I have recently been designated an IBM developerWorks Contributing Author . As, they say, this is a "credential that represents your publishing achievements on developerWorks and the overall technical and educational value that your developerWorks contributions have provided, as recognized by industry colleagues." I hope that the different articles that I wrote in the past have been useful for practitioners doing architecture, design, and development    

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Part 2: Using automated build as part of the development activities   As described in the first part of this blog , the Agile ALM solution can be configured with a few simple steps to provide automated builds to agile teams. Let's explore how my agile development team can leverage builds during Sprint execution.                           To implement a new story, I can adopt a “Test First” approach and start with the creation of... [More]

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Part 1: Set up and configure the Agile ALM environment for automated builds   The IBM Rational solution for Agile ALM provides the environment to support teams in their day to day activities throughout an agile ALM projects. One key aspect of agility is to develop incrementally. A product increment is created at the end of each Sprint to demonstrate the new functionalities to the stakeholders.   In this example, I am using Rational Team Concert ( RTC ) and a project based on the Agile ALM solution (JKE – Mobile Banking) to... [More]

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IBM Rational Solution for Agile ALM Release 2 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... [More]

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Earlier this week, I posted a blog entry about Learning Circles so that people are aware of this new initiative. Here I want to explain a little bit more what learning Circles contains. As I said before, a learning circle is a collaborative environment to learn the basics about a technology or a product. Because it relies on social learning, you can find subject matter experts, graduates or leaders within the community and start a discussion with them (Experts and Leaders page). Another important aspect of a learning circle is the learning... [More]

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The Rational Solution for Agile ALM is for customers looking to adopt Rational Team Concert (RTC) throughout the development of their Agile ALM projects. The solution is free to customers (and RTC is free for up to 10 developers).   The Agile ALM solution Release 2 is compliant with RTC 4.0.5, and is consistent with the latest version of the Scrum Guide published in July 2013. With this new release, we have improved the following assets:   Process template : The Agile ALM Scrum process template has been refined to... [More]

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You want to start a software development project on the Cloud? You have no money? You want to collaborate easily with a team? JazzHub is the solution for you. Read this Project kickoff on JazzHub article to understand how an agile team can start using JazzHub to collaborate efficiently on a new development. And guess what?. JazzHub is free for public projects, and free for private projects through 2014 is you register by Dec 31, 2013.

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