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Enterprise Modernization for System i using Rational Tools and X-Analysis
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008
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Ensuring Agile Development Environments using IBM Rational ClearCase MultiSite
Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008
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Grady Booch Presents: The Promise, the Limits, and the Beauty of Software
Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008
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IBM Rational Enterprise Modernization Strategy and Roadmap
Tuesday, Apr 15, 2008
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Improving ClearCase scalability with NetApp storage
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2008
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Enterprise Modernization for System i
Tuesday, Mar 25, 2008
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Lowering the Risks and Costs of Global Development using iRise and Rational
Wednesday, Mar 19, 2008
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Packaged Test Automation for SAP from Arsin and the integration with IBM Rational Functional Tester
Wednesday, Mar 5, 2008
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Ten Reasons Why You Can't Live Without the Rational ClearCase Remote Client
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2008
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Secure at the Source: Implementing Source Code Analysis in the IBM Rational Software Delivery Lifecycle
Wednesday, Feb 13, 2008
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Integrated Project Lifecycle Modeling: IBM Rational and SEER by Galorath
Wednesday, Jan 23, 2008
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Service Oriented Builds for Service Oriented Architectures
Monday, Dec 17, 2007
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Business Objects Provides Insight for Project Teams Managing Application Portfolios
Wednesday, Dec 5, 2007
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Policy-based SOA Governance for Rational - Strategies for Effective SOA Development
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2007
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Metrics for Management - with SourceIQ Source Code Portfolio Manager
Wednesday, Nov 14, 2007
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Project Planning with QSM SLIM Estimate and IBM Rational Portfolio Manager
Wednesday, Nov 7, 2007
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From Chaos to Continuous Improvement: Leveraging RUP Software Delivery Best Practices for CMMIR
Wednesday, Oct 17, 2007
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Increasing Agility Across the IT Service Lifecycle
Thursday, Sep 20, 2007
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Bridging from Systems Engineering to Model Driven Development - Collaboration through Architecture
Wednesday, Sep 19, 2007
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The automated solution for authoring, validating and managing business requirements: Ravenflow and IBM Rational RequisitePro
Wednesday, Sep 5, 2007
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Business Intelligence SOA Solutions and IT Governance from IBM Rational and Actuate
Wednesday, Jun 27, 2007
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RUG Webcast hosted by IRISE
iRise and IBM Rational RequisitePro
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
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RUG Webcast hosted by BuildForge
Integrating Build Management with Rational for End-to-End Software Delivery and Development Compliance
Tuesday, Mar 28, 2006
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Enterprise Modernization for System i using Rational Tools and X-Analysis
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008

Description: Today many companies have large, complex RPG and COBOL System i applications running critical business functions. Innovation to add new services, improve user interaction, etc may appear difficult because of outdated documentation, skill gaps and inefficiency of tools. Databorough, X-Analysis -a world leader in System i design recovery and modernization tools adds value to the Rational Software Delivery Platform to bring an integrated solution to this problem.

The management policy-driven suite of tools now brings productivity and technological benefits for programmers, analysts, management, support staff, and modern developers, for even the most complicated legacy applications. This webinar presents the overview and demonstrates the delivery for both management and technical staff, on how to take even the oldest applications into the future, while unlocking the true value of the investment in legacy.

Included in the presentation & Demo: . Rational Software offerings available for System i . Modernization Strategy Overview . Key Deliverables for Asset Modernization Solutions to provide . Impact Analysis (Object/Variable where used) . Graphical analysis of RPG Applications . Extracted Data Models . Data Analysis . Business Rule Extraction . Building Business Logic Web services & JSF's . Using Rational's latest System I development environment - RDi . Extending with Rational Business Developer RDBe(EGL) and Rational Application Developer (RAD) (Java) . Visualizing Activity/Use Case Diagrams in within Rational Software Architect (RSA) from legacy code

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Ensuring Agile Development Environments using IBM Rational ClearCase MultiSite
Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008

Description: Everybody who uses agile development methods like continuous integration and multi-site development using IBM Rational ClearCase MultiSite knows the problem: You try to ensure continuous stable builds using CruiseControl, but remote site checkins break your build. As IBM Rational ClearCase MultiSite synchronization is triggered by time you may get inconsistent source sets synchronized from another sites that break the build until the next synchronization. This presentation describes add-on tooling and receipt-handler enhancements for IBM Rational ClearCase MultiSite that ensure a stable replication without breaking the build.

Speaker Bio

Thomas Birkl is Configuration Manager with Siemens Enterprise Communications in Munich, Germany. He is working in software development since 19 years. First 8 years as developer on Unix based systems and the 11 last years as configuration management expert.

