IBM Rational software podcast series

Collaborative development enables teams to work together across tools to deliver quality software faster. Speakers, David C. Myers and Kimberly Gist

Poor requirements management is among the significant contributing factors in the failure of a project. Improper requirements management can lead to disconnected teams, wasted time, out-of-control costs and unsatisfied customers. If you use documents, spreadsheets, emails, wikis and other conventional office and productivity tools to keep track of your business, customer or product requirements, you could be putting your project at risk. With proper requirements management solution implementation, development costs can be reduced by up to 57%, time to market accelerated by up to 20%, and cost of quality lowered by up to 69%. Speaker, Morgan Brown, Global Enablement Leader for requirements management solutions at IBM Rational.

Defects are many times less expensive to rectify the earlier they are caught in development cycle. In this podcast you will learn about an IDE that provides automated tools to quickly create high quality code during the implementation of software that addresses this issue by moving defect resolution and prevention into the development activities of a software project. This results not just in development efficiency but also improved time to market and reduced development cost. Speakers, Kathy Chan, Bill Smith and Kimberly Gist

Companies are realizing that they must become more productive to remain competitive. For most, this means pushing out more sophisticated applications faster, and in order to do this they often must extend their backend IBM i systems to multi-platform front ends. We’ll cover the application development and delivery challenges when the IBM i development is still 5250 based and others work in other places. We will talk about using Rational Team Concert with the ARCAD Pack for Rational to manage legacy and modern development environments. Speakers, Chris Trobridge, Floyd Del Muro and Kimberly Gist

Continuous Engineering is an enterprise capability that speeds delivery of increasingly sophisticated and connected products by helping businesses to evolve their engineering practices to adapt to the accelerating pace of business change. Continuous engineering isn’t “continuous” in the sense that it is never ending. Rather, it addresses the ever present need to rethink, redesign, reintegrate and reinnovate products and systems. It is about helping engineers work in the ways that they want to work—with easy access to all the tools, data and expertise they need to do their jobs better.One of the key practice areas within Continuous Engineering is focused on unlocking access to and understanding of engineering knowledge and information, regardless of source, to enable the right decisions at the right times. The ability to unlock engineering knowledge helps engineers and product developers turn insight into outcomes. Speakers, Steve Shoaf and Kimberly Gist

RDz  V9.1 can help you upgrade to COBOL v5.1 to increase application performance and reduce operating cost. Speakers, Roland Koo, Bill Smith and Kimberly Gist

Join Steve Shoaf as he discusses how continuous engineering can help manufacturers prosper in the age of the “Internet of Things.” Speakers, Steve Shoaf and Kimberly Gist

In this fourth and final discussion, Laurel and Paul discuss how IBM has transformed their own software engineering approach with new devops processes, tools and culture. This is a topic that will interest our Government clients as they learn about and adopt devops in their their departments and agencies, but really clients in all industries will enjoy and use the information in this last podcast. Joining Laurel and Paul are David Leigh, Jeanette Deupree, Xavier Segovia and Irene Penney from IBM who share their stories of DevOps adoption and important lessons learned.

In this third discussion, Laurel and Paul discuss the process improvements DevOps brings to a government organization, how to assess readiness through a free self assessment tool and also how to foster a cultural change that supports a DevOps adoption. Speakers, Laurel Dickson-Bull, Public Sector Offering Manager, IBM Rational software and Paul Bahrs, Chief Architect for Emerging Technologies, IBM Rational software

In this second discussion, Laurel and Paul bring home the value of DevOps with more examples of success in government agencies. DevOps capabilities can help government deliver software faster and more predicatively and with less risk. The primary capabilities discussed are in four major areas: 1) Plan and Measure or Steer, 2) Develop and Test, 3) Release and Deploy, 4) Monitor and Optimize. Speakers, Laurel Dickson-Bull, Public Sector Offering Manager, IBM Rational software and Paul Bahrs, Chief Architect for Emerging Technologies, IBM Rational software

DevOps is an exciting topic in the software delivery industry today including the Government sector. IBM sees DevOps as an enterprise capability for continuous software delivery, enabling organizations to seize market opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback. This capability unites the people, practices, technologies, and the information across organizations that support the software delivery process. For Government, this means by applying this DevOps approach the associated best practices, agencies and departments can respond faster and with higher quality to citizen expectations. Listen to Paul and Laurel discuss why Government should pay attention to DevOps. Speakers, Laurel Dickson-Bull, Public Sector Offering Manager, IBM Rational software and Paul Bahrs, Chief Architect for Emerging Technologies, IBM Rational software

