IBM Rational Team Concert 2 Essentials [Paperback]

Suresh Krishna (Author), TC Fenstermaker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 21, 2011

With their straightforward style, Suresh Krishna and TC Fenstermaker have put their years of experience and motivation into this practical guide that assists in finding an integrated approach to increased team productivity. The numerous tips, notes, and suggestions strengthen your grasp of fundamentals and the foundation upon which you are ready to build your customized Rational Team Concert application. Ample screenshots make sure that you get the configurations correct the first time. A real-world Book Manager Application walks you through all the core features of the Rational Team Concert during different phases of development and release. If you are a Project Manager or a Team Member, who would like to find an integrated approach to deal with modern software development challenges, you should read this book. Or if you are someone who likes to stay one step ahead in team management, you have got the right choice here.

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About the Author

Suresh Krishna

Suresh Krishna started his career in 2000 as a software engineer in the automotive company Robert Bosch GmbH. During this time, he worked in a variety of roles and successfully delivered several Automotive IDEs based on Eclipse. These tools helped close to 2000 domain engineers at Bosch and its partners to increase productivity. At Bosch Suresh used agile methodologies, especially Scrum, for the geographically distributed teams. Later in 2006, Suresh joined Pramati Technologies where he architected solutions for SOA and mash-up based Eclipse Plugins and RCP Applications. Starting in 2008, Suresh now works for a major Utilities industry and helps developers, customers, and partners to utilize high-productivity tools based on Eclipse.

With an in-depth experience of tools and processes, Suresh has a keen eye for solving industry's common problems. This is how Suresh got introduced to Rational Team Concert and its elegant and integrated way of solving some key software development problems.

TC Fenstermaker

TC Fenstermaker has 20 years of experience developing enterprise-level n-tiered applications for large companies, start-ups, and government agencies, using a variety of technologies. In recent years these include Java, Rich Internet Application development with Java Swing, Java EJBs, JSPs, SWT, ActionScript, and OpenLaszlo, and XML technologies such as XSD. He also has extensive experience with SQL and relational databases. He lives outside Washington DC.

Product Details

• Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (February 21, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849681600
• ISBN-13: 978-1849681605
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,166,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not very essential, July 21, 2011

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CoJeff (Westminster, Co United States) - See all my reviews

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I bought this book to help me figure out the RTC product since the IBM's own documentation is either buggy or lacking. After going over the book in the few sections I was a little disappointment on the explainations and examples the book gave. For example, the work item customization is very complex but some how the book 3 pages. There are 13 sections for work item customization and the book only went over 2 of them. I guess I was expecting a lot more from a "Essentials" book but I should have realized it probably was that in detail given the amount of total pages.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book !!!, March 11, 2011

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Wishy - See all my reviews

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Distributed software development has been gaining moment at a tremendous pace. RTC has been one of the few good products to have addressed almost all the issues in collaborative development. This book gives a great insight into the different features of RTC. This book needs to be a must for the libraries in all software development organizations.I was thoroughly impressed by the sample chapter and ordered this book with great expectations. I must say, the book has exceeded my expectations. I was particularly impressed about the way it deals with extending the platform for specific clients. I was one of the evaluators of Jazz version 1.0 in my company and I find this book to be a great resource for both beginners and advanced users of RTC.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Overview of RTC Capabilities, March 9, 2011

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SreeVidya "Agile Geek" (Princeton, NJ) - See all my reviews
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I am one of the customers who pre-ordered the book and it totally met my expectations. Jazz Platform truly creates a seamless integration of the SCM, Bug Management, Builds, Process and Development Environment. Disparate tools is a serious problems that i face at each company i worked for and there was no single elegant solution. With the Rational Team Concert, I see that IBM took the Team Work and Collaboration to a totally new vision.
Authors did a great job in extracting their experiences in the 1st Chapter. I really liked the way they talked about various development challenges in any organization. Chapter1, Chapter4 to Chapter7 were the crux of this book and I admire the way authors explained the RTC functionality with non-trivial book manager application. The most valuable part was the Chapter8 that does client and server extensions. Not many resources talk about the extensions and this is a serious topic for anyone who wants to consult and build extensions for various clients.
I would definitely suggest this to my team members and anyone who wants to have an overview on the RTC capabilities.