His company internal responsibilities range from dedicated responsibility for proprietary tools based on IBM Rational ClearCase to a single-point-of-entry for all CM questions and also second level support on CM issues. For distributed agile development projects he represents the role of the Configuration Manager being responsible for the CM process, the global infrastructure, software production and delivery unit.

Thomas was speaker at IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2006 (Topic: Using Base IBMR RationalR ClearCaseR to Support Geographically Distributed Agile Development Environments with Different CM Processes)and 2007 (Topic: Ensuring Agile Development Environments using IBMR RationalR ClearCaseR MultiSite).

Siemens Enterprise Communications was founded 2006 as wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens and has 17.000 employees in 80 countries. The company offers Open Communications products and services for the enterprise market.

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Grady Booch Presents: The Promise, the Limits, and the Beauty of Software
Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008

Description: Within this generation, software has changed the way that individuals collaborate, organizations do business, economies operate, and cultures interact. Software-intensive systems can amplify human intelligence, but they cannot replace human judgment; software-intensive systems can fuse, coordinate, classify, and analyze information, but they cannot create knowledge. Although software offers seemingly limitless promise, there are some very real limits to what software can do. Not everything we want to build can be built: there exist pragmatic theoretical and technical limits that make software development hard, if not in some cases impossible. Furthermore, not everything we want to build should be built: there exist moral, economic, social, and political limits that govern human industry. Software-intensive systems are perhaps the most intellectually complex artifacts created by humans, and while the majority of individuals in the civilized world rely on software in their daily lives, few of them understand the essential complexity therein, the labour required to create such artifacts, and the beautiful and elegant chaos of their architecture.

About Grady Booch
Grady is recognized internationally for his innovative work on software architecture, collaborative development environments, and software engineering. A renowned visionary, he has devoted his life's work to improving the art and science of software development. Grady served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation since its founding in 1981 and through its acquisition by IBM in 2003. He now is part of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, serving as Chief Scientist for Software Engineering. There he continues his work on the Handbook of Software Architecture but also mentors and leads various software engineering projects that are beyond the constraints of immediate product horizons. For more information on Grady Booch please review his website: http://www.booch.com/architecture/contact.jsp

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IBM Rational Enterprise Modernization Strategy and Roadmap
Tuesday, Apr 15, 2008

Description: Businesses need to change to stay viable. IT is the key enabler of this flexibility, yet most enterprises face significant challenges on the road to modernization. These challenges include lack of an inventory of current IT assets, complex tightly-coupled architectures, skills locked in to islands of development, and no flexibility for new investment. In this session, Omkar Nimbalkar, Senior Manager of the IBM Rational Enterprise Ecosystems team, will overview solutions within the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform that can help companies overcome these challenges with comprehensive support for enterprise modernization. This session is for anyone interested in the latest innovations supporting legacy application transformation, enterprise modernization, and cross-platform application development (System z, System i, distributed, and composite)

Speaker Bio
Omkar Nimbalkar
Mr. Omkar Nimbalkar, based in Silicon Valley, USA, is a Senior Manager of the IBM Rational Enterprise Ecosystems team. Mr. Nimbalkar is responsible for world-wide enablement and adoption of IBM Rational's strategic Enterprise Modernization solutions for System z and System i platforms. He has broad experience in IBM middleware technologies for Cross Platform Application Development and Information Management. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University, California and a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Engineering from University of Mumbai, India.

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Improving ClearCase scalability with NetApp storage
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2008

Description: Within this generation, software has changed the way that individuals collaborate, organizations do business, economies operate, and cultures interact. Software-intensive systems can amplify human intelligence, but they cannot replace human judgment; software-intensive systems can fuse, coordinate, classify, and analyze information, but they cannot create knowledge. Although software offers seemingly limitless promise, there are some very real limits to what software can do. Not everything we want to build can be built: there exist pragmatic theoretical and technical limits that make software development hard, if not in some cases impossible. Furthermore, not everything we want to build should be built: there exist moral, economic, social, and political limits that govern human industry. Software-intensive systems are perhaps the most intellectually complex artifacts created by humans, and while the majority of individuals in the civilized world rely on software in their daily lives, few of them understand the essential complexity therein, the labour required to create such artifacts, and the beautiful and elegant chaos of their architecture.

