The next release of the IBM Rational Solution for Agile ALM is now available! The IBM Rational Solution for Agile ALM is for teams seeking a solution for agile software development adoption and automation. This solution brings together our core agile product, IBM Rational Team Concert™ (RTC), practices, and supporting assets to help agile teams maximize the value they can achieve through agile development using Scrum. The IBM Rational Solution for Agile ALM makes it easy to adopt and automate Scrum. Governance is "baked in" with... [More]

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Innovate 2013 Comes to You > > > >  If you were not able to attend this event, you still can download  slides  and  event recording . Also, if you have any comments/suggestion about this event, make sure to provide them as part of this blog.  < < < < Event Date/Time: June 14, 2013 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Eastern Time)  Hosted By and Presented By: Fariz Saracevic (IBM)   Dear ALM Community, Innovate 2013 or what is known as The IBM Technical Summit now, is an IBM's... [More]

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Agile Architecture > > > >  If you were not able to attend this event, you still can download slides and event recording . Also, if you have any comments/suggestion about this event, make sure to provide them as part of this blog.  < < < <   Event Date/Time: April 5, 2013 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Eastern Time)  Hosted By: Fariz Saracevic (IBM) Presented By: Vishy Ramaswamy (IBM)    Dear ALM Community,   Agile development is a time boxed iterative approach that encourages rapid and flexible response to change through... [More]

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Is it better to deploy IBM Rational Team Concert incrementally or all at once? > > > >  If you were not able to attend this event, you still can download  slides  and  event recording . Also, if you have any comments/suggestion about this event, make sure to provide them as part of this blog.  < < < <   Event Date/Time: March 8, 2013 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Eastern Time)  Hosted By: Fariz Saracevic (IBM) Presented By: Rolf Nelson (IBM)    Dear ALM Community,   Are you gearing to adopt or you have already... [More]

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We have two opportunities for Agile and/or Rational Team Concert practitioners to assist us advance new features. 1) For RTC practitioners: Interested in shaping some cool new RTC updates? Rational user experience team is looking for your feedback in RTC web UI plans by  completing a survey ( https://www.ibm.com/survey/oid/wsb.dll/s/ag4d4 ) . Your input will help us focus our design and development efforts to better serve you.  2) For Agile practitioners: We are looking for participants with any role in an agile team for a 45-60 minute... [More]

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Extending your Rational ALM solutions to third-party tools with the IBM Rational HP Adapter > > > >  If you were not able to attend this event, you still can download  slides  and  event recording . Also, if you have any comments/suggestion about this event, make sure to provide them as part of this blog.  < < < <   Event Date/Time: Feb 8, 2013 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Eastern Time)  Hosted By: Fariz Saracevic (IBM)  Presented By:  Samuel Padgett  (IBM)  Dear ALM Community,   Working in a business environment where... [More]

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Service Virtualization Reduces Test Environment Cost > > > >  If you were not able to attend this event, you still can download  slides  and  event recording . Also, if you have any comments/suggestion about this event, make sure to provide them as part of this blog.  < < < <   Event Date/Time: Jan 25, 2013 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Eastern Time) Hosted By: Fariz Saracevic (IBM) Presented By: Monica Luke (IBM)  Dear ALM Community, Many companies are adopting Agile practices for faster delivery, higher quality, and... [More]

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Document and automate software and systems development processes   > > > >  If you were not able to attend this event, you still can download  slides  and  event recording . Also, if you have any comments/suggestion about this event, make sure to provide them as part of this blog.  < < < <   Event Date/Time: Jan 11, 2013 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Eastern Time) Hosted By: Fariz Saracevic (IBM) Presented By: Bruce Macisaac (IBM) Dear ALM Community,   Many teams find it challenging to get a project started quickly, to... [More]

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Latest News on the IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management   > > > > If you were not able to attend this event, you still can download slides and event recording . Also, if you have any comments/suggestion about this event, make sure to provide them as part of this blog. < < < < Event Date/Time: Nov 30, 2012 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Eastern Time) Hosted By: Fariz Saracevic (IBM) Presented By: Philippe W Vogel (IBM), Scott Rich (IBM) Dear ALM Community, Please join us for a discussion on the latest... [More]

