Ibm Rational Software Podcast Series

In seeking out an agile tool, there are many choices. Take a few minutes to learn about IBM’s approach to Agile ALM. With coaching, best practices and tooling that support a team’s core agile need while also providing integrated best-in-class source code management and build automation. These integrated capabilities allow agile developers to focus on delivery great code by automating the busy work that slows them down. Speakers, Matt Holitza, Richard Knaster, and Kimberly Gist.

The network equipment industry is being driven towards Software-Defined Networking (SDN), a technology transition that threatens to commoditize network equipment. With a cast of established networking giants, hot start-up companies, and other formidable players, there is a dynamic and complex competitive landscape, with billions of dollars at stake. Network Equipment Manufacturers (NEMS) will need to effectively execute their product strategies to either protect or seize market share and margins. This means establishing close alignment and responsiveness to customer needs and requirements, and then having the agility to deliver the corresponding software capabilities and products. Paridhi Verma and Harvey Wong, speakers.

Companies are increasingly looking to agile methods to cut risk, improve quality and increase flexibility in complex product development. But what approaches really work and what benefits can adopters expect to obtain? In this podcast, analyst Bola Rotibi of analysts Creative Intellect Consulting discusses the applicability of Agile approaches to embedded software and complex systems development, drawing upon the results of an in-depth cross-industry study conducted at the end of 2012. Bola Rotibi, Jonathan Chard and Kimberly Gist, speakers.

Many agencies are adopting, or want to adopt Agile practices to drive faster delivery, higher quality, and improved collaboration. An iterative approach to software delivery allows for a constant evolution of requirements, driving refinements more frequently in the development process, ensuring timely delivery of critical software. Despite the benefits, agencies have adoption challenges unique to the government environment. Join this podcast to learn a few strategies your organization can leverage for successful agile adoption. Alan Brown, Richard Knaster and Kimberly Gist, speakers.

Dr. McCoy and the medical tricorder device from Star Trek is becoming reality. Entrepreneurs, start-ups, and traditional medical device manufacturers are leveraging the compute power, portability, and connectivity of Smartphones to create a new class of medical diagnostic devices. There's even an X Prize competition adding fuel to the market interest. This podcast discusses the regulatory compliance considerations and the key product development lifecycle practices that are needed to build Smartphone-based medical devices. Paridhi Verma, Harvey Wong and Martin Bakal, speakers.

Software development outsourcing efforts by Communications Service Providers can lead to difficulties in collaborating with their software supply chain to ensure requirements are well understood causing potential delays in product offering. IBM Rational's GADO offering can help govern the collaboration across this supply chain. Kimberly Gist and Charles Rivet, speakers.

Join us to hear about the new 9.0 versions of Rational Developer for i and Rational Developer for AIX and Linux. Learn what you need to know to get your modern tools NOW. Hear about the ADTS trade up program to save you money. Kimberly Gist and William T. (Bill) Smith, speakers.

For scrum teams to be productive, they need stories that are specified well enough that they can actually be implemented. Millard Ellingsworth describes an increasingly popular practice called "backlog grooming" and explains Rational Team Concert customizations that can help identify user stories that need grooming. This article requires Rational Team Concert version 4.0 or higher. Kimberly Gist and Millard Ellingsworth, speakers.

Requirements come in many shapes and sizes. They have demonstrated time and time again to improve the development time, quality and overall cost of a project. Projects that lack requirements quickly fall into many of the typical traps of common project failure. Listen to the podcast in where Bernard Coyne talks about how requirements improve the complete development life cycle along with the best practices of managing requirements effectively.

Diagnostic Grifols has adopted Agile practices while keeping development in compliance with regulations. In this podcast you will learn how Diagnostic Grifols has evolved its practices with the new AAMI's Technical Information Report (TIR45) which gives guidance on the use of Agile in medical device development; Diagnostic Grifols has attained significant gains in productivity with a simultaneously Agile and compliant approach; and how this type of approach could be used in other regulated industries as well. Keith Collyer and Paridhi Verma, speakers.

