Assets of Rational Team Concert for the lectures

RTC brings huge advance in the possibilities and efficiency of the training not only from the perspective of students and teachers, but also from the perspective of the university, which can, thanks to RTC, provide alumni with the knowledge of the professional development tools and therefore increase the chance of being real professionals in their future job.

By incorporation the RTC into its portfolio has the Faculty of Informatics not only gained a professional tool for controlling and monitoring the students' projects but also increases the professional qualification and soft-skills of the students.

According to the feedback, the simplification of the team communication was the greatest asset to the students. Dividing the Work Items into several Iteration Plans and assigning them to different team members helped to achieve better resource utilization and better overview of the current state of the project and its development.

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Students' and lecturers' opinion

Assets for the lectures

Students appreciated the most a common channel for instant messaging represented by Jabber account, no matter if they used it in the RTC Jabber client or in a stand alone client.

The possibility to see the current state of the projects was the greatest asset to the lectors. There was a tutor revision after each phase of the process. The tutor can check the work done on the current phase easily and can discuss the problems with the students by using comments at Work Items. Last but not least, the email notifications are a comfortable tool both for teachers and the students. They enable them to be informed about important event without the need to search for them.

Assets for the university

Complex development tool RTC brings assets to the university in many levels. First, students will learn to work with professional tools, increase their ability to work in teams and the chance of being of better use in their future job.

Second, the teachers of the subject will gain better and more effective monitoring over the students' projects. Third, the university benefits not only from the increase of qualification of the students, but can also, thanks to the close collaboration with IBM, develop research activities in the field of software engineering.

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