Erich Gamma from the Rational Jazz team has just recorded and posted a 60 minute webcast on the subject of using Rational Team Concert in a globally distributed team. Erich covers topics such as server setup, release planning, iteration planning and finishing a release.
Have a look if you are interested in agile methods.
Rational Team Concert 1.0 is now available on jazz.net. You can download a free version with a server and 3 client licenses included. Team concert “provides a development environment that allows developers to collaborate together using integrated Source Control, Work Items, Build, Dashboards, Reports, and Process support. ”
I am especially interested in the support for agile projects via the iteration planning and work item management feature combined with the collaboration support – and all this in the same package.
I do architect related work for a J2EE project at the moment where agile planning takes place in ScrumWorks, source control is via CVS, code development is via Rational Software Architect, overall project planning is via Rational Portfolio Manager, and remote collaboration is done via Lotus Sametime. From that perspective Rational Team Concert looks very interesting!
Jazz.net is now open to everyone. From the site: “Jazz is an IBM Rational project to build a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for integrating work across the phases of the development lifecycle“.
According to Andy Patrizio from internetnews.com Jazz can be compared to SourceForge and Subversion.
The Jazz team blog has also been opened up for the public.
[Via Bil Higgins]