About Grady Booch

Grady is recognized internationally for his innovative work on software architecture, collaborative development environments, and software engineering. A renowned visionary, he has devoted his life's work to improving the art and science of software development. Grady served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation since its founding in 1981 and through its acquisition by IBM in 2003. He now is part of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, serving as Chief Scientist for Software Engineering. There he continues his work on the Handbook of Software Architecture but also mentors and leads various software engineering projects that are beyond the constraints of immediate product horizons. For more information on Grady Booch please review his website: http://www.booch.com/architecture/contact.jsp

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Enterprise Modernization for System i
Tuesday, Mar 25, 2008

Description: In 2008, IBM Rational Software has announced major changes in its packaging of i5/OS development tools and compilers and has introduced new products. Rational Software is also bringing its full suite of life cycle management, testing, and development tools to i5/OS in order to enable System i customers to modernize existing customers and respond to a dynamically and rapidly changing world. Join Bob Cancilla, Rational's System i Software Evangelist for an understanding of products and modernization strategies for System i customers. Speaker Bio

Bob Cancilla
Bob joined IBM in May, 2005 and is currently responsible for Strategy and Enablement of Rational tools for System i.

Bob joins IBM after over 35 years experience in System i and z management including VP and CTO at two major insurance companies. Bob is a technical editor and frequent contributor to the IBM Systems Magazine, i5 Business Edition. He is founder of electronic user group IGNITe/400 (www.ignite400.org) and author of several books on System i eBusiness.

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Lowering the Risks and Costs of Global Development using iRise and Rational
Wednesday, Mar 19, 2008

Description: Global development can be a solid strategy for cutting costs. But sending development work outside the company can be risky. Without flawless communication the result is oftentimes delayed projects, missing features, cost overruns and unhappy business units.

iRise simulations better elicit, communicate and validate business requirements for custom applications, portals and packaged software. And because visual requirements in iRise are seamlessly integrated to textual requirements in IBM RequisitePro, project managers, developers and testers get a clear and comprehensive specification of what to deliver.

This webinar will feature leading experts in the application definition space from IBM, OneSpring and iRise. Drawing from personal experience, they will share best practices on how the iRise and Rational joint solution helps companies get innovative business applications to market faster.

Topics they will discuss:

Framework for "Global Development"
Global Development challenges
How to cuts costs, reduce risks and delivers projects on time
Customer results

Join us and learn how the iRise and Rational joint solution helps companies get innovate business application to market faster through a low risk and cost effective distributed development model.

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Packaged Test Automation for SAP from Arsin and the integration with IBM Rational Functional Tester
Wednesday, Mar 5, 2008

Description: SAP Packaged Applications provide the capability to rapidly and economically configure and/or customize Business Processes to stay up to date with your needs. Today's global business environment requires a testing solution that can be reconfigured as quickly as your SAP landscape.

This webinar including a demonstration will show how your IBM Rational Functional Tester tool set used with Arsin solutions (QA/Mapper, Effecta Validation Engine and Arsin Support and upgrade tool kit) jumps to a next generation of functionality.

The IBM and Arsin solution allows you to develop a reusable, repeatable and easy to create and maintain SAP Test Automation regression Library for your SAP system, including custom applications and Inbound/Outbound interfaces. This unique test automation solution, 1) significantly reduces your dependence on busy SAP functional and technical staff for system validation, 2) greatly increases the test coverage, 3) reduces the cost and improves time to market through early defect detection. The net effect is an impressive ROI for testing professionals.

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Ten Reasons Why You Can't Live Without the Rational ClearCase Remote Client
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2008

Description: Discover ten reasons why you won't want to live without the IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC) for development. If you never used CCRC in the past, you'll wonder how you ever got by without it. If you were already a user, you may still learn a thing or two about this powerful and flexible client. We'll see how CCRC can be nimble and lighter weight, while providing the flexibility and robustness to support a wide range of needs. Learn how CCRC is used today to successfully support agile development environments, and why developers of all types of software projects chose it.
Speaker Bio: Fred Bickford IV is on the ClearCase Customer Advocacy Group (CAG) in IBM Rational Customer Support, a team that was established to solve problems, provide solutions, and be thought leaders through mentoring, enablement, and consultation for the world wide ClearCase community.

Fred has more than a decade of experience in supporting ClearCase customers, has presented numerous times at user conferences and was the author of the whitepaper "Simplifying an Enterprise Installation of the IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client" as well as dozens of support technical documents on ClearCase Remote Client.

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Secure at the Source: Implementing Source Code Analysis in the IBM Rational Software Delivery Lifecycle
Wednesday, Feb 13, 2008

Description: Automated source code analysis is widely recognized as the most effective method of security testing early in the life cycle, because it allows assessments of any piece of code without requiring a completed application. The best of these technologies provide the most valuable results by pinpointing each vulnerability at the precise line of code and detailing information about the type of flaw, degree of criticality, and how to fix it.

