If you are not familiar with the subject of professional licensing for software engineers, you can read a good synopsis here . Surprisingly (to me), the concept of regulating the practice of software engineering in situations where public safety is involved has been met with significant resistance and controversy. I believe this is an important issue, and it is becoming more important because the use of software-driven, safety-critical systems is drastically increasing.   My own experience Before I get into specific issues, it is important... [More]

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IBM Rational's Enterprise DevOps Transformational Journey Over the last 10 years as an IBM executive, I have been leading large development organizations in the adoption of lean, agile and DevOps practices. These development organizations have spanned multiple geographies, technologies, cultural backgrounds and skill sets. Through these experiences, I have learned a lot. Mostly that these transformations are hard, take much longer than you want in a large organization, and that it is important to learn from others on similar journeys. In... [More]

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In meetings with clients recently, I have noticed that more and more are showing an interest in program management. Over the last few months, I have been working with one specific client on their program management using IBM Rational Focal Point .   Program management is an interesting discipline because there are many differing views on what a program really is—whether it is something different from a project, simply a super project or a collection of projects. However, generally, when a client asks for this... [More]

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Darrell Reimer, IBM Research Distinguished Engineer, and Adrian Cho, IBM SaaS and Service Engage Development Director, recently presented on how development has evolved  from waterfall practices to DevOps and beyond, to practices that deliver  greater agility and less downtime.   The old way of doing things was siloed, serial and slow. It created tricky development problems, long test cycles and difficult deployments.  Eventually, organizations figured out a more efficient way of operating with agile. Agile... [More]

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Want to change the world?  Take advantage of the Watson Ecosystem to begin developing the next great cognitive computing app. In three years since its Jeopardy debut, Watson has made tremendous strides and has grown in its ability to help us solve challenging problems. Today Watson has grown into being a cloud service with millions of uses and based on a broad industry body of knowledge. Developers can partner with IBM Watson to use its Ecosystem to develop cognitive computing applications.    If you attended the Watson demo at... [More]

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I’ve been spending a lot of time in the developer Pit Stop area of the EXPO hall at IBM Innovate. You may not have had a chance to stop by—but with open speed labs, a race track, drone helicopters, and occulus rift, it’s definitely an area that shouldn’t be missed!   If you want to get your hands dirty and try out some of the new developer tools you’ve been hearing so much about, the Bluemix@SPEED Labs in the Pitstop area is a must-see. You can find us giving demo’s and developing and deploying real apps... [More]

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Ginni Rometty, in announcing the Watson Mobile Developer Challenge this past February, issued a simple challenge:  what will you do with Watson?    An enthusiastic response met the challenge, with more that 400 proposals submitted, covering many different areas – education, healthcare, retail, and physical fitness, to name just a few.  From the 400 proposals, 25 teams were invited to use the Watson developer cloud to create a prototype in a week – certainly long enough for those embracing agile development... [More]

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We need developers who think like ops and ops who think like developers .—Gene Kim, Founder and former CTO of Tripwire This morning at Innovate we heard from Steve Mills, Senior VP and Group Executive, IBM Software and Systems, on how IBM transformed itself into an agile software development company through big cultural shifts and certain key principles, such as reuse. "The best code is the code not written," Mills said. "The best code is used over and over and over again." (And over again.) Who better to talk about... [More]

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Continuous engineering is an enterprise capability that speeds delivery of increasingly sophisticated and connected products by helping businesses to evolve their engineering practices to adapt to the accelerating pace of business change. Product development processes and technologies need to evolve to meet the expectation for tailored and specialized products that are more complex and interconnected. IBM is introducing Continuous Engineering practices, supported by Rational solutions, that help businesses adapt to this accelerating change.... [More]

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GE Capital has a vision: to responsibly move at market speed. The challenge is remaining secure, compliant and managing quality standards while moving quickly enough to stay ahead of the competition. Snehal Antani, CIO of CDF & EA at GE Capital, took to the stage during the DevOps keynote to tell how GE had leveraged DevOps to attain their goals.   He echoed what is already becoming a common DevOps theme at Innovate: It’s about people, the shift required to become lean and agile requires a commitment from people. How is GE... [More]

