Comparison between EPF Composer and Rational Method Composer

Overview EPF Composer - the little brother to Rational Method Composer - includes core agile practices for small teams core features needed for creating practices for sharing with the open source community Rational Method Composer (RMC) - compatible with EPF Composer - adds: Extensive library of practices translated to many languages Features to support large method libraries and multiple authors Integrations with other tools for modeling process, hosting discussions, enacting process Usability / customization / reporting / publishing features Simplified tailoring features for project managers Additional authoring features (image maps, tagging, query-based categories…) Support - Technical support and maintenance governed by SLAs. Training and Services – Courses and services available from IBM 2

Extensive library of method content Practices for: Scaling agile software dev governance, compliance, reuse, SOA, systems, … 9 international languages 3

Supports large method libraries and multiple authors workspaces for multi-team, multi-library authoring support Advanced error reporting and explanation Advanced search capabilities (tag clouds, working sets, and more) title:"Release" AND tags:nav_release_information AND uma.type:supportingmaterial References view to analyze dependencies RSS feeds 4

Integration with websphere business modeler For BPMN-based modeling of processes 5

RTC: Work item templates Generate template with RMC Create matching work items in Rational Team Concert (RTC)

RTC: Link to process guidance Practitioner has “at fingertips” guidance.

RTC: Comments / Discussions Create discussion in website Stored in RTC

RTC: Manage the work Progress/Close Change the type Assign responsible Plan

RTC: Deliver process changes and republish Changes are recorded against the work item

Other integrations Rational Asset Manager For sharing and managing method assets Rational Software Architecture / Rational Application Developer For context-sensitive process guidance Microsoft Project for generating project plan templates 11

Customizable publication skins change terminology and the look-and-feel of the published site out of the box alternative skins vs 12

Reporting Integrates BIRT report designer Store and interchange publication options 13

Customizable meta-model User-defined types User-defined relationships 14

Process builder Configure a process by answering questions 15

Tailoring perspective for project manager simplified UI for project manager to tailor a reference process for a project 16

Additional features of RMC Tagging to configure and search content in a more declarative way Custom categories with queries to dynamically create navigation views Method Plug-in wizards and templates to jump start adding content using templates for practices or copying existing content Image Map Editor Draw hyperlink hotspots for your images Spell Checker Check the spelling of all form fields Horizontal activity diagrams Draw activity diagram from left-to-right, right-to-left User-defined icons for all elements Assign your own images to represent elements in diagrams Batch publishing 17

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