Agile development allows the developers to build products quicker. One issue that organizations have in migrating to Agile is understanding project completion and how to manage the different metrics across projects. Another issue is the metrics capture process for an Agile team becomes quite burdensome, if it isn't automated. Typical agile metrics are things like burndown and velocity. Mapping these concepts to traditional project status like percent complete and expected ship date can become onerous. Martin Bakal and Paridhi Verma, speakers.

IT organizations today must be able to flexibly react to changing business requirements. The ability to host Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) in the cloud reduces the time, cost and resources required for installation, configuration and maintenance. Learn how IBM is extending IBM SmartCloud Enterprise images to include Rational’s development solutions. Kimberly Gist, Jean-Yves Rigolet and Steve Weaver, speakers.

As software plays an increasingly critical role in the business performance of corporations, IT faces considerable pressure to support new business initiatives while cutting costs. Over the last 30 years, billions of dollars have been invested in software applications, but typically these investments are poorly leveraged. Too often, a complex and poorly understood application portfolio consumes a large percentage of IT funds, leaving IT leaders challenged to find the funds needed for business innovation. Johan Hedstrom, speaker.

What's new in Rational Developer for Power 8.5.1, and how do you get it? William (Bill) Smith, Product Manager, Rational Solutions for Power, discusses the new features in Rational Developer for Power 8.5.1, and how you can download this new functionality.

Engineering medical devices is not an easy job. These devices include an increasing amount of software that integrates with hardware and electronics and need to meet changing healthcare needs and standards. This podcast will discuss how IBM Rational solution for medical devices provides tools to meet regulatory compliance with enhanced automation and reporting to avoid audits, lawsuits and company collapse, manage product complexity by integrate requirements and quality management and reduce time-to-market and cost by early defect detection and removal. Keith Collyer and Paridhi Verma, speakers.

Agile practices have transformed the way software is built and delivered. Today, Agile is used in virtually every industry and is being used to deliver every type of software from mobile to mainframe, Agile is everywhere and impacts everyone! Whether you are a developer, tester, analyst, architect or project manager agile could be in your future. Please take a few minutes to join Matt Holitza as he explores what the move to agile could mean for you and your team. Matt Holitza, speaker.

Are you a System z, Power (IBM i, AIX and Linux), or PureSystems customer? Then come explore how Enterprise System solutions from IBM can help you build on existing, proven applications by extending and streamlining in the areas of Mobile, DevOps, Cloud, Service Virtualization, and Modernization. This podcast features three speakers who will highlight the Smarter Computing, System z and Power/PureSystems tracks at Innovate. Hear which sessions are not to be missed, learn how to schedule a personalized 1:1 demo in the Solutions Suites, Register for the System z Reception, Check out the Expos and Workshops, and more. Sherri Hanna, Susan Yoskins and Michael Connor, speakers.

The role of embedded software is growing exponentially in Engineering systems and quality in these systems is no longer a differentiator, but a necessity for success. Increasing development time or cost is not an option, therefore engineers must evolve their techniques to remain competitive. Learn how IBM and National Instruments are investing to equip engineers with technology to produce superior system quality and validation efficiency with the ability to trace and improve development end to end and improve collaboration between all engineering teams from initial requirements through final systems test. Chris Washington and Sanjiv Jain, speakers.

Banking, Insurance and Financial Market applications and processes have increasingly complex testing needs that are hindering time to market and increasing costs. Recent results show that financial institutions around the world are addressing this challenge in order to excel in rapidly changing financial environments. Join this podcast to hear how, from Mobile to Mainframe apps: 1) Test lab infrastructure costs can be reduced by up to 90%. 2) Labor involved in setting up test environments can be reduced by 80%+. 3) Test environments can be configured in minutes versus weeks. And 4) Developers have the means to test software earlier. Sue Green and Adam Olson, speakers.

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.