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Free Jazz & RTC Evaluation DVD
This Evaluation Kit includes everything needed to start with Jazz: all three editions of IBM Rational Team Concert, plus betas of Rational Requirements Composer and Rational Quality Manager.
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The Future of Software Delivery According to visionaries Grady Booch & Erich Gamma
The workforce of the future is changing, becoming increasingly organizationally and globally distributed, fluid and dynamic, especially in software delivery, where business and technical expertise is increasingly distributed around the world. Renowned software futurist Grady Booch and Eclipse luminary Erich Gamma, explore IBM's vision of the future and what IBM is doing to realize this vision with the Jazz project and Rational Team Concert.
Offshore software development: Making it a success with Agile Practices
In this webcast we will examine why offshore software development projects have a high failure rate. We will discuss the feasibility of using agile processes to improve those projects. We will take a closer look at the IBM Rational Team Concert product which features multiple built-in agile process templates, iteration planning and continuous integration. The collaboration, project dashboards and reporting capabilities, make managing time zone differences and communicating status for offshore projects, practical and efficient.
Rational Team Concert v1.0 Standard Edition trial
Download a free trial version of IBM Rational Team Concert built on the Jazz Technology Platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle. Rational Team Concert provides a complete Change & Release Management solution in a collaborative software delivery environment that enables software teams to deliver innovation through collaboration.
Expanding the value of IBM Rational Team Concert software with IBM Business Partners
This white paper highlights the current challenges in software and systems delivery and how IBM Rational Team Concert helps teams meet these challenges by allowing them to collaborate more effectively. It then describes the rapid, ongoing evolution of the platform with enhancements from the IBM Business Partner ecosystem.
Podcasts
In this interview filmed during Agile 2008, following the presentation "Who Do You Trust?", Linda Rising shows how prejudices can affect the relationships between team members. According to Linda, we all have a tendency to categorize others based on characteristics like race, religion, sex, but also based on more trivial characteristics, and many times we are not even aware we are doing it.
What are the tricks to successfully transitioning from cubicles to a team room? What are the concerns? Ideas include: make the change an experiment, make sure everyone is heard.
Ade Miller has published a paper on distributed agile development, highlighting the challenges of trying to do distributed agile development, along with recommendations for addressing these challenges based primarily on the experiences of teams within the Patterns and Practices group at Microsoft.
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During Agile 2008, Dr. Linda Rising held a presentation centered on experiments conducted many years ago, presenting how deep, powerfully affecting, and difficult to avoid are human “prejudices” and “stereotypes”. This article is a summary of that presentation.
Feature teams, common enough in small groups, are all too rare in large product development - but they can be a key to scaling with agility. This article analyses how feature teams resolve weaknesses of component teams, and points out key issues to address when transitioning. It is an excerpt from "Scaling Lean and Agile Development," by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, to be published later this year.
In this talk filmed during Agile 2008, Jim McCarthy talks about 11 commitments team members should adhere to if they want to achieve a state of shared vision. Such a state empowers a team to reach their full potential and ultimately attain greatness.
In this interview from QCon London 2008, Erich Gamma discusses the Jazz project, why Eclipse has been successful, the strict Eclipse release schedule, JUnit, Design Patterns, how to identify a design pattern, design patterns and the 'Don't Repeat Yourself' principle, the design pattern community, and whether dependency injection is a design pattern.
In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Mitch Lacey talks about a real life project that was on the verge of being successful, but was deemed as unsuccessful by the customer. Considering that "the true measure of project progress is working software", Mitch and his team delivered the software, but the client was not satisfied.
In this presentation filmed during QCon London 2007, Martin Fowler and Dan North talk about the communication gap existing between the developers and the customers or users. Closing this gap is extremely important in order to create successful software.
