1. IBM Rational Team Concert
The IBM jazz Platform
IBM Rational Team Concert on the jazz platform
Mason Young
Rational Brand Specialist IBM Rational Software
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Slides for: Mitre

2. The IBM Rational Jazz Strategy
One research project has shown that errors found during requirements specification phase can be 200 times less expensive to correct than at the end end of a project.
Requirements management is the foundation of any project. Without a solid start, the project will always be struggling to achieve the control it needs to succeed. Can you afford not to?

3. Rational Team Concert - Components
Work Items
Defects, Enhancements
Task tracking, planning
Queries
Approvals
Iteration planning
ClearQuest Connector
SCM
Change sets
Streams
Components
Parallel development
GDD
ClearCase Connector
Build
Work Item and Change Set Traceability
Supports Ant, Maven and Command line Tools
Personal Builds
Integration with Build Forge
Project, Teams, Users
Process enactment, customization, permissions
In-context Collaboration, Events, Presence
Reporting, Dashboards (project, team, personal)
SCM : Software Configuration Management
Jazz Team Server 3

4. What are Work Items?
Rational Team Concert allows you to divide your work into Work Items
Work Items are the fundamental mechanism to track and coordinate development tasks and workflows
They provide the hub for linkage between the various artifacts in Rational Team Concert.
Typical Work Item types in Scrum process are defects, Retrospective, Impediments, Story and tasks.
New Work Item types can be added or existing types can be extended via the process specification.
All Work Items are stored in the repository 4

5. Work Items: Central to Rational Team Concert
Build includes change-sets
Planning
Source Control
Build
Report
Plans define & organize Work Items
Change-sets implement Work Items
Work items
describe the builds
Reports show work item activity
The Work Items are a central part in Jazz. As the slide says (animated one by one):
- Planning component helps the user in defining and organizing Work Item
- SCM changes implement/resolve Work Items
- Because include changes then we can say that Work Items describe builds
- Report component draws the Work Items activity
The dashed arrow means that the relationship is derived from the 2 others!...
Work Items 5

6. Creating a Work Item Summary: Name and state of the work item.
Description: Details the work item goals or any pertinent details about the work item.
Discussion: Where other people can contribute with comments, add links to related objects and follow the progress of the work.
Details: Shows attributes such as owner, severity, planned for, estimated time of work.
Quick Information: Gives information of other relevant objects connected to this work item such as attachments, subscribers, dependencies. 6

7. Planning the work with Iteration Plans7

8. Project overview – Web UI8

9. The RTC SCM Model (Streams)
A place to share source with your team
Collection of one or more components
Provides team isolation
Change sets checked in to a repository workspace are delivered to a stream to make them available
to other team members

10. Integrating other repositories with Rational Team Concert
Import – migrate to Rational Team Concert
Jazz SCM – CVS, Subversion
Jazz Work Items – JIRA, Bugzilla
Co-existence (Bridge) – Lifecycle integration
Jazz Work Items – Subversion (SCM)
Connectors – interoperation between repositories
Jazz SCM – ClearCase
Jazz Work Items - ClearQuest
ClearCase
Jazz SCM
ClearQuest
Jazz Work Items
Process enforcement
Connectors 10

11. Build is very visible to the user
Recent builds
My builds
Published build
Animated slide!
Quick flyby of information that is included in the Jazz tutorial regarding build. More UI exposure in the build lab
Alerts
History

12. How We Use Jazz 09 information
Ottawa
Beaverton
Zurich
Toronto
Source Control
Reporting
Community Site
Build
Process
UI Foundation
Work Items
Agile Planning
Code Coverage
2-way Xeon Server running application server (WAS) and another running DB2
70 developers, 20 testers, 8 doc selfhosting on Jazz.
18,000 change-sets
35,000 work items
250 repository workspaces
66K files
10GB file content uncompressed
Integration stream has 30K files
40 builds a day
Weekly integration build
Saint-Nazaire
Lexington
Jazz Development Server
Static Analysis
Raleigh
Repository
Web UI
Interop
Testing

13. Rational Team Concert Features and Benefits
One research project has shown that errors found during requirements specification phase can be 200 times less expensive to correct than at the end end of a project.
Requirements management is the foundation of any project. Without a solid start, the project will always be struggling to achieve the control it needs to succeed. Can you afford not to?

14. Rational Team Concert on Facebook
One research project has shown that errors found during requirements specification phase can be 200 times less expensive to correct than at the end end of a project.
Requirements management is the foundation of any project. Without a solid start, the project will always be struggling to achieve the control it needs to succeed. Can you afford not to?

15. Rational Team Concert on jazz.net
One research project has shown that errors found during requirements specification phase can be 200 times less expensive to correct than at the end end of a project.
Requirements management is the foundation of any project. Without a solid start, the project will always be struggling to achieve the control it needs to succeed. Can you afford not to?

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