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I have seen protracted discussion on the subject of metrics and measurements in
software development, both at clients and “around the water cooler” at Rational
and IBM. By this I mean developing,
viewing and leveraging measurements that inform us how well a software
development team... [More]
Big preparations going on both at developerWorks and here in Massachusetts. Many of our systems are going offline for a few days next week due to a large software upgrade. Because of this, our next set of new articles will publish on the 19th. Here in Massachusetts we're undergoing a bit of a... [More]
Recently, Cindy Krauss, Jon Sayles and I participated on an IBM Systems Magazine webcast. We called it "10 things you’ll want to know about Rational development tools before you start that project". You can watch it at this link . The webcast tried to take a quick dive into the most interesting and... [More]
Share your knowledge and help others who use Rational software by writing a developerWorks article . Find out what makes a good developerWorks article and how to proceed. Interested in more IBM Rational news? Follow us on Twitter at @ibmrational , or like us on Facebook . Integrate... [More]
Enterprise architecture is part of the Technical Exchange track at Innovate 2013. Because the call for papers has been extended to January 21, you still have time to submit an abstract to be a speaker and get noticed by others in your profession. Remember....speakers do get special benefits. One... [More]
Sometimes I wish I had a crystal ball so I could see what you want to read on developerWorks. But I don’t, so I turned to what I do have: History. I went through all of the reports and identified the 12 most popular articles in 2012. I chose twelve articles because, well, it was 2012, although I... [More]
It’s our first roll call of the year and this time we’re calling on Paul Urban. Paul has more than 25 years experience in developing systems, software, and hardware in the embedded and real-time systems industry. He is an OMG Certified Systems Modeling Professional Model User, and a senior systems... [More]
Nominations for IBM Champions are now open. Do you know someone who is an exceptional contributor to the Rational software technical community? Nominate him or her as a Champion for Rational software today. We know you've been working hard polishing your Innovate presentation so we've extended... [More]
Thank you to all of our authors and community participants for making this a great year for developerWorks Rational . We have enjoyed getting to know you through the following activities:
Rational community roll call : Through weekly publication schedules, we get to know a lot about our article... [More]
I'm sitting in my office in Massachusetts but my thoughts are with the town of Newtown, CT. We at dW Rational are horrified at the great loss they have suffered and, as parents, hold our own children just a little tighter each night, wishing they could do the same. It was with a heavy heart that we... [More]
