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V3.11.0 Timebox Planning / SAFe Dependency Board RTC Widget with fancy new features
Good news for all Rational Team Concert, Timebox Planning Widget and SAFe enthusiasts ... We have just finished our Siemens internal test cycle and will release the new Timebox Planning / SAFe Dependency Board Widget for RTC with version 3.11.0 very soon. We have implemented several new fancy features. Can't wait? Have a look at the feature demos available on youtube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmNxPniAYOSpFfLBRpmCGraj8nWkMzcD9 You will be able to download the widget for free from our... [More]
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DevOps and Information Development
We discussed in my previous blogs that DevOps is a culture requiring the orchestrated functioning of multiple stakeholders in an organization – development, operations, user assistance, and customer relations, to name a few. Today, I dwell on the role of information development (ID) in the DevOps orchestra. As we know, DevOps is best suited to situations where the need to respond to customers quickly manifests itself in the continuous delivery model. There are two kinds of changes that this software development cycle... [More]
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Test Planning Basics – Using Rational Quality Manager to manage agile, waterfall and mobile application testing
Regardless of whether the project is following a traditional or agile methodology, making quality an integral part of the software lifecycle requires the whole team to collaborate effectively. IBM Rational Quality Manager (RQM) is a collaborative hub for test planning and managing test results. Built on the Jazz™ platform and part of the Rational solution for Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management, RQM provides organizations with a web-based test management environment that helps test management professionals. Test... [More]
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Improving Quality using Rational Quality Manager as part of the Continuous Delivery DevOps Pipeline
Recently ran across a great article on using Rational Quality Manager in a continuous delivery DevOps pipeline . The article entitled, " Improving Quality using Rational Quality Manager as part of the Continuous Delivery DevOps Pipeline " the authors, Ajay Chebbi and Thomas Neal, discussed the importance of test automation and described how to use the ANT API to invoke automated test scripts. Making it easier for traditional, hybrid and agile teams to maintain the tests, the test environments and providing an avenue for... [More]
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Seven Test Management Best Practices for improving Quality in DevOps
In a recent post, see here , I summarized four of the key DevOps principles, namely: Automate as much of the deployment pipeline as feasible Develop and test against a production-like system Deploy frequently Continuously validate operational quality characteristics Programs and projects adopting continuous delivery practices must create software in such a way that the software can be released to production at any time. ... [More]
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DevOps Best Practice - Establishing a “Single Source of Truth”
Establish a “Single Source of Truth” In a recent post, DevOps in Practice – Best Practices for Adopting Continuous Delivery , I summarized seven practices for helping teams establish a automate continuous delivery process. Establish a single source of truth Automate painful tasks Manage inter- and intra- application dependencies Make “what is where” visible Make certifications and approvals visible Deploy consistently across environments This post focuses on... [More]
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Scaling Continuous Delivery using UrbanCode Release
Scaling Agile practices in support of DevOps A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to participate in the "Release and Deploy workshop" at the 2014 Innovate conference. During the day long hands-on workshop, we learned about several new UrbanCode Release (UCR) capabilities. While there were several interesting capabilities, UCR's abilities to "visualize" the deployment pipeline and to track the del ivery lifecycle for a particular set of "applications" being released together showed how effective it... [More]
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Workshop: Scrum adoption using Rational Team Concert
During the Innovate conference earlier this month in Orlando, we delivered a 3-hour workshop on how to use Rational Team Concert with Scrum in agile projects. If you have not been able to travel to Florida, you can access the workshop material and do it on your own. To complete the hands-on exercise, you will access to an RTC environment. Workbooks and instructions are provided here: http://bit.ly/Innovate1063 (File 1_AgileALM_Tutorial_SetupGuide.pdf describes how to set up and configure an RTC environment for the workshop) For... [More]
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Webcast on agility and integration in an heterogeneous environment
Taking agile development to enterprise scale in a mixed tool environment Date: Apr 15, 2014 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Eastern Time) Hosted by: Jean-Louis Marechaux (IBM) Presented by: Gary J Cernosek (IBM), Lance Knight (Tasktop Technologies) Link to pres enta tion : htt p:// slid esha .re/ 1l34 Ed L Link to reco rdin g: htt p:// yout u.be /Ca5 pk_- Egi E Follow-up questions on the webinar? Please use the dedicated foru m: htt p:// bit. ly/1 iNew R P The Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters... [More]
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Agile ALM Virtual Study Group PART 2: Backlog management and Release planning
Session 2: Backlog management and release planning Agil e AL M Vi rtua l St udy Grou p Se rie s for information on registration and details on the different sessions During the second session on this series, we review the key element of a Rational Team Concert (RTC) project based on the Scrum-Agile ALM process template. IBM Rational Solution for Agile ALM with Scrum . Explore elements in an Agile ALM project Share a product vision Create and manage a product backlog Plan a release After this session,... [More]
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Agile ALM Virtual Study Group PART 1: Technical Assets
Session 1: Understand and reuse the technical solution assets (See the Agil e AL M Vi rtua l St udy Grou p Se rie s for information on registration and details on the different sessions) During the first session on this series, we want to describe what the IBM Rational Solution for Agile ALM with Scrum is, and what are the technical assets it contains. We also want people to understand how to find, install, and use those assets quickly. So we will cover the following topics: Explore the IBM® Rational... [More]
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Converting your RTC Scrum Projects to the 4.x Agile ALM Scrum Template (Part 2)
As promised in Part 1 , I have continued my effort to document the differences between the RTC Scrum template and the Agile ALM Scrum template. The summ ary- of-d iffe renc es docu ment , Lin k-to -Sum mar y , h as been updated with links to detailed information on the revised Defect and Story workflows . (See the first bullet under Work Item Types and Attributes .) The states and actions for these two work item types caused some confusion in the user community. T he Agile ALM Scrum... [More]
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Agile ALM Virtual Study Group Series
All activities of the Agile ALM Virtual Study Group are now completed. More information on each session (files, recording, workbooks) is available from:. Virtual Study Group Part 1: htt p:// bit. ly/A alm_ S 1 Virtual Study Group Part 2: htt p:// bit. ly/A alm_ S 2 Virtual Study Group Part 3: htt p:// bit. ly/A alm_ S 3 The IBM Rati onal Sol utio n fo r Ag ile ALM with Scr u m (aka Agile ALM ) is a solution for customers looking to adopt Scrum... [More]
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Agile Testing - Mobile application testing challenges
Agile Testing - Mobile application testing challenges Several months ago, I was challenged by the Release Quality Manager, at a large financial institution, to demonstration the value agile on large projects where several of his development teams were struggling with quality with their mobile application (mobile app) development. Here is a summary of the challenges, recommendations and outcomes from this engagement. Current Situation My customer was in the middle of an extensive agile transformation with many teams adopting a combination... [More]
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