Track details

Quality Management

Quality driven software delivery is a team sport, and every member of that team shares responsibility for enterprise quality management. This track is dedicated to the IBM Rational tools and industry best practices that can help software development teams improve the functionality, performance, and availability of complex applications. Attendees gain in-depth guidance from experienced IBM experts and customers on topics ranging from deep code analysis to system test automation and management, all enabled by the tools and capabilities in the IBM Rational quality management portfolio. Learn how to work with existing resources and how to overcome schedule constraints in order to increase productivity and value to the organization while enhancing project success. This track is for testers and others on the project team - analysts, architects, developers, and deployment managers - looking for valuable, actionable information that can be used to build quality into applications from the beginning.

Modeling, Architecture and Construction

Software development is a business process requiring many different talents to implement effectively. The software architect and the software developer are key roles for successful software delivery. The architect is responsible for turning requirements into analysis and design models built on a sound architecture. Software architecture is crucial for designing reliable, flexible, and maintainable software systems, and helps communicate the high-level design to the various stakeholders at a level of detail that is meaningful to them. It also allows developers to create software systems that enable reuse and integration with legacy and third-party systems. Developers create the reality of the architecture ideas and models through building, modernizing, extending, integrating, and deploying software. Sessions in this track explore the benefits of a well-architected system, present the tips and techniques of organizations that have made software architecture an important part of their software delivery process, and show how both visual and code-centric development can help organizations adopt the right paradigm for their particular development needs. This track is for architects and developers interested in best practices and the latest innovations in methodology and tools for supporting architectural design, discovery, and control, and software construction and assembly.

Requirements, Definition and Management

Requirements Definition and Management encompasses all of the activities that revolve around eliciting, defining, elaborating, understanding, organizing, reviewing, and communicating business, user, and software requirements, as well as defining solutions based on those business goals and objectives. These activities are done because they help ensure that the applications that are developed solve the real business and customer problems. This track explores the experiences of organizations with tools, techniques, and processes used to effectively define and manage requirements and analyze systems. Analysts, architects, developers, project managers, and others interested in methodology and tools for defining, managing, and analyzing requirements should attend this track.

Application Security and Compliance

Today, many organizations depend on Web-based software and systems to run their business processes, conduct transactions with suppliers and deliver ever more sophisticated services to customers. Unfortunately, in the race to stay one step ahead of the competition, many organizations spend little or no effort ensuring that these applications do not compromise the overall security and compliance of their organization by introducing vulnerabilities that can be exploited to gain access to confidential company information or sensitive client data. The most efficient way to stay ahead of application security and compliance is to build software securely from the ground up. Unfortunately, application security is most often "bolted on" at the end of the software development process, rather than "built in" across the entire development and delivery cycle, resulting in vulnerabilities that are found late - if at all - where they prose the greatest threats and are significantly more costly to repair.

In this track we will focus on the fundamentals of application security - common attack types, how to defend against these attacks, secure coding practices, identifying vulnerabilities through a combination of manual and automated approaches, what to do when vulnerabilities have been identified, and best practices for integrating security testing into application development. We will also delve into emerging threats in Web 2.0 environments, SOA security and the inherent risks of Web-enabling legacy applications.

Enterprise Modernisation

Today your company is facing demands for new products and services, including global support for outsourced operations, integration with business partner and customer applications. Competitive factors are often driving new requirements. Frequently the IT organizations ability to rapidly respond to the business is severely limited by the architecture and years of evolution of existing systems. An incremental modernization approach leading to service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the path to provide the flexibility required to meet your business needs. This track will showcase IBM Rationals Enterprise Modernisation solution that enable organizations to cost-effectively and incrementally evolve core IT systems towards modern architectures and technologies-reducing maintenance burden and freeing up more of their resources to focus on developing new business requirements and capabilities.

IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform

IBM Rational offers tools and processes supporting the entire software delivery lifecycle. Sessions in this track are designed to introduce participants to the wide range of offerings from IBM Rational. This track will include sessions for classic Rational solutions as well as detailed overviews of the new Jazz platform and the IBM Rational offerings now built on that platform! This track is for developers, testers, configuration managers, project and team leaders, or anyone interested in learning more about the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform.