IBM - Jazz.net - Collaborative software

Developing software in a team is much like playing an instrument in a band. Both require a balance of collaboration and virtuosity. Jazz defines a vision for the way products can integrate to support this kind of collaborative work, and a technology platform to deliver on this vision.

Jazz is an IBM Rational project to build a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for integrating work across the phases of the development lifecycle. We believe Jazz will help teams build software more effectively while making the software development activity more productive and enjoyable.

I used IBM’s Jazz to coordinate my introductory software engineering course at the University of British Columbia. The class had approximately 80 students and twenty groups. I have posted a few entries to share my experience.

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