We help our customers implement software using Agile methods and a DevOps approach. These notes have been growing as we’ve worked with more and more customers. I expect to have more in the future as well, but these several items are recurring issues I see time and time again. Hopefully, even if you are not one … Read more
First Rule: Write Good User Stories If you are just getting started with writing user stories, I highly recommend Mike Cohn’s book User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Perhaps you’re coming from a background of writing large use cases. Perhaps you’re fresh out of school and not familiar with requirements management. If you’re already … Read more
This week we presented at the IBM InterConnect conference in Vegas. This was information compiled from multiple customer engagements over the past few years. Patterns and Antipatterns for Adopting IBM DevOps Ttools from Strongback Consulting If you are looking to implement the IBM platform as your Application Lifecycle Management platform of choice, and need help … Read more
Continuous Integration I’ve recently read a couple of great books on the agile discipline of continuous integration. For those not familiar, this is the concept of using automation to build source code on a very frequent interval, and report defects or failures in the build to the team. The initial movement began after JUnit started … Read more
RAD 8 Source Code Coverage Configuration Code coverage is the method of analyzing your source code to see what lines of code are covered by unit tests. In the case of Java, JUnit is the unit test toolset of choice. Code coverage tools came available in RAD 8, and have been improved in 8.5. Its … Read more
Business Intelligence for Application Development Many companies are looking what kind of business intelligence they can derive to help them make better decision around application development. If you are managing an application development team, there are several metric you should be collecting and reporting on. This helps you understand how effective your team is, and how … Read more
As promised from the IBM Innovate conference last week, the Rational Solution for CLM 4.0 is now live. There are several new features to be aware of. First for larger deployments, RTC now supports clustering using WebSphere App Server Network Deployment. Note, that RTC does not include WAS ND, and you will have to buy … Read more
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For those that missed last Wednesday’s webinar, we are providing it here on the blog below. This coming Wednesday, June 22, we’ll continue our series talking about requirements management in collaborative lifecycle management environment. Define and deliver the right solution by modeling yourbusiness processes, development, and management of use of cases and thegathering and prioritizing … Read more
Imagine if your mainframe and distributed development environments were seamlessly integrated, platform choice was removed from the development stage and you could develop across platforms at the same time. No more project delays due to synchronization problems. Increased flexibility. All skill sets could be leveraged without additional training. Planning and reporting would be much easier. … Read more