Recent Event Highlights: Agile Alliance Named to The SD Times 100, Evidence Based Management in Agile Software Development, Electric Cloud CTO explains "preflight builds" and Agile software development, Agile Software: Using Encanvas Iterative Development, Agile Methodology - Part 1, VersionOne Introduces Agile Data Mart for Custom Reporting, and 82 more...
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Last updated: 10/31/10 at 02:04 PM
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...6,000 members located around the globe, the Agile Alliance is driven by the values and principles of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, whereby we recommend and encourage Agile approaches to software development because of the value they deliver...
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PR Newswire
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/agile-alliance-named-to-the-sd-times-100-96046719.html
Shane Hastie of Software Education explains how a storywall works on an Agile Software project.
Today we salute you, Mr. Metrics Drill Sergeant. Enter to win an iPad in the Real Men of Agile Genius Sweepstakes: pm.versionone.com
Describes how Evidence Based Management applies to Agile Software Development - both to "sell" agile to business, and to make agile work better (from Agile Roots 2009)
Anders Wallgren CTO, of Electric Cloud explains how preflight builds can accelerate iteration development and deployment throughout an Application's lifecycle.
Ian Tomlin explains the theory behind the Encanvas Iterative Development offering that sets new standards in iterative software development without requiring coding or scripting skills. For more information, please visit www.encanvas.com
www.agile-methodology.com is a reliable source of agile methodology and related agile subjects such as agile project management, agile software development
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...by agile practitioners as the leader in agile management tools. By simplifying the process of planning and tracking agile software projects, we help development teams consistently deliver software faster. Since 2002, companies such as Adobe, Dow Chemical,...
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PR Newswire
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/versionone-introduces-agile-data-mart-for-custom-reporting-70492537.html
More demos at www.outsystems.com This demo shows how to merge software versions in a collaborative agile software development model using the Agile Platform.
More demos at www.outsystems.com This demo shows the Agile Platform, an agile software development tool to create and change web applications using agile methodologies.
David looks at the advantages, project planning and pitfalls involved in using Agile Methodology for fixed cost software projects. David Booth Project Management and Consulting Manager www.picnet.com.au
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...and a video are included with this release. Agile CommonsTM, the online social networking community that empowers Rally(R) Software customers and Agile practitioners to interact, exchange knowledge and ultimately improve the results of their Agile practices, ...
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Street Insider
http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Rally+Software+Tops+10%2C000+Members+on+Agile+Commons+Social+Networking+Community/5069953.html
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...move to agile, or are having trouble moving to agile, this book can help. Rachel Davies provides expert coaching to teams in Agile software development techniques, such as Test-Driven Development and planning with User Stories. She has been working with Agile...
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Kansas City Infozine
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/38138/
Lean Software Development: A New Beginning and a Path for Transition Alan Shalloway - Net Objectives Presentation at www.slideshare.net Creating Lean companies is difficult and takes a great investment. But can Lean be useful even if a company isnt committed to being a Lean company? This talk discusses how Lean can be thought of as a combination of Lean-Science, Lean-Management and Lean-Knowledge-Stewardship. These are both independent of both manufacturing in general and Toyota in particular. Alan discusses how these three bodies of knowledge build on each other. They also give insights into how to transition to Lean, or as far to Lean as one wants to go.
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...replaced by a model that provides frequent delivery, increased customer involvement and a different team organization." Agile software development is used by many different organizations, including Cisco for their EOS media platform technology. Tools to help...
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Internet.com
http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3841571
www.ibm.com Stefan Andreasen of Kapow Technologies discusses the challenge of adapting to ever changing needs during application development. His company, using IBM's EGL (Enterprise Generation Language), developers can react quickly to change, creating a more dynamic development process. [Stefan Andreasen, Kapow Technologies] In today's business application development environment, it's all about agility, and also interaction with the user, with the one that needs the application, because the traditional way of the -- what's called the waterfall model -- you sit down, and spend months trying to figure out how we want the end result. You develop it, and you, you don't get what every, anybody wants! So today it's like this ping-pong between the development and line of business, and this is really what Kapow solves a lot. It allows to very quickly to adapt to the ever changing needs in the middle of developing the application. Because nobody have enough brain power to understand that they say, ""We want this,"" and then get exactly the right thing. It's a refinement process. They get a prototype, and say, ""That's not exactly what I wanted,"" and they didn't really think about it because I haven't seen it before, so Can, could you please do this? And development does that, and then they get it, and so this iterative , process and dialogue between development and, and, and uh, and line of business is essential for building applications today. And, and this is where we come ...
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...cutting the time, cost and effort needed to deliver high quality applications. According to a study by QSM Associates, software-driven companies that rely on Rally's Agile ALM products and services are 50% faster to market and 25% more productive than industry...
