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Understanding SAFe Work In Progress Limits
July 26, 2017
Kenny Smith
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DevOps
What is WIP? WIP stands for Work In Progress. Limiting your work in progress is a concept of Scaled Agile...
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A Rosetta Stone for IBM’s Jargon and Acronyms
August 16, 2016
Kenny Smith
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DevOps
This list is by no means complete (that would take weeks to compile). This list is constructed based on our...
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5 Tips to Accelerate Adoption of Rational Developer for System z
July 11, 2016
Kenny Smith
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DevOps
Reasoning We’ve been involved in several large scale deployments of Rational Developer for System z. The product is an incredible...
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Easy way to manage a developer’s prioritized daily backlog
June 6, 2016
Kenny Smith
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DevOps
The central tenant of any good Agile methodology is a prioritized daily task list. Even if you are not a...
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What do the various link types in Rational Team Concert mean?
June 2, 2016
Kenny Smith
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DevOps
In an RTC work item, on the links tab, you’ll notice several types of links you can create. When getting...
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Stop manual deployment or scripting deployments to WebSphere App Server – there is a better way
May 16, 2016
Kenny Smith
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DevOps
Manual deployments suck Lets face it, we’ve all had the “deployment weekend” nightmare. You plan for a half day of...
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Easy peasy cross project linking and traceability in IBM CLM (RTC, DOORs, and RQM)
April 22, 2016
Kenny Smith
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DevOps
For years, you’ve probably heard about “traceability”, that mysterious shangri-la that are read about in case studies. Well, obtaining traceability...
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Configuring Release Numbers in Rational Team Concert
April 15, 2016
Kenny Smith
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DevOps
The defect work item in Team Concert has a attribute labeled “Found In”. This field is not populated by default,...
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InterConnect 2016: Tips for Developing and Testing IBM HATS Applications
March 28, 2016
Kenny Smith
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DevOps
This is from our presentation at the InterConnect 2016 conference in Las Vegas, February 2016.IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services...
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Writing User Stories within IBM Rational Team Concert
March 11, 2016
Kenny Smith
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DevOps
First Rule: Write Good User Stories If you are just getting started with writing user stories, I highly recommend Mike...
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