Agile2012 is the premier international conference for all aspects of agile development. The Agile Alliance looks forward to hosting more than 1600 participants from all over the world at the beautiful Gaylord Texan Resort located just outside of Dallas, Texas.
Take advantage of this effective opportunity to market your company, products and/or services to the most influential people defining and leveraging agile software development practices today. We offer many sponsorship levels with excellent marketing opportunities and benefits within each category.
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Title Sponsors
Rally Software
Rally is the recognized leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM). We are dedicated to helping organizations embrace Agile and Lean development practices that increase the pace of innovation and improve product quality. 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 averages. The company’s experienced services group, including training through Agile University, guides companies through the organizational change required to become innovative, Agile businesses. Rally’s products, including AgileZen, currently support more than 2,500 corporate customers, 82,000 projects and 154,000 users in 60 countries. For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.
VersionOne
VersionOne is recognized 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, Boeing, Intuit, Lilly, Lockheed Martin, Oppenheimer, Qualcomm, Sabre and Siemens have turned to VersionOne to help provide greater value to their customers.
Agile Made Easier @ VersionOne.com
Platinum Sponsor
PMI
PMI is the world’s largest project management member association, representing more than half a million practitioners in more than 185 countries. As a global thought leader and knowledge resource, PMI advances the profession through its global standards and credentials, collaborative chapters and virtual communities and academic research. And, now with more and more organizations applying Agile techniques in the management of successful projects, PMI has responded by launching Agile resources, such as the Agile Community of Practice and Agile certification (PMI-ACP), to support practitioners who want to demonstrate to employers their level of professionalism in Agile practices of project management. Learn more at www.pmi.org/agile.
CollabNet
CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services for software-driven organizations. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a suite of platforms and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. Its CloudForge™ development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support leading third party tools. The CollabNet TeamForge® ALM, ScrumWorks® Pro project management and Subversion Edge source code management platforms can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CollabNet complements its technical offerings with industry leading consulting and training services for Agile and cloud development transformations. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net).
Valtech
Valtech is a pioneering global technology and digital provider present in eight countries and listed on Euronext in Paris. As a full service digital consultancy, Valtech delivers value to its customers throughout digital projects—from strategic consulting to design, conception, development and optimization of business?critical digital platforms. Valtech leverages agile methodologies to drive organizations’ digital transformation, and helps global brands build business value and increase revenues through digital technologies, all while optimizing ROI and time to market.
IBM Rational
IBM Rational is a recognized leader in scaling Agile practices. With over 30,000 Agile developers within IBM Software group alone, IBM brings its own agile transformation experiences to its customers.
IBM Rational offers adaptive Agile tooling, best practices and training to suit an organization’s unique needs. IBM Rational Agile Transformation solutions allow companies to automate all aspects of agile, from agile planning and development to comprehensive capabilities that extend across the entire delivery lifecycle supporting both software and embedded systems development.
Join us in the exhibit hall to talk with our experts about Agile best practices and learn how you can get a complimentary copy of Agile for Dummies and 10 free licenses of our award winning agile software, Rational Team Concert. For more information see: http://www.ibm.com/rational/agile.
Microsoft Visual Studio
Visual Studio 2012 is the integrated solution that enables individuals and development teams of any size to turn their ideas into exceptional, compelling applications. Take advantage of state-of-the-art tooling and services to create outstanding experiences that delight your end-users in both consumer and business applications, with a simplified development solution that enables quality through all tasks and roles involved in a software project. Empower your team’s ability to continuously adapt to changes in shorter cycles that include customers and operations and eliminate waste in a solution that adapts to your team. As a result, you will reduce risks, solve problems faster, and continuously deliver value that exceeds customers’ expectations.
Gold Sponsor
AccuRev
AccuRev offers solutions that optimize, automate, and accelerate the software development process for organizations using Agile, waterfall, or hybrid development process models. Our award-winning product, AccuRev SCM Enterprise Edition, a Software Configuration Management solution, allows development teams to increase throughput and release higher quality software. Our customers benefit from integrated professional services for consulting, deployment and training. AccuRev is used by over 600 enterprises worldwide including American Airlines, Ford Motor Company, Lockheed Martin, Orbitz, Texas Instruments, Thomson Financial, and Verizon Wireless.
