This document provides an overview and introductory demo of IBM Rational Team Concert 3.0. It discusses how RTC allows for collaboration across the development lifecycle through an Eclipse-based client and web interface. It also describes how RTC supports organizing work into projects, teams, categories, and iterations to track work progress. Visualizations like Gantt charts and roadmaps are demonstrated for planning and scheduling resources and work items.

1. IBM Rational Team
Concert 3.0
Introductory Demo
Bharti Gupta
14 June, 2011

2. Overview
 Collaboration and integration across the development
lifecycle
 Eclipse based client interface and web interface
 Supports any platform, any plan and any process
 Allows you to work on many projects at once and keep
everything organized.
 Involves the entire team, increases communication.
 Organizing internal development and support teams,
tracking the work, and ensuring work is completed on
time and successfully

3. Simplified User Licensing

4. Workflow – Project, Teams & Process
Figure 1. Steps for getting started with project areas, team areas, and process.

5. Repository
 Provides a central location for tool-specific information.
 Data is stored in terms of top-level objects called items.
 Maintain a history of an item's creation and subsequent
modification for audit purposes
Project Area
 System's representation of a software project.
 Defines the project deliverables, team structure,
process, and schedule.

6. Team Area
 Manages team membership, roles assignments, and team
artifacts.
 Defines the users (team members) on the team and
specify their roles.
 Users might have multiple assignments that require them
to work on more than one team.
Work item category
 Group work items by the various components or
functional areas of the project.
 Each category is associated with a team area whose
members are responsible for developing that component.

7. Iteration
 Projects are organized into a series of development
periods called iterations.
Current iteration
Completed iteration
Figure 2. Sample process template with development and maintenance lines.

8. Planning an Iteration
 Provide an overview of the iteration goals and related
information.
 Review progress using charts or using the progress
indicators.
 Manage individual work items that are planned for
completion during the iteration.
 Manage work items within the context of fixed development
periods within a project.
 Create and modify work items assignments for team
members, track the progress of the work.
 Manage team work loads in an iteration plan

9. Figure 3. Outlines the relationship of how categories, team areas, and iteration
schedules help assign work items to the proper team and iteration plan

10. Managing work items and
work loads
 Following actions can take place on the work items in
an Iteration plan:
- Creating
- Viewing
- Grouping
- Find, filter and colourize
- Modifying
- Adding

11. Other Tasks
 Setting Project hours & Days per week
 Used to determine work durations in iteration planning and work
item interfaces
 Reviewing and charting progress
 Use the progress report in an iteration plan to compare completed
and estimated labour for the whole team
 Setting a user's work environment
 Define a user's work location, work days and hours, and team
assignments (by percentage)
 Scheduling team member absences
 Managing my work items in My Work view
 View newly assigned work items and work items for current and
future iterations

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Formal Project Management Process Template
Formal Project Management
! Formal Project Management process template
process template
! The Formal Project Management template includes a single timeline with a release
backlog that is divided into more traditional project phases. It includes new work ite
 Includes a single in the template such as risks and andactions
types, features, and views timeline with a release risk backlog
that is divided into more traditional project phases.

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Risk and Risk Action Work Item Types
Risks and Risk Actions
! Risks and Risk Actions
! Every project has some known and unexpected risks. As a project manager, you can
Define risks, add strategies, and create work items
 define risks, add strategies, and create work items to take action against risks. The ri
to take action against risks
work items are available in the Formal Project Management process template.

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New Schedule View - Gantt Charts
New Schedule View - Gantt Charts
! Now you can visualize a plan based on a timeline
! Gantt charts for traditional planning based on schedule constraints and and
 Traditional planning based on schedule constraints dependencies
dependencies
! Shows work breakdown and schedule
 Shows work breakdown and schedule

15. New Schedule View - Roadmap Charts
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New  Shows a time projection of a roadmap based on
Schedule View - Roadmap Charts
iterations
Designed for agile teams
! Shows The scheduled time of work items can now
 a time projection of a roadmap based on iterations be shown as
! The scheduled time of work timeline.now be shown as a roadmap on a timeline.
a roadmap on a items can
! The roadmap can also show blocking or depends on relationships between work item
 The roadmap can also show blocking or depends on
relationships between work items

16. Resource Allocation and Scheduling
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 Search and add a resource to your plan based on availability
Resource Allocation and Scheduling
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 Allocate ranges of availability to a project or team
esource Allocation and Scheduling
! Resource Allocation
Resource Allocation a
! Search and add
! Search and add ato your plan
resource
resource to your plan
based on availability
based on availability
! now allocate
! You canYou can now allocate
ranges of availability to
ranges of availability to
a project or team.or team.
a project

17. Plan SnapshotsRational software
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- Compare plans over time
PlanWhat is the quality of our planning? time
 Snapshots - Compare plans over
! How has my plan changed over time?
 Did we make our date because we changed the plan
and/or our estimates?
! What is the quality of our planning?
! Did we make our date because we changed the plan and/or our estimates?

18. Login to RTC

19. Project Areas

20. Project Area – Landmap
Website

21. Landmap website - Timelines

22. Personal Dashboard

23. Thank You