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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Speed Up SAFe Program Increment Planning with the New IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) Timebox Planning Widget V3.0.4 and YES, you get it for free as a goodie and NO, not everything free is bad ... convince yourself cu in Las Vegas at IBM InterConnect 2017 ... Session HDR-1406   Timebox Planning Widget V3.0.4 TEASER (incl. setup instructions) Globally distributed teams can easily get into the situation where sticky notes, tape and string no longer fit your needs concerning a virtual dependency board. The... [More]

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At IBM's  InterConnect 2017 (Session HDR-1406)  we are going to present and demo the  brand new Timebox Planning Widget V3  with  SAFe Dependency/Program Board  support and integrated  Absence Management   You are welcome to join us !         New Features coming with Timbox Planning Widget V3   sophisticated dependency management and visualization drag & drop shows the dependencies constantly in the correct color according to your definition in the setup... [More]

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SAFe defines the  Program Board  as follows http://www.scaledagileframework.com/pi-planning/             As a matter of fact, Rational Team Concert (RTC) does not, including IBM's additional SAFe support, provide a similar visualization out-of-the-box . Therefore we have decided to implement a brand new feature named " show dependencies " into the  Timebox Planning Widget V2.9.1   This Feature is planned to be available as freeware in coming fall 2016. Feature... [More]

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Is Scrum and/or SAFe the Framework you want to go for? Are you in Systems Engineering with HW, FW and SW Teams and need to maintain a rolling lookahead plan with lots of dependencies ? Are your Teams distributed all over the world? If you can answer some of the questions with YES I highly recommend you to give the brand new Rational Team Concert  Timebox Planning Widget V2.8.7  with  SAFe  support a chance. It fully supports  SAFe  on the Levels  Value Stream ,  Program  and  Team Of course we... [More]

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About two years ago, we started the Learning Circles initiative to provide simple and structured educational material on some IBM Rational products. There are now 11 published Learning Circles that you can leverage for your own enablement, or for self-paced training in your organization. To align the material with latest product releases, the CLM and the RTC Learning Circles have been recently updated. They now include specific material on CLM 5.0 (and even 5.0.2 for RTC). Earlier this year, we also worked with Scaled Agile Inc. to update... [More]

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A few weeks ago during an agile adoption seminar with a program manager considering using agile, I was asked to evaluate approaches to scaling agile practices to support adoption by a large program for their enterprise.  This program had already adopted some basic agile practices (such as daily meetings, stories and Scrum) but felt they weren’t getting the benefits that other, smaller teams, got from “going agile”. At first I thought this would be an easy exercise, given over the years I have had to assist several large... [More]

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This week, we have released Rational Team Concert 5.0.1 with new features to improve support for agile teams who are using Scrum and Kanban. Among other things, this new RTC version provides enhancements for planning, reporting, usability, traceability, and performance. It also includes a “hidden” capability, the “ Quick Planner Technical Preview ”. Those who are familiar with the cloud offering  IBM DevOps Services  may already know the Quick Planner. A similar capability is now available as... [More]

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Evaluating Different Scaled Agile Approaches In evaluating a process we often look at the following Understand the Process: o      What are the Principles, Activities, Roles, Practices, and Deliverables? o      Determining how well each approach span the three levels of development? o      Does the process meet the organizations needs, the needs of the team, and the individuals involved While each approach has slightly different principles, most adhere to the core... [More]

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