Collaborative Lifecycle Management: Blazing the Trail with the CLM 2010 Project
Tuesday, Jul 20, 2010

Description: Are you looking to align your analyst, development, and quality management professionals so they can work together as a unified team? The CLM 2010 project is bringing Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and new Requirements capabilities together into something we call the Rational Workbench for Collaborative Lifecycle Management. We'll demonstrate our work in progress and explore how these products are coming together to create a virtually seamless system to reduce administration costs, streamline communication, boost productivity, and get it all done more efficiently in your own organization. We'll demo key features and share our Open Beta plans.

Speaker: Chris Sibbald, IBM Software Group, Rational Product Manager, Cross Segment Products and Initiatives

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Building Software Securely from the Ground Up: Introducing Rational AppScan Source Edition
Wednesday, Jun 30, 2010

Description: Last year, Web application vulnerabilities made up roughly half of all security vulnerabilities. Without proper testing, these issues can significantly impact your company. This webinar provides an update on Web application security and shows how testing done early in the Software Development Life Cycle can dramatically reduce the risk of a security breach, while helping you deliver applications on time and on budget.

Agenda:

• Current state of Web application security
• The importance of testing for Web application vulnerabilities is critical
• Effectively integrating security testing early in the SDLC

Speaker: Paul Kaspian, Solution Marketing Manager, Rational AppScan

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Rational Team Concert for Agile Teams: The Million Seat March giveaway!
Friday, Jun 25, 2010

Description: When releases and teams are relatively stable, like in many product development organizations, applying agile planning techniques is straight forward with Rational Team Concert (RTC). However, in Information Technology (IT) organizations where systems live forever but projects and sometimes teams around them come and go quickly, the agile planning solution is often much more difficult to define and implement. This webcast examines two common IT agile planning scenarios and solutions, and the challenges associated with them. Jazz/RTC helps enable Agile methods and ease the communication burdens within and between those Agile teams.

We will explore how customers have leveraged Jazz/RTC to help them promote Agile processes across ALL of their development teams. We will address some of the pitfalls of Agile@Scale, some of the ways to address those pitfalls, and how Jazz/RTC can help smooth some of the rough edges.

Speaker: Daniel Toczala

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Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest 20/10: The anniversary celebration begins!
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Description: Join Peter Hack, Daniel Diebolt and Sreenivasan Rajagopal as they take you on a journey through time. We'll start our journey in 1990, when ClearCase was first released by Atria Software. We'll then fast forward 8 years, when Rational Software released ClearQuest, followed one year later by Unified Change Management. Then as our users helped us grow through the 2000s we made many significant enhancements to ClearCase and ClearQuest including the ClearCase Remote Client, improvements to Multisite and the ClearQuest Web Client. And while it's nostalgic to explore the past, we'll also take a peek at where ClearCase and ClearQuest are today and more importantly what the future holds for these market leading products.

Speakers: Peter Hack, Daniel Diebolt and Sreenivasan Rajagopal

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Successful Agile Development using Presto
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Description: This seminar presents key factors teams need to consider to drive effective agile development both from the technical and business perspective. It presents Presto, the right combination of IBM development tools, delivered as VMware appliances, ready to use, with very low monthly pricing. The seminar concludes with a demonstration of Presto that illustrates collaborative application lifecycle management in support of agile development.

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Software-Based Product Lines: The New Frontier for Systems and Software Delivery
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Description: Today's systems and software-based product development organizations must deliver a product line - a portfolio of similar products with variations in features and functions - rather than just an individual product. As a result, more companies are funding initiatives to identify, evaluate and implement a leading-edge Common Product Line strategy to streamline systems and software engineering. The driving goal is to satisfy strong customer demand to reduce the time, cost and effort required to create, deploy and maintain product lines. This IBM Rational webcast will feature an innovative product line engineering framework, provided by IBM partner BigLever Software, that enables organizations to develop, deliver and evolve an entire product line portfolio through each stage of the engineering lifecycle, with much higher degrees of efficiency. IBM Rational and BigLever Software are collaborating to offer a pragmatic and proven product line engineering approach - including software infrastructure, tools, methodology and expertise - that enables you to create a fully automated, optimally efficient means of production for your systems and software-based product line.