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I am very pleased to report that The Forrester Wave™: Application Life-Cycle Management, Q4 2012, Forrester Research, Inc., is published. IBM is named as a Leader and listed with the highest scores among all reviewed vendors for our “strategy” in application life cycle management tools as well as our ALM “current offerings.”                                                            The Forrester Wave™: Application Life-Cycle Management, Q4 2012 As you know, for a number of years Rational has advocated ALM as a critical differentiators for... [More]

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You have been patient and you watched us practicing various acts and scenes to ensure smooth extension of the Rational ALM before releasing IBM Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters. I am excited and happy to announce the general availability of a new offering, the Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters Standard Edition. This new offering consist of three integration adapters for HP ALM, JIRA, and Git. It opens up new ways for you to share data between tools from different vendors through the power of Open Services for Lifecycle... [More]

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ALM Community Office Hours Kickoff and Learn about Design Factory Team   >>>> If you were not able to attend this event, you still can download slides and event recording . Also, if you have any comments/suggestion about this event, make sure to provide them as part of this blog. <<<<   Event Date: Oct 19, 2012 Event Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Eastern Time) Presented By: Fariz Saracevic (IBM), Amy Silberbauer (IBM) Dear ALM Community, Please join us to kick off our first ALM Community office hours, as well as listen... [More]

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This is rolling list of ALM Community Office Hours. List is regularly updated as additional ALM office hours are scheduled. We will also create a separate blog for each event where we keep event information such registration information, slides, follow up notes, etc. I suggest to use RSS feed or subscribe to my blog to get latest news. Following ALM Community office hours are scheduled: * ALM Community Office Hours Kickoff and Learn more about Design Factory Team (Oct. 19th from 11 AM - 12 PM EST) * Value of managing and running automated... [More]

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September is back to school month. Kids are adjusting to school after a long and enjoyable summer, and for parents, like myself, to get into the groove of juggling work and kid's activities. Sometimes, I wish we could follow similar patterns with development and have a long and enjoyable summers.   After we shipped CLM 4.0 in June, we pressed hard to tie some loose ends, as well as to start activities on our 2013 plans. September represented a culmination of some of these activities. Firstly, we delivered Design Management 4.0 version which... [More]

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We all have our experiences working on various project to share, as well as preferred way how to use Rational solutions/applications. I often hear need to provide details about certain features or I get an email with  specific question from clients. Wouldn't be nice to have access on a regular basis to Subject Matter Experts who can answer your burning questions right on the spot? ...and all that for FREE!!! ALM community team is looking to provide, FOR YOU, exactly that. We want to setup ALM Community office hours but before, we need your help... [More]

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I am excited to announce new Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) developerWorks® community created to deliver news, feeds of blogs, articles, white papers, and much more directly to its home page . As a member, you can use the group blog, wiki, and message board, not to only publish to this community, but also to over 4 million active users on developerWorks.      Collaboration with ALM developerWorks® community is easy. In fact, the next time you fire up your email to ask a question about application lifecycle management, consider using one... [More]

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You heard me taking about extending Rational CLM with Design Management (DM) since Rational Innovate in June, 2012. We provided you a chance to read how DM fits into Rational CLM with the Money that Matters Lifecycle Scenario and test drive it with DM beta bits. I am happy to announce that Design Management 4.0 is officially release now with tons of new features. This is snippet of what's new in Design Management 4.0 and you can read details at the Design Management 4.0 New and Noteworthy .   Managing design changes and design configuration... [More]

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MEGATREND , an IBM partner has organized IBM Rational Jazz event on August 23. 2012 in Sarajevo.  I had a pleasure to be a speaker at this event where I introduced IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management powered Jazz technology. My presentation explained how Agile and ALM goes hand to hand by following five imperatives for Application Lifecycle Management to break silos and improve overall team productivity:   Maximize product value with In-context Collaboration to create a collective intelligence by collaborating in... [More]

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