SolutionsIQ
With more than 30 years of experience, SolutionsIQ has a deep understanding of software delivery excellence. A leading provider of Agile Consulting, Certified Training, Coaching, Development, and Talent Acquisition services, the company is uniquely equipped to help organizations leverage Agile project management and software development methods they require to deliver cutting-edge solutions more reliably. SolutionsIQ helps its international client base navigate complex cross-functional changes – increasing Agile competencies at the individual, team, and enterprise level – and gives them the tools and collaboration they need to succeed. Learn more at www.SolutionsIQ.com.
Axosoft
OnTime Scrum: Manage your dev team’s product backlog, sprints, and defects with the visual scrum planning board. Dive into the burndown/burndup charts to see your team’s progress.
OnTime Help Desk: Bridge the gap between you and your customers with ticketing and incident tracking. Monitor emails and make sure customer issues never slip through the cracks.
OnTime Team Wiki: Collaborate on valuable documents in a centralized project-related hierarchy wiki. Don’t allow for your information to get lost in emails, intranets, or shared network folders.
Enterprise quality agile project management software at prices any team can afford. Monthly pricing starts at $7 per user, per product. Small team? It’s just $10 per product for up to 10 users.
Some customers using OnTime include NASA, Nike, 3M, Intel, Chevron, and EA Electronics.
Sococo
Sococo, the Social Communications Company, is changing the way distributed agile teams interact, providing the advantages of physical proximity through a permanent online workspace. Sococo Team Space offers a bird’s-eye view of a virtual office floor plan—with private offices, conference rooms and public areas (e.g., lobby, break room, courtyard). Coworkers can, at a glance, see who’s around and what’s going on, regardless of their physical location, and they can meet, talk and share content simply by clicking on the same virtual room. With Team Space, agile teams can resolve issues quickly and get more work done. Sococo won a TiE50 Award and has been recognized by Gartner Group, CIOmagazine, CRN and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. Visit our website to watch a demo of Team Space or to get our white paper.
Silver Sponsors
Atlassian
Atlassian products help innovators everywhere plan, build and launch great software. More than 17,000 large and small organizations – including Citigroup, eBay, Netflix and Nike – use Atlassian’s issue tracking, collaboration and software-development products to work smarter and deliver quality results on time. Learn more at http://atlassian.com.
Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies aims to transform the productivity of software delivery by unifying Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and empowering developers with task-focused tools. Tasktop invented the task-focused interface and created the popular Eclipse Mylyn project. Building on top of Mylyn, Tasktop has been unifying the ALM landscape with its broad ecosystem of ALM partnerships that connect disparate tools from leading Agile, enterprise ALM and open source offerings. Tasktop Sync provides real-time, bi-directional synchronization between ALM servers. Tasktop Dev is the developer-centric ALM interface for the Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs, making it dramatically easier for developers to work and collaborate. For more information, visit http://tasktop.com
QSM
Quantitative Software Management Inc. (QSM) was established in 1978 and helps organizations reduce the overall expense of software and systems development projects. QSM’s SLIM software tools and consulting enable organizations to effectively estimate, track, and benchmark their software projects.
SLIM-Estimate- The premier project estimating tool and method based on an extensive historic database. This tool estimates the cost, schedule, effort, size, staff, reliability and risk on projects.
SLIM-Control- The project oversight tool used for tracking the cost, schedule, effort, size, staff, reliability, and risk on projects.
SLIM-Metrics- The productivity and quality metrics analysis and benchmarking tool for projects.
Perforce Software
Perforce Software is a provider of software and solutions that enable teams to create, develop and version everything. The world’s most innovative companies and recognized brands trust Perforce to manage all their digital assets from intellectual property to content. The Perforce version management platform is unique in its ability to handle large and distributed collections of content and is backed by a full range of enterprise services. Find out more at perforce.com.
LitheSpeed
LitheSpeed is a small cadre of agile trainers and consultants on a mission to transform workplaces into environments that promote self-management, continuous improvement, and high morale through a blend of Agile and Lean processes and tools. These approaches have helped hundreds of organizations--from startups to the Fortune 100--speed time to market, improve quality, increase flexibility, and improve their employees’ lives.
We believe in learning cultures over ultimatums, custom solutions over a one-size-fits-all approach, and community above competition.
Red Gate
Since 1999, Red Gate has been making ingeniously simple tools for SQL Server, .NET, and Oracle. We currently have more than 500,000 customers worldwide.
Deployment Manager, our latest tool, helps with Continuous Delivery by letting you deploy your database and application side-by-side. We’ve also got tools that can make your database development process more Agile, by providing version control and making refactoring easier.
On the .NET side, we offer software for gathering detailed feedback early in your release cycle, including feature usage information and comprehensive error reports, as well as industry-leading performance and memory profilers to help diagnose and fix problems fast.
