Collaborative development enables teams to work together across tools to deliver quality software faster. Speakers, David C. Myers and Kimberly Gist

Poor requirements management is among the significant contributing factors in the failure of a project. Improper requirements management can lead to disconnected teams, wasted time, out-of-control costs and unsatisfied customers. If you use documents, spreadsheets, emails, wikis and other conventional office and productivity tools to keep track of your business, customer or product requirements, you could be putting your project at risk. With proper requirements management solution implementation, development costs can be reduced by up to 57%, time to market accelerated by up to 20%, and cost of quality lowered by up to 69%. Speaker, Morgan Brown, Global Enablement Leader for requirements management solutions at IBM Rational.

Defects are many times less expensive to rectify the earlier they are caught in development cycle. In this podcast you will learn about an IDE that provides automated tools to quickly create high quality code during the implementation of software that addresses this issue by moving defect resolution and prevention into the development activities of a software project. This results not just in development efficiency but also improved time to market and reduced development cost. Speakers, Kathy Chan, Bill Smith and Kimberly Gist

Companies are realizing that they must become more productive to remain competitive. For most, this means pushing out more sophisticated applications faster, and in order to do this they often must extend their backend IBM i systems to multi-platform front ends. We’ll cover the application development and delivery challenges when the IBM i development is still 5250 based and others work in other places. We will talk about using Rational Team Concert with the ARCAD Pack for Rational to manage legacy and modern development environments. Speakers, Chris Trobridge, Floyd Del Muro and Kimberly Gist

Continuous Engineering is an enterprise capability that speeds delivery of increasingly sophisticated and connected products by helping businesses to evolve their engineering practices to adapt to the accelerating pace of business change. Continuous engineering isn’t “continuous” in the sense that it is never ending. Rather, it addresses the ever present need to rethink, redesign, reintegrate and reinnovate products and systems. It is about helping engineers work in the ways that they want to work—with easy access to all the tools, data and expertise they need to do their jobs better.One of the key practice areas within Continuous Engineering is focused on unlocking access to and understanding of engineering knowledge and information, regardless of source, to enable the right decisions at the right times. The ability to unlock engineering knowledge helps engineers and product developers turn insight into outcomes. Speakers, Steve Shoaf and Kimberly Gist

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Join Steve Shoaf as he discusses how continuous engineering can help manufacturers prosper in the age of the “Internet of Things.” Speakers, Steve Shoaf and Kimberly Gist

In this fourth and final discussion, Laurel and Paul discuss how IBM has transformed their own software engineering approach with new devops processes, tools and culture. This is a topic that will interest our Government clients as they learn about and adopt devops in their their departments and agencies, but really clients in all industries will enjoy and use the information in this last podcast. Joining Laurel and Paul are David Leigh, Jeanette Deupree, Xavier Segovia and Irene Penney from IBM who share their stories of DevOps adoption and important lessons learned.

In this third discussion, Laurel and Paul discuss the process improvements DevOps brings to a government organization, how to assess readiness through a free self assessment tool and also how to foster a cultural change that supports a DevOps adoption. Speakers, Laurel Dickson-Bull, Public Sector Offering Manager, IBM Rational software and Paul Bahrs, Chief Architect for Emerging Technologies, IBM Rational software

In this second discussion, Laurel and Paul bring home the value of DevOps with more examples of success in government agencies. DevOps capabilities can help government deliver software faster and more predicatively and with less risk. The primary capabilities discussed are in four major areas: 1) Plan and Measure or Steer, 2) Develop and Test, 3) Release and Deploy, 4) Monitor and Optimize. Speakers, Laurel Dickson-Bull, Public Sector Offering Manager, IBM Rational software and Paul Bahrs, Chief Architect for Emerging Technologies, IBM Rational software