There is so much great content to share this year! The following items went live on developerWorks Rational last week:   The value of effective requirements management in the nuclear energy industry By: Paul L. Fechtelkotter, Global Business Segment Leader, Energy and Utilities, Rational software, IBM How IBM addresses compliance and collaboration challenges in the nuclear energy industry Back up Rational software user data for quick disaster recovery By: Pranab Agarwal, Advisory Staff Software Engineer, IBM How to configure... [More]

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     We're glad you asked! Here's the articles, downloads, and other odd & ends that went live on developerWorks Rational recently:             Being agile while still being compliant By: Keith Collyer, PhD, Senior Solution Manager, Electronics and Medical Devices Industry Solutions, IBM and Jordi Manzano, Software Quality Assurance Manager and Deputy Director of R&D, Diagnostic Grifols A practical approach to agile development practices for medical device manufacturers Product: Rational DOORS Using scrum methods with Rational Team... [More]

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Using scrum methods with Rational Team Concert Version 4: Part 1. Set up the project, team area, and Product Backlog Summary:   Starting with Version 1.0, IBM® Rational Team Concert has supported the scrum project management approach. Over the years since, both this collaborative software and its support for scrum and agile teams have improved dramatically. This article, updated for Version 4.0.1, replaces previous articles and explains how to use RTC effectively within a scrum team. Part 1 walks you through setting up your project and team and... [More]

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   Our fabulous developerWorks content authors have been at it again! Check out all the great  items that have gone live on developerWorks Rational in the last three weeks:       Integrate enterprise and software architectures By: Steve Arnold, Senior Technical Consultant, IBM and Jas Atwal, Technical Consultant, IBM Save time and find traceability gaps by linking enterprise architecture elements in IBM Rational System Architect with model elements in IBM Rational Software Architect extension for Design Management. Products: Rational Software... [More]

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    The new year is starting to really ramp up as we all return from our holidays and start digging into strategies and goals for 2013... Of course one of those goals is to remain committed to bringing you the latest and greatest content you need! So, here you go! The following items went live on developerWorks Rational this week:   Three steps to rapid development of high-quality medical devices By: Keith Collyer, PhD, Senior Solution Manager, Electronics and Medical Devices Industry Solutions, IBM, Martin R. Bakal, Worldwide Offering Manager,... [More]

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     We've got a lot of great stuff to share, so let's dig right in to it! The following items went live on developerWorks Rational last week:   Adopt pragmatic architecture for agile application lifecycle management By Jean-Louis Maréchaux Agile teams benefit from applying design management to producing and maintaining software-intensive systems. This article describes a pragmatic approach to efficient collaboration on designs in an application lifecycle management (ALM) environment. It uses realistic examples and focuses on concrete... [More]

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     When we think of the phrase "Social Support" one of the common images is likely of "@comcastcares" and their breakthrough efforts at turning client perception from heavily negative to the positive through their twitter account and addressing client complaints. Other more broad views may simply be of companies engaging with clients in spaces like Facebook or Twitter... but that view, dear friends, misses a huge area of social support which has existed long before these new social media channels: Forums. Without losing... [More]

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    It doesn't take long for our amazing content authors to break out of a short week and come back with much more to highlight for you all. Checkout the following XML series and other items that went live on developerWorks Rational this past week: Test XML messages over WebSphere MQ , Part 1 By Bharath Raj Keshavamurthy Get an in-depth understanding of the latest feature of Java Message Service and WebSphere MQ testing, which is embedded in the Rational Performance Tester generic service client. In Part 1 of this three-part tutorial, you'll... [More]

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   It may be a short list, but the quality is still there and exactly what you've come to rely on from developerWorks Rational ! Here are the items that went live on developerWorks Rational last week:          Enable or disable validators in Rational Application Developer By Rosendo Martinez, Software Engineer, J2EE Tools Developer and Validation Framework Lead, IBM Mexico Using the validation framework, you can create custom validators to validate projects and resources created with IBM Rational Application Developer. The framework provides... [More]

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