Speakers:

Michael Rowe, IBM Strategist and Product Line Engineering Solution Lead, IBM Software Group (Rational)
Charles Krueger, CEO, BigLever Software

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Strategies you can employ to Profit from Compliance within the Automotive Industry
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Description: Are you in the Automotive Industry? Sign up today to learn what strategies you can employ to profit from compliance. We will review various current complexities factors for automotive suppliers, including the need to support ever-changing requirements, along with the challenge of adopting AUTOSAR and building compliancy toward ISO 26262. We will then focus on some of the solutions we provide to those challenges, covering the development process from requirements all the way to AUTOSAR implementation.

Speaker: Raz Yerushalmi

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Optimizing Rational Team Concert Application Performance for Rapid ROI
Wednesday, Mar 31, 2010

Description: Critical to lowering costs and increasing the efficiency of remote software development environments is a high performance wide area network (WAN) infrastructure. SCM solutions are commonly accessed over the WAN where remote developers can experience performance degradation due to high latency, resulting in lost productivity and higher development costs. This Webcast features IBM Rational Team Concert performance test results and total cost of ownership (TCO) and ROI analyses to demonstrate how Certeon's aCelera WAN Optimization software cost-effectively reduces Rational Team Concert response time over the WAN by up to 95%, saves 60% in capital and operations TCO, and can deliver a rapid ROI.

Speakers:

Charlie Kraus, Certeon, Sr. Director of Business Development
Paul Weiss, IBM Rational, Sr. Manager Performance and Reliability

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Introduction to Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing
Tuesday, Mar 30, 2010

Description: Today's world is significantly smarter than it was a decade ago - smarter because of increased instrumentation, interconnectivity, and intelligent systems. Despite this, effective software delivery remains a challenge. Cloud computing is one way to increase flexibility and agility by leveraging virtualization, standardization and automation to free up operational budget for new investment, and is a natural fit for development and test workloads. This session discusses the concepts behind cloud computing for development and test, and introduces IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing, deployed on the IBM Smart Business Development and Test Cloud.

Speaker: Steve Weaver

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The Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF)
Thursday, Mar 25, 2010

Description: IBM Rational offers a structured approach to helping software and systems delivery teams drive business innovation through measured and continuous process improvement. The Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF) helps you gain competency in the core development practices that most impact business outcomes. This panel will provide you an opportunity to hear from the creators of MCIF and to ask any questions you may have related to this framework and how it relates to you and your business.

Speakers: A GRUG Virtual Panel Discussion with - Bruce MacIsaac, Chris Sibbald & William Norris

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Getting Started with Agile – Method
Wednesday, Mar 24, 2010

Description: Is your team ready to do Agile development, but unsure where to start, which methods to tackle first, or if your existing tools will be sufficient? Join IBM and one of our top Agile Business Partners, ATSC, for an in depth discussion of Agile methods, where to start, and why a deep dive using Scrum, illustrated through IBM Rational Team Concert Express-C (Free Edition) can accelerate new teams in their Agile adoption to achieving rapid results.

Agenda:

• Review of Agile disciplines and methods
• Deep dive on Scrum
• Demo of how Rational Team Concert Express-C Free edition automated key Scrum activities

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Tired of wrestling with point solutions? Then step up to a lean ALM platform!
Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010

Description: Does your organization develop for both Java and .NET platforms? Are you looking to tie-in your legacy system development with newer development technologies? Are you adopting agile development practices? Do you want to leverage your open source tools? Are your teams scattered among different offices, time zones and countries? Then attend this webcast by Rolf Nelson, product manager for IBM Rational Team Concert, and learn how an agile application lifecycle management solution can help disparate teams produce high quality software in a much more cost effective and predictable manner. We make it easy for you to trade up from your current software.