Learn how Ounce 5 source code analysis can be implemented in each phase of the IBM Rational Software Delivery platform, delivering a closed loop of discovery, remediation and informed dashboards, with the ultimate result of providing security governance for software development teams. The following topics will be covered:

Why source code analysis is important for software governance
For each phase of the Rational Unified Process, the specific software security objectives and milestones that should be met
A product demonstration detailing how the Rational Software Delivery Platform is integrated with Ounce 5 source code analysis, and how the integration of Rational and Ounce automates software security governance, enabling the team to more effectively meet project milestones, regulatory requirements and reduce overall risk

Ounce Labs' solution analyzes application source code to provide the most complete and accurate analysis of application vulnerabilities and their relative priorities, providing developers with remediation guidance and enabling the development team to effectively eliminate vulnerabilities at the source. Ounce 5 is a validated "Ready for IBM Rational software" partner, with rich integrations to Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest and Rational Application Developer.

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Integrated Project Lifecycle Modeling: IBM Rational and SEER by Galorath
Wednesday, Jan 23, 2008

Description: A new generation of governance is upon us, requiring that we not only control projects and funding, but that we control projects and funding in the face of constant change. Increased scrutiny requires new approaches to traditional functions, tools and processes - approaches that enable organizations to evaluate options faster, design software and systems better and deliver products sooner.

Today, most software organizations incorporate one or more of the following to evaluate software projects: 1) ballpark/rough order of magnitude/SWAG estimating, 2) top-down/constraint-driven estimating, and/or 3) bottom up/design-driven estimating. Despite the difference in planning methodologies, however, what all of these approaches have in common is that they almost always rely on the availability of scarce, over-committed personnel and manual or minimally-automated processes, such as spreadsheets and other homegrown tools. Such one-off practices are highly susceptible to human error.

With the IBM Rational SEER integration you can design a use case and virtually execute that use case as a "real world" software development project, testing numerous options (alone and in combination) in a matter of minutes to see how a project would actually turn out under different development scenarios. Once you have perfected your software design you can automatically upload your optimized project scenario using the SEER - IBM Rational RPM integration to schedule, allocate, and manage available project resources.

This webinar will include a brief demonstration on the SEER software modeling solution to show you how quickly a rough order of magnitude estimate can be created, as well as give you a glimpse of the drill-down power of a good software modeling solution. Based on more than two decades of use in the field, SEER for Software addresses several CMMI process areas including Project Planning, Project Measurement and Analysis, Project Monitoring and Control, Risk Management, and Quantitative Project Management. No other solution on the market can match SEER for both ease of use and functionality.

With a sense of what parametric modeling is all about, the webinar will present the 5-step process for Integrated Software Lifecycle Planning and how IBM Rational and SEER tools work together to automate that process:
Step 1: Evaluating a Preliminary Concept (Go or No Go?) Step 2: Developing a Software Design Step 3: Developing a Detailed Estimate Step 4: Assigning Resources and Manage Portfolio Step 5: Managing the Project to Meet Deadlines

SEER for Software with its integrations to the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform 7.0, IBM Rational Rose and IBM Rational Portfolio Manager has been validated to IBM's Ready for IBM Rational software offering.

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Service Oriented Builds for Service Oriented Architectures
Monday, Dec 17, 2007

Description: Applications that are designed to fit the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) are known as Composite Applications. Composite applications have additional challenges for build and release processes over traditional applications. For instance, composite applications are often made up of elements in different source languages, that need to be built on different platforms, and that require coordination across multiple machines in order to produce. Processing of composite applications frequently requires tools beyond traditional compilers and object link editors. Rational Build Forge provides build and release automation for development organizations. Come to this session to learn more about automating build and release of composite applications using Rational Build Forge. This session will cover additonal considerations for automating and example processes for using Rational Build Forge to build and release applications for a Service Oriented Architecture
Biographies
Leigh Williamson
IBM Rational Build Forge Architect.
Leigh was the architect for WebSphere Application Server systems management for many years and led the administration feature design and development for that product prior to taking the lead for overall product architecture for Rational Build Forge. One of Leigh's focus items since beginning work on Build Forge has been the integration between light-weight software development lifecycle automation and WebSphere.
David Brauneis
Senior Software Engineer, Rational Build Forge Architecture & Development
David Brauneis is an architect and development lead for Rational Build Forge. He joined Rational Build Forge in February of 2007. Prior to joining the Rational Build Forge team, David spent 8 years on the WebSphere Application Server team in a variety of architecture and development roles. In addition to his normal job responsibility, David was a part of the team that designed and implemented the automated build system used by WebSphere. He has 8 years of WebSphere Application Server development experience, over 7 years of J2EE application development experience, and over 10 years of Java development experience. David has been working for IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina for 8 years on projects related to distributed computing, build, automation, user interface, and system administration. He holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a Masters in Technical Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Business Objects Provides Insight for Project Teams Managing Application Portfolios
Wednesday, Dec 5, 2007

