IBM Rational Team Concert 2 Essentials

Improve your team productivity with Integrated Process, Planning, and Collaboration using Team Concert Enterprise Edition

• 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

In Detail

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.

A comprehensive and practical guide to get acquainted with Rational Team Concert and Jazz Platform, boosting your individual and team productivity

What you will learn from this book

• 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

Approach

With their straightforward style, Suresh Krishna and TC Fenstermaker have put their years of experience and motivation into this practical guide that assists in finding an integrated approach to increased team productivity. The numerous tips, notes, and suggestions strengthen your grasp of fundamentals and the foundation upon which you are ready to build your customized Rational Team Concert application. Ample screenshots make sure that you get the configurations correct the first time. A real-world Book Manager Application walks you through all the core features of the Rational Team Concert during different phases of development and release.

Who this book is written 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.OA

透過使用Team Concert Enterprise Edition的整合流程、計劃和協作，提升您的團隊生產力
- 通過一個真實的Book Manager應用程序，了解Rational Team Concert和Jazz平台的核心功能和技術
- 擴展您對軟件開發挑戰的了解，並了解Rational Team Concert如何解決您的技術、團隊和協作問題
- 全面瞭解Jazz平台、Rational Team Concert和其他基於Jazz平台的產品
- 在安裝Rational Team Concert之前，通過Jazz平台的“沙盒”功能探索即插即用的項目
- 由Rational Team Concert專家撰寫的實用指南，以簡單的逐步方法解決您的團隊管理和協作問題

詳細內容：
軟件開發是一個協作的過程，需要所有成員的積極和及時的參與和回應。每天，項目經理面臨著越來越大的壓力，要在不斷增加的限制條件下生產高質量的軟件。通過IBM的Rational Team Concert協作軟件交付環境，您可以通過基於Web的用戶界面、持續構建、可自定義的工作支持流程、團隊支持、集成等多種功能，極大地提高整個團隊的生產力。

本書由Rational Team Concert專家Suresh Krishna和TC Fenstermaker撰寫，將幫助您充分發揮IBM Rational Team Concert平台的潛力，提高個人和團隊的表現。它通過一個實際的案例研究示例，讓您了解Rational Team Concert的基礎知識和最佳實踐，以便有效地管理軟件項目並應對各種軟件開發挑戰。

從深入分析軟件開發挑戰開始，本書介紹了Jazz平台，然後全面介紹了Rational Team Concert的架構。在安裝Rational Team Concert並學習配置服務器和客戶端之後，您將了解與Web和Eclipse客戶端相關的所有功能。

從第3章開始，將構建一個實際的示例應用程序，讓您對概念有深入的理解。隨著進一步的學習，您將了解源代碼控制，以及在軟件開發生命周期的不同階段創建、控制和管理文檔、工件的機制，以及Rational Team Concert提供的不同工具，用於有效的團隊和工作管理。您將通過集成的電子郵件、即時消息、事件、動態和工作項目等方式解決團隊協作的各種挑戰，這些是任務的基本單位。您還將學習軟件開發過程和發布計劃的各個方面，以及提供項目的初始過程和迭代的流程模板。最後，您將擴展Rational Team Concert並利用Jazz平台API自定義您的流程，以滿足組織的需求。

這是一本全面而實用的指南，讓您熟悉Rational Team Concert和Jazz平台，提高個人和團隊的生產力。

從本書中您將學到：
- 學習如何設置Rational Team Concert團隊服務器和客戶端，並將其配置為WebSphere
- 使用源代碼控制，學習在軟件開發過程的不同階段有效地創建、處理和擁有文檔、源文件和工件
- 使用各種協作工具，學習如何有效地協作並及時交換所需的信息
- 使用Scrum方法進行應用程序開發，該方法強調對已完成工作的持續評估
- 使用不同的用戶界面視圖和查詢，在團隊內創建、管理和安排工作
- 最大限度地提高團隊生產力，並通過Jazz平台API自定義您的流程以適應組織需求。