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www.ibm.com Randy Wyatt of the US Navy discusses how Rational Team Concert has fostered collaboration among his team. With Rational and other tools, the teams are involved in a more collaborative development process, rather than one group handing off to another in a siloed workflow system. [Randy Wyatt, US Navy] Randy Wyatt, US Navy, Memphis Tennessee; my title is application engineering branch head. What we do is essential for the Navy mission; we put the right people with the right skill set in the right place. Okay, so that means ships, planes and subs. My group supports these Legacy systems, there are three major systems, 45 applications, or sub-systems of those applications from three disparate geographical locations; thats Pensacola Florida, Memphis Tennessee and New Orleans Louisiana. Now, you have to understand that the Navy has been around for a long time and corporate mainframe systems still exist; these are Cobol mainframe applications that run personnel systems from years past. What were trying to do is take them into the next generation, or fourth generation software systems. The great thing about the Rational Team Concert and how its helped me do my work is, its actually brought this team together, and not only from the collaborative point of view where we have a lot of good tools like the Sametime and project management tools, but its brought the lines of business to the IT shop, whereas before what we had was we had a lot of business analysts; wed go out …