At Agile 2009 in Chicago, industry experts talked about some simple things you can do to become more agile. From getting agreement from the team members all the way up to management, you can get educated and get started today!

In 2009, agile is no longer about the small teams that it began with, its now about some of the biggest companies in the world applying agile like never before. The maturing of agile as a whole, while keeping its original spirit, was one of the big topics at the Agile 2009 conference in Chicago this year. We saw an entire new generation of agile tools from the vendors, heard all about the cuttin...

Danube Systems has announced at Agile 2009 that their newly updated Scrumworks Pro 4 now has a connector for Tasktop. This takes it all the way from Pro 4s newly expanded program-level management down to the individuals task-level productivity integrating with apps like Outlook, GMail and the Eclipse IDE so that developers can seamlessly code and accomplish tasks within their favorite development...

We spoke to Paul Unterburg of TechExcel about the new release of their application lifecycle management system DevSuite 8.0. Whats New in Version 8.0? DevSuite is used daily by tens of thousands of developers and management to quickly design and implement processes based on industry-standard methodologies. The software provides managers with the reporting capabilities needed to make intelligent d...

Would you like to have 10 minute builds? This is part 1 of the 3 part series: Build Automation: The Next Wave in Aglile Methods. In this series, Steve Taylor explains how to use Build Automation, Build Avoidance and Multithreaded Processing to speed up your builds.

Peter Vescuso, Black Duck Software, SD West 2009, Santa Clara, CA

Daniel Freeman, Atlassian - SD West 2009, Santa Clara, CA

Maciej Zawadzki, President, urbancode, SD West 2009, Santa Clara, CA

Joe Keller, Electric Cloud, SD West 2009, Santa Clara, CA

Steve Taylor, CTO, OpenMake, SD West 2009, Santa Clara, CA