IBM Rational software podcast series

Today’s successful companies are recognizing that software is increasingly a competitive advantage for their business. An enterprise capability for continuous software delivery can enable organizations to seize market opportunities, respond more rapidly to customer feedback, and balance speed, cost, quality and risk. By applying lean and agile principles across the software delivery lifecycle, DevOps helps successful teams deliver a differentiated and engaging customer experience, achieve quicker time to value, and gain increased capacity to innovate. Come and learn how DevOps can accelerate your organization's software delivery capability as IBM executives, renowned subject matter experts and distinguished customers share best practices, solutions and real-world examples. Speakers, Steven J. Weaver and Kimberly Gist

Interested in transforming business via mobile? You are not alone. As mobile usage continues to grow worldwide, delivering high quality mobile applications is becoming increasingly important for businesses motivated to interact with their customers and employees via mobile. While aspects of mobile application development align with traditional software, the definition of quality and velocity of mobile app delivery are very different. It is clear that adopting a comprehensive DevOps approach to mobile app development is helping organizations, like yours, to rapidly respond to feedback from users and deliver highly engaging, quality mobile apps. Explore with us through this podcast, the exciting lineup of sessions and speakers this track will offer and how DevOps capabilities are being applied successfully to build successful MobileFirst organizations. Speakers, Neil Patterson and Kimberly Gist

On June 3, 2014, IBM Rational will host the first Energy Day at Innovate. This Energy Forum will explore progress in clean energy over the last decade and look into the future at trends, technologies, challenges, and innovations in the energy industry. This energy form will explore progress in clean energy over the last decade and look into the future at trends, technologies, challenges, and innovations in the energy industry. The Forum will include a view into energy innovations emerging from ingenuity amongst local organizations, a panel exploring nuclear energy and systems engineering, and an expert panel presenting perspectives on the future of clean energy. Speakers Tammy Kulesa and Kimberly Gist

Get a first look into the Release and Deploy track at Innovate 2014, which will feature IBM UrbanCode Deploy and IBM UrbanCode Release, and the technical roadmap for these solutions within IBM DevOps. The track will highlight Release and Deploy integrations with IBM Cloud and IBM Mobile, and third party products, including OpenSource offerings. It will also cover best practices for managers, ROI as realized by IBM UrbanCode customers, and in-depth technical discussion and demonstrations of the products and features. Speakers, Claudia Ring, Robert Cuddy and Kimberly Gist

Highlights of the three Enterprise Modernization tracks supporting DevOps for the Enterprise, including mainframe, AIX, IBM i and Linux environments. Our three track chairs discuss the main topics that will be explored to help you plan your Innovate experience. Speakers, Sherri Hanna, Susan Yoskin, Dwayne Moore and Kimberly Gist

Delivering quality software on-time, on-budget and on-target isn't easy: costly, error-prone manual processes; slow deployment to development and test; upgrade risks due to multiple applications platforms - all of these cause delays and bottlenecks in software delivery. For organizations using mobile, social, big data and cloud technologies for competitive advantage, they need a smarter, more flexible foundation for software delivery. Businesses are benefiting from continuous aligning releases with business strategies and goals and balancing those priorities with user feedback. Speakers, Roger LeBlanc and Kimberly Gist

Hear what’s new and exciting about Innovate 2014, the IBM Technical Summit. Listen to this interview with Innovate 2014 Content Manager, Brian Bryson, to find out everything you need to know about what’s going on at the event, and how you can Innovate@Speed with IBM. Speakers, Brian Bryson and Kimberly Gist

BlueMix is IBM's recently announced $1B investment into the cloud—it is IBM's cloud platform. Let's take a minute to understand what BlueMix is, how developers can leverage it today, and why it matters to business. Speakers, Chris "Spence" Spencer and Kimberly Gist

Service outages and system downtimes have a direct adverse effect on consumer satisfaction. That's why for telecommunication companies, developing and building resilient services is especially important. In this podcast, listen in as we discuss the importance of resilient services and what to keep in mind as companies aim to develop resilient services. Speakers, Tolla Cherwanka and Jiani Zhang

With development time and cost constantly being squeeze, how can companies become more efficient and capture the most from their development investments? In this podcast, listen in as we discuss the concept of strategic reuse, its connection to continuous engineering and its application to product development. Speakers, Joanne Scouler and Jiani Zhang

Do your software projects stumble over the deployment hurdle? If so, you are not alone. Many software projects struggle achieving consistent deployment across their environments -- from Test to UAT to Staging to Production. Successful deployments must account for differences between environments; coordinate development teams and environment owners; balance schedule pressures; and create the requisite audit trail. When these challenges are compounded by error prone, inconsistent and inefficient manual processes, achieving a consistent deployment can seem impossible. The cost of this struggle is lost time, late breaking defects, and uncertainty. In this podcast, we go beyond the whys of consistent automated deployments and examine best practices, helpful tools and common pitfalls encountered when seeking consistent deployments across environments. Speakers, Eric Minick and Kimberly Gist.

Your business depends on software. So it's critical that enhancements be meaningful and timely – but you are confronted with legacy applications managed through disparate processes, tools and siloed teams that take too long to deliver the software changes needed to support your business. In today's podcast, Tim Hahn, Distinguished Engineer and CTO for IBM Enterprise Modernization joins us to discuss IBM's point of view on DevOps and solutions available to accelerate integration of emerging systems of engagement applications such as mobile with existing systems of record spanning distributed, mid-range and mainframe platforms. Speakers, Timothy Hahn and Kimberly Gist

Your team needs to deliver software faster and improve quality, what key capabilities do they need? Your team needs to deliver software faster and improve quality, what key capabilities do they need? How can your team deliver software faster and improve quality? How do you balance speed, cost, quality and risk, that seems like a tall order? Speakers, Sanjeev Sharma and Kimberly Gist.

Global organizations developing complex systems are facing increasing pressure to innovate, to develop more features at a lower cost with higher quality than ever before; staying ahead of the curve is essential to remain competitive. In this podcast we will talk about how to create processes that people accept and embrace and how to select the right technologies to run them. Participants will learn how to transform the development environment from isolated engineering silos to a collaborative learning organization. In short, to ensure harmony between People, Process and Practices. Speakers, Erich Meier, Brett Hillhouse, and Kimberly Gist.

Faced with the pressures of empowered consumers and fierce competition, communication service providers (CSPs) need to constantly optimize the services they deliver to their customers. CSPs are forced to continuously update customer-facing applications and internal IT applications that improve performance. By capturing the benefits of continuous deployment, CSPs can not only streamline their deployment of applications, increasing efficiency and speed, but also improve coordination and integration across both internal and external application environments. Speakers, Eric Minick and Kimberly Gist