The world we live in is exciting for developers!   The world we live in is changing  dramatically which means there are huge opportunities from a business perspective, but along with those, come risks.  As technology advances, we are all forced  to act faster than ever before AND in the midst of increasing complexity.  G lobalization continues to... [More]

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 On January 22, Vishy Ramaswamy and I talked about Agile architecture during an InformationWeek webcast: Agile Development: Three Pillars of Success. ( CLICK HERE to access the on-demand replay)   Questions which had not been answered during the Q&A session for lack of time are listed in this blog entry. We hope that you will find the... [More]

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Last year, Alan Brown, Scott Ambler and I collaborated on a technical paper that captures IBM Rational's experience in achieving agility in large scale enterprises. This paper was recently accepted for publication at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). We will present and officially publish this paper in May 2013 in the... [More]

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Last year I began using the Worklight development environment and found it easy to pick up and learn. Even better was the ability to leverage existing assets in my Worklight environment. This was done by connecting Worklight to Rational Asset Manager; this gave me the ability to share vetted mobile assets. The lifecycle is completed by using the... [More]

How to decide on RTC Components during a migration?   When doing a migration from an existing version control tool to RTC there are a lot of new concepts to be learned.  I’m thinking about Collaborative lifecycle management, streams, change sets work items, project area, team area and components. Most people struggle with these ideas and it takes... [More]

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With the Innovate 2013 call for papers open, it is time for the OSLC community to flood the organizers with excellent proposals across all tracks. Read more on the OSLC blog .

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Under the organization of Guide Share Europe, a new User-Working Group has been established called : " Jazz Collaboration Lifecycle Management Europe " GSE ( www.gse.org ) ; the premier IBM User Group since 1959 has over 130 Working Groups distributed within 10 European regions. This new working group however is at a European level so... [More]

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Check out Al Wagner's  RationalTester blog posting  for the details on upcoming software quality and testing live webcasts to help accelerate software delivery while maintaining quality. A quick summary:   1. Renowned software quality expert, Capers Jones, shares his views on "Measuring software quality: Why your metrics don't make the... [More]

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Did you miss Scott Barber sharing his views on software system performance? Listen now to the podcast recording of  IBM's point of view  and replay Scott's webcast.

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