Ibm Rational Software Podcast Series

Electronics fuel innovations in many industries. As a result, electronics firms are under constant pressure to deliver this innovation on time and within budget, while contending with rapidly changing technologies, increasing product complexity and strict compliance and safety standards. Additionally, firms must typically coordinate project tasks across a global marketplace with an international supply chain. To help meet these difficult challenges, IBM Rational offers a set of solutions and products for several electronics industry segments, including: semiconductors, medical devices, consumer electronics, network equipment providers, industrial automation and office products. This podcast will discuss the comprehensive set of capabilities IBM Rational provides for the electronics industry. Paridhi Verma, speaker.

For most medical device companies, the design control requirements of the FDA, as defined in 21 CFR Part 820, are fundamental to the business of developing products. The challenge is how to ensure that you remain compliant to these regulatory needs while reducing the overhead in doing so. Ideally, you want to make compliance just part of "how we do business around here", and, in effect, invisible to the practitioners. This podcast will discuss approaches to make that possible. Marty Bakal and Paridhi Verma, speakers.

Poor software quality is blamed for more major business problems than any other man-made product, and results in over 500 billion dollars of losses worldwide. Improving application quality is a high priority in virtually every industry. But traditional testing methods have become too costly and impractical to keep up with business demands due to the increasingly complex web of hardware, software and services. By automating the building and testing of z/OS application code in isolated environments using virtualized services, the IBM Continuous Integration Solution for System z helps significantly improve software quality while reducing delivery time and costs. Dave Myers and Cheri Bergeron, speakers.

Heavily regulated industries like automotive, aerospace and defense, and medical devices face issues like requirements management and traceability across the lifecycle to meet regulatory needs. While for lightly regulated industries like Telecom and consumer electronics key issues are being able to reuse components from product to product as development time frames get shorter. These industries have to address these pain points through their entire supply chain in developing both hardware and software. This podcast will focus on IBM Rational solutions for development of hardware/software co-design. Marty Bakal and Paridhi Verma, speakers.

First conceived in 2005, the founders of IBM Jazz asked the question "Can we do for teams what Eclipse did for individual developers?" Today, our mission for Jazz remains strong: to transform software and systems delivery by making it more collaborative, productive and transparent. In this podcast we chat with John Wiegand and Dan Griffin for the Jazz team. They will describe where we are with Jazz, and where we are going in the coming months and years.

Did you ever wish you could have a wizard at your fingertips, to help you make tough program and project decisions easier? IBM develops technical wizardry and makes it more accessible. One of the ways we do this is by encapsulating difficult problems into models, which can then be made available to those who need solutions in a more consumable way. Learn how IBM Rational helps make tough program and project management decisions easier. Murray Cantor and Brian Nolan, speakers.

Many organizations are neglecting to adopt a comprehensive performance testing process as it is too expensive or time consuming to measure the performance of business critical functionality prior to releasing to production. What if there was a way to test the performance of your applications before their release at a lower cost? Join Dennis Moya as he shares IBM's point of view with key messages delivered during the IBM webcast featuring Scott Barber, Performance Testing Thought Leader.

Mobile is not only one of the most exciting trends, but an inevitable one. And although most companies already have some type of a mobile strategy, to take it to the next level and offer those 5-star apps, they will have to extend to the back-end leveraging their databases and mainframe applications. This podcast highlights a few of the challenges and the unique solution that IBM offers which combines end-to-end application lifecycle management with both mobile and mainframe development featuresall integrated together in one package. Leigh Williamson and Pam Induni, speakers.

Reduce waste and increase business value by helping customers make more informed investment and delivery choices. By providing the ability to rigorously assess the value of new investments, deployed applications and delivery projects, customers can ensure that they obtain the greatest return from their organization's resources. Listen to how IBM's business partner Decision Focus have helped organizations overcome some of their biggest challenges and how this has lead to that organizations could reach true business value. Jon Tollerup, speaker.

Hear the latest enhancements for the IBM Rational Solution for Systems and Software Engineering, including: Systems Engineering Metrics, Cross Lifecycle Reporting, Quality Management tool mentors for the OSLC DOORS - RQM integration, Linked Lifecycle Data and the solution benefits from new product releases. Andrew Foster and Sue Green, speakers.

Join Ben Williams and Steve Shoaf as they discuss the challenges facing engineers developing today's smarter products, and how Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager can help tame complexity and promote innovation within product development environments.

Hear how Kanban planning and risk management enhancements in IBM Rational Team Concert support systems engineering and embedded software development. Darcy Wiborg Weber and Sue Green, speakers.

Collaborative DevOps bridges the gap between development and operations, extending agile techniques to resolve deployment bottlenecks. Learn how Rational software can help you reduce cost and time while increasing quality by automating the deployment on complex applications to the cloud. Steve Weaver, speaker.

What if you could effectively manage the cost and complexity of testing your mobile application without compromising the quality of the result? Leigh Williamson, Distinguished IBM Engineer, shares the ways an effective mobile application testing strategy that balances the use of multiple forms of integrated test execution capabilities (e.g., test virtualization, test optimization, cloud) can help deliver better quality results. He also highlights the important role our partners can play to help accelerate this process for customers faster, better, for less.

What really is an optimal product? Depends on your point of view, right? The question is optimal for what? High performance means high cost. Faster time to market might mean lower quality. How do you design a product that balances all of the competing constraints? Join Greg Gorman and Steve Shoaf as they discuss how systems engineering can help product developers understand the impact of design decisions on required business results.

Faster, less costly and high quality software delivery can be yours! Youll need a collaborative environment that supports requirements, design, quality and software change and configuration management. And you can have it in one easy-to-install and easy-to-use solution that can be optimized for agile or waterfall teams. Learn all about IBMs solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management and the best practices, tool guidance, hands on workshops, and services to support your successful adoption! Kelli Houston, speaker.

Organizations are evaluating new ways to gain additional engineering efficiencies at both the Systems Engineering level and in Embedded Software development. In this podcast we will talk with VDC Research about their research results and recommendations on the changes and challenges that are driving a growing need for lifecycle management tools that can facilitate higher levels of collaboration and integration across the development lifecycle. Chris Rommel and Sue Green, speakers.

In this two-part podcast we will discuss the best practices and comprehensive set of capabilities for enterprise mobile application development and lifecycle management using an agile methodology. This tightly integrated solutionwhich leverages our open standards-based mobile application platform and ALM capabilitiesdelivers capabilities targeted at key mobile development lifecycle stages. Teams can use the solution to more easily support multi-tier mobile application development and to develop and deliver high-quality apps more rapidly, successfully and cost-efficiently. In the second part we discuss the best practices for developing mobile applications. Leigh Williamson and Paridhi Verma, speakers.

In this two-part podcast we will discuss the best practices and comprehensive set of capabilities for enterprise mobile application development and lifecycle management using an agile methodology. This tightly integrated solutionwhich leverages our open standards-based mobile application platform and ALM capabilitiesdelivers capabilities targeted at key mobile development lifecycle stages. Teams can use the solution to more easily support multi-tier mobile application development and to develop and deliver high-quality apps more rapidly, successfully and cost-efficiently. In the first part we discuss the challenges faced by application developers and IBM capabilities. Leigh Williamson and Paridhi Verma, speakers.

Confused by all the agile advice? Relax! Join Matt Holitza, Agile Evangelist for IBM Rational, to find out about his new book, Agile for Dummies. He'll discuss some of the key takeaways from the book and talk about some of his observations on the state of agile adoption.