IBM Rational software podcast series

Much has been written about IBM Rational Quality Manager - Datasheets, demos, whitepapers, technotes, blogs, web pages, etc... In fact, too much has been written. In fact, one could argue that IBM Rational Quality Manager suffers from information overload. In this podcast, we'll attempt to cut through the clutter and set you on a path to understanding the basics about Rational Quality Manager and how to cherry pick the information you need to become productive today in your quality management efforts. Speaker: Brian Bryson.

These days we're all required to do more with less; provide more output and meet solution needs faster than before, with a high degree of quality, while utilizing fewer resources. Whether you're a daily user of Rational Application Developer, or have yet to even download the free trial of the leading IDE in the market, there are a number of features that can ease your day-to-day life, but might not be a part of your routine. Just imagine starting a debug session that you can then park on a server, only for it to be handed off or picked up by your team mate halfway around the world! This podcast will cover this feature, and many more including code assist, code validation and built-in, automated quality checks that can help you identify and fix issues that you run into on a daily basis. Speaker: Adeel Omer.

This podcast focuses on the challenges unique to multi-core application developers, and the emerging model-based approach to address many of the key concerns, such as identifying the number of cores, increased processing bandwidth vs. power consumption, and dynamic load distribution. While most systems development verticals are relevant, examples from Telecommunication device development will be used as illustration. Speaker: Attila Bilgic.

In a podcast with eg3's Jason McDonald, Greg Sikes, Director of Enterprise Architecture and Systems Modeling for IBM Rational, discusses new product strategy from IBM Rational to help organizations create better embedded software faster and with fewer errors. Some of the new product developments discussed include Doors, Webtop, Change, Synergy, and Rational Rhapsody. All help software teams create better complex software for sophisticated embedded systems.

The IBM Jazz platform for collaborative software delivery has come a long way since the initial launch of IBM Rational Team Concert. Today, Rolf Nelson, IBM Rational Team Concert product manager, discusses the innovations and benefits that have been achieved over the past year with new platform support, translations, document collaboration and now enterprise scalability and security.

Medical device manufacturers are faced with challenges to bring innovative products to market quickly while meeting functional, safety and regulatory requirements. Discovering a defect late in development or even worse, one that forces a product recall can be devastating to a medical device manufacturer. During this podcast, Paul Urban, Senior Medical Device Marketing Manager from IBM, discusses how using model driven development helps to accelerate the development, validation and verification of medical devices by assisting in team collaboration through graphical modeling, validating requirements through rapid prototyping, and automating the software development and test process.

Listen to Rick Slade, IBM Rational Enterprise Modernization Manager and Community of Practice Lead, as he introduces this timely new Webcast series: 'Bringing 20th Century Technology into the 21st Century without Breaking the Bank'. Learn how you can leverage your existing software assets and skills to deliver new business solutions, manage change, quality and reduce the total cost for multiplatform application development and delivery.

Scott Hebner, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for IBM Rational discusses with ebiz Q a topic on the top of every company's mind today: getting the most from their IT investments. This is of course the major focus of this year's IBM Rational Software Conference on June 1st.

Today, companies face complex WebSphere infrastructure management challenges. The key to delivering greater operational productivity with quality lies in automation. This podcast will answer questions about the new Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere, an optional feature that extends the Rational Build Forge solution, and is designed specifically for automating application deployments for WebSphere Application Server and Lotus/WebSphere Portal environments. By eliminating manual/complex tasks when managing WebSphere environments, this solution will help to improve productivity, cut costs, improve quality, and enforce governance without extra work.

To compete in today's economic environment and deliver superior products to your customers, software organizations have to define and manage requirements in a way that delights customers with high quality and innovation. In order to do that, companies must build the right solution -- the first time. In this podcast, Kurt Bittner, CTO for Ivar Jacobson Consulting, Inc. and author of Use Case Modeling, will talk about how to do that -- how to work with stakeholders to ensure your solution focuses on desired outcomes, rather than the customer's idea of what the solution should be, and how to document the solution as agreements are reached.

We are experiencing one of the most difficult economic climates in decades. The conversation has turned from innovation and winning in the marketplace to one of surviving and staying afloat until the crisis has passed. In this podcast, Beth Friday, VP, WW Client Support, Rational, talks about strategies for survival -- strategies that include the imperative to deliver winning solutions despite limited resources through requirements driven quality.

What's new with Rational Quality Manager v1.0.1? Listen to Brian Bryson and Bernie Coyne share the new capabilities in this release that include work item integration for defect specification and a concurrency license model between Rational Quality Manager and Rational Team Concert. Included are the collaborative and automation advantages and benefits these new capabilities bring to dev-build and quality-test teams alike.

Now more than ever, software development teams need to realize productivity gains quicker, cut costs without sacrificing quality and become more effective with the resources that they currently have -- be they local or distributed. With the release of Rational ClearQuest, Rational ClearCase and Rational Build Forge v7.1, IBM solidly delivers what today's companies have been demanding from an enterprise class Change and Release Management solution. A strengthened, centralized deployment model easily adopted for global teams is at the heart of this release. Jamie Thomas will answer questions using real world examples about the new features and advancements that will help software development teams realize effective distributed development through the use of remote clients, database replication, centralized monitoring and more.

Graham Stradling at Alcatel-Lucent talks about the importance of effective requirements management in delivering high quality systems to customers. With technologies converging and increased pressure on the telelcommunications industry to provide increased speed and bandwidth to customers, ensuring a reliable, fast efficient system is critical in order to maintain a competitive edge. By managing requirements across the whole lifecycle, Alcatel-Lucent are able to make sure that quality is not compromised and they can successfully meet their customers' needs.

The face of software development is changing rapidly. Today, software is often mission-critical to business success. And yet, recent studies show costs for software development are rising 10% annually, and unfortunately, about twice the rate of IT budget growth. In this podcast, hear Susan McNeice, a technology consultant at Frost and Sullivan, talk about the characteristics and benefits of solutions available today to move your development to a more productive environment.