Salient Commercial Solutions
Salient Commercial Solutions is a leading provider of IT application productivity strategy; Agile coaching and adoption services; package customization requirements; and vendor management services. Salient helps our clients achieve results, fast. We focus on critical complex business problems in need of a comprehensive approach and resolution, including all make and buy options. We develop and deliver complete solutions using best-of-breed rapid delivery techniques. We provide Certified Scrum Masters and leverage a variety of toolsets to help accelerate your results. Salient is headquartered in Fairfax, VA with offices throughout the U.S.
agile42
agile42 is a market leader in providing "Agile Transformation Services" to companies who want to move toward a more efficient and adaptive way of working. For many years, agile42 has supported a wide range of clients, from startups to large enterprises, in transforming their way of working. Our efficient combination of management consulting, knowledge transfer, team training and coaching on the job has developed a unique and proven approach to support our clients in realizing the benefits of an agile mindset and way of working that allows our customers to achieve outstanding results.
Urban Turtle
For the fourth year in a row, Urban Turtle is happy to be part of the Agile Conference. We hope you will come see us at our booth and discover the Agile tool for Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS).
Urban Turtle is both an Agile taskboard and planning board designed and built for TFS. It is the real Scrum and Agile management tool to prioritize your backlog, plan your work, and focus on delivering software. Our famous, easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface makes Agile project planning in TFS fast and painless. Built by experienced Scrum coaches and practitioners, Urban Turtle is a solution tailored for professionals who do no skimp on quality and who want the best. Come see us! Find out more at urbanturtle.com.
Scrum.org
Scrum.org is the home of Scrum, and is leading the evolution and maturity of Scrum to improve the profession of software development. Scrum.org provides all of the tools and resources needed by Scrum practitioners to deliver value using Scrum. We host the Scrum Guide in 30 languages, provide assessments to allow people to evaluate themselves and improve, host community forums and webcasts to foster discussion and knowledge transfer, and define industry-leading Scrum training for practitioners at all levels. Learn more about our Professional Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Foundations, Professional Scrum Developer, and Professional Scrum Product Owner training programs at Scrum.org.
ASPE - SLDC
ASPE-SDLC is the leading training firm for Agile. We are committed to providing the best skills, knowledge and methods through our real world, real training, real results model. ASPE-SDLC offers professionals opportunities to practice and fine-tune their skills in the best real-world environment available in the classroom. Courses we offer include Agile Project Management Certification (PMI-ACP), Certified ScrumMaster Workshop, Agile Boot Camp and more. For more details, visit www.aspe-sdlc.com/agile, or follow us on Twitter @aspe_sdlc for the latest news and promotions.
LogiGear
LogiGear is a global leader in Agile software development and testing products, services, training and consulting. With facilities in the US and Vietnam, LogiGear's solutions help companies in Agile environments test more, test better and test faster. We create unique custom solutions for clients in many industries - from early stage startups to Fortune 500 companies.
UrbanCode
UrbanCode enables organizations to deliver software to production servers faster (physical, virtual, or cloud); resulting in decreased time to market, and accelerated pace of innovation. uDeploy, our Deployment Automation product, establishes repeatable, error-free, scalable application deployment processes, and provides visibility into what version is where. uBuild, our Build Management product, establishes repeatable and traceable build processes for large organizations with hundreds or thousands of developers, and provides visibility into organizational best practices; allowing development teams to scale while maintaining quality. At UrbanCode, our approach is to harness the inherent capabilities of computers – the handling repetitive tasks in an error-free manner – so people can focus on critical thinking, creativity, and problem solving.
