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| AGILE 2009 DAILY NEWS UPDATE - TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2009 RALLY SOFTWARE DEBUTS FIRST ALM DATA WAREHOUSE IN THE CLOUD FOR NEAR-LIMITLESS OPTIONS IN CUSTOM REPORTING Rally®, the Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) leader, today unveiled the third generation of its award-winning Agile ALM solution featuring the first ALM data warehouse in the cloud. Rally's ALM data warehouse will eliminate the problem of "canned" reports that fail to answer the tough project questions development teams face every day by providing almost limitless options for custom reporting. In addition, Rally's new customizable user interface includes social media tools to improve collaboration among distributed teams. It also incorporates role-based dashboards to filter the vast amounts of data available throughout the development lifecycle to only what each role needs be a productive team member. New features are available to customers either directly through the application, or by signing up for a beta program in Rally's online community, Agile Commons. Also, Rally is developing a new Kanban mashup and is anticipated to be released later this year. Rally's Agile ALM solutions are available in two editions. Rally Community Edition is free for up to 10 users, and Rally Enterprise Edition starts at $35/user/month. For detailed product capabilities, see Rally's Edition Comparison guide at: http://www.rallydev.com/agile_products/editions/. ENTHIOSYS AND SERENA ANNOUNCE INTEGRATION OF INNOVATION GAMES ONLINE WITH AGILE ON DEMAND Enthiosys, the leading provider of agile product management strategy and consulting services, and Serena Software, the leader in application management tools, today announced the integration of their software solutions. The companies have built interfaces between Serena's Agile On Demand suite of development solutions and Enthiosys' Innovation Game® Online collaborative tools. Serena customers can now use Innovation Games Online to involve stakeholders in collaborative product planning, organize project portfolios and prioritize feature backlogs. Innovation Game Online includes two collaborative games based on Luke Hohmann's book "Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products through Collaborative Play." Buy A Feature Online is the seriously fun way to prioritize serious - and not so serious - things with other people. Prune the Product Tree Online is the seriously fun way to visually collaborate in solving complex problems of corporate and product strategy. To learn more, visit http://www.serena.com, http://enthiosys.com/ and www.InnovationGames.com. THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS AND TASKTOP PARTNER TO IMPROVE AGILE ALM SUCCESS WITH ECLIPSE MYLYN INTEGRATION FOR ADAPTIVE ALMTM ThoughtWorks Studios, a global leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) tools and training, and Tasktop Technologies, creators of the EclipseTM Mylyn ALM integration framework, today announced the ThoughtWorks Adaptive ALM Connector. Set for release with Tasktop Pro in October, the connector will help streamline software development by providing direct access to ThoughtWorks Studios' products from within the Eclipse IDE. The ThoughtWorks Adaptive ALM Connector integrates Mylyn's innovative task-focused productivity technology to provide development teams with the most relevant source code for a given task. It will help reduce information overload for large-scale development projects and facilitate more efficient and collaborative multitasking. With the connector, ThoughtWorks Studios' customers will improve productivity by eliminating the need to toggle between the browser, email and IDE to gather information necessary to complete application development tasks. The ThoughtWorks Adaptive ALM Connector will be bundled with Tasktop Pro for $149, and a free trial will be available from http://tasktop.com in October 2009. Eclipse Galileo (3.5) users also will be able to install it directly from Mylyn's Connector Discovery in Eclipse. For more information and to sign up to be notified of the release, visit http://tasktop.com/connectors/thoughtworks-studios. NET OBJECTIVES ANNOUNCES ITS LEAN-AGILE POCKET GUIDE FOR SCRUM TEAMS As sponsors of the Agile Product Management stage at Agile 2009, Net Objectives has included a copy of its new "Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams" in all attendees' conference bags. In assisting teams in their adoption of Scrum, Net Objectives has found that a clear statement of the best practices and guidelines for Scrum to be very useful. Net Objectives also invites attendees to look at the free resources available on its website (www.netobjectives.com/resources). These should be especially valuable for those taking Agile past the team level. Net Objectives is the only company that deals with the issues of Agile at the business, management, team and technical levels. It has assisted many companies to achieve enterprise agility with its blend of Lean, Kanban, Scrum, Test-Driven-Development and more. Net Objectives' Assessment, Consulting or Training services can help users create a roadmap from where they are to where they want to go. Please contact Mike Shalloway at mike.shalloway@netobjectives.com to speak with a senior consultant or learn more about Net Objectives' services. PROKARMA RECOGNIZED BY ‘INC. MAGAZINE' AS THE FASTEST-GROWING IT SERVICES COMPANY IN AMERICA AND #11 OVERALL ProKarma has been named the fastest-growing private IT Services company in the country by "Inc. Magazine," which recently announced its 2009 Inc. 500 rankings and comprehensive guide of America's fastest-growing private companies. ProKarma, a leading IT and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company, ranked #1 in the IT Services category and #11 overall on this year's Inc. 500 list. ProKarma achieved a substantial 8,311 percent growth from 2005 to 2008. The 2009 Inc. 500 list measures revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies had to be U.S.-based, privately held, and independent-not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies-as of December 31, 2008, and have had at least $200,000 in revenue in 2005 and $2 million in 2008. For additional information, visit www.prokarma.com or email the company at info@prokarma.com. PILLAR TECHNOLOGY'S CHRIS BEALE INVITED TO ADDRESS AGILE2009 Pillar Technology (www.pillartechnology.com), the Midwest's leader in Agile Transformation Coaching,is proud to announce that Chris Beale, Vice-President of Service Delivery, has been invited to address the community at the sponsor reception panel discussion. Chris is a former senior software engineer at NASA and is responsible for the delivery of agile transformation coaching engagements at Pillar. Chris' team recently completed an extremely successful agile transformation which resulted in almost unbelievable time-to-market improvements for its client. In testimony to the real-world benefits of agile best practices, the team completed an 18-month project in only 14 weeks. Please join in on the panel discussion Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. at the sponsor exhibits. For more information email jaho@pillartechnology.com, follow Pillar on Twitter at www.twitter.com/agilesoftware or visit www.pillartechnology.com/agile2009. EVENTS: THE AGILEPALOOZA SPEAKER PANEL PROMISES SERIOUS LEARNING IN FUN ATMOSPHERE Generously supported by a variety of companies, Tuesday evening, the AgilePalooza will be hosting a speaker panel with a fantastic line up of panelists. The event will take place from 7 - 9 p.m. on Tuesday evening. Attendees are invited to come have a drink, network with fellow agilists and take in the panel discussion. According to the AgilePalooza, this is "not just another vendor marketing event." There will be a speaker panel of experienced agile coaches and trainers addressing questions submitted at http://Panel.AgilePalooza.com. Confirmed panelists include: David Hussman (renowned coach from DevJam), Brent Barton (CTO of SolutionsIQ), Chris Beale (Vice President at Pillar Technology), Jean Tabaka (Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile coach at Rally Software) and Ian Culling (CTO at VersionOne). The objective is to provide another avenue of learning for attendees while getting everybody together to mix and network. The evening will be based on the AgilePalooza mantra - Serious learning in a fun atmosphere. Questions will be collected online prior to the event. Go to http:// Panel.AgilePalooza.com and submit a question for the panel. Attendees will then be able to vote and comment on all of the questions submitted.
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