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Watson has come a long way since its Jeopardy debut. Watson is adept in a wide range of activities - creating that perfect cocktail – the Blue Hurricane – a big hit at the IBM Innovate conference; empowering people to take a more active role in managing their health and the health of their loved ones; working through a cuddly teddy bear to help with learning activities for your children; and assisting in the fight against cancer.  Watson is drawing large crowds at the IBM Innovate conference. The Watson Mobile Developer... [More]

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"Every great innovation runs through a developer's hands." —Kristof Kloeckner, GM of IBM Rational Have you hugged your developer today? Because if you haven't, you probably should. This morning at Innovate 2014 we learned that there is a new renaissance going on in the developer community, one in which there is no boundary between the programmer and the customer. According to Steve Robinson, GM of Cloud Platform Services at IBM, developers are the new kingmakers. And it's all about speed. In the opening general... [More]

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One of several highlighted events taking place at this year's Innovate conference you won't want to miss! Come hear how several women executives have advanced their careers in technology during periods of tremendous change in the industry.   Women’s Discussion Panel Dolphin Hotel, Australia 3 Tuesday, June 3 | 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.   Adaptability is crucial in today’s tech industry and continuously improving your skills is the key to success. Aligned with the theme of the conference, the panel will focus... [More]

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  Most teams and organizations waste 40% or more of their resources. In larger enterprises and in organizations with compliance requirements, the ratio of productive activities to waste is even more pronounced.  Waste comes in several forms: unnecessary overhead, unnecessary rework, unnecessary features, and building the wrong thing. IBM’s DevOps capabilities can provide better business outcomes through two key advances: 1.     More effective steering through earlier and continuous feedback.... [More]

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In the white paper, “ Adopting IBM’s approach to continuous software delivery ,” I discussed an adoption framework for iteratively introducing new capabilities and change by assessing your practices and planning improvements. I concluded by introducing the first steps for planning your DevOps adoption and improvement roadmap. I followed this paper with a four-part blog series that outlined a good four-step process for getting started on your improvements journey ( step 1 , step 2 ,... [More]

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Model-based what? Unless you've been living under a mountain of textual specification and source code, you've likely heard of either model-based systems engineering (MBSE) or model-driven development (MDD). The results that I have seen, as a result of implementing these capabilities, have been remarkable. One engineer told me that he had been asked to try to measure the ROI (return on investment) of MBSE. He had responded that it did not matter what the ROI was; he could not do his job without it.   The response from this engineer... [More]

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I recently registered to attend a seminar on MMA for work. Then, I happened to mention this plan on social media. Almost immediately, I was inundated by comments and questions from colleagues, friends and family. Why are you going to a mixed martial arts seminar? When did you take up martial arts? One friend questioned, with significant skepticism, my judgment in pursuing a new career in martial arts!   I was, in fact, signing up for a ring-side seat at a seminar regarding the current thinking of the FDA with respect to its intended... [More]

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Can't attend Innovate 2014? No worries...we've got you covered! You can follow all of the general sessions, keynotes, and the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge from the comfort of your desk. Grab a cup of coffee and tune into ibm.com/innovate  for the latest, breaking news, announcements, client success stories, strategy and thought leadership direct from sunny Orlando! Innovate 2014 live stream schedule (EDT)*   Monday, 2 June General Session 08:00 a.m. - 09:30 a.m. Innovate@SPEED Live Keynote 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.... [More]

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In this post I would like to take a look at DevOps through a ‘Lean’ lens. If one takes a look at the principles behind DevOps, one sees the roots of Lean. These lean roots, when studied and well understood, provide a framework to start measuring and then using those measurements to instrument the delivery pipeline and eliminate the bottlenecks in the pipeline, making it more efficient and productive.   The goal of DevOps is to deliver software to production, in an efficient manner, minimizing risk, and striving for continuous... [More]

