A Positive Outlook      There is no shortage of industry research that paints a positive landscape for DevOps.  For instance, the recent nationwide case study presented by IBM DevOps indicated a 50% increase in code quality and 70% decrease in downtime.  A key attributable to this success was the development of a collaborative culture, where IT and business began to come together as a closer knit team to deliver products effectively (“Nationwide,” 2016). Without a Strong Foundation    ... [More]

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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IBM ® Rational ® Collaborative Lifecycle Management facilitates domain and cross domain management activities   Two of the new features in Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) 6.0.2 – custom tags and support for SAFe 4.0 - are what users need to manage their mega projects.  A large project consists of hundreds or even thousands of components.  Components, as you would know, are not just binaries and source code but also test cases, design documents, scripts, configuration files, environment... [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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Last month had the opportunity to lead a six-person IBM agile adoption team in starting an Agile Release Train (ART) in support of a larger telecom project (1000+ users) in Mumbai, India; using the newly released version 4.0 of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe® 4.0). In this post, I summarize the business drives, QuickStart approach, and some Early Results collected during the Inspect & Adapt session we conducted at the end of the three-week iteration.   Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) While I have had the pleasure of leading several... [More]

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Hi Amy et. al. We at Siemens have implemented a brand new RTC Widget called "Timebox Planning Widget with SAFe Support" I'm going to present this at IBM InterConnect 2016 in Las Vegas. Session DOP-3145   If you can't make I would appreciate your feedback. Please have a look at the short videos on youtube. Would this support your work with SAFe at IBM?   How to use the new Timebox Planning Widget with SAFe Support  https://youtu.be/uUz67-Yktec   How to setup the new Timebox Planning Widget with SAFe Support... [More]

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In the Old Days, for the Agile ALM for Scrum process template, there was an RMC "Helper File" which contained RTC/SCUM Process Guidance for Workitems, Roles, Workflows, etc. https://jazz.net/agile-alm-scrum-practices/#practice.mgmt.scrum.base-ibm/guidances/practices/defect_wi_type_F1B47105.html Are there any plans to create a similar artifact for the SAF3 3.0 Program & Portfolio Templates?   Thanks.

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This blog post has been a collaborative effort with Marianne Hollier, Cindy VanEpps, Roger LeBlanc and Anita Rass Wan Ever jump into a TV series in the middle of a season? Welcome to Episode 5, Season 1 of DevOps Scenarios for Middleware.  For an overview of this riveting blog series, check out the overview blog here. You can be a lean startup in an Enterprise. Sounds like an oxymoron, right? Yet Enterprises must innovate to stay alive in today’s transparent, interconnected and fast-changing world. In The Lean Startup , Eric Ries... [More]

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Greetings fellow SAFe evangelists! I'm pleased to announce the availability of the complete set of SAFe templates in CLM Milestone 5  that provide end-to-end support for SAFe Portfolio, Program and Team levels. In Milestone 5, the following templates come out of the box:   SAFe Program\Team process template for Rational Team Concert (RTC) SAFe Portfolio process template for Rational Team Concert (RTC) SAFe Portfolio process template for Rational Quality Manager (RQM) SAFe Portfolio project template for Rational DOORS... [More]

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This blog post has been a collaborative effort with Marianne Hollier, Cindy VanEpps, Roger LeBlanc and Anita Rass Wan. Ever jump into a TV series in the middle of a season? Welcome to Episode 4, Season 1 of DevOps Scenarios for Middleware.  For an overview of this riveting and not-quite-Emmy-worthy blog series, check out the overview blog here . Fingers wagging, eyes squinting – “Why didn’t you find this problem during testing?!” How many times have you been asked that, only to try to defend yourself with things... [More]

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    Everyone can deploy their applications. But do you have a consistent, reliable and repeatable process across all environments from development to production ? If you want to see how to escape the shell scripts, the multiple tools and the finger crossing hero's then attend this webinar. We will show how you can add the governance, the audit trail and the security that you need for your enterprise deployments. Join us in this webcast!   The Speaker Mark Roberts IBM Cloud Technical Sales IBM  

Welcome to Episode 3, Season 1 of DevOps Scenarios for Middleware.  For an overview of this riveting and not-quite-Emmy-worthy blog series, check out our last blog in this series ( Business Value Need) here and the Overview blog here. This blog post has been a collaborative effort with Marianne Hollier, Cindy VanEpps, Anita Rass Wan and Roger LeBlanc “Houston, we have a problem.” This is the quintessential statement of the *expletive* moment that throws all the participants in a solution into problem resolution mode. In the... [More]

Sometimes it feels like almost everything we used to do (and thought was so very important), just doesn’t fit anymore.  The times they are a-changin’ everywhere. For instance, in the past we spent a lot of time reviewing the capabilities of tools before deciding to even kick the tires. The “explore” and “experiment” phases of tool selection could be quite long. We would have a list of prioritized requirements and if the tool didn’t measure up on paper, we wouldn’t look any further.  We... [More]

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This blog post has been a collaborative effort with Marianne Hollier, Cindy VanEpps, Roger LeBlanc and Anita Rass Wan Ever jump into a TV series in the middle of a season? Welcome to Episode 2, Season 1 of DevOps Scenarios for Middleware.  For an overview of this riveting and not-quite-Emmy-worthy blog series, check out the overview blog here . We might rightly call this scenario “Democratic DevOps”.  It’s the basic starting point, an end-to-end scenario that treats planning, development, testing, deployment and... [More]

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