Tag: quality

Episode 65, recorded on 18th August 2011, discussing quality at IBM, Lotus Protector 2.8, OpenNTF, IBM’s support for older releases and more…

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests

	Flemming Christensen (blog | twitter | company | linkedin) is the chief quality architect for IBM Collaboration Solutions responsible for the process by which new releases commit to quality improvements and measure attainment.
	Bruce Elgort (blog | twitter | company ) is the Chairman of OpenNTF, Inc., an IBM Champion and also Adviser at Elguji Software, LLC.
	Niklas Heidloff (blog | twitter | OpenNTF blog) is is an architect in the IBM Lotus Domino development team and leads IBM’s engagement in OpenNTF including XPages.info.
	Sean Brown  (blog | twitter | company | linkedin) is the Product Manager for IBM Lotus Protector, and responsible for all collaboration security solutions including Lotus Protector for Mail Security and Mail Encryption

Topics

Quality at IBM 

• What is quality?
• How do you manage that (i.e. quality as just discussed)?
• How do IBM avoid regression bugs, particularly in very large mature products?
• How do you measure for LotusLive? Is that any different than what you do for on-premises software?
• How do you strike the balance between quality and timeliness?
• IBM releases to OpenNTF – mobile toolkit, extension library etc. Are they under same Quality controls?
• How do you measure whether you’re getting better?

New release of Lotus Protector 

• What is Lotus Protector and what does Collaboration Security mean?
• Lotus Protector for Mail Security 2.8
  • Protecting your organization with new Data Loss Prevention for files and emails
  • Support for IBM Connections and Lotus Quickr (for Websphere Portal)
  • New licensing models to better match to customer needs
  • What to expect next
  • When will we get “sidecar”for Domino and QuickrD?
• Branding still Lotus?

OpenNTF.org 

• Now a Not for Profit organisation
  • What’s the rationale?
  • What will it mean?
  • Why should organisationss become OpenNTF members?
• Can we hear about some highlights from past few months of contributions?
  • Contest
    • http://contest.openntf.org and http://xpages.info/contest
    • 46 submissions with >50 controls (one more day to submit)
    • 13 first time contributors
    • Some contest controls (not prioritized): JavaCharts, View Picklist, Involve, Multi Database Search, Recaptcha, ZK Spreadsheet, Calendar plan, Asynch Files Upload, Select Database, Poll, Search and TagCloud, MySQL
    • Next week judging, shortly after this announcement of winners
    • Next: import in Designer, out of the box controls
  • Statistics
    • 17k downloads last month (compared to ~8k when IBM got engaged end of 2008)
    • 300k page visits per month
    • 50 new releases (41 non IBM, 9 IBM) in June
    • > 100 approved OpenNTF contributors plus CCLAs from IBM and Group
  • IBM contributions
    • Latest: REST APIs, JDBC, servlet sample
    • Soon: Mobile, social, surprise
    • New model/taking back code in product
  • XPages.info
    • Videos: http://xpages.info/videos
    • XPages blog: http://xpages.info/blog
    • Japanese demos: http://xpages.info/demosjapan
    • 300 – 500 visitors per day

IBM Policy of Supporting N-2 

• Why the change?
• What does it mean for customers?
• Won’t this hinder motivation to upgrade?
• What will the cost be to maintain these additional versions?

Domino Danderers Dander for Dosh 2011

• Eileen & Steve walking 26 miles for Dadaab refugee camp. Please donate!

Tips

Darren:
CDBurnerXP –  use it to burn ISOs and files to CD, DVD, BRD and HD-DVD(!). Also works on x64 Win7 and 2008. Oh, and completely free and completely free of adware and other nasties.
Flemming:
IBM Electronic Support has its own Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/IBMElectronicSupport and Lotus Support has a new Facebook page: ‘Like’us at http://www.facebook.com/#!/IBMLotusSupport and follow us on Twitter with ID @Lotus_Support 🙂
Bruce: – XPages101 – XPages Video series with over 50+ video tutorials
Niklas:
XPages.info/contest to see descriptions, screenshots and videos of all controls of the contest.
Sean:
Drag/Drop emails to your desktop with Notes.  If you need to send an email in it’s original format (non-forwarded) you can drag the message right from your Notes inbox to your desktop and then attach it to a new email.
Stuart:
Lotusphere 2011 videos posted to YouTube

Thanks for listening!  Buy a Sonos – This Week in Lotus will sound even better!!!