Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management Solution

Extending collaboration between team members for improved software quality and delivery

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The IBM® Rational® solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) brings together requirements management, quality management, change and configuration management, project planning and tracking on a common unified platform. Productivity is enhanced with CLM by avoiding the pitfalls of working in silos which can often cause project delays, lower quality results and budget overruns. This integrated solution delivers more than the sum of its parts by offering in-context team collaboration, lifecycle traceability across disciplines, real-time planning and development intelligence for fact-based decision making.

The Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management is a set of seamlessly integrated tools that work together as one:

  • Rational Team Concert™ (RTC) integrates task tracking, source control and agile planning with continuous builds and a configurable process to adapt to the way you work.
  • Rational Quality Manager (RQM) delivers capabilities for test management including test planning, creation and execution, focusing on improving delivery time by coordinating activities and providing greater visibility across requirements, quality and change management.
  • Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) delivers capabilities for capturing, managing and tracing requirements throughout the application development lifecycle.

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The IBM® Rational® solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) 4.0.1 continues to evolve with new functionality and integrations. Upgrades and implementations are simpler and faster with automated deployments and accelerated data migration. New licensing options make CLM an affordable solution for smaller teams.

The IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management solution offers enhanced capabilities and support in v4.0.1:

  • Simplified multi-role licensing options make CLM more affordable for small software teams.
  • Design Management integration extends the value of CLM with broader collaboration and lifecycle traceability for architects.
  • Lifecycle Integration Adapters for CLM leverage existing investments and unify teams using third party and open source products.
  • Best practices and templates for CLM are available when you want to take advantage of agile software development in regulated environments while remaining compliant.
  • CLM for Mobile provides a single offering for mobile application development teams.

Simplified multi-role licensing options

  • CLM Stakeholder provides basic change management capability and access to task status, dashboards and work item information. It is a good choice for customers, partners and extended participants who need to stay up-to-date with software projects.
  • CLM Contributor includes all the capabilities of CLM Stakeholder plus agile, traditional and hybrid real-time planning and tracking. Also includes task boards, Gantt charts, product backlogs, burn down charts and dashboards to help improve planning and predictability for all types of projects.
  • CLM Practitioner for Workgroups is an affordable option for smaller teams and departments who want individuals to have multi-role access to all of the developer, business analyst and quality professional capabilities. A maximum of 50 of these license types are permitted on one server.
  • CLM Practitioner provides multi-role access to all of the developer, business analyst and quality professional capabilities.

Design management integration

  • Rational Software Architect with Design Manager incorporates architects and designs into the collaborative lifecycle.
  • Design management provides iterative and collaborative capabilities for architecting, designing and developing software and systems.
  • Teams can share designs, stay current with others and understand the downstream impacts of design changes.

Lifecycle Integration Adapters for CLM

  • Atlassian JIRA, Git or HP ALM investments are enhanced with the IBM Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters.
  • The IBM Rational OSLC adapter for Atlassian JIRA is useful when your overall development effort has standardized on the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management, and you have pockets of JIRA usage for defect management.
  • The IBM Rational OSLC Adapter for HP ALM allows you to connect your HP ALM projects to CLM project areas, providing traceability across HP, Rational Requirements Composer and Rational Team Concert from both the Rational and HP user interfaces.
  • The IBM Rational OSLC Adapter for Git integrates Git or Gerrit with Rational Team Concert work items.

Best practices and templates for CLM

  • When you must demonstrate compliance with a complex and dynamic set of regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SoX) and ISO 26262, use our experience to effectively and efficiently maintain a compliant and agile software development environment.
  • Get guidance and templates for implementing work authorization and requirements integrity, segregation of duties in regulated software development, process change control and internal control audits.
  • Detailed step-by-step instructions and screenshots guide you in creating a compliant software development environment.

CLM for Mobile

  • IBM Mobile Development Lifecycle Solution combines CLM with IBM Worklight into a single offering that supports a collaborative mobile development lifecycle.
  • This solution enables the development of rich web, hybrid and native mobile applications on iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows phone tablets and smart phones.
  • Development teams can share mobile applications with testers, designers, sample users, product managers and other stakeholders in the application development process.

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