Developers have a lot to worry about when developing an app. They need a physical place to run on, they need to configure it plus they need the middleware and software to run on it. Now some of these things can be found on the cloud so a developer can jump right into their coding. SoftLayer provides the infrastructure and a virtual system. BlueMix takes care of everything from virtualizing a system to providing a database service. And, IBM DevOps Services can help by providing development and test teams an open, integrated DevOps solution in the cloud for building mobile and cloud apps and deploying them in IBM BlueMix. With DevOps Services, developers can just jump right into the coding and not worry about setting up the infrastructure or framework for planning, tracking, source control, build, and deployment -- everything is right there! Including complementary IBM Mobile Quality Assurance to help you capture tester and live-user experience for building great mobile apps. At innovate you learn all about it in several sessions in the cloud and mobile tracks. You can also stop by our hands-on kiosk in the Solution EXPO and try it out for yourself -- play with sample apps, create a project, or check out trending public projects. Speakers, Jennifer Moore and Kimberly Gist

Agile is maturing. In fact, 81% of teams surveyed have over a year of experience with Agile, according to a recent Agile Maturity benchmark report commissioned by IBM and the Scrum Alliance. So teams are focusing on bigger challenges than getting started. To gain a competitive edge, teams must accelerate software innovation and delivery while reducing time to customer feedback by applying Lean and Agile principles across the entire software delivery lifecycle – not just team by team. Sessions in this track will cover how to scale Agile to the enterprise including real world tips for successful Agile adoption, extending Agile practices to large and distributed teams, and practical guidance on how to effectively adapt Agile, leveraging market -leading frameworks, and addressing issues such as regulatory compliance, outsourcing, and complex development across platforms. Speakers, Jennifer Moore and Kimberly Gist

This podcast will feature Bret Greenstein, VP Continuous Engineering, and Brian Dalgetty, Director Continuous Engineering Marketing, as they discuss key capabilities of continuous engineering, including: Unlocking Engineering Knowledge--“Turn Insight into Outcomes”, Continuous Verification--“Measure twice, cut once”, Strategic Reuse--“Don’t reinvent the wheel”. They will also highlight the many activities at the upcoming Innovate conference featuring continuous engineering. Speakers, Bret Greenstein, Brian Dalgetty and Kimberly Gist

From device to cloud to mobile new development challenges are being created as manufacturers and enterprises are learning how to build and integrate connected products into their offerings and solutions. IBM and Rational are helping our customers make the Internet of Things real. Speakers, Michael Rowe and Kimberly Gist

As the industry moves to the cloud era, millions of developers are looking to access tools and services that will enable them to leverage this fast-emerging opportunity. With a broad cloud portfolio and deep expertise, IBM can help you innovate and realize the benefits of cloud fast by developing cloud and mobile applications on a leading-edge cloud platform, being agile using self-service infrastructure with instant deployment, and by providing business users with the innovative applications they need. Sessions in the cloud track at Innovate will focus on IBM solutions, including DevOps Services, that leverage public, private and hybrid clouds to deliver an open, integrated development experience that scales. Speakers, Steven J. Weaver and Kimberly Gist

Today’s successful companies are recognizing that software is increasingly a competitive advantage for their business. An enterprise capability for continuous software delivery can enable organizations to seize market opportunities, respond more rapidly to customer feedback, and balance speed, cost, quality and risk. By applying lean and agile principles across the software delivery lifecycle, DevOps helps successful teams deliver a differentiated and engaging customer experience, achieve quicker time to value, and gain increased capacity to innovate. Come and learn how DevOps can accelerate your organization's software delivery capability as IBM executives, renowned subject matter experts and distinguished customers share best practices, solutions and real-world examples. Speakers, Steven J. Weaver and Kimberly Gist

Interested in transforming business via mobile? You are not alone. As mobile usage continues to grow worldwide, delivering high quality mobile applications is becoming increasingly important for businesses motivated to interact with their customers and employees via mobile. While aspects of mobile application development align with traditional software, the definition of quality and velocity of mobile app delivery are very different. It is clear that adopting a comprehensive DevOps approach to mobile app development is helping organizations, like yours, to rapidly respond to feedback from users and deliver highly engaging, quality mobile apps. Explore with us through this podcast, the exciting lineup of sessions and speakers this track will offer and how DevOps capabilities are being applied successfully to build successful MobileFirst organizations. Speakers, Neil Patterson and Kimberly Gist

