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Saturday, March 30, 2013

RQM Case Study

TestPro cuts costs and easily deploys its testing solution to customers

The company delivers IBM Rational software using the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise solution

"The IBM Rational products gave us a lot of speed and a lot of agility in the way we could integrate the products.
It’s a robust suite."
    - Scott Marchant, managing director, TestPro

RTC Case Studies

A software company cuts administrative work by 83 percent:
IBM Rational Team Concert software helps improve efficiency, for monthly savings of USD70,000

A multinational company speeds time to market by 25 percent
IBM Rational Jazz technology-based agile platform cuts operating costs 25 percent

Rapid development solution from IBM brings greater level of customer engagement and user adoption
Kudos for developers at ISW Development Pty. Ltd.

An insurance company reduces defect cycle times by 65 percent
A comprehensive IBM application lifecycle management platform transforms the delivery life cycle

Avea cuts deployment time from four hours to ten minutes
The company eliminates separate, disparate tools by standardizing on IBM Rational software

Itaú BBA achieves massive time savings with IBM Rational software
An ALM solution cuts the amount of time required for development, build and deployment
Within its build and deployment processes, the bank has also achieved significant benefits including:
  •     Reducing the amount of time required for deployment model preparation by 50 percent
  •     Decreasing the amount of time to install development versions by 50 percent
  •     Reducing the amount of effort required to adjust builds by 50 percent
  •     Reducing the amount of time spent creating and modifying workflows by 15 percent
  •     Reducing build time by 30 percent through support for parallel work
  •     Reducing operational errors, such as deploying incorrect artifacts, by 50 percent
  •     Reducing the amount of effort required to create a build by 95 percent
  •     Reducing the amount of time required to determine the version of artifacts in production by 50 percent
The IBM CICS development team simplifies software builds
IBM Rational software helps support agile development, improve collaboration

OLM Systems improves customer satisfaction
Accelerating Agile development with IBM Rational software

Uniting multisite development teams with IBM Rational software
PharmaPartners improves collaboration, gains insight
"The dashboarding [in Rational Team Concert software] has been a great benefit to us.
Project managers use the standard widgets and burndown rates.
It really gives a clear insight into where we’re standing at every single moment."
- Frank Laarakker, product manager, PharmaPartners

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Scrum project management using RTC

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Rational Requirements Composer (RRC)

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

5 Imperatives for ALM

Five Imperatives for ALM (Link to Video's):

1. Use Real-time Planning
2. Establish Lifecycle Traceability of related artifacts
3. Enable In-context Collaboration
4. Cultivate Development Intelligence
5. Practice Continuous Process Improvement

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Friday, March 15, 2013

MSDN Subscription

RTC vs TFS


Comparison of Team Concert and Team Foundation Server Features


IBM Rational is playing catch up in the ALM tool space, Gartner reports notwithstanding.  Rational Team Concert 2.0 is an incremental step to answer MS Team Foundation Server 2008 and other ALM solutions.  Both tools are too large to compare in depth in one article.  The following article is a HIGH LEVEL comparison.

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Rational Insight

IBM® Rational® Insight is a comprehensive performance measurement solution for automatically and objectively reporting program and project progress. It gathers metrics from the tools you use across your organization and presents the data in a consistent way so that you can objectively measure status and progress. Rational Insight implements standard measurements, reports, and dashboard to provide an accurate acuity about your systems and software delivery. It helps your organization follow a systematic approach to incrementally improving your business by helping you identify high priority business objectives, refining your software delivery practices to address those objectives, and measuring practices adoption and business results.

pls. refer IBM portal to know more on details on Rational Insight

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Five Imperatives for Application Lifecycle Management

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Rational Quality Manager --> Evaluation Guide:
http://technicalprofessional.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/rational-quality-manager-eval-guide.pdf

Rational Quality Manager - Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Monday, March 11, 2013

Online Books

Online Books
Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247622.pdf

Portal Application Development Using WebSphere Portlet Factory

New features in CLM 2012

Introduction to CLM 2012: <iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/10020380" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/alankan1/ibm-collaborative-lifecycle-management" title="IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management" target="_blank">IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/alankan1" target="_blank">Alan Kan</a></strong> </div>

http://www.slideshare.net/alankan1/ibm-collaborative-lifecycle-management

Building an Application with Decisions, Processes, and Insight - Warranty Exception Process

Building an Application with Decisions, Processes, and Insight - Warranty Exception Process

Scenario - RPE-RQM-ReqPro

Abstract
Many organisations use Rational RequistePro to manage their requirements. If they wish to continue using RequisitePro but require the ability to assess testing coverage of requirements and the impact of requirements change on testing while using Rational Quality Manager (RQM), RQM provides a very nice integration with RequisitePro to provide test coverage and impact analysis. This document

Author
David Hanslip

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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Sample Application overview in RTC

MTM_Lifecycle_Understand

Understanding the context
The Money that Matters lifecycle scenario uses a fictitious banking company called JKE and a realistic software development project whose goal is to deliver Release 1 of the JKE Banking application.
The scenario centers on a single sprint by the team responsible for delivering an initiative called "Business Recovery Matters". All of the action within the scenario occurs within just one sprint for one team. The team is using IBM Rational Team Concert to plan, track, collaborate, and deliver the release. Collaborative work is performed with IBM Rational Requirements Composer to capture requirements, IBM Rational Software Architect Design Management to manage design information, and IBM Rational Quality Manager to plan, construct and execute tests. The scenario is a companion to the JKE Banking sample project shipped with those products. The scenario focuses on the practices, activities, and collaboration that occur in a single Sprint, as shown below.

