IBM and Global Collaborative Software Development

IBM has announced its vision for community-driven development and introduced new software to help in software delivery projects. The roadmap centers around IBM's software development portfolio which helps geographically and/or organizationally distributed development teams collaborate in real time.

IBM is announcing new offerings to help geographically distributed development teams collaborate, lower the total cost of global software delivery, and deliver software to market faster than ever before. The new Web-centric, lower bandwidth software helps customers reduce overhead costs of deploying a client technology, and allows outsourced members of development teams to participate in software delivery projects more easily, including:

• IBM Rational Team Concert, beta 1, a collaborative portal designed to improve team productivity by enabling real-time collaboration across a software delivery team.

• IBM Rational Asset Manager 7.0, software provides visible intelligence into software assets and how they are consumed in a collaborative environment.
  

IBM development teams from the IBM Lab in Bangalore, India, and the IBM Lab in Lexington, MA, have published a Redbook titled Global Development and Delivery in Practice: Experiences of the IBM Rational India Lab. This Redbook discusses common challenges in geographically distributed development environments and the steps IBM took to tailor IBM Rational tools to solve these problems through case study examples. IBM has also created a plug-in offering focused on geographically distributed development for IBM Rational Method Composer 7.2, a process for helping developers deliver customized yet consistent software development projects.

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