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.


Page title: 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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Page title: 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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Page title: 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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Page title: 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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Page title: 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.


Page title: Define roles

Closed Captioning text:User roles and permission for performing operations are defined in the process.


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Page title: 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.


Page title: 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.


Page title: 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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Page title: 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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Page title: 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.