- May 26, 2020
User Experience
JIRA for Rocket Aldon
Everyone loves JIRA (well, almost everyone). And what’s not to love? Many consider Atlassian’s JIRA the go-to tool for managing projects for many reasons. It’s highly customizable, it’s not restricted to a single platform, and it can be hosted on-prem or in the cloud. Its capability to include requirement and change management processes adapted to […]
The User Experience Transformation: Finding the “Why” Behind Features
So, you want to build a new feature. Excellent. Now, tell me why. Rocket, like thousands of software companies, has historically had a wonderfully engineering-driven culture. We make products for engineers, by engineers, and we’ve got a pretty great track record of figuring out how to build features well for our customers. There’s an important […]
Live from IBM World of Watson: UX meets Cognitive Computing
As the director of User Experience at Rocket Software, I spend most of my time thinking about how people interact with technology. And as cognitive computing becomes more and more prevalent I find myself trying to figure out how cognitive – essentially human thought done by a computer – will interface with actual humans. What […]
Improve Backup Efficiency and Increase IT Agility with Rocket® Servergraph Professional
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BYOR: Bring Your Own Reality?
Most companies have now embraced the “consumerization of IT” trend to improve employee productivity. As part of this consumerization, BYOD encourages employees to bring personally owned mobile devices to their workplace, and to use those devices to access privileged company information and applications. This year, consumers can get their hands on a number of virtual and […]
The parallel between software design and music
As an aspiring jazz guitarist with a lot of musician friends in the software industry (including many at Rocket), I often reflect on the parallels between software design/development and music. For example: how the “workflow” of product design should be harmonious and keep a relationship “to the tonic,” i.e. the objective of the tool or […]
Happy New Year!
Each new year is always an exciting new beginning for us at Rocket, and today is no exception. We’re already in high gear getting ready for the next 12 months, but even as we introduce new products, expand our partnerships, and continue to grow our business in each local geography, one thing remains constant at […]
How much importance do you place on your OS?
A few months ago, I ended up installing Linux on a few of my computers, leaving Windows on the others. This isn’t the first time, either, having tried various distributions of Linux time and time again since about 2007. Each time, I’d learn a bit more about the particulars of the OS as someone must […]
Rocket at 25: celebrating community during our annual Leadership Summit
We just wrapped up our annual Rocket Leadership Summit last week in Boston. This year’s event involved 370 Rocketeers, five parallel tracks, dozens of customers and partners, an entire day dedicated to Community, and a Music Festival. You can get a flavor of our week by checking out our @Rocket Twitter feed and reading some […]
Live from IBM Insight2015: Analytics and ads of the future
Like them or hate them, advertisements aren’t going away any time soon. Companies want to spread the word about their products or events, and ads are one of the most visible ways to do this. This week at Insight, we’ve heard a lot about intelligent analytics that can be generated out of big data. Analytics […]
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