Software Development Is Officially a Social Process

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I have talked a couple of times about socializing the social development process. For a while now, this integration has been available in technology preview mode.

At Lotusphere '11 #ls11 we announced that the integration would be ready for production by Q2 of this year. And it's coming in 7 days!

To get ready, you can watch a replay of a webcast that I announced earlier called Accelerate Software Delivery with Social Software webcast.

The integration will be available natively in Rational Team Concert 3.0.1 which will be available next week (June 14, 2011). The integration consists of:

• Integrated activity stream within Rational Team Concert (RTC)
• Ability to create activities directly from RTC (the activity will have a direct link back to the RTC workspace)
• Ability to create a blog directly from RTC
• Ability to surface the Connections business card directly within RTC
• Search for contacts from RTC
• Update your status and microblog directly from RTC
• Associate an RTC project with a community for direct access to community features (forums, wikis, blogs, etc) from RTC
• Connect RTC User Profiles to Connections Profiles
• and more..

Here's a quick demo that shows some of the integration points:

To learn more, visit the Social page in the Rational Jazz site and check out IBM's official press release here.

If you are already an RTC 3.0 user, you can simply download the connector from here (with source code). And if you are NOT using RTC, you can also download RTC for free from here (3.0.1 Release Candidate 3)

Software Development is Best when It's Social!

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Last year, IBM announced integration of Lotus Connections with Rational's software development suite, and you can see it at work here:

Making the software development process social is just something that every organization must do and of course follows our social everywhere strategy. Imagine empowering all your software developers and getting them access to your customers, business partners, marketing, research, etc all from the context of their work. That's a sure step towards becoming an agile organization!

Recently, I was reading John Waters' blog and he emphasized how much he likes this integration. On Thursday @ 11am ET (8am PT), IBM will be hosting a free webcast targeted for organizations involved in software development:

To meet tough deadlines and improve quality, software developers obviously need to collaborate with each other. However, they also need to leverage the expertise from a wider community of users, partners and other stakeholders during development.

By combining social software into the Rational Team Concert environment, developers gain instant access to the experts they need, get issues resolved faster and receive feedback from communities to help ensure that projects meet their intended goals. Attend this webcast to see how new capabilities expedite the development process.

You can sign up and register here.

IBM Software Helps Build the Chevy Volt

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Have you seen the Chevy Volt? Like it ? Here's a quick video that shows how IBM Software helped build the Chevy Volt.

In the video you'll see GM talk about their use of the Rational platform and how it was critical to the success of this car.

As you may know, I'm a pilot and I was impressed by the fact given in the video that an F35 fighter takes 6 million lines of code to run. The Chevy Volt takes 10 million lines of code!

And did you know that Rational Team Concert integrates very nicely with Lotus Connections? Social is Everywhere!