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5.4. Planning. The planning provides you create a plan to organize your goals and track the development progress of your Project. Planning involves scheduling the work to be performed during the iteration or release and the assignment of individual work Items to team members. Plans must be accessible to everyone on the team and change dynamically throughout the iteration. With the software guidance, planning is not complicated.




5.5. Construction. Construction equipment components are integrated into Jazz and provides construction monitoring progress, create alerts, create views of results,and link between jazz artifacts, such as the set of changes and work ítems. The construction allows us to examine the details of the compilation definitions and the status of the compilation build engines Project.




5.6. Reports.The team reporting component provides the possibility to create, implement, and generate reports in Jazz. The main purpose of the reporting component is to provide the knowledge of the actions, behavior and progress of a team or Project. Viewing information about the software development process facilitates effective decision-making. Reports can be created from existing patterns or can be personalized with Rational Reporting for Development Intelligence.







6. Conclusions.

IBM Rational Team Concert is built on Jazz. Jazz is a technology platform that allows teams to integrate tasks across the software lifecycle. Rational Team Concert provides a unique and integrated various aspects of software development process environment, including agile planning, process definition, source code control, building administration systems and reports. Users can use software to control and administrate relations between objects, they also can promote the best practices for development, and gather project information.

In the product, users create work items for following of task, such as improvements, defects, or elements of the plan. Among many other things, users can include these elements work in stages plans and it can link work items to source code. When a user creates or changes a work item, all associated team members are notified.

Feature	Benefit Benefit
Collaboration and integration platformCollaboration and integration platform	Improves the productivity of teams and the quality of the work they produce. Improves the productivity and quality of work produced. Simplifies information Access related to the equipment.
Transparency with multi-level dashboards and reportsTransparency with various command boxes levels and informs	It helps you to control and to collaborate in projects, and solve problems before the Project is in danger,Helps you monitor, scorecard, and collaborate on projects and address problems and bottlenecks before they endanger a project.
Work itemsThe work items	Improves productivity of a wide range of stakeholders.Improves the productivity and a wide range of interested parts.Improves the process integrity of automatized traceability throught a wide range of development tasks.
Planning: Agile, formal, and hybrid Planning: agile, formal and hybrid	Allows teams to adopt good development practices. Allows the teams to adopt good development practices.
Continuous integration – builds The progressive integrating into the development.	Improves quality and predictability of development iterations. Improves quality and predictability of development iterations.
Control Source CodeAdvanced source control	Improves productivity of developers and quality of their work with in-context collaboration and seamless integrations with other development processes. Improves developers productivity and quality of their work in context with collaboration and the transparent connection with other development processes.

Rational Team Concert is definitely a product to consider that can help your team cope better with the development of the software projects.

Making a detailed comparison with the software Microsoft Team Foundation Server according to the following chart:

Tabla Comparativa.
	Rational Team Concert de IBM	Team Fundation Server de Microsoft
Operating System	Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2, SP3 AIX 6.1, AIX 5.3, IBM z/OS, IBM i 7.1, IBM i5/OS, IBM i 6.1, Solaris 10 + SPARC, VMWare vSphere 4.0 (Windows y Linux), VMWare ESX 3.5 (Windows y Linux), Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (RHEV-H).	Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bits.
Memory.	We recommend a 64-bit operating system and a minimum of 4 GB memory to run the Jazz Team Server server and three applications (Changes to Configuration Management, Quality Management, Requirement Management)	We recommend a 64-bit operating system and a minimum of 4 GB memory to run the IIS 7, SQL Server 2008 and Share Point.
Application Server	Apache Tomcat 5.5.30, WebSphere Application Server	IIS 7.0
DataBases	IBM Derby, DB2 (Enterprise Server Editions, Workgroup Server, Express Server Editions), Microsoft SQL Server (2005, 2008, Express), Oracle 11g (Standard, Enterprise Editions)	SQL Server 2008 (Estandar, Enterprise)
Identity Administration and Access	IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.0, IBM Resource Access Control Facility, Microsoft Active Directory 2003 SP2	Microsoft Active Directory
Clients.	Microsoft Visual Studio (2005,2008,2010) , Rational Developer for Power Systems Software V8.0, Eclipse, ISPF, Web	Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
Import	CVS, Subversión, Bugzilla, ClearCase, ClearQuest	Team Funtation Server previous versions.
Tools of Colaboration support .	IBM Connextions, Skype, IBM Sametime, Google Talk	N/A
Users Limit	50	The operative system supported by Windows Server 2008 R2
Distributed Source Code Management	Yes	Yes
Traceability of task items	Yes	Yes
Compilation Management	Yes	Yes
Agile Planning	Yes	Yes Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0 MSF for CMMI Process Improvement v5.0
Subversion integration	Yes	Yes
Server-level permissions	Yes	Yes
Customizable process	Yes	Yes
work item workflow	Yes	Yes
Common reporting and analytics	Yes	Yes
Dashboards	Yes	Yes
Role-based process permissions	Yes	Yes
Plan risk assessment	Yes	Yes
Build management	Yes	Yes
Requirements Management	Yes	Yes
Test Management	Yes	Yes
Project milestone tracking and status	Yes	Yes
Project level access control	Yes	Yes
Electronic signatures	Yes	Only by using permissions assigned AD

References.
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/mx/ra...s/teamconcert/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ra.../products/rtc/
http://www.jazz.net