JetBrains
ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks, Inc. is a global Custom Software Solutions provider, focused on Agile-based systems development, consulting and transformation services to Global 1000 companies. The company has pioneered many of the most advanced and successful Agile methods of software development and best practices used in the industry today. At its core, ThoughtWorks helps its clients maximize investment and performance across a portfolio of complex, business-critical applications, while reducing time and risk. The company's products division, ThoughtWorks Studios, offers technology solutions to manage the entire Agile development lifecycle through its innovative Adaptive ALM solution™, comprised of Mingle® (Agile Project Management Platform), Go® (Release Management) and Twist® (Automated Testing). ThoughtWorks employs 1,500 professionals to serve clients from offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. For more information please visit www.thoughtworks.com
SourceGear
SourceGear offers Veracity, a cloud-based Scrum solution for distributed teams. Veracity is a complete, tightly integrated solution, including work item tracking, management of sprints and backlog, burndown charts, build tracking, decentralized version control, and wiki, all available through an HTML5 web UI hosted by SourceGear in Amazon's cloud. Veracity's iPad app extends these features to mobile users with complete support for viewing and editing, even when network access is not available. Visit our booth and see agile project management happening on a tablet in "airplane mode"
IconATG
Icon and Scaled Agile, Inc. have partnered to help our customers successfully adopt Lean/Agile across the enterprise. Leveraging the publicly available Scaled Agile Framework for the Enterprise (SAFe), we help companies optimize their product line value streams by synchronizing Agile teams to deliver high business-value software on a regular cadence. We also help companies develop a Lean/Agile portfolio to ensure programs deliver solutions that are aligned with technology investment themes and corporate goals. Product and service offerings include, Leadership education and advisement Agile Release Train (ART) Quickstart workshops, Enterprise Team training, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and Portfolio, Program, and Team coaching.
Orange and Bronze Software Labs
Orange and Bronze Software Labs is the first Philippine-based SpringSource partner, with over one hundred seasoned software engineers and architects specializing in Spring, Grails, Spring Roo and Hibernate. The company was founded on the simple belief that realistic software development practices using Agile and decoupling dependencies using the Spring and Hibernate frameworks, would lead to successful projects and maintainable codebases.
We have a long history of building high-performance enterprise applications, some handling tens of millions of users a day. Besides software development, we provide training and coaching for software development organizations on Agile software development, enterprise design, SpringSource technologies and other tools and practices in software engineering.
Skytap
Skytap is a leading cloud service provider that gives development and test teams a fast, easy, and secure way to create complex and repeatable computing environments in the cloud. Skytap Cloud is designed and optimized specifically for the unique workflow, collaboration, and infrastructure requirements of enterprise software application development and testing. Developers and QA teams can self-provision and instantly scale resources up and down as project needs dynamically change. Developers can create multiple complex environments that mirror their production environments and easily collaborate with remote teams. QA and test engineers can reproduce complex bugs easily by snapshotting and sharing specific environments or entire virtual data centers with developers. Existing virtual machines, tools and test scripts can be easily imported and integrated into Skytap Cloud. Since 2008, leading enterprise companies such as Boeing, Google, IBM, Trek Bicycles, OpenText, and Cushman & Wakefield have launched over one million virtual machines in Skytap Cloud.
Hansoft
Hansoft is a production management tool used for agile and lean development, collaborative scheduling, real-time reporting, bug tracking / QA, workload coordination, portfolio and document management in game development and publishing as well as IT, telecom and the space industry. The tool is fast and easy to use and builds on principles of team empowerment, increased communication, transparency, and collaboration. www.hansoft.se
Value, Flow, Quality® from Emergn
Every organisation is unique, but because VFQ explains the first principles behind a diverse range of methodologies including Scrum, XP and Kanban, you are encouraged to critically select and adapt practices.
Increase value, improve flow and advance quality for your organisation with the Value, Flow, Quality education programme.
Improving Enterprises
Improving. It’s more than a name... it’s what we do. Since our inception in 2004, we have prided ourselves in the improvement of our people, clients, and services. As an active proponent of blue ocean strategy (W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne), we have challenged basic assumptions of traditional technology service models. In doing so, Improving has created several new and innovative solutions that provide true, sustained, and meaningful value to our customers.
Improving Enterprises is a leading software development and advanced technology training company, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Improving is a complete IT services firm, offering training, consulting, recruiting, and project services.
Our innovative solutions provide sustained, and meaningful value to our customers. Improving is committed to remaining technology agnostic, while at the same time providing the highest degree of expertise to our clients.
Serena Software
Serena Software provides Orchestrated IT and Product Development solutions to the Global 1000. Serena helps enterprises become more agile by orchestrating processes across the end-to-end IT lifecycle – from request to release to service. Our 4,000 enterprise customers, encompassing almost one million users worldwide, have made Serena the largest independent application development vendor and are now using Serena to orchestrate IT service management and other vital processes. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Serena serves customers from 29 offices in 14 countries. Serena is a portfolio company of Silver Lake Partners, the leader in private investments in technology-enabled industries.
