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Developing high quality software aligned to business objectives in today's rapidly changing environment has become increasingly challenging. Software companies must face the daunting task of finding ways to collaborate across distributed environments, automate processes, and increase productivity and quality while driving down costs.

Strongback Consulting and IBM Rational have joined forces to deliver this 3-part Webinar series on the key components of Application Lifecycle Management including collaborative software development, requirements management, and quality control.

Wednesday Webinar Series Schedule -- 2:00 p.m. EDT

Collaborate, Integrate, Automate -- Revolutionize Your Distributed Development Environment
When: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. EDT

Do you want to learn how to drastically improve development productivity and software quality with teams that work together to be more focused, streamlined, and efficient? Are you ready to transform software development and delivery within your organization? We are ready to show you how!

In fact, in less than 45 minutes, you will learn how Strongback Consulting and Rational Team Concert will help you connect your distributed development teams to increase individual and team productivity, compress development cycles and rapidly deliver high-quality software.

Featuring a Live Demo of Rational Team Concert

In this Webinar, you will learn everything you need to know about how Strongback and Rational Team Concert will enable you to:

  • Improve software quality and time to market
  • Embrace agile development and delivery without sacrificing governance
  • Collaborate in real-time and in-connect
  • Unify software teams
  • Improve processes such as planning, scheduling, and change and configuration management
  • Reduce administrative overhead

Sign Up Now June 15

A Single Source of Truth -- Aligning Business Priorities and IT Project Deliverables
When: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. EDT

Better, faster requirements lead to less project rework, faster time to market, and better business outcomes. Effectively engaging a wide range of customers and other stakeholders in the requirements process helps to uncover customer needs and define good requirements. In this Webinar, you will learn how Strongback Consulting and Rational Requirements Composer use A Single Source of Truth to help teams define and use requirements effectively across the project lifecycle.

Featuring a Live Demo of Rational Requirements Composer

Gathering and managing requirements is one of the most difficult steps in the software development process and one of the first places that projects go wrong. In order for a project to succeed, requirements definition is crucial, but proper elicitation, communication and management of these requirements can be even more important. In just 45 minutes, you will learn how to:

  • Define and deliver the right solution by modeling your business processes, development, and management of use of cases and the gathering and prioritizing of enhancement requests
  • Better understand and communicate the real business needs behind your system or application
  • Manage your requirements more effectively
  • Use and manage use cases to better describe system functionality
  • Organize and prioritize enhancements and other change requests

Sign Up Now June 22

Software Quality Delivered -- From Concept to Launch to Retirement
When: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. EDT

Companies who push quality to the end of the development lifecycle typically experience major project delays, software that is delivered and implemented with serious flaws and are on occasion forced to abandon a project completely.

Learn how Strongback and Rational Quality Manager can help you deliver quality throughout the product and application lifecycle – from concept to launch to retirement. This integrated, lifecycle approach helps make quality a shared responsibility – not siloed and disconnected, enabling organizations to achieve greater consistency, efficiency and predictability in their delivered software solutions.

Featuring a Live Demo of Rational Quality Manager


In this 45-minute session, you will find out how to:

  • Trace requirements to test cases
  • Manage complex test projects
  • Improve manual testing productivity
  • Minimize downtime and pinpoint system bottlenecks before application deployment
  • Deliver projects faster, at lower cost, and with better quality
  • Build test processes into the development lifecycle
  • Automate test process throughout development

Sign Up Now June 29

Join Us at the IBM Innovate Conference


Why Every IBM System i Developer Should Use IBM Rational Developer for Power Systems

Monday, June 6, 2011: 4:15 p.m. -- 5:45 p.m.
Location: Oceanic 4 -- Dolphin

Speaker(s): Kenny Smith, Strongback Consulting; Matthew Hardin, Strongback Consulting; Kushal Munir, IBM; Tim Rowe, IBM

Session ID: PWR-1728A


This session is targeted at technology leaders who want to improve the efficiency and productivity of their teams, as well as
IBM System i developers who want to learn about the latest advances in technology for making development easier, faster, and more enjoyable. Presenters provide an overview of the capabilities of the IBM Rational Developer for Power Systems product, with an emphasis on targeting IBM System i. They focus on the editor, debugger, remote system synchronization components, and integration into other companion products such as IBM Rational Team Concert. The session covers the various ways to modularize RPG applications, ways to extend RPG applications using modern technologies, including program call markup language, and how modern tools can position a business for the future.

Register for IBM Innovate

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