http://blog.haumer.net Process engineering with the Eclipse Process Framework and Rational Method Composer Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:15:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are an experienced RMC user and want to see a quick overview to what is new and noteworthy in Rational Method Composer 7.5 then check out this new page. If you are new to RMC make sure to also review some of the overview material listed on the ... http://blog.haumer.net/rational-method-composer/91 The new version 7.5 of Rational Method Composer is available today. Despite its version number this is a major new release of this modeling environment and framework. The most important addition is all new content referred to as IBM Practices, as well as tool features around practices that allow you ... http://blog.haumer.net/rational-method-composer/61 We just released an incubator (an experimental unsupported solution for feedback that you can use at your own risk) for Rational Method Composer and Rational Team Concert users on jazz.net. This incubator provides experimental code that allows generating a Jazz process template based on a process modeled and documented with ... http://blog.haumer.net/rational-method-composer/51 There is a great new paper on Developer Works by my colleague Cécile Péraire that reports on how a group in IBM's Global Business Services uses RMC to model process for CRM with localized differences. The paper shows a great case study for using variability and method configurations as well ... http://blog.haumer.net/rational-method-composer/42 If you are using any of the products listed below you can use the packaged Process Browser to browse your own RMC published content with in these environments. Even better the Process Advisor view that is part of these products can react to specific UI events and propose context-specific content ... http://blog.haumer.net/rational-method-composer/35 This week I had the honor of presenting our work around SPEM 2, Eclipse Process Framework, and Rational Method Composer at the SEE 2008 Conference (Software and Systems Engineering Essential) in Bern. If you are interested to see what this was all about then go here for the abstract and ... http://blog.haumer.net/eclipse-process-framework/33 After almost three years since our initial specification submission to the OMG I am proud to announce that the formal Software and Systems Process Engineering Meta-Model 2.0 specification is now officially available on the OMG Web server. Please, go and get it here: http://www.omg.org/spec/SPEM/2.0/. http://blog.haumer.net/spem-20/32 We released iFix3 for IBM Rational Method Composer 7.2 on Friday. We recommend that all 7.2 users apply this upgrade as it fixes a couple of bugs and even provides some enhancements to existing features that people were urgently asking for. See a summary of the key ... http://blog.haumer.net/rational-method-composer/30 Do you live in Southern California? If yes, then you could see three RMC development team members (Bruce MacIsaac, Kelli Houston, and myself ) present this Thursday in a free "Rational Comes to You" event the latest around RMC, process modeling, best development practices, and government. The event is hosted ... http://blog.haumer.net/rational-method-composer/28 I just started a new page on this blog that lists some resources that I find useful and worth sharing. This is intended to be a growing list as I just started adding the most obvious references. Check the 'last update' date to keep track when additions have happened. Click ... http://blog.haumer.net/general/27