Blue Mercury Consulting
Blue Mercury Consulting specializes in the deployment and adoption of processes and tools supporting Agile Development practices. In partnership with Scaled Agile, Inc. and leveraging their Scaled Agile Framework for the Enterprise (SAFe), Blue Mercury Consulting will enable you to become a self–sufficient Agile Enterprise whether you are utilizing IBM Rational, Rally, VersionOne, or other agile tooling. Unique to Blue Mercury Consulting is our role-based knowledge repository known as BlueJazz. BlueJazz has a proven track record of facilitating rapid enterprise adoption to help ensure early and enduring return on your investment. Blue Mercury Consulting, a partner you can trust.
Ascendant
Ascendant helps organizations apply and integrate IBM enterprise software to create easily consumable (web) solutions that support the business. While the capabilities of IBM technology are practically limitless, configuring products to best serve your organization’s unique business needs can be a challenge. By first gaining a clear understanding of your goals, our experts are able to architect business-focused applications that are as well regarded for ease of use as IBM’s signature reliability, availability and scalability. We then apply our existing assets and industry best practices to execute your digital strategies faster. Our Agile development approach further accelerates time to market and reduces risk by delivering frequent and iterative releases, so business and technology objectives remain aligned.
Prowareness
Prowareness helps organizations overcome their challenges in the field of Software Development. With the right combination of Agile Software Development and Agile Transformation Services, Prowareness helps organizations to further accelerate their software development with higher quality and increased productivity with faster time to market. We are a global organization with presence in US, Europe and India. We provides solutions in the form of Offshore Agile Software Development expertise with mature hyper-productive agile development teams in India and our unique agile tooling offering "Agile Cockpit", one of its kind Agile Project Management solution to help agile teams enhance collaboration and transparency.
For more information visit: www.prowareness.com
Wipro Technologies
Wipro Technologies, the global IT business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is a leading Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing company, that delivers solutions to enable its clients do business better. Wipro Technologies delivers winning business outcomes through its deep industry experience and a 360 degree view of “Business through Technology”– helping clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, a practitioner’s approach to delivering innovation and an organization wide commitment to sustainability, Wipro Technologies has over 130,000 employees and clients across 54 countries.
For more information, please visit www.wipro.com or contact us at info@wipro.com
Attendee Bag & "Coaches Clinic" Event Sponsor
Scrum Alliance
The Scrum Alliance is a not-for-profit professional membership organization created to share the Scrum framework and transform the world of work.
The Scrum Alliance’s purpose is to increase awareness and understanding of Scrum, provide resources to individuals and organizations using Scrum, and promote the iterative improvement necessary to succeed with Scrum. The Scrum Alliance hosts Scrum Gatherings and supports Scrum User Groups, providing a forum for interactive learning throughout the world.For additional information about the Scrum Alliance, visit www.scrumalliance.org
Stage Sponsors
Synerzip
Proud Sponsor of the Distributed Agile Stage
Synerzip helps small/mid-sized technology companies scale-up their software product teams in a capital efficient manner, leveraging Synerzip’s off-shore center in India. For each client Synerzip puts together a team of high caliber software professionals based in India, a US based product manager, and delivers quality software following Agile approach.
Agile Coaching Institute
PROUD SPONSOR OF THE COACHING AND MENTORING STAGE
Lyssa Adkins, coach of agile coaches and author of Coaching Agile Teams, and Michael K. Spayd, certified relationship systems coach and agile enterprise thought-leader, bring you the Agile Coaching Institute(ACI). ACI offers training, mentoring and development programs for individual agile coaches and for companies looking to create a sustainable agile coaching platform.
Esther Derby Associates
Proud Sponsor of the Leadership Stage
At Esther Derby Associates, inc. we work with clients to build productive work environments for developing software. We don't have one-size-fits all solutions to push; rather, we explore each situation, listen, and gather information. Then we recommend actions that fit our clients' context and unique needs.
Esther Derby, Esther Derby Associates, Inc. 612-724-8114
Agile Leadership Network
Proud Sponsor of the Agile Adoption and Transformation Stage
The Agile Leadership Network is dedicated to evolving leadership so that individuals, teams, and organizations thrive in an ever-changing world.
We are an international network of local communities that provides opportunities to connect and engage to advance the practice of agile leadership, principles, and values.
Join now! Visit our website to become a member, find a local chapter meeting, learn more about our leadership conferences, and other networking opportunities.
