Rational Team Concert Overview

Copyright © 2011 321 Gang

Rational Team Concert Overview

Joe Meagher321 Gang

[email protected]

Copyright © 2011 321Gang

Rational History• Founded 1981, Acquired by IBM 2003

• R1000 – ADA Development environment

• Modeling/Process UML, Method Composer Rose, XDE, Software Architect (RSA)

• Control ClearCase, ClearQuest, Team Concert (RTC), Change, Synergy

• Requirements RequisitePro, DOORS, Requirements Composer (RRC)

• Testing Functional Tester, Performance Tester, Test Real Time Test Manager, Quality Manager (RQM)

• Planning/Management Portfolio Manager, Publishing Engine (RPE), RRDI, Team Concert (RTC)

• Jazz Platform (CLM) – RTC, RRC, RQM

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Software-Centric Systems Development Needs

• Know work to be done, work assignments

• Plan work; track work progress to plan; adapt plan

• Mange configurations; facilitate parallel development

• Support continuous integration practices

• Send notifications when anything of interest occurs

• Support distributed teams

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Evolve Simple Design

TDD

Pair Programming

Refactor

Collective Code Ownership Coding

Standards

SustainablePace

SharedVision

ContinuousIntegration

PlanningGame

PlanningPoker

(Estimating)

CustomerAcceptance

Testing

SmallReleases

CustomerTeam

Member

Self-managed

Teams

DailyStandup

Time-boxIterations

Open Workspace

UserStories


Best Practice Development Tools Stack

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Source Control/Configuration ManagementCVS, SVN, Git, Mercurial, ClearCase, Synergy, Perforce

Issue/Defect TrackingBugzilla, Trac, ClearQuest, Change, Jira

Continuous BuildCruiseControl, Hudson, Ant, Maven, BuildForge

Planning Rally, VersionOne, MS Project, Excel, Sticky Notes

CollaborationMylyn, Confluence, FishEye

CollaborationPlanning

Continuous Build

Issue TrackingSCM

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Integrations

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Team Concert in the ALM Context

• Strength through integration – value multiplier on product investment

• Built on Jazz team collaboration platform

DOORS/RRCRequirements Mgmt

RhapsodySystem EngineeringModeling/Simulation

Team ConcertProject and team visibility

Work scheduling and trackingAdaptive project management

Configuration/build management

Quality ManagerTest plans

Lab managementTest execution history

Jazz Platform

QualityProducts

Rational Solutionother Solutions

InsightProject status and trends

Publishing EngineAutomated document generation


Rational Team Concert

• Highly collaborative, team-based development environment Integrates multiple aspects of the software development lifecycle,

including work items, source control, build, and process support

• Key capabilities: Process awareness and customization Team awareness, team owns work, members, plans Work item tracking, relationships, and traceability Build awareness, traceability, and support for other build engines Integrations with other products to facilitate collaborative application

lifecycle management


Team Concert Overview

Work ItemsDefects, enhancements, stories

Queries, and query resultsSupport for approvals, discussionsCustom types, workflows, editors

Integrations with CQ, Bugzilla

Configuration ManagementIntegrated stream management

Component-level baselinesTight integration with Eclipse, work itemsIntegrations with CC, CVS, Subversion

BuildTrace to work items and code changesSupports both team and private builds

Local and remote build serversSupports Ant and command-line

Iteration PlanningIntegrated iteration and release planning

Tracks team and individual progress and loadOut-of-box support for processes (RUP, Scrum)

Process TransparencyCustomized web-based project dashboards

Live, real-time metrics and reportingFlexible, role-base process support

Team CollaborationIntegrated chat

Rich notification and filtering for all team and project related eventsMultiple-platform support – Eclipse, Visual Studio, and full-featured web browser

Rich querying and reporting engine


Team Collaboration (process) Awareness

• All activity within Team Concert operate within a process

• Team Concert knows team’s roles, members, timeline/schedule, organization, permissions, collaboration rules


Work Items

• Work is focus of development Owned by a user Planned for an iteration or release Filed against a team SCM changes, builds it includes

• May define custom types with workflows and attributes

• Supports complex relationships Parent-child with progress roll-up Blocking work Implementing requirement (from DOORS) Etc.

Planned Work

Story

StoryStory


Supporting Complex Relationships

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Requirement(s)

implements

Tests verifying

Design elementsguiding


Adaptive Planning in Team Concert

• Team Concert knows project timeline(s) and teams

• Tracks what work is planned for each iteration

• Plans provide status at multiple levels (project/team, release/iteration)

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FeatureFeature

Story

Story

Story

Story

Dev Team

A

Dev Team

B

Story

…Story

Feature

Story

Story

Story

Story

Project Plan

Team IterationPlan (Backlog)

Team Release Plan


Plans Provide Customizable Views

By Iteration

Rank Order

For Single

Iterations

By Team

By Schedule


Source Control

• Team Concert provide streams model SCM Manages changes between teams, versions, customer variants, etc.

• Greatly simplifies change process Group related files changes into a single change set (no branches!!) Automatically associate file changes with work item


Source Control Streams and Repository Workspaces

• Work on multiple changes simultaneously in same workspace No separate workspaces for developer tasks

• Greatly simplifies change process for large complex systems

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Select work item to suspend

and resume associated

changes


Burndown

Risks, Blocking Work, External Commitments

Build Health

Defect Trends

Quality

Taskboard

Feedback and Visibility

• Dashboards (Information Radiators) provide status and trends Data is live and collected automatically – no burden on development

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• Review status (Deb – Project Manager – Web Interface)• Submit defect (Deb – Project Manager – Web Interface)• Fix and Deliver (Bob – Developer - Eclipse)• Confirm fix (Deb – Project Manager – Web Interface)



Joe Meagher321Gang

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