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What is WIP? WIP stands for Work In Progress. Limiting your work in progress is a concept of Scaled Agile...
WebSphere App Server 7 support ends in April 2018
If you are currently running IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on version 7, you have until April of 2018 to...Team Concert 6.0.4: New Horizontal Clustering Features
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We help our customers implement software using Agile methods and a DevOps approach. These notes have been growing as we’ve worked...Performance Testing the Rational Build Agent
On a recent project where we were implementing Rational Team Concert for a large z/OS shop, we were requested for...A Rosetta Stone for IBM’s Jargon and Acronyms
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5 Tips to Accelerate Adoption of Rational Developer for System z
Reasoning We’ve been involved in several large scale deployments of Rational Developer for System z. The product is an incredible...Easy way to manage a developer’s prioritized daily backlog
The central tenant of any good Agile methodology is a prioritized daily task list. Even if you are not a...