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| Highlights from the AGILE 2008 CONFERENCE - Expanding Agile Horizons Agile thought leader Mary Poppendieck encouraged conference participants to ask themselves, "What is it we want to do when we grow up?" There is little question agile software development has crossed the chasm. Poppendieck argued it's time to look at the whole system and expand our thinking to take in the new landscape. According to Poppendieck, "After all, a process that does not change over time becomes rigid and eventually fades away." Poppendieck examined five dimensions of systems and considered how to expand agile horizons for each one.
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Rally Software commissioned independent research firm QSM Associates (QSMA) to execute the study, which included data collected from May through July 2008. The study measured the real-life performance of 26 Agile development projects against plan-based or waterfall industry averages in three key areas: productivity, time-to-market and defects. "It is becoming clear that Agile practices have a very positive and demonstrable impact on software development teams across the enterprise," said Michael Mah, managing partner of QSM Associates. "I expect to see these already impressive results improve as these teams continue to scale Agile across their organizations and further progress along the Agile maturity curve."
VENDOR NEWS VersionOne's integration with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 delivers a 100 percentMicrosoft.NET Framework-based solution for agile development teams of all sizes. By combining VersionOne's Agile planning and management tools with Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System platform, teams benefit from a scalable Agile Application Lifecycle Management (Agile ALM) solution. "The combination of VersionOne with Visual Studio Team System is great news for our developers," said Terry Clancy, Product Manager, Developer Division Microsoft Corp. "Through support for the Visual Studio development environment, VersionOne is helping .NET Framework-based development teams seamlessly incorporate an Agile development workflow and project management tool into their existing infrastructure."
Serena Software Joins Valtech in Agile Software Development Services Partnership Agile is an iterative software development methodology that promotes team collaboration and adaptability throughout a project lifecycle. It's faster and more responsive than the traditional waterfall model, which takes a purely sequential approach to creating software. As a result, Agile developers deliver software that more closely matches actual customer needs more quickly, since "user stories" replace "specs" in the application development process. "Agile development methodologies are seeing tremendous adoption in ISVs and IT departments of all sizes," said Jeremy Burton, CEO of Serena. "We are committed to delivering a pure-Agile toolset via SaaS later this year and are delighted to have Valtech as our partner of choice as we roll that toolset out to market."
Rally Debuts First Programmable Internet Platform for Agile ALM By delivering a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) architecture specifically for software lifecycle management, Rally provides software-driven organizations with a programmable platform that extends the Rally application, connects disparate role-based tools and shares Rally data and views with other applications and Web portals. "The beautiful thing about delivering a PaaS architecture is it directly meets our customers' needs to tailor ALM to their specific idea-to-market business processes," said Ryan Martens, CTO and founder of Rally. "These platforms are being made popular in the enterprise by Salesforce.com® and Google®. Rally is at the forefront of offering ALM customers these same advantages, but tuned to the needs of the software-driven enterprise. We're setting a new bar for the Agile and ALM industries, and we're excited about the speed of innovation our customers will experience as a result."
Pyxis Technologies Advancing Agile Application Delivery with Automation Mike Jones -- Kent Room - Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 9:00am)
Learn how OutSystems' All-in-One Agile Platform and Methodology extends core Agile concepts with automation. Understand the power of automation to: . Support the concept of individuals and interactions through process and tools. Rapidly deliver working software with embedded documentation. Realize the power of automating customer collaboration and feedback from within the running application . Harness the momentum of a plan which constantly adjusts to changing business requirements |
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