1) The document discusses IBM's Jazz platform for collaborative software delivery. Jazz provides tools to help with requirements management, architecture, security, change delivery, quality assurance, and project management.
2) The first wave of Jazz offerings included Rational Insight, Rational Requirements Composer, Rational Team Concert, and Rational Quality Manager. These tools help with collaboration, requirements, source control, and testing.
3) The document outlines benefits of the Jazz platform such as improved productivity, visibility, automation, and alignment between business goals and development. Future roadmap items are also mentioned.
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Environment Productivity, Quality,
Business
Responsiveness, Return on
Visibility, Optimal Use of IT Investment, Fit for
Resource, Deadlines, Business Purpose
Control, Management,
Communication, Costs
Development Project
Manager Jazz Managet
Awareness, Flexibility,
Allocation, Reaction,
Processes, Delivery
Practitioner
Team Working,
Collaboration, Motivation,
Accessibility, Rewarding,
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Jazz – the Concept
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Rational Team Concert and Jazz
SCM Work Items Build
Flow Browser Shows Developer Defects, Enhancements and Work Item and Change Set
to Team Flow Conversations Traceability
Integrated Stream Management Query Results View and Share Local or Remote Build Servers
Component Level Baselines Queries with team or member
Supports Ant and Command line
Support for Approvals and Tools
Server-based Sandboxes
Discussions
Integration with Build Forge
Identifies Component in Streams
and Available Baselines ClearQuest Connector
Build Definitions for Team and
Query Editor Interface Private Builds
ClearCase Connector
Integrated Iteration Planning and Execution Team Advisor for defining / refining “rules” and
enabling continuous improvement
Real-time Project Status Window
Process Enactment and Enforcement
Single Structure for Project Related Artifacts
In-context Collaboration shows Team Members
World-class Team On-boarding / Offf-boarding and Status of their Work
including team membership, sub-teams and
project inheritance Customizable Project Dashboard
Role-based operational control for flexible Real-time Reporting and Queries
definition of process and capabilities
Jazz Team Server
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A platform for the business process of software
and systems delivery
Collaborate Automate Report
Drive organizational Lower costs and improve Continuously improve
consensus on priorities quality by automating by measuring progress
and improve workforce workflow based on against desired
productivity real-time information business outcomes
The Business Process of Software & Systems Delivery
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The benefits of a unified software delivery platform
Association
Changes; notification
Requirement linked Tester finds defects,
Analyst to work item generates work item Tester
REST API REST API
Requirements Defects closed Defect status
Quality
Management against requirements Management
REST API
Change &
Configuration
Management
Architect Developer
Coordinate analysts, developers Track builds and the impact of defects
and testers – What build is ready for test?
– Collaborate in context and track status – What defects are blocking test from proceeding?
Align teams on project plans Track status with C/ALM dashboard mashups
– Which requirements are in the development plan? – Transparency across teams and artifacts
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The Jazz technology platform for collaborative
software delivery
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Manage evolving requirements
Define and manage requirements with traceability
and improved alignment to business objectives
Elicit, capture, elaborate, discuss
and review requirements
Create and manage software requirements
and use cases
Develop data and architectural models
from business process models and software/systems
requirements
Use models and requirements to write code
Use requirements and use cases to create
test cases
Link requirements with project plans,
financials and status
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Manage architecture
Model, design and rapidly build resilient architectures
for SOA, systems and applications
Enable change against business goals – linking key
stake holders (business, product development, IT)
Simplify modeling with robust support for standards
Integrate team planning and
enable real-time team collaboration
and project health
Ensure visibility from business
needs to solution deployment
Build efficiency, consistency
and repeatability of new service delivery
Gain business intelligence for software assets and skills
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Ensure security and compliance
Protect data and meet regulatory and corporate
compliance requirements
Drive application security to support regulatory
compliance (PCI), complex applications, etc.
