IBM Hillsboro Office

In the first meeting of 2014, we have the pleasure of having Carson Holmes, President of the Global Rational User Community and Black Belt instructor of Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) will provide the group with an insight into Disciplined Agile Delivery and answer questions from the audience.

All are welcome, please register to attend this event.

Agenda:

Gathering/Pizza/Networking - 6:00 (sponsored by IBM)
Business meeting/introductions 6:30
Presentation: immediately following short business meeting

The Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process framework is a people-first, learning-oriented hybrid agile approach to IT solution delivery. It has a risk-value lifecycle, is goal-driven, is scalable, and is enterprise aware. DAD unites the principles and practices of agile software development with the discipline required for software delivery for large-scale and distributed teams.

Given time and interest, the IBM Rational Team Concert tool; along with customized RTC process templates may be demonstrated.

6:30 - Networking, Pizza and drinks will be provided 7:00 - Introductions + Jazz & CLM Overview Presentation 8:30 - Q/A & Wrap-up

Jazz & CLM Overview

The Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management is a set of seamlessly integrated tools that work together to improve solution delivery. Full lifecycle traceability improves quality by understanding the relationships between artifacts across all disciplines. It allows teams to find and close traceability gaps to ensure full coverage across requirements, design, development, and test. A level of transparency is provided that enables everyone to make informed decisions based on business priorities.

In this presentation, Carson Holmes, will show how Requirements Composer, Team Concert, and Quality Manager can be used together to realize full lifecycle traceability. He will show how lifecycle projects can be administered and review a number of features and usage scenarios for CLM. He will also review the other products available on the Jazz platform and how these various Rational tools complement each other.

Speaker Bio:

Carson Holmes is a management consultant, methodologist, software engineer, and educator. He is the EVP of Service Delivery at Software Development Experts, and President of the Global Rational User Community.

Mr. Holmes started programming over 30 years ago and for the last 16 years has helped numerous Fortune 500 IT enterprises across a variety of industries achieve their strategic goals. He is a specialist in IT governance and process improvement and leverages pragmatic methods, practices, and tools that benefit the enterprise IT value stream.