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Newsletter July 2009
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CONTENTS
-Welcome Letter
-CM Crossroads Feature Article
-IBM Partner News and Technotes
-Partner News
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Dear Reader-
I hope you enjoyed a spectacular celebration of our
Nation's 233rd birthday! You can see some great shots of the
NYC fireworks show here.
Last month, many of our customers and colleagues had
the opportunity to visit ReleaseTEAM at our booth during the 2009 IBM
Rational Software Development Conference in Orlando, FL.
I am interested to hear if you did attend the conference, if you received
all the information you desired from our booth, and if there is anything
else I can provide you. Send me an email or give me a call if I can
assist in answering any open questions/issues or if there is an
opportunity for us to work together.
ReleaseTEAM is an Advanced level IBM Premier Business Partner and
we are available to support your teams with IBM Rational applications and
in all areas of the software development lifecycle. ReleaseTEAM can do
assessments, consulting and mentoring to help you optimize your IBM
Rational and SCM tool investments.
I look forward
to hearing from you soon, Cheers!
Beth Beese
Sales Manager
ReleaseTEAM
bbeese@releaseteam.com
303-242-8412
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CM CrossRoads Feature Article
What is the difference between a CMS and a CMDB anyway?
By
Bob Aiello 06/29/09
Reprinted
here with permission, all rights reserved
I
have personally been very impressed with ITIL - especially two of its key
tools. The first is the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and the
second is the Configuration Management System (CMS). CM practitioners
need to take the deep dive into ITIL and all of its CM related best
practices. Here is a brief explanation of the CMS and the CMDB to get you
started.
To view the
entire article, click here!
Are you
doing Configuration Management?
By
Bob Aiello, 07/05/09
Reprinted
here with permission, all rights reserved
Configuration
Management is an essential discipline that involves establishing controls
to manage your most essential organizational assets - including source
code, executable binaries, configuration files, supporting documents
(e.g. requirements documents, test plans and release notes), as well as
the production systems upon which they run. We usually use the term
Configuration Item (CI) to refer to any of these items. If you need these
artifacts to support your product, then they must be under configuration
control. But what exactly is CM and how do you know if you are doing a
good job at establishing CM controls and best practices?
To
view the entire article, email sales@releaseteam.com
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IBM
Partner News and Technotes
Social
Media Lunch and Learn with Sandy Carter
July
15, 2009
11:00
AM - 1:00 PM EST
Is your firm still trying to understand the value and best way to
leverage social media? If you want to engage and generate dialogue with
your customers, prospects and partners in order to build relationships
and generate mutual value, you will want to join this Lunch and Learn.
Sandy Carter, Vice President of IBM Software Group Channels and author of
The New Language of Marketing 2.0: Using ANGELS to Energize Your
Market shares her perspective on real world uses of social media
techniques to incorporate into your marketing and sales plans. Join the
webcast to learn how to leverage the many resources available.
Date: July 15, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT
Register
for this webcast
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IBM
Technotes
Click HERE to
view the most current IBM Technotes available, courtesy of ReleaseTEAM.
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CRUG
The
next Colorado Rational User's Group meeting is Thursday, August 20th
2009 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
We
will meet at the Fairfield Inn
Denver North/Westminster located at:
12080 Melody Dr.
Westminster, CO
80234
303-255-3100
Click HERE to
RSVP and sign up for our CRUG mailing list!
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Accurev
AccuRev announced full support for
Rally Software's Agile lifecycle management solution. With this
out-of-the-box integration, users have full traceability between stories,
tasks and defects, and the source code changes are fully automated.
Together, AccuRev and Rally provide a comprehensive Agile development
solution platform.
AccuBridge for Rally is available immediately
directly from AccuRev.
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CollabNet
Finding
Gold with Analytics:
5 Key
Metrics for Successful Software Development
In this webinar, we will show you
how to apply just 5 key metrics to the data already stored in Subversion
and TeamForge to answer fundamental questions that drive successful
software development:
- Are we on track
for delivery by our target date? If not, how can we shift resources?
- Are we compliant
with company and regulatory standards?
- Given limited time
and resources, where should QA focus their efforts?
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET
Click
here to register
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