Description: Already embedded in many of your Rational tools, Business Objects and Crystal Reports can transform your development process and the resulting applications. Many companies are automating IT portfolio management processes by implementing Rational Portfolio Manager (RPM), Business Objects solutions integrate with the data warehouse to enable high value reporting, analytics and performance management on real information from all aspect of all projects a company is considering.
This session will walk through the use of the joint solutions, including Business Objects Enterprise and "WEBI" from the perspective of a Project Manager, a Resource Manager and a CIO.
This webinar will clearly demonstrate the value of Business Object in analysis, collaboration and integration of disperse data that could transform the way business decisions are made today.
The demo will take us through the day in the life of a company enabled with Rational and Business Objects solutions for advanced portfolio insight!
If you are the IT Project Manager. How can you get to the data you need to efficiently manage the assigned project.
If you are the CIO, viewing the aggregate project dashboard, making decisions about overall project funding and resources.
If you are the Resource Manager now tasked to drill into a specific project resource to help meet projected completion date.
We will demonstrate Crystal reports, Business Objects Enterprise, WebI and Xcelsius integrated to provide advanced business intelligence with the IBM Rational Portfolio Manager datawarehouse solution.

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Policy-based SOA Governance for Rational - Strategies for Effective SOA Development
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2007

Description: This session will discuss how to automate the design and deployment of a governance process that will guide development teams, as you transition to SOA. We will highlight WebLayers Center integration across the Rational Software Delivery platform with particular emphasis on use with IBM Rational Asset Manager.

The WebLayers Center family of products provides a policy-based approach to automate what has traditionally been a manual, labor intensive process of defining and enforcing governance. WebLayers Center ensures compliance throughout the SDLC to provide the necessary visibility and guidance to govern effectively.

WebLayers Center seamlessly integrates and provides governance across key products in the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform, including IBM Rational Application Developer, IBM Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational BuildForge and the new IBM Rational Asset Manager. With broad support that spans across the IBM Rational software portfolio, as well as other IBM families of products, WebLayers governs the entire software development and SOA life cycles.

Key takeaways:

How to leverage and extend existing SDLC and IT management processes to meet new SOA challenges
Types of policies, standards and best practices needed at various stages in the lifecycle
How to apply the appropriate level of governance and automate enforcement.
How, where and when to enforce policy and maintain compliance
Ways to encourage governance adoption by all constituents
Gaining the visibility to effectively measure your governance efforts.

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Metrics for Management - with SourceIQ Source Code Portfolio Manager
Wednesday, Nov 14, 2007

Description: It delivers immediate value with your current tools and teams. With SourceIQ you'll gain insight into a current project or code base immediately after a quick installation. Its deep integration with ClearCase/UCM/ClearQuest and languages allows it to data-mine your current assets - as is, with no modification - to generate a Development Intelligence Repository of KPIs for you to explore. On an on-going basis SourceIQ automatically monitors your ClearCase systems and code bases on whatever schedule you choose. It is non-invasive and requires no changes to your development organization, technologies, or processes.

You can summarize at any level and drill-down to any detail. With SourceIQ you'll roll-up information into graphical, big-picture trends across multiple projects, teams, and locations, or drill-down to analyze issues at the lowest level of detail. SourceIQ produces historical trends as well as moment-in-time snapshots so you'll see where you've been, know where you are, and predict where you're going.

It scales from the project to the enterprise. You'll get value from SourceIQ whether you're managing a single project or generating consistent KPIs across a diverse set of projects, teams, and locations. Managers will customize their dashboards to include the specific KPIs that matter to them, and publish dashboard components to members of their team to facilitate issue identification, peer reviews, or problem resolution. Peer managers will collaborate with each other by sharing KPIs across projects. Senior managers will enjoy a common view across many teams, projects, and locations that may be using different technologies and processes.

SourceIQ provides visibility into the current state and predictability of software projects for development managers, project managers, and QA managers. By automatically analyzing the source code in your ClearCase software configuration management (SCM) system, SourceIQ produces a repository of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in four critical areas: code quality, code volume and volatility, team contribution, and governance. This Development Intelligence gives you the fact-based metrics and analytics you need to manage your project without surprises, whether you are starting a new project, acquiring a code base, or managing offshore, outsourced, or distributed teams. SourceIQ helps individual managers drive their projects to success and provides senior managers with an integrated, consistent view of diverse projects across a department or an enterprise.