Speaker: Rolf Nelson, RTC Product Manager

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Design and Automate Software Deployment
Wednesday, Mar 10, 2010

Description: Delivering product and service innovation with integrated service management for design and delivery. Ever wonder how quickly your phone got you directions and downloaded your favorite tunes? IBM Rational® and Tivoli provide the capabilities to design and deliver increasingly complex system of systems projects along with the systems and application software critical to delivering a superior user experience. In today's interconnected world every service and interaction between the multiple systems and stakeholders needs to be managed, monitored, and maintained in a production environment with little or no visibility into how the ecosystem will evolve over the next few years. Current models of design, development, operations, and deployment simply won't scale or be cost effective.

Integrated service management for design and delivery from IBM bridges design, development, test activities seamlessly with operational processes to meet the ultimate needs of the business and synergistically enabling organizations to:

• Identify required changes and resolve customer issues in less time
• Reduce system downtime and repair costs
• Limit risk exposure by providing better visibility to change impact

Speakers: Seema Sheth-Voss, CJ Paul and Paul Tasillo

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Collaborative Systems Development using IBM Rational tools
Wednesday, Mar 3, 2010

Description: The Rational Software Platform for Systems offers an integrated workflow across the development lifecycle for successfully delivering software for products and systems in an increasingly competitive world. Lifecycle collaboration is critical for success and for handling change and exceptions. But collaboration is challenged by geographically distributed development teams, working with external suppliers, and working across separate development disciplines. Integrated automated processes and new tools to support collaboration in this environment are needed and Rational has responded. This presentation will show how the Rational Software Platform for Systems brings the development process, as well as the developers, analysts and QA team together from requirements though test to deliver more competitive, high quality smarter products.

Speaker: Sue Green

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What Are You Doing About Application Security?
Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010

Description: If you have been ignoring application security, now is the time to get serious. With increasing frequency, data theft and application incidents are top of mind concerns for IT executives. Not only are customers demanding corporate accountability, but many regulations require full disclosure when there is even a suspicion of a security breach resulting in the potential loss of personal or sensitive information. The best approach to defending against an attack is to build software securely from the beginning rather than trying to bolt it on nearer the end of the development process.

In this session IBM Rational's Ingrid Eheler will discuss why organizations need to pay special attention of application security and explain how to integrate security across the development lifecycle using Rational AppScan and Rational design and development tools. We will also share real-world examples of customers who are taking proactive measures to defend against attacks at the Web application layer.

Speaker:
Ingrid Eheler, WW Application Security Segment Sales Leader

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Best Practices Using Requirements Gathering with Model-based Business Process Management Systems
Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010

Description: Today, more and more development projects are using business process modeling systems for a new generation of process applications. BPMSs generate a wide variety of artifacts, including BPMN 2.0 process models, which should be an input to your requirements elicitation process. This webinar will demonstrate how IBMR RationalR Requirements Composer can be used with the ActiveVOST BPMS to provide a collaborative environment for using business process models in your requirements process.

Audience: Application architects, developers, business analysts, business end users and managers responsible for developing new and enhanced applications in their organizations. This webinar will be especially interesting to project teams looking for tools that will enhance the collaboration between business users and IT as a way of ensuring that new process applications achieve their objectives.

Speakers:
Dr. Michael Rowley, CTO, Active Endpoints
Michael Rowley is a leading technologist in SOA and BPM software. He was a contributor on the BPMN 2.0 specification and is an editor of the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specifications that are being finalized within OASIS. He is a key contributor and an editor on OASIS specifications for Service Component Architecture (SCA) and is also co-author of the book Understanding SCA, which was published in July of 2009.

At Active Endpoints, Michael is actively engaged in the design and development of ActiveVOS and is responsible for accelerating the company's technological leadership in the BPM market. Before joining Active Endpoints, he worked at BEA Systems, where he was an architect on three products before moving to the office of the CTO, where he worked on innovative technology and standards. Michael received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1994.

Andy Berner, Lead Architect for ISV Enablement and Strategy, Rational Business Development
Andy Berner is the lead architect for the IBM Rational ISV Enablement team. He has been a frequent popular speaker at Rational conferences on a variety of topics. He has over 20 years industry experience, and for ten years, he has helped customers improve their ability to develop and deliver software with Rational tools, including requirements, modeling, change management and process. Currently, he works with Rational technology partners to enable their integrations to the Rational toolset.

