IBM Rational software podcast series

Poor requirements management is among the significant contributing factors in the failure of a project. Improper requirements management can lead to disconnected teams, wasted time, out-of-control costs and unsatisfied customers. If you use documents, spreadsheets, emails, wikis and other conventional office and productivity tools to keep track of your business, customer or product requirements, you could be putting your project at risk. With proper requirements management solution implementation, development costs can be reduced by up to 57%, time to market accelerated by up to 20%, and cost of quality lowered by up to 69%. Speaker, Morgan Brown, Global Enablement Leader for requirements management solutions at IBM Rational.

Defects are many times less expensive to rectify the earlier they are caught in development cycle. In this podcast you will learn about an IDE that provides automated tools to quickly create high quality code during the implementation of software that addresses this issue by moving defect resolution and prevention into the development activities of a software project. This results not just in development efficiency but also improved time to market and reduced development cost. Speakers, Kathy Chan, Bill Smith and Kimberly Gist

Companies are realizing that they must become more productive to remain competitive. For most, this means pushing out more sophisticated applications faster, and in order to do this they often must extend their backend IBM i systems to multi-platform front ends. We’ll cover the application development and delivery challenges when the IBM i development is still 5250 based and others work in other places. We will talk about using Rational Team Concert with the ARCAD Pack for Rational to manage legacy and modern development environments. Speakers, Chris Trobridge, Floyd Del Muro and Kimberly Gist

Continuous Engineering is an enterprise capability that speeds delivery of increasingly sophisticated and connected products by helping businesses to evolve their engineering practices to adapt to the accelerating pace of business change. Continuous engineering isn’t “continuous” in the sense that it is never ending. Rather, it addresses the ever present need to rethink, redesign, reintegrate and reinnovate products and systems. It is about helping engineers work in the ways that they want to work—with easy access to all the tools, data and expertise they need to do their jobs better.One of the key practice areas within Continuous Engineering is focused on unlocking access to and understanding of engineering knowledge and information, regardless of source, to enable the right decisions at the right times. The ability to unlock engineering knowledge helps engineers and product developers turn insight into outcomes. Speakers, Steve Shoaf and Kimberly Gist

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Join Steve Shoaf as he discusses how continuous engineering can help manufacturers prosper in the age of the “Internet of Things.” Speakers, Steve Shoaf and Kimberly Gist

In this fourth and final discussion, Laurel and Paul discuss how IBM has transformed their own software engineering approach with new devops processes, tools and culture. This is a topic that will interest our Government clients as they learn about and adopt devops in their their departments and agencies, but really clients in all industries will enjoy and use the information in this last podcast. Joining Laurel and Paul are David Leigh, Jeanette Deupree, Xavier Segovia and Irene Penney from IBM who share their stories of DevOps adoption and important lessons learned.

In this third discussion, Laurel and Paul discuss the process improvements DevOps brings to a government organization, how to assess readiness through a free self assessment tool and also how to foster a cultural change that supports a DevOps adoption. Speakers, Laurel Dickson-Bull, Public Sector Offering Manager, IBM Rational software and Paul Bahrs, Chief Architect for Emerging Technologies, IBM Rational software

In this second discussion, Laurel and Paul bring home the value of DevOps with more examples of success in government agencies. DevOps capabilities can help government deliver software faster and more predicatively and with less risk. The primary capabilities discussed are in four major areas: 1) Plan and Measure or Steer, 2) Develop and Test, 3) Release and Deploy, 4) Monitor and Optimize. Speakers, Laurel Dickson-Bull, Public Sector Offering Manager, IBM Rational software and Paul Bahrs, Chief Architect for Emerging Technologies, IBM Rational software

DevOps is an exciting topic in the software delivery industry today including the Government sector. IBM sees DevOps as an enterprise capability for continuous software delivery, enabling organizations to seize market opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback. This capability unites the people, practices, technologies, and the information across organizations that support the software delivery process. For Government, this means by applying this DevOps approach the associated best practices, agencies and departments can respond faster and with higher quality to citizen expectations. Listen to Paul and Laurel discuss why Government should pay attention to DevOps. Speakers, Laurel Dickson-Bull, Public Sector Offering Manager, IBM Rational software and Paul Bahrs, Chief Architect for Emerging Technologies, IBM Rational software

Developers have a lot to worry about when developing an app. They need a physical place to run on, they need to configure it plus they need the middleware and software to run on it. Now some of these things can be found on the cloud so a developer can jump right into their coding. SoftLayer provides the infrastructure and a virtual system. BlueMix takes care of everything from virtualizing a system to providing a database service. And, IBM DevOps Services can help by providing development and test teams an open, integrated DevOps solution in the cloud for building mobile and cloud apps and deploying them in IBM BlueMix. With DevOps Services, developers can just jump right into the coding and not worry about setting up the infrastructure or framework for planning, tracking, source control, build, and deployment -- everything is right there! Including complementary IBM Mobile Quality Assurance to help you capture tester and live-user experience for building great mobile apps. At innovate you learn all about it in several sessions in the cloud and mobile tracks. You can also stop by our hands-on kiosk in the Solution EXPO and try it out for yourself -- play with sample apps, create a project, or check out trending public projects. Speakers, Jennifer Moore and Kimberly Gist

Agile is maturing. In fact, 81% of teams surveyed have over a year of experience with Agile, according to a recent Agile Maturity benchmark report commissioned by IBM and the Scrum Alliance. So teams are focusing on bigger challenges than getting started. To gain a competitive edge, teams must accelerate software innovation and delivery while reducing time to customer feedback by applying Lean and Agile principles across the entire software delivery lifecycle – not just team by team. Sessions in this track will cover how to scale Agile to the enterprise including real world tips for successful Agile adoption, extending Agile practices to large and distributed teams, and practical guidance on how to effectively adapt Agile, leveraging market -leading frameworks, and addressing issues such as regulatory compliance, outsourcing, and complex development across platforms. Speakers, Jennifer Moore and Kimberly Gist

This podcast will feature Bret Greenstein, VP Continuous Engineering, and Brian Dalgetty, Director Continuous Engineering Marketing, as they discuss key capabilities of continuous engineering, including: Unlocking Engineering Knowledge--“Turn Insight into Outcomes”, Continuous Verification--“Measure twice, cut once”, Strategic Reuse--“Don’t reinvent the wheel”. They will also highlight the many activities at the upcoming Innovate conference featuring continuous engineering. Speakers, Bret Greenstein, Brian Dalgetty and Kimberly Gist

From device to cloud to mobile new development challenges are being created as manufacturers and enterprises are learning how to build and integrate connected products into their offerings and solutions. IBM and Rational are helping our customers make the Internet of Things real. Speakers, Michael Rowe and Kimberly Gist

As the industry moves to the cloud era, millions of developers are looking to access tools and services that will enable them to leverage this fast-emerging opportunity. With a broad cloud portfolio and deep expertise, IBM can help you innovate and realize the benefits of cloud fast by developing cloud and mobile applications on a leading-edge cloud platform, being agile using self-service infrastructure with instant deployment, and by providing business users with the innovative applications they need. Sessions in the cloud track at Innovate will focus on IBM solutions, including DevOps Services, that leverage public, private and hybrid clouds to deliver an open, integrated development experience that scales. Speakers, Steven J. Weaver and Kimberly Gist