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.