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The value of integrated software delivery with
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Collaborative Lifecycle Management.
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A discussion of deployment options for IBM Collaborative Life Cycle Management. The IBM Rational CLM products consist of Rational Team Concert, Rational Requirement Composer and Rational Quality Manager. This presentation covers the different options of integrating them into an existing software development environment.
SAP Analytics Cloud combines BI, planning, predictive, and augmented analytics capabilities into one simple cloud environment. Powered by AI technologies and an in-memory database, it is one of the most advanced analytics solutions available today.
Identity and Access Management Reference Architecture for Cloud ComputingJohn Bauer
This presentation will outline a comprehensive reference architecture for meeting the secure access and provisioning demands of outsourcing business and technology processes to “the cloud”. The attendee will walk away with a more solid understanding of what identity and access management challenges face organizations looking to move application and business process support to cloud computing providers as well as offer a reference architecture that outlines how to build standards based solutions for each challenge.
John F. Bauer III has over 20 years of Information Technology and Security delivery experience. John is currently the Enterprise Security Architect for Key Bank and has previous held leadership positions at British Petroleum, Cliffs Natural Resources, MTD Products, and National City/PNC Bank. John has spoken previously on the topic of Information Security at CA World, Oracle Open World, Digital ID World and NACHA conferences. John has both a Computer Science degree and MBA from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management and is a frequent Adjunct Professor on Network Security at Cuyahoga Community College. John also maintains an active blog: MidwestITSurvival.com.
Difference between sap cloud delivered erp vs sap on premise erpi Mark
*ON PREMISE SAP ERP
The customer purchase the required perpetual licenses from SAP and manages its deployment and maintenance in an environment of their choice.
*CLOUD DELIVERED SAP ERP
The ERP is provided by SAP to customers on a subscription model
A discussion of deployment options for IBM Collaborative Life Cycle Management. The IBM Rational CLM products consist of Rational Team Concert, Rational Requirement Composer and Rational Quality Manager. This presentation covers the different options of integrating them into an existing software development environment.
SAP Analytics Cloud combines BI, planning, predictive, and augmented analytics capabilities into one simple cloud environment. Powered by AI technologies and an in-memory database, it is one of the most advanced analytics solutions available today.
Identity and Access Management Reference Architecture for Cloud ComputingJohn Bauer
This presentation will outline a comprehensive reference architecture for meeting the secure access and provisioning demands of outsourcing business and technology processes to “the cloud”. The attendee will walk away with a more solid understanding of what identity and access management challenges face organizations looking to move application and business process support to cloud computing providers as well as offer a reference architecture that outlines how to build standards based solutions for each challenge.
John F. Bauer III has over 20 years of Information Technology and Security delivery experience. John is currently the Enterprise Security Architect for Key Bank and has previous held leadership positions at British Petroleum, Cliffs Natural Resources, MTD Products, and National City/PNC Bank. John has spoken previously on the topic of Information Security at CA World, Oracle Open World, Digital ID World and NACHA conferences. John has both a Computer Science degree and MBA from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management and is a frequent Adjunct Professor on Network Security at Cuyahoga Community College. John also maintains an active blog: MidwestITSurvival.com.
Difference between sap cloud delivered erp vs sap on premise erpi Mark
*ON PREMISE SAP ERP
The customer purchase the required perpetual licenses from SAP and manages its deployment and maintenance in an environment of their choice.
*CLOUD DELIVERED SAP ERP
The ERP is provided by SAP to customers on a subscription model
As billions of devices connect to enterprise networks, IT is struggling to gain more visibility and control using multiple, disparate security systems and management tools. ClearPass Exchange fixes this problem by acting as a central decision point, providing context for a unified network access defense for wired and wireless access, and leveraging downstream security and productivity systems and context to improve end-user workflows and secure devices wherever they connect. Learn how to leverage ClearPass Exchange to deploy and use endpoint, access, traffic inspection and data visiblitiy solutions for mobile workfoce productivity and threat prevention.