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The DevOps Services team will be all over the place at IBM Innovate ! With a bunch of great sessions and interactive experiences planned, there are lots of ways for you to learn about IBM DevOps Services and BlueMix , meet our team, and try out our tools in person. Below you’ll find just a sampling of a few of the places you can learn more about IDS and BlueMix at Innovate. For a full list of sessions and workshops, see the Innovate 2014 Agenda .   Be sure to follow our twitter account @JazzHub for... [More]

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The proliferation of mobile devices over the last 10 years, coupled with new trends in wearable technology, is driving us more toward the Internet of Things .  This in turn takes us into interesting new problem spaces.   For many years, development houses—whether delivering systems, products, services or applications—have been wrestling with the triangle of forces that is quality versus cost versus time. However, with the technology trends that we are seeing now—where our devices,... [More]

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Why is BlueMix smilin' at me? IBM Innovate 2014 is chock full of sessions and workshops about Codename: BlueMix beta, a flexible platform built on open standards leveraging the best of breed IBM technologies, applications and services. However, you don't have to wait for Innovate to leverage IBM's cloud platform; you can begin your free trial today to: Develop your apps: from concept to live in minutes Scale your app to meet automatic auto-scaling Experience the end-to-end DevOps solution in the... [More]

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Back in 2005, IBM began development of the “Jazz project.” The product of this project was IBM Rational Team Concert ( RTC ) V1.0—eventually released on June 25, 2008. This project consisted of a team of developers from the IBM Eclipse team, IBM Research and the newly-acquired Rational Company, which was based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Development started from ground zero. About one year into the project, a website, Jazz.net, was born.   RTC V1.0 The concept IBM had was very unique. A demonstration of the software... [More]

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As those of us who know and love IBM Rational Rhapsody know, one of the challenges of using it has been developing models in a collaborative way. Rhapsody is traditionally a file-based modeling tool, meaning that each model is a set of files that typically resides on your workstation. This can make it difficult to collaborate with others on a team, and you've often had to rely on external configuration management (CM) tools to do this.   And as those of us who know and love the IBM Rational Jazz platform know,... [More]

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  Guest post by Rich Griffith Solution Sales Manager: Industry BUE, IBM Ecosystem Development IBM Sales & Distribution, Software Sales   IBM Power Systems is putting data to work! On April 23, we introduced Power Systems built for bigger data demands in the cloud, expanding world's first Linux-based open server ecosystem. This provides you with tools tuned for a platform that boosts productivity and performance by removing constraints imposed by commodity architecture, along with accelerating compute and data-intensive tasks... [More]

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You need a good information model to carry out effective impact analysis. A software impact analysis report usually covers just the requirements for the relevant part of the code and the test used to verify the code. In a model-based paradigm, however, the effect of a change at the software level can be much greater.   A small change at the code level can impact many requirements and model elements, traversing all the way up the requirement and model hierarchy. Therefore, the information model should be consistently applied across all the... [More]

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  Guest post by Tammy Kulesa World Wide Industry GTM Manager Energy & Utilities / Chemicals and Petroleum IBM Rational, Software Group   Navigating the halls of Innovate can be challenging. There are so many questions... Which sessions should I attend? Are clients from my industry speaking? When are my key industry sessions scheduled?  Where can I find peers and colleagues in my industry? Are there any special sessions related to my industry? Innovate has YOUR Industry. Our team has put together roadmaps, special sessions,... [More]

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It's that age old story of company meets tool. They fall in love. And then they move in together—that's where the fun really starts! So, just how do you deploy a tool, and who gets the bottom drawer in the dresser? When you need to deploy a tool in a commercial environment, there are a number of steps that need to be completed. In the next sections, I will go into further detail about each of these steps.   Assess Assess the system requirements of the tool. For IBM Rational tools, the IBM Support Portal for Rational is a good... [More]

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You have the skills, now get certified with onsite IBM Professional Certification exams! IBM Innovate attendees are eligible to take two complimentary IBM Rational certification exams at the conference testing site. Additional exams are available at the significantly reduced price of USD $100. All current Rational certifications will be available for attendees; in addition, two new certifications will be introduced at Innovate 2014: IBM Certified Specialist - Rational DOORS NextGen IBM Certified Specialist - Rational Quality Manager V4... [More]

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