're announcing a change in our publication schedule: The Rational Edge is now a quarterly publication.
We're still dedicated to bringing you the latest ideas in practice leadership from the IBM Rational team. This issue spotlights our latest technology (IBM Rational Team Concert) as well as new approaches to development methods via IBM Rational Method Composer. We also consider asset reuse, collaboration, testing, OpenUP, and more. Just in case you missed it in early June, we're including the article on Self-Check for Software Teams, the first offering in the newly announced Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF).
Find these new articles by clicking on the "Contents" tab above, and don't forget our archives in the navigation bar at far left.
Enabling asset consumability: Is your wardrobe good, bad, or ugly?, by Celso Gonzalez and Eoin Lane
Enterprises are often good at producing or creating assets and artifacts but are typically very bad at reusing them. This article describes a way to facilitate asset and artifact consumption by better understanding the context in which they are used.
Architecting IBM Global and Local Business Processes using Rational Method Composer, by Cécile Péraire
Read how IBM Rational Method Composer is being used to document global and local IBM Global Business Services customer relationship management (CRM) business processes within IBM. The Rational Method Composer solution is based on a unified framework for documenting CRM business processes, called the Unified CRM Business Process Framework
Introducing IBM Rational Self Check for Software Teams, by Per Kroll and William Krebs
Read how the new IBM Rational Self Check for Software Teams can help you implement self assessments to help improve team agility. Instead of metrics, or assessments performed by those outside the team, Self Check empowers software engineers by allowing them to define and discuss their own significant data and improve their process.
Developing extensible applications with IBM Rational Team Concert and the Jazz platform: Part 1. Installation and setup
Easier collaboration with worldwide teams for developing enterprise applications, by Vaibhav Srivastava
This article explains how to install IBM Rational Team Concert and set up the environment for using it with the Jazz technology platform that Rational is developing. Jazz is best suited for developing enterprise-level applications when development teams are distributed around the globe. It is a very powerful platform that includes capabilities for collaboration, source management, defect management, agile development, and much more. The Rational development teams use Jazz for managing their projects, work items, and resources. Rational Team Concert provides the ability to use these capabilities through simple views in the workbench or from a Web-based user interface.
New Global Rational User Group Community Website!
We currently have more than 15,000 members with over 91 user groups worldwide. Our new site allows our members to communicate with each other, post user-generated content, and provide a more dynamic interface that supports social networking. Please visit our new site today!
Team-Based Development: Students can download Rational Team Concert Express-C!
Jazz is IBM's new platform for collaborative software delivery that is transforming how people work together to deliver software and embedded systems. Recently announced at RSDC 2008 in Orlando, FL this is the first offering from Rational where students can use the Jazz platform via free download of the Rational Team Concert Express-C software, access to the Jazz community and a wealth of learning resources. Get more information and download the software today.
Our latest Ready for IBM Rational software partners
The following partner solutions have been validated in the Ready for IBM Rational software offering. We are proud to announce our first two Telelogic Business partners to validate in the Ready for IBM Rational software offering, BigLever, Inc and Stoneworks Software. View details on all the solutions at Plug-in Central.
Protecode Software Intellectual Property and Bill of Materials Management
Surgient Virtual QA/Test Lab Management System for IBM Rational BuildForge
Stoneworks RMLink
Instantiations WindowBuilder Pro
Webcasts, tutorials, demos, and more: July 2008, by The Rational Marketing Team
These dynamic, Web-based tutorials, demos, and trial downloads will introduce new concepts or help refresh your knowledge base. Check out this extensive listing of IBM Rational Web-based resources.
Collaboration support: The next evolutionary step, by Gary Pollice
Read about the emerging capabilities in the software development marketplace for supporting collaboration and creativity in a team environment.