Real-time personalization at scale by Salesforce CDP and Interaction Studio, ...CzechDreamin
How can companies efficiently manage their separated data sources in one place and deliver personalized experiences to their customers?
During the session we will introduce you the main Salesforce CDP aspects, as a platform for solving the problem of data unification and identity resolution in order to prepare a complete view of your customers and its usage as a single source of truth.
Additionally, with the intention to build truly relevant and connected customer experiences we use natively integrated Interaction Studio platform. It is responsible mainly for managing customer interactions and delivering real-time AI-driven decisioning and granular one-to-one optimization.
During the session we will show case how you can leverage unified data from Salesforce CDP and build trusted relationship with your customers.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Multi - Tier ArchitectureNaveen Kumar
In order to effectively customize Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you must first have good understanding of the application's architecture. The system's architecture influences how and where you can customize the system components.
The key to understanding the Microsoft Dynamics CRM architecture as it relates to customization is the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform. One way to understand the value of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform is to contrast it with the client/server (two-tier) architecture that has been around for more than two decades.
What You Need to Know About Salesforce Customer 360Cloud Analogy
Salesforce Customer 360 enables organizations to connect Salesforce applications and create a unified customer ID to build a single view of the customer. In this presentation, you will get all the necessary details you need to know about Salesforce Customer 360.
An overview of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, an easily adaptable ERP solution. it helps all small and medium sized business to automate and connect their sales, purchasing, operation, accounting and inventory management.
IBM® Rational® Quality Manager is a collaborative, Web-based, quality management tool for comprehensive test planning and test asset management throughout the software lifecycle. It is built on the Jazz™ platform and is designed to be used by test teams of all sizes. It supports a variety of user roles, such as test manager, test architect, test lead, tester, and lab manager, as well as roles outside of the test organization. This article explains how to set up a new project in Rational Quality Manager and reviews several of the basic things that you can do with it in your projects.Strongback Consulting helps organizations get started automated their test environment and improving the quality of the quality management process.
As billions of devices connect to enterprise networks, IT is struggling to gain more visibility and control using multiple, disparate security systems and management tools. ClearPass Exchange fixes this problem by acting as a central decision point, providing context for a unified network access defense for wired and wireless access, and leveraging downstream security and productivity systems and context to improve end-user workflows and secure devices wherever they connect. Learn how to leverage ClearPass Exchange to deploy and use endpoint, access, traffic inspection and data visiblitiy solutions for mobile workfoce productivity and threat prevention.
Real-time personalization at scale by Salesforce CDP and Interaction Studio, ...CzechDreamin
How can companies efficiently manage their separated data sources in one place and deliver personalized experiences to their customers?
During the session we will introduce you the main Salesforce CDP aspects, as a platform for solving the problem of data unification and identity resolution in order to prepare a complete view of your customers and its usage as a single source of truth.
Additionally, with the intention to build truly relevant and connected customer experiences we use natively integrated Interaction Studio platform. It is responsible mainly for managing customer interactions and delivering real-time AI-driven decisioning and granular one-to-one optimization.
During the session we will show case how you can leverage unified data from Salesforce CDP and build trusted relationship with your customers.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Multi - Tier ArchitectureNaveen Kumar
In order to effectively customize Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you must first have good understanding of the application's architecture. The system's architecture influences how and where you can customize the system components.
The key to understanding the Microsoft Dynamics CRM architecture as it relates to customization is the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform. One way to understand the value of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform is to contrast it with the client/server (two-tier) architecture that has been around for more than two decades.
What You Need to Know About Salesforce Customer 360Cloud Analogy
Salesforce Customer 360 enables organizations to connect Salesforce applications and create a unified customer ID to build a single view of the customer. In this presentation, you will get all the necessary details you need to know about Salesforce Customer 360.
An overview of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, an easily adaptable ERP solution. it helps all small and medium sized business to automate and connect their sales, purchasing, operation, accounting and inventory management.