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Project Planning with QSM SLIM Estimate and IBM Rational Portfolio Manager
Wednesday, Nov 7, 2007

Description: In this webcast we will explore how proven estimation technologies can support project managers and their software planing processes. The first part of the webcast will provide an overview of the QSM SLIM (Software Lifecycle Management) software estimation methodology as implemented in the Rational Unified Process with Estimation, Measurement, and Control plug-in to IBM Rational Method Composer. Topics covered will include:

Core set of software metrics
Software Industry data and fundamental trends
Software Production Equation
Software Input assumptions - size and scope, productivity
Evaluating alternative execution strategies and project goals
How project estimates feed the project planning process

Next we will overview of the planning process implemented in IBM Rational Portfolio Manager, starting with proposal creation and showing the workflow of the approval process. Estimation tools are key to providing useful demand and resource management data.

Finally we will wrap up with a live demonstration of the automation to link estimates with project plans as implemented in QSM's SLIM-Estimate product and IBM Rational Portfolio Manager. The demonstration will show:

Importing project templates from RPM into QSM's SLIM-Estimate product to establish base work breakdown structures to be used in the project estimate
Generating estimates in SLIM-Estimate and evaluating estimation alternatives
Validating estimates with historic data to assess risk
Exporting detailed project estimates to Rational Portfolio Manager to support project manager's detail planning activities

Attendees will be eligible for a free copy of the QSM IT Software Almanac detailing current trends in software productivity and quality.

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From Chaos to Continuous Improvement: Leveraging RUP Software Delivery Best Practices for CMMIR
Wednesday, Oct 17, 2007

Description: Looking to achieve faster adoption of CMMI processes? Implement agile approaches to process tailoring & improvement? Reduce process management overhead by finding more reuse? While leveraging CMMI for business advantage is a key goal for many organizations, cutting down on the definition cycle time and fast tracking implementation can be elusive. CMMI is a framework to help integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes, and a point of reference for appraising current processes. While CMMI describes the "What" of Software Development Methodology, IBM Rational Unified Process aims to detail the "How". To fully benefit from this combination, existing gaps need to be addressed.

This complimentary 1 hour educational webcast will explore:

Common software delivery best practices for CMMI that can reduce costs, redundancy, implementation risks and improve quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle
Synergies and solutions to gaps found when mapping RUP to CMMI process areas
A demo of a new Ready for Rational solution developed in Rational Method Composer authored by Wipro Technologies that provides templates, checklists, guidelines for the process areas missing in RUP that are mandated by CMMI

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Secure, High Quality Code with IBM Rational Application Developer & IBM Rational ClearCase - Klocwork Source Code Analysis Integrated with your Software Lifecycle
Wednesday, Oct 3, 2007

Description: Klocwork, the leading provider of automated source code analysis technology, presents an introduction to code risk mitigation and quality management integrated within the IBM Rational Application Developer environment. Learn where source code analysis fits within the software development lifecycle, who can most benefit from using it, and what pitfalls are all too easy to encounter when it's not being used. Attendees will learn:

What automated source code analysis is, and how it is best applied within an existing development process
How polluting the source code management system with avoidable errors causes measurable downstream risk to company performance
How static analysis, the technology behind automated source code analysis, works
What kind of errors even the best programmers and development teams fail to catch
How to leverage automated source code analysis within the Rational Application Developer environment
How Klocwork's enterprise solution integrates with IBM Rational ClearCase and other enterprise infrastructure such as directory systems and security policies

The content of this presentation will be largely technical in nature, using open source code examples in both C/C++ and Java to show the value of static source code analysis and to demonstrate that serious bugs can even escape the thousands of eyes reviewing open source code.

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Increasing Agility Across the IT Service Lifecycle
Thursday, Sep 20, 2007

Description: A service-centric approach requires coordination across the full IT service lifecycle. Organizations need to integrate around the IT service lifecycle to help drive efficiency, agility, and growth for customers. Until recently, you rarely saw development connected with operations . nor did you see either side connected with the "business side of IT" - IT staffing, planning, governance. A service centric approach, exemplified by the recent version 3 release of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), is one that connects all 3 of these organizations together and allows you to manage services from initial thought conception to development, to deployment into operations and eventually into the retirement of that service. This webcast will cover the products from Rational and Tivoli that demonstrate this agility across the IT service lifecycle. Speakers: Bernie Coyne, IBM Rational, Geoffrey Bessin, IBM Rational and Perry Swenson, IBM Tivoli Speaker Bio: Bernie Coyne has worked in the software development field for 25+ years. He has held a variety of roles including chief technology officer, product development manager, systems analyst and programmer. He has worked for IT consulting firms, software product companies and has experience in both the private and public sectors. He has a wealth of hands-on experience in practical IT service lifecycle situations. Currently he works in Rational Marketing on the Governance & Risk Management Program. Speaker Bio: Perry Swenson is the worldwide Program Manager for the IBM Service Management Program. With over 28 years of information technology solution experience, Perry has a strong depth of software, services and product experience. Since joining Tivoli in 2000 he has focused on service management solutions and the benefits of integrating development and operations. Speaker Bio: Geoffrey Bessin, a member of the IBM Rational Strategy and Planning team, has held field enablement, product management, and go-to-market positions within Rational for 10 years. He is currently focused on the evolution of IBM Rational's strategy from software and service development to software and service delivery and governance - a more holistic strategy that incorporates business, development, and IT operational concerns.

