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IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008 A Guided Tour of Jazz.net Bill Higgins Jazz.net and Jazz Web UI Foundation Lead, IBM Rational bhiggins@us.ibm.com SDP 20 2008 IBM Corporation. All rights reserved.

Intro to Jazz.net (http://jazz.net/) First a few questions: who here has heard of Jazz.net? visited/registered at Jazz.net? asked a forum question or opened a bug report at Jazz.net? What s this presentation about? Introduce the Jazz.net web site and explain why we created it Explain how you can use Jazz.net to learn about Jazz and Team Concert and collaborate with the Jazz team Demo Jazz.net Ask for your Jazz.net feedback Talk about the future of Jazz.net 2

Jazz.net from 50,000 feet Jazz.net is a web site that Provides information on the Jazz Platform and Rational Team Concert Allows community members to download and try early access builds of Rational Team Concert and Jazz-based incubator technologies (Incubator == interesting and useful technology that s not quite ready for primetime) Helps community members keep up to date on Jazz and Rational Team Concert news and development plans Enables community members to interact directly with the development team via forums and the bug tracking system 3

Why Did We Create Jazz.net? First where did we come from? Many of the original Jazz project leaders were also project leaders on the original Eclipse project and Eclipse platform The Eclipse effort resulted in both high-quality software and a vibrant community of happy users and extenders, and we wanted to achieve similar goodness with Jazz Unlike Eclipse, Jazz would be commercial software, but wanted to keep the transparency of open source; we call this transparency in a commercial context open commercial development Also, since Jazz focuses on development teams and communities, we had a great opportunity to publicly drink our own champaign and indeed give our community early samples 4

Why Did We Create Jazz.net? (continued) This led to our two main goals: 1. Create a high-bandwidth, direct channel between the development team and community to promote transparency in the development process and make new software available early and often 2. Enable community and potential customers to see how our geographically dispersed development team uses Jazz technology to successfully deliver software (Jazz and Rational Team Concert themselves) 5

What s so great about transparency? Stakeholder perspective (not exactly rocket science) Easy to file an enhancement request, defect report Easy to subscribe to a work item to track its progress Easy to follow a collection of work, via work item queries or iteration plans Have direct, high-bandwidth interactions with the people actually writing the code and making the decisions Developer perspective Good pressure our commitments, problems, and successes are all visible Direct interactions input isn t filtered, can t hide behind layers of bureaucracy Community support on common questions and issues Diverse input helps avoid groupthink Everybody perspective Meet and build relationships with smart people with common interests 6

What s available at Jazz.net (some highlights, anyway) Content Team Blog Forums Downloads Tech Notes Development Wiki Mailing Lists Help Docs Dashboards * Work Items * Iteration Plans * Reports * Description Development team members write mini articles with insights on how to use some capability or insights on why some capability is used as it is Ask questions to be answered by the Jazz development team and other community members Download early access builds of Rational Team Concert and Jazz-based incubator technologies Reference information on advanced configuration and deployment scenarios Used by development team to collaborate on new designs and jot down reference information Used by development teams to communicate recent issues and decisions Conceptual overviews, getting started guides, product documentation, white papers, presentations Summary information on the project, teams, and individuals Task and defect tracking open a bug report! Project and team plans for the current and previous milestones Provides analysis of project/team health and trends * Built on Jazz technology 7

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What s coming to Jazz.net? Rational Team Concert 1.0 GA (end of June) Ensemble OALM Rational Team Concert v.next development (Starting late Summer and Fall) 9

Screencaps 10

Jazz.net Community Site screencaps Coming soon 11

Dashboards (part of Rational Team Concert, Standard Edition) 12

Work Items (part of Rational Team Concert) 13

Work Items (part of Rational Team Concert) 14

Iteration Plans (part of Rational Team Concert) 15

Reports (part of Rational Team Concert, Standard Edition) 16

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