IBM® Rational® Quality Manager is a collaborative, Web-based, quality management tool for comprehensive test planning and test asset management throughout the software lifecycle. It is built on the Jazz™ platform and is designed to be used by test teams of all sizes. It supports a variety of user roles, such as test manager, test architect, test lead, tester, and lab manager, as well as roles outside of the test organization. This article explains how to set up a new project in Rational Quality Manager and reviews several of the basic things that you can do with it in your projects.Strongback Consulting helps organizations get started automated their test environment and improving the quality of the quality management process.
Oplægget blev holdt ved et seminar i InfinIT-interessegruppen Softwaretest den 29. februar 2012.
Læs mere om interessegruppen på http://www.infinit.dk/dk/interessegrupper/softwaretest/softwaretest.htm
Embedded software validation best practices with NI and RQMPaul Urban
Embedded control software is growing exponentially in mechanical systems, which forces test methods to evolve even faster. This presentation was part of the Rational Quality Manager enlightenment series describing how National Instruments and IBM provide end-to-end traceability and test component reuse for superior system quality and validation by enabling consistent testing, results analysis, and traceability throughout the development process.
Introduction to Team Foundation Server (TFS) OnlineDenis Voituron
TFS est la plateforme de collaboration qui se trouve au coeur de la solution de gestion du cycle de vie des applications (ALM) de Microsoft. Pour de petites équipes de développement (5 users), TFS est disponible online et gratuitement.
Lors de cette session, principalement à base d'exemples pratiques, nous aborderons les modules Source Controle, Collaborate (gestion des tâches et des bugs) et Automatic Builds (compilations et déploiements automatisés).
IBM's DevOps solution for CLM includes a full lifecycle suite of products for managing continuous business planning, Agile project management, continuous build, source code management, test management, and continuous application monitoring.
Presentation by IBM's Martin Nally and Mike O'Rourke from Innovate 2010, including discussion on tool integration challenges and IBM's two pronged approach for addressing (OSLC - open linked lifecycle data, Jazz - alm services platform).
A new approach to delivering applications with speed, quality, and scale to accelerate business success
Experience the next generation of Application Lifecycle Management – with support for waterfall projects, agile, and everything in between.
Software Measurement: Lecture 3. Metrics in OrganizationProgrameter
Materials of the lecture on metrics and measures held by Programeter CEO Mark Kofman during the Software Economics course at Tartu University: courses.cs.ut.ee/2010/se
Join Steph and Chris as they run through Microsoft's transformation from shipping boxed products to always-on online services. Developer Velocity is a critical part of that journey to ensure the teams can keep delivering value to their end-users at scale. In this session, you will learn about some of the tips & tricks that Microsoft used along the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_4i0lxKtr0
DevOps is an acronym for Development and Operations – two most important teams within any organization. For implementing DevOps successfully its important to understand the building blocks that make up this agile methodology.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Mission to Decommission: Importance of Decommissioning Products to Increase E...
What is Rational CLM?
