IBM Rational software podcast series

The role of a business analyst is changing day by day and is getting exciting with the increased business value that a BA can deliver to the organization. Do you have what it takes to be a successful business analyst? Join us for a podcast where George DeCandio, Distinguished Engineer discusses about the top competencies needed to become a successful business analyst. Speakers, George DeCandio and Kimberly Gist.

In current development processes, various methodologies and supporting software suites are used for system level analysis and multi-physics simulation analysis. These analysis are two critical parts of a Continuous Engineering methodology, which have not been married in the past and have been carried out in silos by separate teams with minimal interactions. For an effective Continuous Engineering methodology, it is imperative to close this gap. This podcast describes the successful joint effort by IBM and its business partners to develop a hybrid simulation platform with the goal of connecting system level analysis and multi physics simulation. Speakers, Amit Fisher, Jens Schindler, Sayyidul Arafat and Kimberly Gist.

DevOps processes and tools are helping Retailers compete in their fast paced mobile, digital and physical markets. Hear what key retailers are doing to deliver innovation faster. Learn how they can collaborate with customers and stakeholders during development to ensure success. Test virtualization and deployment automation are improving front end mobile to back end mainframe lifecycle development processes. DevOps processes and tools can enable your company to quickly respond to market shifts with greater agility, quality and success. Speakers, Sue Green and Kimberly Gist.

Recent advances in the energy sector are prompting a transformation in development practices. Energy organizations must be lean, agile, and focused on maintaining the rigorous standards essential for the successful delivery of safety-critical systems. Join this podcast to hear IBM Rational Chief Evangelist Bruce Powel Douglass discuss how proven design best practices can enable organizations to reap the vital benefits of agile development while increasing their focus on safety. Speakers, Bruce Douglass and Kimberly Gist.

Businesses are working to address the challenges of today's complexities and demand that has shifted delivery time lines from months down to weeks and even days. The key to a successful DevOps program is bringing together environment delivery, tooling, automation, governance and organizational collaboration. The PureApplication system can act as a catalyst to launch a successful DevOps program. Speakers Don Thomas and Kimberly Gist

In the current Electronics market with the pressures of fierce competition and empowered consumers, having the right products at the right time is pivotal to success. In this podcast, we will discuss the two distinct types of speed: innovation speed versus development speed. Speakers: Jiani Zhang and Martin Bakal

Equipping all objects in the world with minuscule identifying devices or machine-readable identifiers could be transformative of daily life. According to ABI Research more than 30 billion devices will be wirelessly connected to the Internet of Things (Internet of Everything) by 2020. Along with this latent potential comes inevitable complexity. When your architecture has to scale from hundreds to millions to billions of things rigorous methods and tools would be required to manage the exploding complexity. Join this podcast to understand how Rational is gearing to contain complexity. Speakers, Michael Rowe, Manprit Singh, and Kimberly Gist.

From changing business environments and technology trends to ever-increasing customer expectations, there are many factors forcing you to rethink the product and systems development and delivery lifecycle. In this podcast Jon Chard, marketing manager for IBM Rational Smarter Product Development discusses the key challenges and how Rational is continuing to deliver on its strategy of an open, connected, systems approach to Smarter Product Development. Speakers, Jon Chard and Kimberly Gist.

Transforming your organization can be a daunting endeavor and bring up a lot of tough questions. How do we organize our large teams most effectively? How do I test before an application is ready? How can I align business priorities to software innovation? What approach will help me manage compliance mandates? How do I remove the deployment bottlenecks to improve time to market? Join Elizabeth Woodward, IBM Rational Agile Consultant and Ken France, Managing Partner, Blue Agility to find out how the Scaled Agile Framework paired with IBM Devops capabilities delivers the answers for the Agile Enterprise of the future, and becomes the path to better business outcomes. Speakers, Elizabeth Woodward, Ken France, and Kimberly Gist.

Historically, product development has been very engineering-centric, starting with concept design and ending with release to manufacturing. Leading manufacturers, however, are questioning whether this is where product development should really start and end. While the engineering activity has typically focused on optimizing product functionality according to a given set of requirements, the question remains as to the origin of these requirements. In fact, if you can learn more about the specific requirements by better understanding customer sentiment and market trends, you can build a better product. If you can learn more about how your product actually behaves while in service, you know specifically about how it can be improved. And if you know more about how all the systems within your product work together, you can design it better. This podcast outlines how knowledge about customers, operations, and your development process can help you achieve smarter product development. Speakers, Steve Shoaf and Kimberly Gist.

There is wide-spread adoption of agile practices throughout the development lifecycle, including building and maintaining critical applications on the mainframe. Achieving agility here is helped through the use of automated testing and techniques like Service Virtualization which can shorten the delivery cycle, and improve application quality. IBM Rational Test Automation Solution now enables service virtualization and automated integration testing for CICS applications, scaling down and simplifying the required CICS test region configuration and MIPS requirements. Speakers, John Chewter and Kimberly Gist.

Both IMS and Enterprise COBOL had new and exciting announcements this year. COBOL and IMS continue to deliver leading edge technologies to facilitate application integration, modernization, as well as improving application performance. Roland Koo, Product Manager for Rational Compilers, and Haley Fung, IMS Senior Developer, identify why it is important to upgrade to the latest versions of IMS and COBOL together. Speakers, Haley Fung, Roland Koo, and Kimberly Gist.

Come join us as we discuss how the objectives of becoming a DevOps Enterprise –including reducing time-to-value, enhancing business agility, and being more Lean –can be furthered by using the right tools for the creative tasks of software development Speakers, Bill Smith and Kimberly Gist.

Companies are realizing that they must up their game to remain competitive. For most, this means pushing out more sophisticated applications, and in order to do this they often must extend their backend Power Systems to multi-platform front ends. We’ll cover the integrated Rational application lifecycle management solution for IBM i, including the new ARCAD Pack for Rational, for greater programmer productivity and rapid application release. Speakers, Chris Trobridge, Philippe Magne, and Kimberly Gist.

Come join us as we discuss the Rational multiplatform IDEs v9.0.1, and introduce the new integrated debugger that is now in Rational Developer for System z. Speakers, Cindy Krauss, Bill Smith, and Kimberly Gist.