Writing User Stories within IBM Rational Team Concert

First Rule: Write Good User Stories If you are just getting started with writing user stories, I highly recommend Mike Cohn’s book User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Perhaps you’re coming from a background of writing large use cases. Perhaps you’re fresh out of school and not familiar with requirements management. If you’re already … Read more

Lessons in how NOT to implement IBM DevOps tools (Antipatterns)

This week we presented at the IBM InterConnect conference in Vegas. This was information compiled from multiple customer engagements over the past few years. Patterns and Antipatterns for Adopting IBM DevOps Ttools from Strongback Consulting If you are looking to implement the IBM platform as your Application Lifecycle Management platform of choice, and need help … Read more

Book Reviews on Continuous Integration & Delivery

Continuous Integration I’ve recently read a couple of great books on the agile discipline of continuous integration. For those not familiar, this is the concept of using automation to build source code on a very frequent interval, and report defects or failures in the build to the team. The initial movement began after JUnit started … Read more