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The Future of the Unified Process
Tuesday, Dec 1, 2009

Description: Moderated by Julian Holmes

Since the creation of the RUP in 1998, Unified Process has been evolving with the industry. In the last few years, the RUP has been refactored into "practices" that extend an agile core called OpenUP. Today with tension between new process brands and the various communities, it's natural to wonder where the Unified Process is headed. Please join us for a virtual panel discussion focused on the future of the Unified Process and hear from key thought leaders in the process industry.

Speaker: A Virtual Panel Discussion with - Philippe Kruchten, Bruce MacIsaac, Scott Ambler

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The Future of the Unified Process
Tuesday, Dec 1, 2009

Description: Moderated by Carson Holmes

Since the creation of the RUP in 1998, Unified Process has been evolving with the industry. In the last few years, the RUP has been refactored into "practices" that extend an agile core called OpenUP. Today with tension between new process brands and the various communities, it's natural to wonder where the Unified Process is headed. Please join us for a virtual panel discussion focused on the future of the Unified Process and hear from key thought leaders in the process industry.

Speaker: A Virtual Panel Discussion with - Philippe Kruchten, Bruce MacIsaac, Scott Ambler

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Getting the Most Out of Modeling Embedded Applications Based on UML
Thursday, Nov 19, 2009

Description: This webinar will demonstrate the advantages of modeling in UML (Unified Modeling Language). Also how to use UML to model embedded systems with limited resources and real time aspects.

ANSI-C is still the most popular notation to program embedded systems with limited resources. But even in those small embedded systems the complexity is growing permanently and programming in C is getting more and more inefficient.

An upcoming alternative is the notation UML (Unified Modeling Language). Based on UML complex systems can be designed much more efficient and wit ha higher quality. But how is the performance of the source code that is generated out of a UML Model?

In this webinar the advantages of modeling in UML will be demonstrated. Also how to use UML to model embedded systems with limited resources and real time aspects.

Speaker:
Webcast presented by Walter van der Heiden - Associate Partner and CTO of Willert Software Tools

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Using requirements gathering with model-based business process management systems
Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009

Description: Today, more and more development projects are using business process modeling systems for a new generation of process applications. BPMSs generate a wide variety of artifacts, including BPMN 2.0 process models, which should be an input to your requirements elicitation process. This webinar will demonstrate how IBM® Rational® Requirements Composer can be used with the ActiveVOS™ BPMS to provide a collaborative environment for using business process models in your requirements process.

Audience: Application architects, developers, business analysts, business end users and managers responsible for developing new and enhanced applications in their organizations. This webinar will be especially interesting to project teams looking for tools that will enhance the collaboration between business users and IT as a way of ensuring that new process applications achieve their objectives.

Speakers:

Dr. Michael Rowley, CTO, Active Endpoints
Michael Rowley is a leading technologist in SOA and BPM software. He was a contributor on the BPMN 2.0 specification and is an editor of the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specifications that are being finalized within OASIS. He is a key contributor and an editor on OASIS specifications for Service Component Architecture (SCA) and is also co-author of the book Understanding SCA, which was published in July of 2009.

At Active Endpoints, Michael is actively engaged in the design and development of ActiveVOS and is responsible for accelerating the company's technological leadership in the BPM market. Before joining Active Endpoints, he worked at BEA Systems, where he was an architect on three products before moving to the office of the CTO, where he worked on innovative technology and standards. Michael received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1994.

Dr. Andy Berner, Lead Architect for ISV Enablement and Strategy, Rational Business Development
Dr. Andy Berner is the lead architect for the IBM Rational ISV Enablement team. He has been a frequent popular speaker at Rational conferences on a variety of topics. He has over 20 years industry experience, and for ten years, he has helped customers improve their ability to develop and deliver software with Rational tools, including requirements, modeling, change management and process. Currently, he works with Rational technology partners to enable their integrations to the Rational toolset.