IBM Rational Team Concert 2 Essentials: Improve your team productivity with Integrated Process, Planning, and Collaboration using Team Concert Enterprise Edition

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Understand the core features and techniques of Rational Team Concert and Jazz platform through a real-world Book Manager Application
Expand your knowledge of software development challenges and find out how Rational Team Concert solves your tech, team, and collaboration worries
Complete overview and understanding of the Jazz Platform, Rational Team Concert, and other products built on the Jazz Platform
Explore out-of-the-box projects with the 'Sandbox' feature of the Jazz Platform, even before you install Rational Team Concert
A practical guide by a Rational Team Concert expert, with a simple, step-by-step approach to solve your team management and collaboration worries

Description

Software development is a collaborative effort needing active and timely input and response from all its members. Every day, project managers face ever-increasing pressures to produce high-quality software with increasing constraints. With IBM's Rational Team Concert collaborative software delivery environment, you can tremendously improve the productivity of your entire team through a web-based user-interface, continuous builds, a customizable process with work support, team support, integration and many more features. Written by Suresh Krishna and TC Fenstermaker, experts on Rational Team Concert, this book will help you leverage the full potential of the IBM Rational Team Concert platform to improve your individual and team performance. It follows a realistic case-study example enabling you to learn about Rational Team Concert fundamentals and best practices along the way to efficiently manage your software projects and tackle various software development challenges.Beginning with an in-depth analysis of software development challenges, the book goes on to introduce the Jazz Platform followed by a complete overview of the architecture of Rational Team Concert. After you install Rational Team Concert on WebSphere and learn to configure the server and clients, you will see all the features in relation to Web and Eclipse clients.From Chapter 3 onwards a realistic sample application is constructed to give you a strong grasp of your concepts. As you proceed, you learn source control, the mechanism to create, control, and manage documents, artifacts in a software development lifecycle, followed by different tools that Rational Team Concert offers for effective team and work management. You tackle the various challenges of Team Collaboration by integrated e-mail, instant messaging, events, feeds, and work items, the basic units of the task. You also learn the various aspects of the software development process and release planning along with process templates, which provide the initial process and iteration of your project. Finally, you extend the Rational Team Concert and make use of the Jazz Platform APIs to customize your process to fit your organizational needs.

Who is this book for?

If you are a Project Manager or a Team Member, who would like to find an integrated approach to deal with modern software development challenges, you should read this book. Or if you are someone who likes to stay one step ahead in team management, you have got the right choice here.

What you will learn

Learn to set up the Rational Team Concert Team Server and Client and configure it for WebSphere
Using source control, learn effective creation, handling, and ownership of documents, source files, and artifacts at different phases of the software development process
Using various tools for collaboration, learn how to collaborate effectively and exchange the information required in a timely fashion
Practice application development with the scrum methodology, which emphasizes continuous assessment of completed work
Create, manage, and schedule work within the team using different user interface views and queries
Maximize your team productivity with proper management of work schedules using work items, dashboards, reports, and process messages, all of which give a complete insight into the project status
Go through the complete software development process and release planning, defining, configuring, and tracking the project release with process templates, team roles, iterations, sprints, and tracking releases
Practice continuous integration by learning how to define and configure Build Engine definitions, which allow for scheduling, monitoring, and tracing the builds with source control and work items

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Publication date, Length, Edition, Language, ISBN-13

Publication date : Feb 21, 2011

Length: 308 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781849681605

Vendor :

IBM

Category :

Business & Other

Languages :

Java

Concepts :

Project Management

Tools :

IBM Rational Team Concert

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Wishy Mar 11, 2011

Distributed software development has been gaining moment at a tremendous pace. RTC has been one of the few good products to have addressed almost all the issues in collaborative development. This book gives a great insight into the different features of RTC. This book needs to be a must for the libraries in all software development organizations.I was thoroughly impressed by the sample chapter and ordered this book with great expectations. I must say, the book has exceeded my expectations. I was particularly impressed about the way it deals with extending the platform for specific clients. I was one of the evaluators of Jazz version 1.0 in my company and I find this book to be a great resource for both beginners and advanced users of RTC.

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SreeVidya Mar 09, 2011

I am one of the customers who pre-ordered the book and it totally met my expectations. Jazz Platform truly creates a seamless integration of the SCM, Bug Management, Builds, Process and Development Environment. Disparate tools is a serious problems that i face at each company i worked for and there was no single elegant solution. With the Rational Team Concert, I see that IBM took the Team Work and Collaboration to a totally new vision.Authors did a great job in extracting their experiences in the 1st Chapter. I really liked the way they talked about various development challenges in any organization. Chapter1, Chapter4 to Chapter7 were the crux of this book and I admire the way authors explained the RTC functionality with non-trivial book manager application. The most valuable part was the Chapter8 that does client and server extensions. Not many resources talk about the extensions and this is a serious topic for anyone who wants to consult and build extensions for various clients.I would definitely suggest this to my team members and anyone who wants to have an overview on the RTC capabilities.

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CoJeff Jul 21, 2011

I bought this book to help me figure out the RTC product since the IBM's own documentation is either buggy or lacking. After going over the book in the few sections I was a little disappointment on the explainations and examples the book gave. For example, the work item customization is very complex but some how the book 3 pages. There are 13 sections for work item customization and the book only went over 2 of them. I guess I was expecting a lot more from a "Essentials" book but I should have realized it probably was that in detail given the amount of total pages.

Johan Hedlund Aug 08, 2013

I'd like to start by saying that I really tried to make an effort with this book. I read through the first 4 chapters, in hope that it would start getting better, but as the pages flipped past (I had the kindle ebook version of the book), I just got more and more frustrated.I'm no native English speaker myself, and I do not expect fancy wording just for the sake of it, but I at least expect proper language and grammar from a professionally published book. An error here and there I don't care about, but the level of the language in this book is in desperate need of review, and I am amazed that it has been allowed through for publishing. For the first 20-ish pages it is just an annoyance, but after that it just turns into an unbearable read. The writing style is so stunted that there is an absolute absence of flow.If it were only for that though, I would probably still be sitting here reading, as this seems to be one of the few available reasonably up to date books on RTC... but there is more; the actual content is also not even close to the level of any other tech book I've read (and I've read a fair few). The book makes some attempts at following standard tech book formats such as having an introduction at the beginning of a chapter, a summary at the end, and a "teaser" for the next chapter, as well as "cookbook" style instructions for how to get things up and running, but it lacks the quality and structure that in other books makes this pattern a useful aid for the reader. In this book, it instead just comes across as a desperate attempt to make the text look professional.I was expecting a guide to RTC. Instead I got a simplistic narrative of what the screens of RTC contain. I know that it is possible that the explanations and detail that I was looking for comes later on in the book, but it is just so painful to read that I couldn't make myself stay with it.In summary: Unless you are completely desperate, stay well away from this book. The only good thing I can say about my experience, is that it taught me that I can return a Kindle book for a full refund within 7 days of purchase.

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