Congratulations to the Change Management workteam!

The Change Management workteam became the first OSLC stream to release a 1.0 spec. As Rational’s own tools adopt this spec, it’s going to be a lot easier for outsiders to integrate with our products. We know it’s certainly going to make our own integration scenarios easier.

This is an impressive achievement in many ways. It’s always tough to be the first group to go through a process, and in many ways the CM workteam has been the “beta testers” of a very different way of doing collaboration. They’ve learned a lot along the way both about what kinds of interfaces are useful in a loosely-coupled architecture, and about how to discover the requirements, for example by focusing on scenarios. You can read more and join the conversation at the open-services.net wiki.

Welcome to the Open Services Blog

Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration, or OSLC, is two new things.

It’s a new way of connecting the artifacts that software developers care about — requirements, tests, plans, code, and everything in-between. And its a new way of defining those connections — a process that takes place entirely in the open, and that aims to be not merely vendor-neutral but architecture-neutral.

This blog is the place to come if you want to follow the overall progress on the initiative and news about it, rather than fine details of what’s going on in specific OSLC workteams. (The place to go for that is the OSLC wiki.)