Avoid costs and lack of protection coverage
associated with manual security testing
Execute thorough application security analysis –
single-step security testing and emphasis
on accuracy of locating issues and actionable results
Ensure regulatory compliance by using templates
based on proven best practices
Identify and repair a software defect in products
before they go live
Remove barriers for development and QA
to test for security
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Accelerate change and delivery
Improve software delivery and lifecycle traceability
from requirements through deployment
Reduce the total cost of ownership for globally
distributed teams through the use of high-quality web interfaces
Leverage a high-performing server-based
deployment model
Benefit from enhanced
deployment management
Increase developer and team productivity
Use job process optimization to increase
capabilities for managing dependencies
Leverage project snapshots to improve
consumability by enabling reuse
and reproducibility
Measure and report progress against project
and business objectives across various products
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Deliver enduring quality
Ensure software functionality, reliability and performance
in development and production
Collaborate across the test lifecycle to mitigate business risk
Govern with immediate access to quality metrics
Traceability across test assets
Customized based on industry best practices
Automated data gathering and pattern
analysis
Automate labor-intensive test planning
tasks based on prioritization and
management of virtual and physical
test lab assets
Reuse existing test assets by employing
an open, extensible test platform
Improve manual testing with data assist and asset reuse via
keywords
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Improve project success
Align business goals, best practices and projects
for improved productivity and predictability
Enable “real-time, in-context” collaboration
for distributed program and project teams
Make software delivery projects more
automated, transparent and predictable
Allow domain-specific processes,
practices and components to support
Software and Systems Delivery
Integrate with other Jazz products
and other products in the market
Equip geographically distributed teams with an architecture
to enable horizontal scalability and distributed deployment
for thousands of users
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The first wave of Jazz offerings
Rational Insight – Lifecycle Metrics and Analysis
Rational Rational Rational
Requirements Composer Team Concert Quality Manager
Business expert collaboration Core team collaboration Quality team collaboration
Elicit, capture, elaborate, discuss quot;Think and workquot; in unison and provide Coordinate quality assurance
and review requirements real-time project heath plans, processes and resources
Association
Changes; notification
Requirement linked Tester finds defects,
Analyst to work item generates work item Tester
REST API REST API
Requirements Defects closed Defect status
Quality
Management against requirements Management
REST API
Change &
Configuration
Management
Architect Developer
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Rational Quality Manager - Centralized test management hub
allowing full lifecycle support across all types of testing and platforms
IBM Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management
Rational Quality Manager
Quality Dashboard
Requirements Test Management and Execution Defect
Management Management
Create Build Manage Report
Plan Tests Test Lab Results
Open Platform
Best Practice Processes
JAZZ TEAM SERVER
SAP System z, i
Java Open Lifecycle Service Integrations
.NET
Functional Security and
Testing Performance Code Compliance
Web Service
Testing Quality Quality
Homegrown
Partner Driven
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The road ahead
Jazz offerings in 2009 and beyond
Rational Rational Rational Rational ClearQuest,
Rational
Enterprise Project Method Build Forge
ClearCase
Reporting Management Composer & RequisitePro
Gain insight based on Manage global Dynamic process, Realize the strengths Extend
real-time and historical projects and enactment and of ALM through Jazz collaboration
trend information resources management integrations capabilities
Offerings
Web 2.0
Rational Integrations
Rational Rational Rational Rational Software Architect
ClearQuest Asset Build Forge Powered by
Manager Rational Application Developer
Rational Rational More dynamic integration leveraging Rational AppScan & Tester portfolio
RequisitePro ClearCase
Jazz “Open Services for Lifecycle Rational Enterprise Modernization
Collaboration” services including System z and IBM i support
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Starting at MCIF
Requirements
Composer
Quality
Jazz Manager
Insight Team
Concert Portfolio New
Products
Amortise
MCIF Investment
Update
Rationalise
System s Focal Application Re-Write
Architect Point Modernisation
Convert
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