1. The value of integrated software delivery with IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management Transforming software delivery through Collaborative Lifecycle Management
2. Agenda The Defining Challenge of IT ALM Imperatives IBM Rational and Collaborative Lifecycle Management 1 3 2
3. Example of software-driven "systems of systems" used to deliver emergency cardiac care within a six-minute response window. Software is the invisible thread that drives business innovation Ambulance Fleet Inventory Route Optimization Traffic Control Management Electronic Health Record Cardiac Specialists Remote Monitoring and Data Diagnosis Ambulance Transport Cardiac Center Ambulance Dispatch Patient Emergency Room
4. The defining challenge: Managing “systems of systems” From back-end software to customer facing portals, systems of systems drive your relationships with customers, suppliers and business partners Customer Service Portal Web portals z & Storefronts Order Processing, Billing & Collections Mobile Apps Customer Relationship Management Outsourced, Contract & OEM Development Partners Sales & Service Partners HR, Payroll and Administrative Systems Back-End Systems Customer Facing Systems YOUR BUSINESS
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7. Silos create barriers to effective software delivery “ Only 22% of executives felt that their IT and business strategy were tightly integrated” 2 “ Only 34% of software projects are deemed successful, costing $300B annually” 1 Requirement-induced delays cost US businesses over $30B annually. ” 3 1 CHAOS Chronicles v 12.3.9, The Standish Group, June 30, 2008 2 Roger Roberts, Johnson Sikes, "IT's Unmet Potential", McKinsey Quarterly , November 2008 3 US Dept. of Congress, Planning Report, 2002
8. Collaborative Lifecycle Management transforms software delivery “ Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the marriage of business management to software engineering made possible by tools that facilitate and integrate requirements management, architecture, coding, testing, tracking, and release management.” Requirements Testing Build Development
9. The Evolution from Configuration Management to CLM Global Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Enterprise Software Supply Chain 2012 By Alan W. Brown – Rational CTO Europe
12. Gartner: Five principal benefits of ALM Gartner, “MarketScope for Application Life Cycle Management, Research Note G00162941, December 2008, p. 2. What do you get from ALM implementations? Agility Through the collaboration and application of “just enough” processes Predictability Through better estimation, better communication and more repeatable processes Auditability Traceability of work back to a business need, Quality Through more-effective management of requirements, design and quality processes Productivity Through the continuous improvement of processes and practices, and more effective utilization of resources
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15. Imperative # 2: End-to-end traceability Analysts Which requirements are addressed in this iteration? Are all of the requirements tested? What’s the quality of the high priority requirements? What defects are reported against which requirements ? What requirements am I implementing? What test uncovered this defect , on which environment and what build? What changes occurred overnight? How can I recreate the last version to do a patch? How can I standardize when teams use different tools? Where are the bottlenecks in our processes? How can I speed up my builds? What is the quality of the build ? What has changed that I need to test ? What defects have been addressed since the last build? Are we ready to release? What tradeoffs can we make to release on time ? Can we pass an audit ? What defects were resolved in this release ? Are build times getting longer or shorter? Quality Professional Developer Project Manager Analyst Release Engineer
16. Imperative # 3: Continuous process improvement Choosing the right process Waterfall development When stability is the primary driver Iterative development When stability and change are equal players Agile development When change is the primary driver WATERFALL Customize Enact Scrum Master Product Owner Team Member Improve Iterative Scrum
17. Statistical outcomes: Projects with strong versus weak measurement practices Imperative # 4: Development Intelligence How important is measurement? Source: Capers Jones, Measurement, Metrics and Industry Leadership, 2009 and Software Engineering Best Practices , McGraw Hill, 2010 Strong Weak Fortune 500 firms with: Quality measures: 45% Productivity measures 30% Complete measures: 15%
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23. Rational Workbench for Systems and Software Engineering Integrate Optimize Collaborate Collaborate across diverse engineering disciplines and development teams Achieve “quality by design” with an integrated, automated quality management and testing process Manage all system requirements with full traceability across the lifecycle Use modeling to validate requirements, architecture and design throughout the development process Rational Quality Manager Rational DOORS Rational Team Concert Systems and Software Engineering Built on a core solution set Rational Rhapsody
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Editor's Notes
