Hyderabad, Feb. 10:

A la Jazz concert where musicians with diverse backgrounds and instruments come together to fill the air with music, IBM’s Jazz Project seeks to bring about similar experience for the technology sector.

The Jazz Project is all about enhancing collaborative development, making dispersed teams work in symphony and help in meeting some of the work challenges of globalised development teams.

What IBM has managed to do with over 35 teams using the Jazz platform to collaborate on software development projects around the world, could soon be something that other software coders may like to follow. The Country Manager, Rational Software, IBM Corp, Mr. Rammohan Himmatraopet, said that the Jazz project, a collaborative effort of IBM Software, Rational Software and IBM Research, is an open extensible platform that comes with new development tools and processes. This is a transparent approach to software coding and development wherein even customers collaborate, see and experience the development process.

Speaking to Business Line, Mr. Rammohan said a host of developers, partners, system integrators and customers have played a role in the project. IBM seeks to ensure that the development is virtual, where one developer can continue from where the other has stopped, irrespective of the location he is in.

This project has been beta tested and in January, this has been opened up for the software development community, he said.

IBM is encouraging the development community to collaborate on these projects through Rational Team Concert Beta. This is to be released later this year.

Taken from Business Line

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