On June 3, 2014, IBM Rational will host the first Energy Day at Innovate. This Energy Forum will explore progress in clean energy over the last decade and look into the future at trends, technologies, challenges, and innovations in the energy industry. This energy form will explore progress in clean energy over the last decade and look into the future at trends, technologies, challenges, and innovations in the energy industry. The Forum will include a view into energy innovations emerging from ingenuity amongst local organizations, a panel exploring nuclear energy and systems engineering, and an expert panel presenting perspectives on the future of clean energy. Speakers Tammy Kulesa and Kimberly Gist

Get a first look into the Release and Deploy track at Innovate 2014, which will feature IBM UrbanCode Deploy and IBM UrbanCode Release, and the technical roadmap for these solutions within IBM DevOps. The track will highlight Release and Deploy integrations with IBM Cloud and IBM Mobile, and third party products, including OpenSource offerings. It will also cover best practices for managers, ROI as realized by IBM UrbanCode customers, and in-depth technical discussion and demonstrations of the products and features. Speakers, Claudia Ring, Robert Cuddy and Kimberly Gist

Highlights of the three Enterprise Modernization tracks supporting DevOps for the Enterprise, including mainframe, AIX, IBM i and Linux environments. Our three track chairs discuss the main topics that will be explored to help you plan your Innovate experience. Speakers, Sherri Hanna, Susan Yoskin, Dwayne Moore and Kimberly Gist

Delivering quality software on-time, on-budget and on-target isn't easy: costly, error-prone manual processes; slow deployment to development and test; upgrade risks due to multiple applications platforms - all of these cause delays and bottlenecks in software delivery. For organizations using mobile, social, big data and cloud technologies for competitive advantage, they need a smarter, more flexible foundation for software delivery. Businesses are benefiting from continuous aligning releases with business strategies and goals and balancing those priorities with user feedback. Speakers, Roger LeBlanc and Kimberly Gist

Hear what’s new and exciting about Innovate 2014, the IBM Technical Summit. Listen to this interview with Innovate 2014 Content Manager, Brian Bryson, to find out everything you need to know about what’s going on at the event, and how you can Innovate@Speed with IBM. Speakers, Brian Bryson and Kimberly Gist

BlueMix is IBM's recently announced $1B investment into the cloud—it is IBM's cloud platform. Let's take a minute to understand what BlueMix is, how developers can leverage it today, and why it matters to business. Speakers, Chris "Spence" Spencer and Kimberly Gist

Service outages and system downtimes have a direct adverse effect on consumer satisfaction. That's why for telecommunication companies, developing and building resilient services is especially important. In this podcast, listen in as we discuss the importance of resilient services and what to keep in mind as companies aim to develop resilient services. Speakers, Tolla Cherwanka and Jiani Zhang

With development time and cost constantly being squeeze, how can companies become more efficient and capture the most from their development investments? In this podcast, listen in as we discuss the concept of strategic reuse, its connection to continuous engineering and its application to product development. Speakers, Joanne Scouler and Jiani Zhang

Do your software projects stumble over the deployment hurdle? If so, you are not alone. Many software projects struggle achieving consistent deployment across their environments -- from Test to UAT to Staging to Production. Successful deployments must account for differences between environments; coordinate development teams and environment owners; balance schedule pressures; and create the requisite audit trail. When these challenges are compounded by error prone, inconsistent and inefficient manual processes, achieving a consistent deployment can seem impossible. The cost of this struggle is lost time, late breaking defects, and uncertainty. In this podcast, we go beyond the whys of consistent automated deployments and examine best practices, helpful tools and common pitfalls encountered when seeking consistent deployments across environments. Speakers, Eric Minick and Kimberly Gist.

Your business depends on software. So it's critical that enhancements be meaningful and timely – but you are confronted with legacy applications managed through disparate processes, tools and siloed teams that take too long to deliver the software changes needed to support your business. In today's podcast, Tim Hahn, Distinguished Engineer and CTO for IBM Enterprise Modernization joins us to discuss IBM's point of view on DevOps and solutions available to accelerate integration of emerging systems of engagement applications such as mobile with existing systems of record spanning distributed, mid-range and mainframe platforms. Speakers, Timothy Hahn and Kimberly Gist

Your team needs to deliver software faster and improve quality, what key capabilities do they need? Your team needs to deliver software faster and improve quality, what key capabilities do they need? How can your team deliver software faster and improve quality? How do you balance speed, cost, quality and risk, that seems like a tall order? Speakers, Sanjeev Sharma and Kimberly Gist.

