Posts by Kenny Smith

Stop manual deployment or scripting deployments to WebSphere App Server – there is a better way

Stop manual deployment or scripting deployments to WebSphere App Server – there is a better way

Manual deployments suck Lets face it, we’ve all had the “deployment weekend” nightmare. You plan for a half day of...

Easy peasy cross project linking and traceability in IBM CLM (RTC, DOORs, and RQM)

Easy peasy cross project linking and traceability in IBM CLM (RTC, DOORs, and RQM)

For years, you’ve probably heard about “traceability”, that mysterious shangri-la that are read about in case studies. Well, obtaining traceability...

Configuring Release Numbers in Rational Team Concert

Configuring Release Numbers in Rational Team Concert

The defect work item in Team Concert has a attribute labeled “Found In”. This field is not populated by default,...

Strongback Website Update: new Devops solutions

Strongback Website Update: new Devops solutions

We have finally updated our website to address the services we’ve actually been doing over the past few years. For...

InterConnect 2016: Tips for Developing and Testing IBM HATS Applications

InterConnect 2016: Tips for Developing and Testing IBM HATS Applications

This is from our presentation at the InterConnect 2016 conference in Las Vegas, February 2016.IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services...

Creating and Sharing Work Item Queries in Rational Team Concert

Creating and Sharing Work Item Queries in Rational Team Concert

Rational Team Concert uses work items as the “glue” to bind various artifacts together. It links source code change sets...

Video: Creating and using personal dashboards in IBM Team Concert

Video: Creating and using personal dashboards in IBM Team Concert

This video was requested by a customer to show their employees how to create a personal dashboard from a project...

Writing User Stories within IBM Rational Team Concert

Writing User Stories within IBM Rational Team Concert

First Rule: Write Good User Stories If you are just getting started with writing user stories, I highly recommend Mike...

Lessons in how NOT to implement IBM DevOps tools (Antipatterns)

Lessons in how NOT to implement IBM DevOps tools (Antipatterns)

This week we presented at the IBM InterConnect conference in Vegas. This was information compiled from multiple customer engagements over...

What does it mean to “Shift Left”?

What does it mean to “Shift Left”?

If you are at IBM InterConnect, you’ll frequently hear the phrase “shift left”. Its meaning may go over your head...

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