In my opinion Jazz is the star of this years rational conference. Take a look at some of the pictures from the conference and the keynote introducing jazz. Erich Gamma did an excellent presentation on jazz during the keynote and later during a dedicated technology session on Jazz.

Me next to the Jazz Live poster

The Jazz show begins…

(From left to right) Chandra, Payman and Dave

(From left to right) Dave, Payman, Me, Chandra

There were many exciting things I saw that vindicated some of our fundamental beliefs in the software process automation domain. First with Microsoft’s VSTS and now with IBM Jazz there is overwhelming evidence that low-fidelity software development process models are the cornerstone of collaborative friction-free process enactment. This enactment is not only helpful (just-in-time, just-enough) for developers and other project practioners but is also essential for compliance requirements as well as ultimately, feedback to improve processes. The end goal is “continuous”, successful project delivery. Although there are still a lot of unanswered questions on the Jazz strategy, one thing that is clear is that it is a fundamental shift in the way IBM rational has been building and deploying its developer tools.

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