Global organizations developing complex systems are facing increasing pressure to innovate, to develop more features at a lower cost with higher quality than ever before; staying ahead of the curve is essential to remain competitive. In this podcast we will talk about how to create processes that people accept and embrace and how to select the right technologies to run them. Participants will learn how to transform the development environment from isolated engineering silos to a collaborative learning organization. In short, to ensure harmony between People, Process and Practices. Speakers, Erich Meier, Brett Hillhouse, and Kimberly Gist.

Faced with the pressures of empowered consumers and fierce competition, communication service providers (CSPs) need to constantly optimize the services they deliver to their customers. CSPs are forced to continuously update customer-facing applications and internal IT applications that improve performance. By capturing the benefits of continuous deployment, CSPs can not only streamline their deployment of applications, increasing efficiency and speed, but also improve coordination and integration across both internal and external application environments. Speakers, Eric Minick and Kimberly Gist

The role of a business analyst is changing day by day and is getting exciting with the increased business value that a BA can deliver to the organization. Do you have what it takes to be a successful business analyst? Join us for a podcast where George DeCandio, Distinguished Engineer discusses about the top competencies needed to become a successful business analyst. Speakers, George DeCandio and Kimberly Gist.

In current development processes, various methodologies and supporting software suites are used for system level analysis and multi-physics simulation analysis. These analysis are two critical parts of a Continues Engineering methodology, which have not been married in the past and have been carried out in silos by separate teams with minimal interactions. For an effective Continues Engineering methodology, it is imperative to close this gap. This podcast describes the successful joint effort by IBM and its business partners to develop a hybrid simulation platform with the goal of connecting system level analysis and multi physics simulation. Speakers, Amit Fisher, Jens Schindler, Sayyidul Arafat and Kimberly Gist.

DevOps processes and tools are helping Retailers compete in their fast paced mobile, digital and physical markets. Hear what key retailers are doing to deliver innovation faster. Learn how they can collaborate with customers and stakeholders during development to ensure success. Test virtualization and deployment automation are improving front end mobile to back end mainframe lifecycle development processes. DevOps processes and tools can enable your company to quickly respond to market shifts with greater agility, quality and success. Speakers, Sue Green and Kimberly Gist.

Recent advances in the energy sector are prompting a transformation in development practices. Energy organizations must be lean, agile, and focused on maintaining the rigorous standards essential for the successful delivery of safety-critical systems. Join this podcast to hear IBM Rational Chief Evangelist Bruce Powel Douglass discuss how proven design best practices can enable organizations to reap the vital benefits of agile development while increasing their focus on safety. Speakers, Bruce Douglass and Kimberly Gist.

From 4k TVs to healthcare wearables, the consumer electronics industry is not only diverse in the types of products but also expansive in covering multiple aspects of the consumer's life. These electronic products are innovating at lightning speeds and are facing challenges that are new to this industry. Factors such as certification, safety, and extensive connectivity are essential to modern day consumer electronics. In this podcast, listen as we explore these new challenges of consumer electronics and discuss how to turn these challenges into opportunities. Speakers, Jiani Zhang, Michael Rowe and Keith Collyer

Businesses are working to address the challenges of today's complexities and demand that has shifted delivery time lines from months down to weeks and even days. The key to a successful DevOps program is bringing together environment delivery, tooling, automation, governance and organizational collaboration. The PureApplication system can act as a catalyst to launch a successful DevOps program. Speakers Don Thomas and Kimberly Gist

In the current Electronics market with the pressures of fierce competition and empowered consumers, having the right products at the right time is pivotal to success. In this podcast, we will discuss the two distinct types of speed: innovation speed versus development speed. Speakers: Jiani Zhang and Martin Bakal

Equipping all objects in the world with minuscule identifying devices or machine-readable identifiers could be transformative of daily life. According to ABI Research more than 30 billion devices will be wirelessly connected to the Internet of Things (Internet of Everything) by 2020. Along with this latent potential comes inevitable complexity. When your architecture has to scale from hundreds to millions to billions of things rigorous methods and tools would be required to manage the exploding complexity. Join this podcast to understand how Rational is gearing to contain complexity. Speakers, Michael Rowe, Manprit Singh, and Kimberly Gist.

From changing business environments and technology trends to ever-increasing customer expectations, there are many factors forcing you to rethink the product and systems development and delivery lifecycle. In this podcast Jon Chard, marketing manager for IBM Rational Smarter Product Development discusses the key challenges and how Rational is continuing to deliver on its strategy of an open, connected, systems approach to Smarter Product Development. Speakers, Jon Chard and Kimberly Gist.

