Product overview

Rational Team Concert™ is a team collaboration tool that is built on a scalable, extensible platform that integrates tasks across the software lifecycle.
Note: Rational Team Concert 2.0 is available in several editions. For more information, see Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2 editions and licenses.
Tip: You can also read the Rational® Team Concert Capabilities article on Jazz.net (registration required).
IBM Rational offers a structured approach to helping software and systems delivery teams drive business innovation through measured and continuous process improvement. The Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF) helps you gain competency in the core development practices that most impact business outcomes.

Optimized for agile teams and methods, MCIF can automate the implementation of any method. Although product-independent, MCIF is supported by IBM Rational Jazz offerings that transform software delivery by helping teams collaborate, automate, and report more effectively. Read more about the Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF) at http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/mcif/?S_TACT=105AGX23&S_CMP=HPHERO.

Collaboration and integration across the development lifecycle

Rational Team Concert makes it easy to exchange information directly in the context of your work. If an enhancement request changes, you and other team members are notified of the change automatically. You can reference the change in chat sessions and link to artifacts. Business stakeholders can also automatically stay informed about the status of task changes that interest them.

Several views enable you to share team information. You can track team activity, present information in more detail, or configure which information is visible at any time.

Many aspects of the software development lifecycle are integrated, including agile planning, process definition, source control, defect tracking, build management, and reporting. Each of these aspects is integrated in a single environment. You can track and manage the relationships between artifacts, promote sound development processes, and gather project information automatically and unobtrusively.

Process configuration and customization

Rational Team Concert projects follow a process. By customizing the process you customize how the product works. A process is the collection of roles, practices, rules, permissions, and guidelines that you use to organize and control the workflow for a project. Rational Team Concert provides support for your team to follow your process.

You use a process to define user roles and their permissions for performing operations in the product. The initial process used by a project is defined by a process template. You can modify a template to meet your overall project and team requirements. Each component is process-aware, so you can add rules for behavior in the form of preconditions and follow-up actions.

Eclipse client, Microsoft Visual Studio client, and Web interfaces

Rational Team Concert provides users with an Eclipse-based client interface, a Microsoft Visual Studio client interface, and a Web interface. The client interfaces provide developers with a rich, integrated development environment for building and delivering artifacts. The Web interface is well suited for server and project administration and allows users to access project areas, browse repository information, update tasks, or read about recent events.

Powered by the Jazz technology platform

Rational Team Concert is the delivered on the Jazz technology platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible team-collaboration platform that integrates tasks across the software lifecycle. The platform also provides useful building blocks and frameworks that facilitate the development of new products and tools.

The Jazz technology platform also supports globally distributed development teams, provides solutions scalable from small teams up through large enterprises, helps teams maintain audit trails and automate bookkeeping, and makes software development more enjoyable.

The Jazz technology platform is developed at jazz.net, where you can register to participate. You can open enhancement requests, track schedules, participate in discussion forums, and see a production deployment of Rational Team Concert and other Jazz-based products.


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