RTC Pointers

e-Kit :

https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/imc/sdp/agile/thankyou.shtml

Agile thought leadership:

Being agile while still being compliant -

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/compliant-agile-medical-device/index.html?ca=drs-

Top 5 lessons learned about scaling Agile from a leading insurance provider

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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/agile/lessons-learned-insurance/index.html?ca=drs-

Lessons from the Agile trenches -

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/agile/library/a-agiletrenches/index.html?ca=drs-

Progressive refinement of user stories in the Product Backlog -

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/user-stories-product-backlog/index.html?ca=drs-

Best practices for effective velocity tracking -

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/agile/library/a-vt/index.html?ca=drs-

Pragmatic architecture for agile application lifecycle management -

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/agile-application-lifecycle-management/index.html?ca=drs-

The true value of agile process maturity -

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/agile-process-maturity/index.html?ca=drs-

IBM Rational Agile Product Guidance

Effective Planning with Rational Team Concert 4.0 -

https://jazz.net/library/article/594

Using scrum methods with Rational Team Concert Version 4: Part 1. Set up the project, team area, and Product Backlog -

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/scrum-methods-rational-team-concert-v4-1/index.html?ca=drs-

Hitting nails on the head: Scrum and Rational Team Concert - https://jazz.net/blog/index.php/2010/03/08/hitting-nails-on-the-head-scrum-and-rational-team-concert/

Progress Bars, Load Bars, and the importance of estimating your work in Rational Team Concert 4.0 - https://jazz.net/library/article/586

Document and automate processes with Rational Method Composer and Jazz:

Part 1. The value of methods in an agile world -

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/automate-software-development-processes/index.html?ca=drs-

IBM z/OS application continuous integration: Part 1. Building continuous integration with Rational Team Concert -

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/ibm-zos-application-continuous-integration-1/index.html?ca=drs-

Scaling Agile with C/ALM

A Scenario - based approach for overcoming the challenges of team collaboration

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

Scrum project management using RTC

Using scrum methods with Rational Team Concert Version 4:
Part 1. Set up the project, team area, and Product Backlog
Part 1. Set up the project, team area, and Product Backlog (pdf version)
Part 2. Plan and manage sprints
Part 2. Plan and manage sprints (pdf version)
Get Ready to Sprint with Rational Team Concert: Keep your agile team on track and productive by focusing on stories they can finish

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

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.

     http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/slmoverview.html

3. Join the IBM Rational Community on developerWorks,

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/groups/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=e4210f90-a515-41c9-a487-8fc7d79d7f61

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,

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/groups/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=32f9d388-7f35-4598-a08a-7cd6c0bd3841

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

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/c914709e-8097-4537-92ef-8982fc416138/?lang=en

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

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/groups/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=c914709e-8097-4537-92ef-8982fc416138

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

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/rational/v0r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.rational.infocenter.doc/topics/rationalics.html

Sample link for Information center details for Rational Team Concert,

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=3488&uid=swg27012781

Link for CLM 4.0,

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/clmhelp/v4r0/index.jsp

Thanks to my colleague, Smitha for sharing these links.

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

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.

LDAP integration with Jazz server

How to integrate LDAP to work with Jazz team server

IBM Education Assistant

JAZZ Performance Guide

Jazz Blogs:
Dan Toczala’s Blog

RTC Links

CLM

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/clmhelp/v4r0m1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.jazz.dashboard.doc%2Ftopics%2Ft_managing_dashboards.html

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/lp/demos/summary/r-rtcdashboard.html

https://jazz.net/products/rational-team-concert/features/report/

Ted the Developer and Rational Team Concert

Rational Insight

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/products/insight/

https://jazz.net/products/rational-insight/exec-dashboard/

Improve software development project success with better information
Advantages of automated measurement, analytics, and reports

“A Good ALM Solution improves team productivity by providing only 'one version' of truth for everyone to work on” Shiv Sivaguru, HCL Technologies

Collabnet ALM demo and capabilities

1.       Details on how CollabNet platform helps manage a heterogeneous/hybrid environment from a common framework can be accessed here.

2.       CollabNet approach to help enhance collaboration, establish “inner-source” development communities, community aspect of software development can be accessed here.

3.       CollabNet’s  expertise on Agile can be accessed from here - Agile training and services