Training · IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management

ELM training from the people who run it in production

The Island Training Solutions curriculum is now part of Strongback Consulting. Instructor-led courses across the IBM ELM suite — requirements, workflow, test management, and reporting — taught by consultants who administer these tools for real engineering organizations, not career trainers reading slides.

Course Catalog

Courses across the ELM suite

Each course maps to a current ELM application — including the product’s former Rational name, because that’s still what half the industry calls it.

Engineering Workflow Management (EWM)

formerly Rational Team Concert (RTC)

Work items, planning, source control, and build management in EWM — for teams adopting it fresh and RTC shops upgrading in place.

5 coursesInstructor-ledHands-on labsAdmin & user tracks
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DOORS Next

formerly Rational Requirements Composer / DOORS NG

Requirements authoring, management, and project administration in DOORS Next — plus a full classic DOORS 9.x track: fundamentals, DXL customization, ELO publishing, and writing better requirements.

8 coursesInstructor-ledHands-on labsClassic DOORS track
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Engineering Test Management (ETM)

formerly Rational Quality Manager (RQM)

Test planning, execution records, lab management, and traceability back to requirements and work items across the lifecycle.

3 coursesInstructor-ledHands-on labs
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Jazz Reporting & Global Configuration

Report Builder / JRS, Lifecycle Projects, GCM

Cross-project reporting and dashboards with Report Builder, lifecycle project management, and administering Global Configuration environments across the suite.

6 coursesInstructor-ledHands-on labs
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Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody

Rhapsody and Rhapsody Model Manager (RMM)

Model-based systems engineering: structural and behavioral modeling, SysML notation, traceability to requirements, and versioning models with RMM.

4 coursesInstructor-ledHands-on labsMBSE
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Formats

Delivered the way your team works

Private on-site

Your team, your environment, your data. Courses adapt to your actual project areas and process templates instead of a canned sandbox.

Private virtual

Live instructor-led sessions for distributed teams, with the same hands-on lab environments and half-day scheduling options.

Custom curriculum

Mixed-tool programs — say, EWM for developers plus ETM for QA — assembled from the catalog to match how your lifecycle actually flows.

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Tell us which ELM applications you run and who needs to learn them. We’ll propose a curriculum and a date.