IBM Rational software podcast series

Going "all in" on Agile? Just exploring the potential benefits? Innovate 2013 has something for those that are looking to Go, Grow or Scale Agile! With over 70 Agile sessions dedicated to best practices, customer stories, tips and techniques combined with pre and post conference agile training, Innovate is the premier event for Agile developers. Take a few minutes and listen to the podcast to find out how you can Get Agile at Innovate 2013.

Need to deliver software more effectively? Yesterday's idea of application life-cycle management (ALM) may not get you there. The Lifecycle Management Track will help you consider the latest trends and best practices so you can to increase innovation while balancing speed and quality. Learn from ALM thought leaders and success stories from IBM clients.

Hear from Bret Greenstein, Vice President, Rational Complex and Embedded Systems on the exciting content we've got lined up for our Systems Engineers and Embedded Software Developers during Innovate 2013. Bret will discuss his vision and strategic direction for product and systems development, focusing on industry capabilities, our commitment to openness, the importance of the partner ecosystem and continued investment in our products. Bret will also highlight our expanded systems content, special events and not to be missed educational and technical opportunities offered at this year's event.

Hear what's new and exciting about Innovate 2013, the IBM Technical Summit. Listen to this interview with Innovate 2013 Content Manager, Brian Bryson, to find out everything you need to know about what's going on at the event, and how you can Stay Ahead with IBM and Innovate.

Every agency is under pressure to reduce costs while at the same time increasing the amount of development. Join us to learn how service virtualization can "bend the cost curve" with more agility and less risk. The power of virtualization has moved from the data center floor to mission delivery with new service virtualization reduce the cost of developing and sustaining the complex, integrated systems that are critical for agency programs and operations. Madeline Bayliss and Tamara Kulesa, speakers.

Software quality and customer satisfaction are measured by companies more than any other form of measurement. However is the data being captured and analyzed providing an accurate reflection of reality with respect to quality and customer satisfaction? Join Al Wagner as he reflects on the recent IBM sponsored webcast where Capers Jones presented today's more practical measures and metrics allowing companies to be more predictable with quality.

For years, Governments have been trying to reap the benefits of Service-Oriented Architectures to improve their business agility. Whether agency information and processes are currently deployed on legacy systems, requires new modern development, or relies on the integration of open data, the core principles and capabilities for collaborative development can help drive successful SOA programs resulting in improved citizen outcomes and reduced costs.

Agile methods can bring benefits of discipline and efficiency to software development, and agile can be—and is—applied to the development of safety critical systems. In this podcast, Bruce Douglass answers a selection of questions from practitioners and managers engaged in safety-critical development on the topic of agile adoption.

Many developers are mislead or unfamiliar with the latest mainframe development tools. Luckily, there are no-cost instructor-led Distance Learning classes that have been helping developers get up-to-speed to tackle mainframe COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, Java development and more. In this podcast Jon Sayles and Stephen Henderson will discuss the overall structure, course content and how you can signup for the upcoming sessions at no-cost.

Medical device companies have to find ways to compete with lower-cost competition worldwide. They need to make the right decisions to define the right features and functions to build into their medical devices for reaching the right market at the right time. In this podcast we will discuss how IBM Rational Focal Point software provides a full audit trail to help ensure regulatory compliance and capture enhancement requests, product ideas, market needs and technical needs for product development.

In this podcast we will discuss how Invensys Rail Dimetronic has responded by establishing an ERTMS Center of Excellence, with IBM Rational as its primary platform. With Rational, the company works smarter, facing the future equipped with unprecedented levels of development automation, process integration and flexibility. It has reduced time-to-market for new products up to 40 percent.

We seem to be in a mobile "2.0" zone, where 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 to their backend Power System. We'll talk to "Why" you might want to extend (access to databases, etc.) And then cover "What unique application development and delivery challenges this creates?"

Most mobile applications developed for the enterprise are distributed, involving a complex ballet between the development of the application for the mobile device, and the back-end supporting services or API. With both of these being developed simultaneously, how can we avoid late stage integration issues? Service virtualization can help. This podcast discusses the ways it can help and the pitfalls to watch out for when virtualizing APIs for mobile applications. Peter Cole, speaker.

We believe customers will deliver better mobile applications by integrating, collaborating and optimizing the mobile development lifecycle. In this podcast, we will introduce our new offering providing the only comprehensive mobile development lifecycle solution currently in the market, combining ALM and MAP tooling.

Become more productive and save development dollars with our new Application Development Toolset trade up program and the new Application Management Toolset. Learn what you need to know to get your modern tools NOW. Bill Smith, speaker.