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Bridging from Systems Engineering to Model Driven Development - Collaboration through Architecture
Wednesday, Sep 19, 2007

Description: Collaboration challenges between Systems Engineering and Software Development are manifested by awkwardness and clumsy information transfer between the two groups. As each discipline responds to different business and technical drivers, and uses a distinct language to create work products, communication and cooperation between these groups can suffer. By applying the IBM Rational Model Driven Systems Development approach with the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), using specific methodological optimizations and integrations with model-driven software development, this webinar demonstrates how you will:

Apply key architectural techniques and work products to effectively bridge from systems engineering to software development
Improve collaboration
Accelerate architecture-focused model-driven development
Extend software architecture longevity

By outlining a rigorous and coherent set of steps that are collaboration focused and based on proven modeling disciplines, this webinar helps transform your separate Systems Engineering and Software Development groups into an efficient and effective joint team for specifying, creating and delivering products faster and at a higher level of quality.

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The automated solution for authoring, validating and managing business requirements: Ravenflow and IBM Rational RequisitePro
Wednesday, Sep 5, 2007

Description: The automated solution for authoring, validating and managing business requirements: Ravenflow and IBM Rational RequisitePro This webinar will introduce you to both IBM Rational RequisitePro and Ravenflow Raven and you will see a demo of the integration. Together they are bridging the gap between business and IT, making sure that business application development projects are focused on meeting the true needs of customers and the business. Two of the root causes of application development project delay and failure are the presence of inaccurate requirements and an inability to manage change. If these obstacles due to miscommunication were diminished, applications would be delivered to market faster and with less risk of rework and delay. To achieve this, we must improve the way project requirements are defined and managed. In this webinar, you will learn about the joint requirements definition and management solution offered by IBM Rational and Ravenflow. The integration combines RAVEN, the Requirements Authoring and Validation Environment from Ravenflow, with the requirements management capabilities of IBM Rational RequisitePro. RAVEN automatically generates visual models to facilitate a collaborative and iterative process of business process requirements elicitation and validation. This helps guides stakeholders-including business staff, analysts and delivery practitioners-to produce clear and accurate user requirements for a system of application. IBM Rational RequisitePro supports many types of requirements, including business requirements, use cases, and system-wide requirements. It helps development teams deliver the right software by tracking progress and priorities, communicating changes, and tracing requirements. The combination ensures that the business requirements captured and validated in RAVEN, and managed in RequisitePro, reflect the actual needs of the business. Because requirements are kept in sync between RAVEN and RequisitePro, development teams have access to both the detailed project requirements and accurate visual models. So they have everything they need to build what the business really wants.

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RUG Webcast hosted by Agile- All Together Now: Software, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering Collaboration with Enterprise PLM and Software Lifecycle Management
Thursday, Jul 19, 2007

Description: Make sure to attend this important PLM Webcast on July 19th at 1:00pm ET, featuring a presentation by Joanne Friedman, CEO of Connekted Minds Inc.

Joanne will be addressing the following challenge - as product development increasingly requires coordination between software, electrical, and mechanical engineering disciplines, manufacturers struggle with the trade offs of providing best of breed development tools and cross discipline integrated business processes. In this webcast session, we will explore how Agile Software and IBM Rational Software are building solutions to ensure manufacturers can use the tools they want, and free the flow of information across the entire organization.�

Joanne Friedman, CEO of ConneKted Minds Inc, is widely recognized for her thought provoking insights on business-technology convergence and strategically engineering today's highly integrated demand and supply chains into value networks. An award winning author and speaker, Joanne is recognized by organizations in the electronics and high tech industry for her on-going contributions to XML standards development and business leadership.

Also presenting will be:
Ray Hein, the VP of Product Strategy from Agile Software. Agile is the leading Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software supplier for Electronics and High Tech companies. Prior to Agile, Ray has held various Engineering Management and NPDI roles in EHT companies such as: Pertec, Micom, Micropolis, and Storage Dimensions. Ray has been driving the product vision, product roadmap, and merger & acquisition strategy for Agile's Enterprise PLM solutions for the past 9+ years.

