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An overview of Rational Team Concert, which provides agile teams with a highly collaborative development environment.
IBM Rational Team Concert is the first product to be delivered on the Jazz technology platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible
team-collaboration platform that integrates tasks across the software lifecycle.
Rational Team Concert is built on a client-server architecture and includes integrated work items, source control, reporting, and
support for build management. The product provides agile teams with a highly-collaborative development environment that is
optimized for small and medium-sized teams. Rational Team Concert also integrates with a
wide range of products, including IBM Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational ClearQuest and
Subversion change-management products. Rational Team Concert integrates several aspects of the software development
lifecycle, including iteration 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 best practices, and gather project information automatically and unobtrusively. Rational Team Concert makes it easy to
share 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 tasks that interest them. Rational Team Concert provides several views that
enable the sharing of team information. You can track team activity, present information in more detail, and configure the information
that is visible. Whether you are part of a large, global team, or a small, local team, you likely need to collaborate with team members who
work in various roles, such as architects, team leaders, developers, and release engineers. Rational Team Concert contains
customizable role definitions that help teams collaborate within a single integrated development environment. Rational Team
Concert contains several agile, iteration-based process templates that help software architects plan and guide development.
Team leaders can use iteration-planning tools to help plan and monitor the development of their projects. Developers can
leverage the benefits of an Eclipse-based, integrated development environment to develop and deliver their artifacts. Release
engineers can work with an integrated and open build environment to set up and deploy team builds. Processes govern Rational
Team Concert and enable you to customize how the product works. A process is a collection of roles, practices, rules, and
guidelines that organize and control the workflow for a project. Rational Team Concert helps the team follow the process. User roles
and permissions for performing operations are defined in the process. A process is typically based on templates that you can
modify to meet your overall project and team requirements. The basic process structure is a set of development lines and iterations.
Each component is process-aware, so you can add rules for behavior in the form of preconditions and follow-up actions. Rational
Team Concert provides users with both an Eclipse-based client interface and a web interface. The client interface provides
developers with a rich, integrated development environment for delivering and building artifacts. The web interface is well
suited for server and project administrators and allows users to access project areas, browse repository information, update tasks,
and read about recent events. IBM Rational Team Concert Client for Microsoft Visual Studio is a role-based team collaboration
tool. You can work with Visual Studio and take advantage of the features of the Team Concert Client for Microsoft Visual Studio,
such as connecting to a Jazz repository and project area, working with Jazz repository workspaces, creating and updating working
items, and requesting and viewing Jazz builds. Rational Team Concert is developed at Jazz.net, where you can register to
participate in discussion forums, newsgroups, and the actual development process.