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/rally-software-expands-agile-success-tour-r1495686.htm
Since 1997 VMN+ Corporation has been facilitating small, medium and large organizations with the design, build, test and support of world class applications. Centralized in the epicenter of Silicon Valley of Latin America (Argentina)- VMN+ Corporation prides itself in being able to deliver benchmarked development practices at a fraction of normal costs without sacrificing quality of deliverables. Services: Software Development (Design,Build, Test&Support) Custom Applications Staff Augmentation IT Outsourcing
Agile Software Development Essentials is a 3-day class for professional software developers offered throughout the world by Techniques of Design and covers critical skills needed to build software that can easily change. Attendees learn how to find elegant solutions by understanding the forces of problems which lead to discovering the right abstractions that make software less complex and more manageable. Using advanced techniques like commonality-variability analysis, refactoring to the open-closed, encapsulating construction and pattern-oriented design, participants learn how to emerge designs just-in-time and with minimal waste. For more information please visit www.techniquesofdesign.com.
Near-shore Agile Application Development Outsourcing Partner. US/Argentine blended teams delivering quality results On-time and On-demand www.vmnplus.com - created at animoto.com
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...applications and use agile techniques without any vendor lock-in, the company said. OutSystems, a provider of agile software development tools, has announced a new, free Agile Platform Community Edition of its solution to give developers an easy...
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eWeek
http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/eweekdeveloper/~3/VgXo060W3X4/
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...business management roles. This track of courses is designed to help program managers become more effective leaders within the software development organization. Courses include: Becoming an Agile Project Manager; Distributed Agile Workshop; and, Agile Lifecycle...
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Street Insider
http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/ThoughtWorks+Studios+Announces+Agile+Workshops+to+Support+Agile+Application+Lifecycle+Management/4896486.html
Near-shore Agile Application Development Outsourcing Partner. US/Argentine blended teams delivering quality results On-time and On-demand www.vmnplus.com
This presentation provides a basic overview of agile software development, the most common best practices, and Rational Team Concert (which provides build management, software configuration management, work item management, and reporting capabilities).
This presentation provides a basic overview of agile software development, the most common best practices, and Rational Team Concert (which provides build management, software configuration management, work item management, and reporting capabilities).
This presentation provides a basic overview of agile software development, the most common best practices, and Rational Team Concert (which provides build management, software configuration management, work item management, and reporting capabilities).
To help overcome the difficulties inherent in planning meetings for agile teams, We used Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, XAML and Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation and a digital tabletop to create AgilePlanner for Digital Tabletop (APDT). With its large, horizontal touch sensitive device and adaptability to multiple platforms, APDT helps connect remote developers to a specially separated environment through multimodal interaction, including: finger touch or mouse events; gesture recognition; handwriting recognition; and voice-command recognition. Shown at the 2008 Agile Software Developer Conference, APDT received very positive reviews and feedback. APDT was developed by the agile Software Engineering group at the University of Calgary.
Over a decade developing complex resilient technology solutions for world class organizations // created at www.vmnplus.com
#5 Bottom-up and Top-down decision making. Jean Tabaka of Rally Software discusses one of the top 10 characteristics of a successful Agile organization: engaging teams in decision-making in order to inform decisions at the executive level from the greatest pool of insights.
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.../PRNewswire/ -- The Agile Alliance, (www.agilealliance.org) a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the concepts of Agile software development, today announced the full conference program for its Agile 2009 Conference, set for August 24 - 28 in Chicago...
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Freshnews.com
http://www.freshnews.com/node/148266
JAOO2009 - Software Teams, Agile and Skills
The Agile Awards 2009 event is a unique initiative. It recognizes the best uses of agile software development methodologies for creating enterprise class business applications. This movie shows a testimonial by Rudy Van Hoe, Software Practice Manager Specialist and Jan Vanderzande, Sales Manager at Sun Microsystems with their view on agile software development.
The Agile Awards 2009 event is a unique initiative. It recognizes the best uses of agile software development methodologies for creating enterprise class business applications. This movie shows a testimonial by Randstad's IT Manager Marc V an Harneveldt, who received an award for the Blueweb 2 project that was implemented using an agile methodology.
The Agile Awards 2009 event is a unique initiative. It recognizes the best uses of agile software development methodologies for creating enterprise class business applications. This movie shows a testimonial by Flemish Government ICT Director Luc Chauvin, who received an award for the WebASM project that was implemented using an agile methodology.
The Agile Awards 2009 event is a unique initiative. It recognizes the best uses of agile software development methodologies for creating enterprise class business applications. This movie shows a testimonial by BMW Group Belux's project leader David Dossche, who received an award for their E4N project that was implemented using an agile methodology.