LeanKit
LeanKit is recognized by community leaders and practitioners alike as the most flexible and powerful tool available for implementing Kanban and scaling it up to large enterprises. Since its founding in 2009, LeanKit has grown rapidly to serve more than 80,000 users around the world at companies such as Rolls Royce, Spotify, Glaxo Smith Kline, NBC Universal, Geico, and Yammer. Enterprise Kanban @ LeanKitKanban.com
Additional Sponsors
Inflectra
SpiraTeam by Inflectra is an integrated Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) system that manages your project's requirements, releases, iterations, test cases, issues and stories in one comprehensive web-based environment. Deployed by more than 1000 customers worldwide, SpiraTeam is the premier system for optimizing project delivery, reducing waste and delivering projects on-time, on-budget. Inflectra is a privately held software company dedicated to providing customers with the means to effectively and affordably manage their software development lifecycles.
Agilers Sp. z o.o.
tinyPM is advanced, lightweight and smart tool for agile collaboration including product management, backlog, taskboard, user stories, wiki, integrations and REST API.
tinyPM goes beyond software development and encourages all team members (including clients, management and stakeholders) to actively participate in all your projects. The tool adds also some unique features like project budget tracking or integrated 5-in-1 wiki and has been translated into 16 language with a great support from a community of users.
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FutureWorks Consulting LLC
Partnerships & Possibilities for High Performance
FutureWorks Consulting is pleased to sponsor internet access for Agile2010.
Working with FutureWorks, companies and individuals define the path toward their best work climate and highest performance. Together we'll design a plan for turning your Agile vision into reality. READ MORE
Media Sponsors
ProjectsAtWork
ProjectsAtWork.com helps project leaders and agile teams get things done in the real world, breaking down barriers and building bridges to success through fresh approaches that include agile techniques, tools and thought leadership. As the leading online content and news resource, ProjectsAtWork.com offers practical project information, agile case studies and best practices, research and statistical studies, and valuable content for practitioners and professionals who have front-line responsibly for all areas and all industries of program, portfolio and project management – including people, technology, services & solutions. Join the community and sign-up today for your free subscription at www.projectsatwork.com.
IEEE Software
How do you stay current in the fast-changing world of software? Here’s one way: read IEEE Software, a highly respected practitioner-oriented software magazine published by the IEEE Computer Society. With peer-reviewed articles and columns written by experts, IEEE Software will keep you informed about the ideas and trends your counterparts are experimenting with and debating out there in the real world. It's the authority on translating software theory into practice.
InformIT.com
Addison-Wesley and Prentice Hall Professional (imprints of Pearson) are premier publishers in software engineering, programming, and development. We are proud to publish series with the thought leaders in the agile community including: The Addison-Wesley Signature Series with Kent Beck, Mike Cohn, and Martin Fowler; The Robert C. Martin Series; and the Agile Software Development Series with Alistair Cockburn & Jim Highsmith. InformIT is our online presence featuring print, eBooks, video, and original content & articles. Please visit us at informit.com/agile.
Methods and Tools
Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter providing practical expert knowledge for software development professionals. Methods & Tools gives software development ideas more than one page to express themselves and covers all aspects of software engineering: project management and planning, methodologies, software quality & testing, configuration management, etc. Past and future issues contain many articles on agile project management, requirements definition and practices applied to software development activities like programming, testing and configuration management. Read more at www.methodsandtools.com
Software Development Times
“Software Development Times®", the leading news source for the software development industry. SD Times is the most trusted, independent source for news and analysis for software development managers.
TechTarget
SearchSoftwareQuality.com is the online community for developers, architects and executives interested in building secure and quality software. Get information on software quality management, software testing and quality assurance (QA), application threats and vulnerabilities, software maintenance and bug tracking, and how to build quality and security into the software development life cycle (SDLC). SearchSoftwareQuality.com also provides in-depth coverage on how to ensure quality using different development models and methodologies, like Agile development. Read more at www.searchsoftwarequality.com
Cutter Consortium
Cutter Consortium's mission is to help organizations leverage technology for competitive advantage and business success through its consulting, training, events, and content -- all of which is provided exclusively by the world's leading IT experts. Cutter’s Agile Practice, directed by Israel Gat, offers a rich menu of Agile and Technical Debt services that helps organizations create lasting value through end-to-end Agile initiatives. From applying the “nuts” and “bolts” of Agile, to transforming your organization at the enterprise level, Cutter offers the objective advice you need to make Agile a source of strategic competitive advantage. Become a Cutter client today! www.cutter.com
InfoQ
InfoQ.com is an independent online community focused on change and innovation in enterprise software development, targeted primarily at the technical architect, technical team lead (senior developer), and project manager. InfoQ is one of the few sites in the world with Agile-specific daily news written by domain experts, articles, video interviews, video conference presentations, and free books for download. Visit www.InfoQ.com/agile for more information.
