Rational Team Concert for Contributors

Foundations

Rational Team Concert (RTC)

IBM's collaborative ALM tool integrating work items, source control, build, and planning on the Jazz platform.

Contributor Role

A team member who tracks and completes work in RTC and collaborates with the team.

Collaborative ALM

RTC brings planning, tracking, and delivery together so teams collaborate in one place.

Project and Team Areas

The containers that organize a project's process, teams, and work in RTC.

Work Items

Work Item

A tracked unit of work — task, story, defect, or request — with fields, state, and history.

Work Item Types

Categories of work such as task, defect, and story, each with its own fields and workflow.

States and Workflow

The lifecycle a work item moves through (e.g., new, in progress, resolved, closed).

Assignment and Ownership

Designating who is responsible for a work item so progress is clear.

Comments and Discussion

In-context conversations on a work item that capture decisions and collaboration.

Links

Relationships connecting work items to each other and to code, builds, and requirements.

Finding Work

Queries

Saved searches that filter work items by fields to find and monitor relevant work.

Dashboards

Configurable pages of widgets showing queries, charts, and status at a glance.

My Work

A personal view of the work items assigned to you and their status.

Feeds and Notifications

Updates that keep contributors aware of changes to work they care about.

Collaboration

Team Collaboration

Working with teammates through shared work items, comments, and plans.

Tags and Categories

Labels that organize and group work items for easy retrieval.

Subscriptions

Following work items to receive updates on changes.

Planning

Iteration Planning

Participating in planning by taking on and estimating work items for an iteration.

Taskboard

A visual board showing work items moving through states during an iteration.

Estimates and Effort

Recording estimated and actual effort on work items to support planning and tracking.

Applying It

Daily Use

Updating work items, checking dashboards, and collaborating as part of everyday delivery.

Traceability

Linking work to code and requirements so the team sees how everything connects.