Page title:Introduction to Rational Team Concert
Closed Captioning text:IBM Rational Team Concert is
the first product to be delivered on the Jazz technology platform. Jazz
is a scalable, extensible team-collaboration platform that integrates
tasks across the software lifecycle. Rational Team Concert is built on
a client-server architecture and includes integrated work items, source
control, reporting, and support for build management. The product
provides agile teams with a highly-collaborative development
environment that is optimized for small and medium-sized teams.
Rational Team Concert also integrates with a wide range of products,
including IBM Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational ClearQuest and
Subversion change-management products.
Page text:Rational Team Concert and the Jazz
technology platform are developed on Jazz.net, where a community of
developers and users participate and communicate.
Jazz is a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform that integrates tasks across the software lifecycle.
Page title:Lifecycle integration
Closed Captioning text:Rational Team Concert
integrates several aspects of the software development lifecycle,
including iteration planning, process definition, source control,
defect tracking, build management, and reporting. Each of these aspects
is integrated in a single environment.
Page text:Work items track tasks, such as
enhancements or defects.
You can include work items in plans for specific milestones, add links
from work items to source code change sets so that users can navigate
from a work item to code and back, or deliver artifacts and resolve
work items at the same time.
Page title:Manage artifacts
Closed Captioning text:You can track and manage the
relationships between artifacts, promote best practices, and gather
project information automatically and unobtrusively.
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Page title:Team collaboration
Closed Captioning text:Rational Team Concert makes
it easy to share information directly in the context of your work. If
an enhancement request changes, you and other team members are notified
of the change automatically.
Page text:When you create a work item, you set its
category attribute. Members of the team area associated with that
category receive notifications when the work item is created or
modified.
Page title:Track tasks
Closed Captioning text:You can reference the change
in chat sessions and link to artifacts. Business stakeholders can also
automatically stay informed about the status of tasks that interest
them.
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Page title:Share information
Closed Captioning text:Rational Team Concert
provides several views that enable the sharing of team information. You
can track team activity, present information in more detail, and
configure the information that is visible.
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Page title:Roles
Closed Captioning text: Whether you are part of a
large, global team, or a small, local team, you likely need to
collaborate with team members who work in various roles, such as
architects, team leaders, developers, and release engineers. Rational
Team Concert contains customizable role definitions that help teams
collaborate within a single integrated development environment.
Page text:Roles identify the functions of team
members. You can use customizable role definitions to help you
collaborate with team members in various roles.
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Architects
Closed Captioning text:Rational Team Concert
contains several agile, iteration-based process templates that help
software architects plan and guide development.
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Team leaders
Closed Captioning text:Team leaders can use
iteration-planning tools to help plan and monitor the development of
their projects.
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Developers
Closed Captioning text:Developers can leverage the
benefits of an Eclipse-based, integrated development environment to
develop and deliver their artifacts.
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Release engineers
Closed Captioning text:Release engineers can work
with an integrated and open build environment to set up and deploy team
builds.
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Process
Closed Captioning text:Processes govern Rational
Team Concert and enable you to customize how the product works. A
process is a collection of roles, practices, rules, and guidelines that
organize and control the workflow for a project. Rational Team Concert
helps the team follow the process.
Page text:The project process is defined in a
project area and can be further customized in a team area.
All the work that team members do within the system happens within a
context of a defined process.
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Define roles
Closed Captioning text:User roles and permission for
performing operations are defined in the process.
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Templates
Closed Captioning text:A process is typically based
on templates that you can modify to meet your overall project and team
requirements.
Page text:Your team can begin with a simple process
and evolve it as the project progresses.
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Process structure
Closed Captioning text:The basic process structure
is a set of development lines and iterations.
Page text:A development line represents an area of
activity within a project that typically has its own schedule,
deliverables, teams, and process.
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Process-aware components
Closed Captioning text:Each component is
process-aware, so you can add rules for behavior in the form of
preconditions and follow-up actions.
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Eclipse client and Web interfaces
Closed Captioning text:Rational Team Concert
provides users with both an Eclipse-based client interface and a Web
interface. The client interface provides developers with a rich,
integrated development environment for delivering and building
artifacts. The Web interface is well suited for server and project
administrators and allows users to access project areas, browse
repository information, update tasks, and read about recent events.
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Summary
Closed Captioning text:Rational Team Concert is
developed at Jazz.net, where you can register to participate in
discussion forums, newsgroups, and the actual development process.
Page text:The Jazz.net community site includes
technotes, articles, forums, wikis, blogs, current documentation, and
other resources to help you troubleshoot and get
support.