Software is the invisible thread that enables systems-of-systems – large-scale, concurrent, distributed systems, that themselves are comprised of, or connect to, other complex systems. In a smarter planet, software is mission critical, so we need to look beyond software development to software and systems delivery . And let’s put it into an industry context – an industry that has the potential to touch all of us … healthcare . We see here an example of software-driven systems of systems that are used to deliver emergency cardiac care within a six-minute response window. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., and is expected to cost more than $316 billion dollars this year alone. We start with our patient, who suffers from heart disease, and has an implanted medical device that monitors and regulates his heart... Unfortunately, today the patient is having a severe event that the implanted device has sensed and is wirelessly notifying the cardiac center that, in turn, can perform remote monitoring and data diagnosis. In a typical scenario, a patient whose heart has short-circuited has an average of six minutes to live – so response time is paramount. In the U.S., the national standard set by emergency responders is four minutes in 90% of all emergencies . So, we need to leverage technology here for faster, more-informed decisions about the patient – and we know that in these cases, response time of less than five minutes doubles survival rate . We also need to use the cardiac specialist’s time efficiently. Because the cardiac center staff has access to data from the device as well as other patient information, their reaction is swift. They notify ambulance dispatch with the patient’s location that they got from GPS in the device – along with an initial assessment of the event. In parallel, the on-call cardiac specialist is notified via preferred contact method – in this case a handheld device. Initial patient data can be pushed to the handheld, and the specialist has immediate access to the patient’s electronic medical record and can remotely monitor the patient. Ambulance dispatch prioritizes its response based on severity of the event, location, available staff, and ambulance readiness . Many dispatchers use systems to help with prioritization. Unfortunately, only 10% of ambulance calls are true life-and-death situations . Which mean there’s plenty of potential for sub-optimal response and utilization of resources. But in this case, since dispatch is operating off of the initial patient information, prioritization and decision support are immediate. In this part of the scenario, our invisible software thread includes ambulance queuing and decision support systems , as well as notifications of ambulance service readiness, inventory, and onboard staff skill levels . The ambulance arrives at the patient location . The ambulance personnel have real-time access to a virtual team of experts that can guide them with triage of the patient – including data and transmitted images. It enables the team to determine the optimum care center for this specific case – on-the-fly, and update best travel route to that location, and then communicate directly with the target facility to optimize emergency department readiness and response for this specific case. Including sending relevant patient information. [CLICK] And by arriving in less than five minutes they’ve doubled the chances of patient survival. Enabled by: 50-plus million lines of code in the vehicle 1,000 software components, each with 10 different interfaces 10,000 interfaces to track, update, test, deploy and maintain for the next 15 – 20 years Integration with vehicle monitoring system Real-time data transfer of patient vitals to virtual team
For anyone using the modern healthcare system you already know it is complex. healthcare delivery is a good example of an evolving mission-critical system-of-systems. Simply looking at the emergency response system itself , is already a complex system-of-systems. For example, in order to respond to an emergency call fast enough to save people’s life, the systems of systems including medical devices, ambulances, electronic healthcare record systems, healthcare specialists’ handhelds, GPS based data recording and intelligent traffic control systems must work together to send ambulance and related people to the patient’s home within a few min .
So we’ve just seen how important software is – in the previous example, literally a matter of life and death in the case of our cardiac care patient, and from a different perspective, at the heart of a $316 Billion health care problem. So how are we as an industry, doing at delivering high quality software on time and on budget? As you can see from this chart, barriers to effective software delivery remain. According to the Standish Group, only 34% of software projects are successful… Studies from McKinsey Quarterly show that less than 25% of executives felt that their IT investments were even aligned with their strategy! And our US Department of Commerce planning report, just looking at one discipline area – requirements management – costs US over $30 B annually. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Most organizations can achieve clarity within a single team, project, or a discipline. When we multiply our need for clarity against the thousands of projects delivered with disparate teams, using different sets of tools and distinct processes and workflows, ut where we as a organizatiosoftware delivery breaks down is through a failure to view multiple teams, projects, disciplines and Sources 1) 'Software related downtime costs industry almost $300 billion annually", CHAOS Chronicles v12.3.9, The Standish Group, June 30, 2008. 2) Roger Roberts, Johnson Sikes, "IT's Unmet Potential", McKinsey Quarterly , November 2008 3) Planning Report 02-3, The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infrastructure for Software Testing, Prepared by RTI for National Institute of Standards & Technology, Program office, Strategic Planning and Economic Analysis Group, May 2002, US Department of Commerce.
