IBM Rational Team Concert

4.2 (1)

Vendor

Vendor	IBM
Homepage	http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rtc/
Adress	IBM Corporation 1 New Orchard Road Armonk, New York 10504-1722
Country	United States
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Software

Category	Web-based
Architecture	Web-based
Client OS	n/a (web-based)
Language	English • Others
Licence	Commercial • Free-Editon
Domain	Agile (Software Development)
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Description

IBM Rational Team Concert is a client-server based agile collaborative development environment that provides features like - agile planning, component-based source control (with support for various source control programs including subversion, rational tools), work item management, build management, management reporting, document collaboration (through integration with SharePoint or Lotus Quickr), traceability, defect tracking, role-based permissions and process customizations - all in an integrated environment. Agile support means you can create stories, plan iterations, manage backlog and track progress. The Team Concert Client supports Microsoft Windows, Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu desktop while the server (Jazz Team) could be on Windows, Red Hat, SUSE, IBM AIX or Sun Solaris. Team concert comes in 4 editions - Express-C (the free edition), Express, Standard and Enterprise. Few advanced features are available only in Standard and Enterprise Editions.

Highlights	Agile methodology
	Release & Iteration planning
	Collaboration Features
	Task and Issue management
	Test Management

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Overall rating:		4.2
Task Management:		5.0 (1)
Reporting:		5.0 (1)
Collaboration:		4.0 (1)
Usability:		4.0 (1)
Price/Performance ratio :		3.0 (1)

Agile collaborative development environment

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Reviewed by Bjoern Linder
October 09, 2010
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Pros	Integration with various tools and IDEs to makes it possible to have a central handle on everything (work items, releases, communication, defect tracking, version control) not just project management aspects. The project status is available for everyone to see (even the developers) at any point in time. A free-edition is available too (even though with limited features). Support for both Windows and Linux makes it even better.
Cons	With so many functions and integrations, the learning curve might be large and make its use prohibitive for projects with short life cycle. The interface seems busy too. Moreover, setting up Team Concert might require a lot of effort.
Conclusion	This is a heavy weight tool (or rather, an environment in itself) that would suit long duration projects or teams that are already familiar with it. But once you get it going, it could really streamline the entire project lifecyle for you and make life easy for everyone. But be ready to invest time, money and effort into it initially.