Brett Hillhouse, IBM Software Group, Worldwide Sales Global PLM Sales Manager, is responsible for IBM Software Group's global sales to the Aerospace and Defense Industry as well as IBM Software Group's PLM solutions . These solutions include PLM Integration & Collaboration, Software & Systems Development, Mechatronics, Program & Portfolio Management and Parts and Commonality Reuse. Mr. Hillhouse's responsibilities include partner enablement of independent software vendors working with IBM's PLM partners such as PTC. He was previously responsible for IBM's sales in the Aerospace & Defense market in the Americas. Mr. Hillhouse has held numerous PLM and industry positions since joining IBM from SDRC (UGS Corp.). Mr. Hillhouse holds a BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University.

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Business Intelligence SOA Solutions and IT Governance from IBM Rational and Actuate
Wednesday, Jun 27, 2007

Description: IBM and Actuate collaborate to provide organizations with advanced Business Intelligence solutions for IT governance. The key to effective governance is visibility into business performance. As business requirements change, organizations need the flexibility to analyze performance from new perspectives. IBM Rational Portfolio Manager (RPM) is a key component of this solution providing the ability to align IT and systems investments with business priorities, thereby optimizing investment and funding decisions, containing costs and maximizing value across the entire portfolio. The new 7.1 release of RPM delivers expanded BI capabilities and out-of-the-box reports that are based on technology from Eclipse's open source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project, initiated by Actuate. In this joint webinar, IBM and Actuate will present and demonstrate:

How open source BIRT adds value to the IBM Rational Portfolio Manager
How your organization can easily tap into a full spectrum of BI capabilities, including interactive and ad-hoc reporting and the ability to deliver information in dashboards, leveraging the principles of open source
How Actuate and Rational are collaborating in the area of SOA governance to give companies greater visibility into the management of their IT portfolio

Speakers:

Gary McBride, SOA Go-to-Market Manager, IBM Rational Vijay Ramakrishnan, Sr. Director, Strategic Marketing, Actuate Corporation Special Offer Attendees will also learn how to take advantage of special, discounted pricing for BIRT-based reporting packages and automatically be entered to win one of 10 books, "BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting" from the Eclipse series. Speaker Biographies Vijay Ramakrishnan, Senior Director, Strategic Marketing, Actuate Corporation As Senior Director at Actuate, Vijay Ramakrishnan brings more than 12 years of experience in high technology and enterprise software. Ramakrishnan is responsible for marketing and building community around Actuate's Java Reporting line of products, including those built using open source Business Intelligence from the Eclipse Foundation. Prior to joining Actuate, he held various roles of increasing responsibilities within sales and product marketing departments for companies such as Oracle and Yahoo! Ramakrishnan holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Stanford and a MBA from the University of California Berkeley. Gary McBride, SOA Go-to-Market Manager, IBM Rational Gary is IBM Rational Software's Service-Oriented Architecture GTM manager. He has been working with SOA since 2002 in various roles: enterprise architect, product manager, technical advisor, and SOA services leader for customers across EMEA and the US. He now leads Rational's SOA marketing activities, and works across IBM, with GBS, GTS, WebSphere, Tivoli, Lotus, and STG with regard to SOA Governance and Service Lifecycle Management.

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RUG Webcast hosted by IRISE
iRise and IBM Rational RequisitePro
Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Description: Join IBM Rational and iRise in this webcast to learn about their joint requirements definition and management solution. The integration combines iRise application simulation with requirements management from IBM Rational RequisitePro. Inaccurate requirements and the inability to manage change are two of the root causes of rework, cost over-runs, and project failures. Improving how requirements are defined and then successfully managing them through the development and delivery phases of software projects results in applications delivered to market faster, with less risk of rework and delays due to miscommunication. iRise simulations produce clear and accurate user requirements through a collaborative and iterative elicitation and validation process involving the use of visualization with stakeholders, including business staff, analysts and delivery practitioners. IBM Rational RequisitePro supports business requirements, use cases, and system wide requirements and helps development teams deliver the right software by tracking progress and priorities, communicating changes and tracing requirements from business modeling, data modeling, design, implementation and testing. The joint solution ensures requirements captured in iRise simulations will give the business what they expect. And because requirements are kept in sync by a real-time, bi-directional integration, the development team will have detailed requirements as well as the simulation to ensure they build it right. This webcast will introduce you to both IBM Rational RequisitePro and iRise, but will focus on how together they can help to make sure that what the customers and the business really want is what actually gets built.

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RUG Webcast hosted by BuildForge
Integrating Build Management with Rational for End-to-End Software Delivery and Development Compliance
Tuesday, Mar 28, 2006

Description: To listen and view this webcast, please dial in at 1-888-346-3950 or 1-404-260-5380, using Passcode 5515457#, and login at http://www.infiniteconferencing.com/Events/rational/, using the participant code 5515457#.

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