  Figure 1: The focus of this scenario
This scenario can be applied to larger enterprise projects such as the one imagined for JKE Banking. To do so requires a hybrid agile approach, which is scaled to fit into an enterprise environment. The term "hybrid" is being used in the agile community to refer to combination of ideas from various methods, sometimes all agile methods but also sometimes from "traditional" sources, lean sources, and so on.
We can define a hybrid approach that includes the Disciplined Agile Delivery process framework, combined with Scrum terminology, and scaling factors which necessitate the need for upfront requirements management and release planning, multiple teams running iterations at the same time (where Scrum is applied), and an independent test team with a stabilization iteration before transitioning into production.
The JKE lifecycle is represented in the image below:  
 Figure 2 The program lifecycle
The Money that Matters program
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Thursday, March 07, 2013

Useful Links on RTC


1. Register on jazz.net to get continued updates on Jazz CLM. Book mark this page for frequent visit for all kinds of assets on Jazz CLM. Pls pass on this to the core team, as this will be the BIBLE.
    CLM page on Jazz.net, https://jazz.net/products/clm/

2. Bookmark the Rational developerWorks page, which has rich content on software development life cycle and has regular updates / web cast on Rational solutions.

3. Join the IBM Rational Community on developerWorks,


4. Join the IBM Rational ALM Community on developerWorks, which has content on good presentations, FAQ's, Blogs etc.. on ALM, You will find answers to most of the questions raised by the project
     teams and Wipro internal teams here,


5. Another exciting place to follow is the Agile Transformation Blog, for interesting blogs/ articles on how Rational can support Agile and best practices,


6. Also you can join Agile Transformation Community on developerWorks for Blogs / News / Community Forum / Discussions / chats / round table etc..on Agile


7. Another Important page to book mark is the Rational Information Center, which has information on Product Overview, Trouble shooting and related help topics for all Rational solutions


Sample link for Information center details for Rational Team Concert,

Link for CLM 4.0,

Thanks to my colleague, Smitha for sharing these links.

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Saturday, March 02, 2013

Work Items in TFS

Work Item Tracking (WIT)

MSF for Agile 5.0
1.User story
2.Bugs
3. Issue
4.Task
5.Test case
6.Shared step

MSF for CMMI 5.0
1.Requirement
2.Bug
3. Issue
4.Task
5.Test case
6.Shared step
7.Change request
8.Risk
9.Review

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Process Templates and Methodologies in TFS

Process Guidance and Process Templates for Team Foundation Server

The process template defines the set of work items, reports, and dashboards that you will use to plan and track your project.
Process Templates from Microsoft:
  • MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0
  • MSF for CMMI Process Improvement v5.0
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0

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Dashboards in RTC

Dashboards
Dashboards are a web client component intended to provide information about the project status at a glance. It provides the option to drill down to get more complete information. It also represents the integration point for the data provided by all Jazz components.
Dashboards can be used in a variety of ways:
  • Project leads can track project health and trends at a glance
  • Teams can discuss status using the dashboard as the data source
  • Team leads can track team progress and balance workload
  • Developers can track their workload
Personal dashboards
Mini dashboard
Creating a project or team dashboard
Cross-repository dashboards
Creating a performance measurement dashboard

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Work Items in RTC

Work item types

The Scrum process is ready to use and provides multiple predefined work item types:
  • Adoption Item: Tracks when changes by one team must be adopted by another team
  • Defect: Identifies a bug
  • Retrospective: Records what went well and what did not go well in the recently completed iteration
  • Story: Describes part of a use case
  • Task: Describes a specific piece of work
  • Impediment: Tracks things that get in the way of progress
  • Epic: Used when a story is too big to complete in a single iteration (sometimes called a "sprint") or when there are too many unknowns to estimate the amount of work. An Epic can be broken down into several stories.
  • Track build item: Typically created from a build result to track the fixes that are needed for a failed build
The Formal Project Management process is also ready to use. This process provides the following work item types:
  • Defect: Identifies a bug
  • Task: Describes a specific piece of work
  • Project Change Request: Provides a formal mechanism to renegotiate key project parameters, such as scope, timeline, or resources
  • Plan item: Records commitments that the development team makes to the business organization
  • Risk: Describes project risks, and provides a matrix to calculate the risk probability and impact
  • Risk Action: Describes specific actions to counter or mitigate a risk
  • Issue: Identifies and describes a potential problem for which no concrete solution is proposed. Issues can be created from risks that do not have a proposed solution.
  • Milestone: Identifies a significant event in the project plan or a phase plan
You can define additional work item types to complement the development process that your team follows.

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Friday, March 01, 2013

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Application Lifecycle Management

LDAP integration with Jazz server