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We’ve been pretty silent on the blog over the past three months, but for good reason. We’ve been heads down...

An introduction to Collaborative Quality Management

August 30, 2011 Kenny Smith

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IBM Releases Rational HATS 8

August 25, 2011 Kenny Smith

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Dojo, REST, iPads, oh my! So, the release many of us at Strongback (as well as a few customers) have...

IBM Rational enterprise modernization acronyms

July 28, 2011 Kenny Smith

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I frequently get asked what all the acronyms mean with the products under the Rational EM umbrella. They are confusing,...

Firefox 5 – fly in the ointment for Rational Requirements Composer

June 28, 2011 Kenny Smith

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I was recently editing some requirements, and this was the day that FF 5 rolled out, which was only 2...

A Newbie’s Guide to attending IBM Innovate

June 2, 2011 Kenny Smith

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In preparation for the IBM Innovate conference starting this June, I’ve put together some helpful advice to newcomers who’ve not...

Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction 8 now available

April 19, 2011 Kenny Smith

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This last week IBM announced that RDiSOA 8 is now available. Current customers have already been able to download the...

Resolving installation error with RDP into existing package groups.

April 8, 2011 Kenny Smith

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This little gem of an error came up today. While installing Rational Developer for Power, I got a message that...

Using Rational Team Concert on the mainframe to promote dependency builds

March 30, 2011 Kenny Smith

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Team Concert can handle complex dependency builds on the IBM mainframe. If you have a long deployment tasks that are...

Jazz based CLM Beta 3 products now are available

March 30, 2011 Kenny Smith

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For those interested, the Jazz team announced Beta 3 for all three Rational CLM products including: Team Concert Quality Manager...