Rational Team Concert

Collaborative lifecycle management

Rational Team Concert is the facilitator for effective team-based software development. It addresses the need to deliver high-quality software despite fewer resources and geographic dispersion often creating barriers to optimal results.

ISW Ignition for Rational Jazz

Benefits & Features

Enhance team collaboration

• Small or large development teams will improve communication and productivity.
• Bridge geographic gaps.
• With Eclipse, Visual Studio, Web 2.0 and Command Line interfaces, your entire development team can use a single tool suite.

Access important project information in one place

• Customisable portals show news and events, current build status, work in progress and change requests.

Team awareness

• See what teammates are working on, whether they are online and their current availability.

Transparent development progress

• Automated tracking of work items provides context and support for discussion, reviews and approval.
• The who, what, when and why is captured for each work item.
• Real-time insight into project health.

Supports agile or formal development processes

• Use the included templates for common processes such as Scrum, OpenUP and a simple waterfall process, or “teach” RTC your organisations best practices.

Facilitates experimentation

• Private and public workspaces allow a balance between experimentation and transparency, so you can build and test in your own private workspace without impacting upon the work of others.
• Tracks changes that are made and, if need be, rollback to a previous version.

Consistency across Rational Software

• Common reporting and user administration across collaborative lifecycle management products, including Rational Quality Manager, Rational Team Concert Rational Requirements Composer and more.

Operation on a wide range of platforms

• Including: Windows®, Linux®(Intel®, PowerSystems™, System z®, AIX®and IBMi on Power, and z/OS®onSystem z

ISW Ignition for Rational Jazz

Rational Team Concert is a featured product in ISW's Ignition program for Rational Jazz. Rational Jazz is a technology platform for open, collaborative software development. Visit the Ignition for Rational Jazz page.