Get a preview of what Scott Ambler will be talking about at the Rational Software Conference
A clip from "Ergosphere Assault", a video game for Windows and the XBox360. It was written in C# over the course of 3 weeks using the Agile Software Development Method by Zbynek Dusatko, John Reed, and Jared Rose. ... "video games" c# programming "agile software" space astroids
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...of product engineering at GlobalLogic, which provides software development services. Among the features of scrum are an agile software development framework and a "ScrumMaster," who guides the team's use of scrum as well as serving and protecting the team. ...
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ComputerWorld
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132510&source=rss_null11
Are your software builds slowing you down? Would you like to have 10 minute builds? This is part one of the three part Educational Video Series: Build Automation: The Next Wave in Agile Methods, with Steve Taylor. In this video series, Steve explains how to use Build Automation, Build Avoidance, and Multi-threaded Processing to speed up your builds. See the rest of this series at www.agilejournal.com/media center
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...and feature they will need in an application, said Scott Ambler, worldwide practice leader of agile development with the IBM Software Group. When customers see how software is shaping up, they refine their ideas. "If we go against human nature, we actually...
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Big News Network
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?rid=23539615&cat=d805653303cbbba8
SIIASoftwareSummit.net May 4-5, 2009, San Francisco. Join us to Address the New Rules for Funding, Building and Selling Software! The SIIA Software Summit & CODiE Awards conference leverages the long-established and well-respected SIIA CODiE awards program to focus on the key drivers of software excellence, including the transformation from on-premise to on-demand, issues of agile software development, and leveraging new platforms. This is a comprehensive conference for the entire software ...
Agile Methods designed with co-location in mind encouraging high levels of collaboration and customer interaction, have proven to be an effective process for building great software. On the other hand, in these tough economic times, leveraging the offshore cost advantage is looking even more attractive than ever before. Is it possible to combine both dual-shore outsourcing and Agile Methods into a solution cocktail that delivers even more benefits? This Webinar answers this question based on ...
Agile Methods designed with co-location in mind encouraging high levels of collaboration and customer interaction, have proven to be an effective process for building great software. On the other hand, in these tough economic times, leveraging the offshore cost advantage is looking even more attractive than ever before. Is it possible to combine both dual-shore outsourcing and Agile Methods into a solution cocktail that delivers even more benefits? This Webinar answers this question based on ...
Agile Methods designed with co-location in mind encouraging high levels of collaboration and customer interaction, have proven to be an effective process for building great software. On the other hand, in these tough economic times, leveraging the offshore cost advantage is looking even more attractive than ever before. Is it possible to combine both dual-shore outsourcing and Agile Methods into a solution cocktail that delivers even more benefits? This Webinar answers this question based on ...
Agile Methods designed with co-location in mind encouraging high levels of collaboration and customer interaction, have proven to be an effective process for building great software. On the other hand, in these tough economic times, leveraging the offshore cost advantage is looking even more attractive than ever before. Is it possible to combine both dual-shore outsourcing and Agile Methods into a solution cocktail that delivers even more benefits? This Webinar answers this question based on ...
Agile Methods designed with co-location in mind encouraging high levels of collaboration and customer interaction, have proven to be an effective process for building great software. On the other hand, in these tough economic times, leveraging the offshore cost advantage is looking even more attractive than ever before. Is it possible to combine both dual-shore outsourcing and Agile Methods into a solution cocktail that delivers even more benefits? This Webinar answers this question based on ...
Agile Methods designed with co-location in mind encouraging high levels of collaboration and customer interaction, have proven to be an effective process for building great software. On the other hand, in these tough economic times, leveraging the offshore cost advantage is looking even more attractive than ever before. Is it possible to combine both dual-shore outsourcing and Agile Methods into a solution cocktail that delivers even more benefits? This Webinar answers this question based on ...
Agile Methods designed with co-location in mind encouraging high levels of collaboration and customer interaction, have proven to be an effective process for building great software. On the other hand, in these tough economic times, leveraging the offshore cost advantage is looking even more attractive than ever before. Is it possible to combine both dual-shore outsourcing and Agile Methods into a solution cocktail that delivers even more benefits? This Webinar answers this question based on ...
This is the second in a series of videos produced by some colleagues of the Rational Tester here at Rational. In this second installment, Grady Booch and Scott Ambler discuss the role of software architecure in the Agile world.
Ever heard of a fixed price agile method for outsourcing? It's about agility, a proper governance model, and, as always, communication, communication and communication. Exigen Services developed Flex-agility: an outsourced, fixed price, Agile-based application development offering. I have the pleasure of talking with Alec Miloslavsky, CEO of Exigen Services. We discuss flex-agility, how do you balance scope changes and a fixed budget, and how to handle communication between customer and ...
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