In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we provide a blueprint for Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (CALM) and show how the new IBM Rational® products support this evolving market. Driven by the business demands of global software delivery, many large organizations are seeking guidance in how to incorporate agile methods.

In this book, we provide a reference scenario and tool architectures for deploying the new IBM Rational products into an existing enterprise environment. We also provide a set of blueprints that define each of the key disciplines in the development life cycle to help you understand the domain and how the Rational products support the need of that discipline. Our primary focus is to highlight the value of CALM by providing a user view of the solution that is used to support a distributed enterprise development team that incorporates aspects of the "Agility-at-Scale" approach.

While most Redbooks publications provide details about a single product, this book provides a "green-thread" reference scenario that details one end-to-end path through an iteration of a software development project. The scenario demonstrates a reference architecture for an enterprise that uses the new Rational Jazz technology-based products along with the existing Rational team products. The scenario includes Rational Build Forge® Enterprise Edition, Rational ClearCase®, Rational ClearQuest®, and Rational RequisitePro®, and introduces Rational Quality Manager, Rational Requirements Composer, Rational Software Analyzer, and Rational Team Concert.

Part A. Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management defined

Chapter 1. Introduction to Application Lifecycle Management and this book

Chapter 2. Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management

Chapter 3. A scenario for CALM

Part B. Act 1: Responding to a change request

Chapter 4. The team responds to a requirement change

Chapter 5. Rational ClearQuest, Requirements Composer, and RequisitePro to manage stakeholder requests

Part C. Act 2: Collaborative development

Chapter 6. An agile team implements a change

Chapter 7. Rational Team Concert for collaborative development

Part D. Act 3: Enterprise integration builds

Chapter 8. The release engineer conducts the integration build

Chapter 9. Rational Build Forge for enterprise integration build

Part E. Act 4: Managing quality

Chapter 10. The solution test team manages quality

Chapter 11. Rational Quality Manager for managing quality

Part F. Act 5: Delivering the solution

Chapter 12. The team delivers the solution

Chapter 13. The Rational ALM solution for solution delivery

Part G. Measuring team success in Application Lifecycle Management

Chapter 14. Delivering and measuring success in Application Lifecycle Management

Appendix A. Principles for Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management

Appendix B. Configuring interoperability

Appendix C. Rational Build Forge adapter templates

Appendix D. Code review rules