This course provides an introduction to Rational Publishing Engine. It teaches participants how to generate documents that pull information from various sources, and how to design document templates to support the publishing needs in their company.

Many organizations are looking to apply Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) techniques as their organizations adopt the Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe (or other enterprise agile methodology). The LPM approach shifts leadership focus away from outputs and towards measurement based on value-based outcomes. This is achieved by aligning portfolio/business strategy with product development through the application of systems thinking, as well as lean approaches to funding, portfolio operations and governance. Learn more: Leading a Lean Portfolio eBook.

Duane Bushman is an SPC Trainer (SPCT) and Lean Agile Coach at Rockwell Automation. He’ll take you through the trials and triumphs of helping an important portfolio team, responsible for one of this industrial automation’s largest business units, adopt a more lean/agile mindset in how it reviews, approves, initiates and tracks strategic initiatives. Fundamentally a change in culture, the concurrent adoption of Atlassian’s Jira Align (which was already being used at the ART/program level) helped this executive team visualize the changes they were making and track their prioritized portfolio epics across teams and through time, ultimately helping them make value-based decisions in near-real time about whether to persevere, pivot or punt on any given initiative.

This service primarily benefits organizations (or programs) who have scaled or are scaling agile and who are new to ELM, or those who are looking to accelerate its successful deployment in combination with SAFe. The ELM Deployment Package helps our customers using the Scaled Agile Framework accelerate their initial value from their investment in ELM. For those organizations looking to adopt principles Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), this service includes the application of SAFe templates built to work with IBM’s ELM solutions. The goal of this package is to enable users to begin using a configured system meeting governance and compliance needs that contains their migrated data as quickly as possible. A 321 Gang SPC Solutions Engineer will work to develop each of the following areas for each ELM component tool.

This service primarily benefits organizations (or programs) using traditional or waterfall processes and who are new to ELM, or those who are looking to accelerate its successful deployment.

This course provides an introduction to Rational Publishing Engine. It teaches participants how to generate documents that pull information from various sources, and how to design document templates to support the publishing needs in their company.

Small projects may often manage their requirements and testing on a simple spreadsheet. But what happens if the project grows or changes in scope?

This course teaches you to author basic methods using IBM Rational Method Composer V7.5.1. You will learn about the tool interface and how to use tool views and perspectives. You will also learn how to use tool features to create a published method by creating method content, processes, navigation views and defining the relationships between them. You will learn how to browse, check, and finally publish the method they have authored.