Agile Software Development

Aegis Analytical Corp., the leading provider of Manufacturing and Process Intelligence software, announced today it has hired Mike Neal as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Most recently, Neal was consulting with software companies in product strategy and design and conduc... (more)

How much money could be freed up if you made even small improvements in your project processes? You can now answer this question in five minutes with a free new online tool called the Project Performance ROI Calculator. Systemation, one of the nation’s oldest performance improveme... (more)

Qualtrics, the company that makes sophisticated research simple, today announced it has partnered with Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital in the two firms’ largest-ever joint investment. Accel and Sequoia will provide a range of services and $70 million to help Qualtrics expand i... (more)

RESTON, VA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/15/12 -- Santeon Group, Inc. (OTCBB: SANT) released key highlights of the Special Update Call it held for shareholders and all interested parties on Thursday, May 10th, 2012 at 5:00 PM (EDT). The purpose of the Special Update Call was to provide a... (more)

REDWOOD CITY, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/15/12 -- Global Survey Issued by Serena Software Reveals IT Organizations Succeed at Core Development; Yet Are Largely Unsuccessful at Satisfying Customers Survey Shows Requirements and Release Management Most Challenging Processes; Greater ... (more)

I am sitting in the african sunshine supposedly having a month off work. However I suppose looking after grandchildren was never going to be a cakewalk! But one of the real benefits of taking time away, even if it's not a vacation as such, is that one gets time to sort out issues... (more)

PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/11/12 -- 10gen, the company behind the leading open source NoSQL database MongoDB, today announced that President Max Schireson will take part in a panel discussion on Big Data and how enterprises have taken note of how disruptive scaling is pa... (more)

SCHAUMBURG, IL -- (Marketwire) -- 05/10/12 -- Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for application producers and enterprises, announced today the launch of InstallShield 2012 Spring. InstallShield is the global de facto installation dev... (more)

WOBURN, MA and PARIS -- (Marketwire) -- 05/10/12 -- CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, announced today the CloudBees PaaS is available on HP Cloud Services. CloudBees provides users the flexibility to deploy and manage applications across a ... (more)

Event will see industry leaders share experience and expertise, with talks from ThoughtWorks' luminaries and guest speakers from the Cabinet Office, Compare the Market and Nokia among many more. London, 10 May - ThoughtWorks (www.thoughtworks.com), the global leader in custom so... (more)

No individual can really track and understand the impact of change in all the emerging technologies like Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Social Media, Agile Methodology and Big Data … You can realistically aim to have an in depth understanding of only a small subset. By in de... (more)

I occasionally get questions from clients who are using Agile and Scrum frameworks for software development. Techniques and tools aside, it is often questions about the fundamentals of collaboration that seem to be getting in the team's way. Hi Gordon: One thing you enlightened ... (more)

Micro Focus (LSE:MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announced it has been named a “champion” in Info-Tech Research Group's Agile ALM Vendor Landscape and Software Test Management Vendor Landscape reports.... (more)

The application release lifecycle is unnecessarily complex, manual and time-consuming and its cumbersome nature is putting businesses in a position of weakness. This one very critical process determines how fast a business can deliver products to market and yet is complex, error-... (more)

BURLINGTON, MA and SAN DIEGO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/07/12 -- Today, Kalido, the leading provider of agile information management software, announced that Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the world's leading analytic data solutions company, has signed a global reseller agreement to offer t... (more)

At its annual user and partner Impact conference in Las Vegas this week, IBM announced a slew of new products, including new additions to its WebSphere applications family. There are also promises of better integration with software products from its recent acquisitions and a new... (more)

Every specialization has its own jargon, and IT is no different—but many times it seems that techies love to co-opt regular English words and give them new meanings. Not only does this practice lead to confusion in conversations with non-techies, but even the techies often lose s... (more)

BREA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/03/12 -- Management Technologies' Ray W. Stratton, PMP, EVP, will be moderating a panel discussion on the application of Earned Value Management (EVM) to Agile software development projects. The panel discussion will be held on May 30, the first day... (more)

Today’s sonic pace of business change demands agility. Nowhere is this more important than in project management where projects are being continuously started and stopped; interrupted, refined, and restarted. In fact, an estimated 28% of Project Management Offices (PMOs) today ar... (more)

Parasoft Corporation, a leader in helping organizations define and deliver defect-free software, announced today Parasoft Virtualize’s extended capabilities for IBM WebSphere Environments. Parasoft Virtualize helps development and QA teams create and access any environment needed... (more)