Transforming your organization can be a daunting endeavor and bring up a lot of tough questions. How do we organize our large teams most effectively? How do I test before an application is ready? How can I align business priorities to software innovation? What approach will help me manage compliance mandates? How do I remove the deployment bottlenecks to improve time to market? Join Elizabeth Woodward, IBM Rational Agile Consultant and Ken France, Managing Partner, Blue Agility to find out how the Scaled Agile Framework paired with IBM Devops capabilities delivers the answers for the Agile Enterprise of the future, and becomes the path to better business outcomes. Speakers, Elizabeth Woodward, Ken France, and Kimberly Gist.

Historically, product development has been very engineering-centric, starting with concept design and ending with release to manufacturing. Leading manufacturers, however, are questioning whether this is where product development should really start and end. While the engineering activity has typically focused on optimizing product functionality according to a given set of requirements, the question remains as to the origin of these requirements. In fact, if you can learn more about the specific requirements by better understanding customer sentiment and market trends, you can build a better product. If you can learn more about how your product actually behaves while in service, you know specifically about how it can be improved. And if you know more about how all the systems within your product work together, you can design it better. This podcast outlines how knowledge about customers, operations, and your development process can help you achieve smarter product development. Speakers, Steve Shoaf and Kimberly Gist.

There is wide-spread adoption of agile practices throughout the development lifecycle, including building and maintaining critical applications on the mainframe. Achieving agility here is helped through the use of automated testing and techniques like Service Virtualization which can shorten the delivery cycle, and improve application quality. IBM Rational Test Automation Solution now enables service virtualization and automated integration testing for CICS applications, scaling down and simplifying the required CICS test region configuration and MIPS requirements. Speakers, John Chewter and Kimberly Gist.

Both IMS and Enterprise COBOL had new and exciting announcements this year. COBOL and IMS continue to deliver leading edge technologies to facilitate application integration, modernization, as well as improving application performance. Roland Koo, Product Manager for Rational Compilers, and Haley Fung, IMS Senior Developer, identify why it is important to upgrade to the latest versions of IMS and COBOL together. Speakers, Haley Fung, Roland Koo, and Kimberly Gist.

Come join us as we discuss how the objectives of becoming a DevOps Enterprise -including reducing time-to-value, enhancing business agility, and being more Lean –can be furthered by using the right tools for the creative tasks of software development Speakers, Bill Smith and Kimberly Gist.

Companies are realizing that they must up their game to remain competitive. For most, this means pushing out more sophisticated applications, and in order to do this they often must extend their backend Power Systems to multi-platform front ends. We’ll cover the integrated Rational application lifecycle management solution for IBM i, including the new ARCAD Pack for Rational, for greater programmer productivity and rapid application release. Speakers, Chris Trobridge, Philippe Magne, and Kimberly Gist.

Come join us as we discuss the Rational multiplatform IDEs v9.0.1, and introduce the new integrated debugger that is now in Rational Developer for System z. Speakers, Cindy Krauss, Bill Smith, and Kimberly Gist.

Communication Service Providers face many challenges in defining, building, and deploying complex software-based systems. IBM Rational telecom solutions and tools are used successfully by various organizations within communications service providers to address their unique challenges in the definition of their products and in the construction and delivery of the software required by such systems. Speakers, Glenn Hughes and Kimberly Gist.

Obtaining feedback from users of Mobile apps is critical to determining the quality of the apps. But what do you do with the feedback? The most successful organizations leverage automation to rapidly respond to that feedback and deliver mobile apps that are truly engaging. This podcast explores the value of new IBM capabilities to continuously integrate, test, deploy and release mobile apps, reducing cycle times to respond faster to feedback. Speakers, Derek D. Baron and Kimberly Gist.

As development support tools become better integrated, the similarities and, perhaps more importantly, differences between terminology and process are brought to light. With agile and other recent development paradigms, often one get confused with the importance of requirements and a tool to manage them. In this webcast, we examine the similarities and differences between requirements and the artifacts most commonly called Work Items; when a CM tool would be sufficient and when to use a RM tool in your project? Speakers, Jared Pulham and Kimberly Gist.

In this podcast, we discuss about how organizations can expand the value of requirements when they collaborate with colleagues from other disciplines. As the systems become complex, collaboration and a communication platform becomes very critical. Requirements, being the foundation stone, Systems Engineering organizations need to consider requirements driven development and quality management. Speakers, Morgan Brown, Vijay P Sankar, and Kimberly Gist.