Five years ago we at IBM – who have been helping customers develop and deliver software for more than 50 years – decided to look at this question from a fresh perspective. And the question that we asked is, how can we fundamentally transform software delivery? How can we break down the silos between developers and testers, between IT and business stakeholders? We at IBM believe that what's needed is a fresh approach to solving the core problem of tool integration across the software lifecycle -- a software development platform. The KEY to a platform is that it replaces one vendor's view of the world (even our own view) with an open and extensible view that enables any vendor to participate. One that delivers real-time, transparent access to project data, risks and progress across the preferred environment that YOU choose -- including tools from IBM, competitors and open-source alternatives.
Agile development is defined by principles, patterns and practices. Principles define the high-level rules that each party to the project agree too and these have been outlined originally in the Agile Manifesto (www.agilemanifesto.org/) and are driven now by the Agile Alliance (www.agilealliance.org). Agile development values include: Individuals and interactions Working software Customer collaboration Responding to change Patterns help identify the current state by a set of constraints and a problem classification. Patterns cover organization as well as identify specific practices to put in place. Practices are small procedures that are followed to complete a task. While traditional development lives by a formal well-defined process, agile methods are themselves agile, adapting to the conditions and focusing on a specific outcome rather than a simple checklist of steps. The shift to dynamic script languages will be another driver toward agile development and the need for increased use of unit testing and source management solutions.
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End to end traceability that is seamless in all three products. If a tester finds a defect and can trace it to a use case, submit the defect and it will link to all the things associated to it. Thus the developer can see it is blocked and why and its all automatic. Don’t have to ask. Link artifacts and connect the dots so every artifact has the proper upstream and downstream relationship Send links to artifacts that lead to current artifact versions and sets the related artifact context including reviews and comments from other team members Link critical project artifacts so that the entire team have access to the latest version of the truth When organizations fail to deliver quality software on time and on budget, it is typically not because any individual is dysfunctional, but because the entire team or organization is misaligned. End-to-end visibility enables organizations to proactively steer projects to success based on real-time information. The second imperative, End-to-end lifecycle traceability is a perquisite for meaningful insight into project status, issues and risks. For example, the question, “Are we ready to release?” requires knowledge that can only be gathered by correlating requirements, code, build, and test information—data that potentially resides in four different repositories. The ideal environment will allow teams to easily link related assets and maintain those linkages as assets evolve. Traceability is the ability to gain an end-to-end view across your project lifecycle. When your software is delivered to the customer, you should be able to identify all the activities associated with the software. You should be able to answer all of the stakeholder questions on this slide. And you should be able to state with confidence that the software includes this specific requirement, included in this software build, validated by this test case and with this test result. Anything less, and you really don’t know what you are delivering and whether what you are delivering will meet your quality requirements. --------------- Traceability isn’t simply one of those “nice to have” capabilities in the software development lifecycle. Traceability helps you understand what everyone else on the team is doing. For example, while the requirements analyst knows very well what requirements she has written, she still needs to know whether a given requirement will be addressed during a specific development iteration and, if so, which one. Or she wants to know if the implementation of that requirement has been tested and with what result. An ALM solution that allows for lifecycle artifact traceability helps teams to answer the hard questions about requirements and risk management. By linking related artifacts, teams are better equipped to answer questions such as “which requirements are affected by defects?” and “which work items are ready for test?” It is important to understand how requirements, test and development are linked by projects and tasks. DON’T Do traceability for traceability sake. Identify a few meaningful questions or set one goal and institute a “just enough” approach for linking related artifacts. For example, link requirements and test cases, link test cases and development work items. Try one and get good at it before doing more. DON’T Rely on reports that go stale after you’ve created them. Practice continuous traceability: Leverage a system that shows the traceability links directly on the plan, or that uses queries that identify gaps, such as “Plan items without requirements” and “Plan items without test cases”, and “Defects blocking test.” DON’T Ignore, hide from or hope to pass regulatory audits Invest in an ALM solution that makes traceability easy to do, maintain and report against. DON’T: Work in disconnected project repositories, or cobble together a disparate set of tools. Seek products built with open interfaces. Seek vendors who understand and support the ALM integration challenges. Invest in tools with a longer-term integration roadmap in mind. DON’T: Enter links manually after the fact, it’s easy to forget, hard to enforce. Integrated tools make it easy to establish as the project executes. See image of linked Defect in upcoming slide DON’T: Build your own integration based on proprietary API’s. Choose a solution with open services (OSLC) for linking data across the lifecycle. DON’T: Choose a one-size-fits-no-one solution. Invest in a loosely coupled, integrated ALM solution that is built to scale and support open and flexible integrations. A single ALM repository will not scale to fit your needs over time. Times change, new products emerge; your ALM solution needs to be flexible enough to move with the times. Do you really want to face that data migration challenge? Many tools, document formats and repositories create “information islands”, making it hard to find, relate and use this information as requirements artifacts as well as use use it to inform downstream lifecycle activities Hard to relate it together, keep it coherent, and maintain those relationships. Team members undertake heroic measures to consolidate it understand, monitor status, and make decisions based on this information. These manual processes often don’t scale and introduce errors This leads to .. Wasted team effort due to duplication and lack of version control / change management … “Which version of that document should I be looking at?” Challenges in scaling current practices and making them repeatable Too many project surprises due to poor or missed requirements Information overload: challenges finding, using, and reusing information
A Workbench is a combination of products, services and practices designed to accelerate customers' software delivery transformation in a key focus area. Workbenches can support different types of focus areas, including vertical industries (i.e. automotive); best practices (i.e. requirements-driven testing) and technology domains (i.e. quality management). Workbenches are pre-configured and tested together to optimize transformation. They are supported by best practices guidance and professional services to accelerate customer deployment and results.
Key to our vision is the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration initiative. In 2008 we launched this initiative with key partners and vendors. Our collective goal is to enable teams to use the tools they want and share lifecycle resources in delivering software, whether the tools are from IBM, other vendors, open source projects, or in-house development. We aim to do so in a way that is open and non-proprietary and that will encourage all industry members to collaborate. We're gratified with the progress of this initiative to date, which has grown to encompass all of the companies you see here. FAQs on OSLC What is IBM announcing? IBM is introducing an initiative, called Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration, aimed at simplifying collaboration across the software delivery lifecycle. Our goal is to enable teams to use disparate tools and share lifecycle resources in delivering software, whether the tools are from IBM, other vendors, open source projects, or in-house development. We aim to do so in a way that is open and non-proprietary and that will encourage all industry members to collaborate. Specifically, we're publishing several things at Jazz.net, including an initial set of descriptions for lifecycle resources such as requirements and test cases, as well as protocols and services for accessing these resources. We're also providing code that illustrates usage of these protocols. We hope that by openly sharing our ideas and sample code, our efforts will promote cross-industry collaboration that will lead to agreement on a common architecture and to both commercial products and open source projects that implement these protocols. What problem are you trying to solve? The software delivery tools marketplace of today grew organically from point tools aimed at solving specific narrow needs in the software delivery lifecycle. Teams and organizations who are concerned with all aspects of software delivery have historically had to rely on multiple point-to-point integrations between tools. Consequently, this has created barriers for teams to collaborate and have made cross-lifecycle processes and cross-tool integrations expensive to create, complex to manage, and difficult to change over time, despite the best efforts of tools vendors to integrate their own tools or create alliances with complementary vendors. The increasing focus in software delivery on governance and business alignment make it imperative that the industry move to solve the closely-related problems of tool interoperability and lifecycle collaboration. Our goal is to find a means for allowing tools to readily share lifecycle resources, enabling organizations to more easily integrate, manage, and evolve lifecycle tools and processes for software delivery in response to new business demands. What fresh