New Zealand Premiere! A first look at Rational Insight Make Better Decisions by Overcoming Information Blind Spots. Presenter: Chris Thorp

1. Introducing Rational Insight:
Make Better Decisions by Overcoming Information Blind Spots
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Chris Thorp
IBM Rational Software Consultant
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2. Business Unit Designation or other information
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3. Software Measurement Status -Today
Fortune 500 companies with productivity measures: 30%
Fortune 500 companies with quality measures: 45%
Fortune 500 companies with complete measures: 15%
Fortune 500 companies with missing measures: 85%
Number of software measurement personnel 5,500
Number of software projects measured: 160,000
160 000
Number of software projects not measured 50,000,000
-Capers Jones (2009)
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4. Software Measurement Status -Today
Companies that measure: Companies that don’t:
On-time projects: 75% On-time projects: 45%
Late projects: 20% Late projects: 40%
Cancelled projects: 5% Cancelled projects: 15%
Defect removal: >95% Defect removal: Unknown
Cost estimates: Accurate Cost estimates: Optimistic
User satisfaction: High User satisfaction: Low
Software status: High Software status: Low
Staff morale: High Staff morale: Low
-Capers Jones (2009)
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8. But measurement is difficult amongst the chaos
Achieve Profit Market Share Business Alignment Quality
Headcount Time to Market Readiness Renewals
Business
Revenue Performance Feedback Defects
Expense Enablement
E bl t Satisfaction
S ti f ti Consumability
C bilit Objectives
Executive Products Productivity Deployment Calls
Project Schedule Requirements Churn Continuous Integration
Code Coverage Tests Passed/Failed Tests per Build Operational
Iteration Burndown Code Churn Work Item Completion Objectives
Management Build Health Defect Age Code Growth
Defect Density Tests for Requirements Defect Priority
agile test driven development change management iterative
change set bill of materials VELOCITY dashboard WORK ITEM code scan Processes &
test script requirements project schedule team meeting chat Practices
waterfall UNIT TEST
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requirement build definition defect TEST CASE deploy image change
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Artifacts set bill of materials STREAM custom dashboards design model WORKSPACE Eclipse plug-
ins test script SNAPSHOT development assets Demo image
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9. But measurement is difficult amongst the chaos
Achieve Profit Market Share Business Alignment Quality
Headcount
Success can only come from a tight linkageRenewals
Time to Market Readiness from the Business
Revenue Performance Feedback Defects
development and delivery processti to the business.
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Expense Enablement
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Satisfaction Consumability
C bilit Objectives
Executive Products Productivity Deployment Calls
Like an annual report synthesizes the state Integration
Project Schedule Requirements Churn Continuous of the
overall business....a development report needs to do
Code Coverage Tests Passed/Failed Tests per Build Operational
Iteration Burndown
the same....
Code Churn Work Item Completion Objectives
Management Build Health Defect Age Code Growth
Defect Density
Communicate the Requirements
Tests for Defect Priority
agile test driven development relativemanagement iterative
change facts to give all
stakeholders insight as to thedashboard WORK ITEMcritical
change set bill of materials VELOCITY health of this code scan Processes &
test script requirements their business team meeting chat
part of project schedule
business.
Practices
waterfall UNIT TEST
Developmen
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requirement build definition defect TEST CASE deploy image change
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Artifacts set bill of materials STREAM custom dashboards design model WORKSPACE Eclipse plug-
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10. Introducing IBM Rational
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Automated project and process
measurement can improve team
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productively by 15%
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Monitor and analyze project and process Real-time
performance information in a
single view across
Collaborate across disparate development projects,
projects products
artifacts and in the context of operational and and geographies
business objectives
Automate measurement leveraging an open
RESTful and Jazz compliant data integration
architecture “Until now we were gathering metrics by manual methods.
Rational Insight simplifies the presentation... Overall great
Report on relevant data with a built-in library tool to have for optimizing project efforts and giving
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performance
of industry best practice metrics and at all stages.”
dashboards
Drive business innovation and reduce costs
through measures and continuous process
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improvement “Through the automation and dashboard capabilities in Insight,
our team is saving over 40 hours a month on our reporting
Built on best in class business intelligence activities. We also can offer new capabilities such as “on-
demand” dashboards which would have been very labor
platform from IBM Cognos intensive to do without Insight”
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11. Collaborate across disparate development artifacts
In the context of business objectives
Portfolio
Management
CxO
Project
Management Rational
Requirements Insight
Management
Architecture
Management
Process Lead
Change
Management
Configuration
Management
Build
Management
Quality
Management Project Manager
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12. IBM Rational Insight Companies that don’t
measure, experience poor
Improved Executive Decision
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accurately estimate cost
Provides at-a-glance, high - Capers Jones (2009)
impact views of complex real-
time i f
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CxO
Helps quick focus on systems
Reduce cost and risk by
and software delivery issues mapping operational activities to
i ti l ti iti t
that need attention and action strategic initiatives
Alignment between actual
results and planned b i
lt d l d business
goals
Includes executive measures
tailored to your needs:
Cost, Revenue, Time-to-ROI, Key
Performance Indicator (KPI)
specific to Line of Business
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13. Companies that don’t
IBM Rational Insight measure have “unknown”
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user satisfaction
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Evaluate Historical Data for - Capers Jones (2009)
Lessons Learned and Corrective
Action Process Lead
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reduce costs through measured
management techniques with process improvement
ready to use dashboards and
reports
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projects with
built-in measures
Measuring Quality, Time-to-Value,
Productivity
You can’t Improve what you don’t Measure
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14. IBM Rational Insight Only 45% of projects
that do not measure,
Improved Project Level Decision
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time to market
- Capers Jones (2009)
Get your projects up and running
quickly with library of metrics and
built-in collectors Project Manager
Gain insight into development
Leverage Rational domain projects which span
expertise for systems and organizational and geographic
boundaries
software development and
delivery
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Monitor the status and progress
of your projects with built-in
measures:
Iteration Velocity, Project Backlog,
Requirements Volatility, Defect
Density…
Density
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15. Rational Insight Architecture
Architecture Change
Requirements Management Management Configuration
Management Management
Project Build
Management Management
Portfolio Quality
Management Management
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REST API - native REST API – adapter
XML DB
XML – ODBC Mapping | DB Access
Open Data Architecture
O D t A hit t
Reporting Server
Enterprise Data Warehouse
Extract, Transform, Load Data Warehouse
Industry Proven BI Platform Metadata
Self Service
CxO Process Lead Project Manager Report Authoring
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