Time to upgrade your IBM Jazz environment to 7.0!

IBM has released its updated Jazz platforms, and in the process rebranded most of the tools. As of this writing you can now download the updated parts from Passport Advantage, but Jazz.net will be available for download shortly. The products have been rebranded as follows: Old Name New Name Acronym Rational Continuous Engineering IBM Engineering … Read more

Understanding SAFe Work In Progress Limits

What is WIP? WIP stands for Work In Progress. Limiting your work in progress is a concept of Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe. By limiting your WIP, you force your team to focus on completing existing tasks before starting new tasks or requirements in the project. Let’s start with an analogy: the “honey-do list”. Its … Read more

Easy peasy cross project linking and traceability in IBM CLM (RTC, DOORs, and RQM)

For years, you’ve probably heard about “traceability”, that mysterious shangri-la that are read about in case studies. Well, obtaining traceability is not rocket science in IBM’s CLM tools. This video below shows you how to set it up at an atomic level, meaning, between specific artifacts between the three CLM applications. In a nutshell, you … Read more

Requirements Management in a CLM World

From our recent webinar series, this video discusses the importance of proper requirements management, and leveraging agile methods in a collaborative lifecycle managment solution. Requirements Management in a CLM World. If you are challenged with managing requirements in your IT organization, we can help. Give us a call. ©2016 Strongback Consulting

Collaborative lifecycle management introduction series

For those that missed last Wednesday’s webinar, we are providing it here on the blog below. This coming Wednesday, June 22, we’ll continue our series talking about requirements management in collaborative lifecycle management environment. Define and deliver the right solution by modeling yourbusiness processes, development, and management of use of cases and thegathering and prioritizing … Read more