approach does IBM bring to the solution of this challenge? First, IBM’s experience has identified three degrees of interoperability that are relevant to this challenge: (1) fundamental services that allow different tools to share and exchange the data that they produce; (2) common understanding of relationships between lifecycle resources, such as test cases and requirements; and (3) detailed agreement on the information in an resource, such as a Use Case. A successful solution to this challenge must allow for any and all of these degrees of integration, without forcing tools to agree at the most detailed level where that isn’t necessary. Second, we recognize that the interoperability mechanisms must be robust and flexible allowing companies to easily upgrade individual tools without breaking tool integrations or process flows. A successful solution to this challenge cannot be dependent on close cooperation or continuous coordination between vendors. That’s why our proposal relies heavily on the architecture of the web, which robustly integrates disparate providers of information and services. Similarly, we model our approach on Web 2.0 concepts such as mashups, exploiting document formats, metadata and services rather than traditional brittle APIs. Third, any eventual solution must be recognized as being independent of one vendor’s control. To that end, in the future we’d like to explore the role that open standards and open source projects might play in ensuring that agreed-to protocols and resource descriptions will be freely and equitably available and evolve under independent governance. To promote discussion and help people to understand the ideas being proposed, we are also making illustrative code available under an open source license. What are you making available on Jazz.net? We are making available documents outlining the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration initiative as well as sample implementations of the services and resource descriptions. The documents (1) outline IBM’s motivations for this initiative and discuss the architectural principles and technical underpinnings for the proposed resource descriptions and services; (2) suggest a topology of lifecycle resource types and initial descriptions for a core set of resource types, including requirements and test cases; and (3) describe an initial set of protocols and services for accessing resources, including services for retrieving and updating resources, for collecting resources into projects, and for controlling access to resources. Additionally, we’ve published sample implementations for the resource descriptions and for the services. What do you expect people to do with what you’ve published on Jazz.net? What are the next steps? The documents and sample code published on Jazz.net are intended to start the discussion by illustrating our ideas. We encourage other vendors and members of the community to examine these resources and begin the dialog with us and each other that can lead to a common approach for achieving lifecycle collaboration. Image licensed with attribution per following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Web_2.0_Map.svg
Now that we are delivering on our vision, we are gaining the accolades of analyst firms, like Gartner, who track and evaluate vendors' ability to deliver on integrated ALM solution. And as you can see here, IBM is the only vendor -- of twelve vendors evaluated -- who was rated as Strong Positive, because of its current market strengths, breadth of portfolio, and the solid architectural foundation of the Jazz platform.
Jazz.net is a transparent software delivery laboratory where you can see our own products being built, using our own tools. It's also the home of our Jazz user community, where users can engage directly with the engineers building and refining our products, and has helped us significantly improve the level of direct customer communication. Jazz.net is the place where you can... Communicate with the development team Track the progress of builds and milestones Get the latest product trials and betas Join developers and product managers in discussion groups Submit defect and enhancement requests EZ Insight, Inc. Report, July 2009, “ The IBM Rational Jazz Strategy for Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management“ by Liz Barnett : "With the Jazz project, Rational has developed breakthrough technology and is poised to set the standard for collaborative ALM... Download the report Paul Herzlich , Ovum: "IBM has taken the opportunity to exploit the Jazz platform’s power inventively. Its ‘living’ test plan is a masterpiece of applying new technology to a familiar problem… What is being delivered will demonstrate convincingly that IBM is raising the standard for a test management product.“* Julie Craig, EMA : "Rational’s differentiators are difficult for competitors to equal, and the new Jazz platform foundation may well turn out to be one of the best investments the Rational team has made.” Forrester Wave - Agile Development Management Tools report: “Rational has the best current offering….and continues to raise the bar on building a complete development and delivery platform.” Download the report in the agility@scale ekit Yphise independent research : “Rational Team Concert certified as the best ranked solution for boosting team collaboration during software projects”. Download the report in the agility@scale ekit
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