Rally Software

Rally is the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) dedicated to making distributed development organizations faster and leaner by dramatically cutting the time, cost and effort needed to deliver high quality applications. According to a study by QSM Associates, companies that rely on Rally's Agile ALM products and services are 50% faster to market and 25% more productive than industry averages.

Rally's products were honored with four consecutive Jolt Awards (the software industry's equivalent of the Oscar® award) in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

VersionOne

VersionOne, recognized by customers as the #1 Agile project planning and management tool, simplifies the process of planning, tracking and delivering Agile software projects. Since 2002 more than 10,000 teams in over 40 countries have relied on VersionOne to deliver greater value to their customers.

ThoughtWorks

ThoughtWorks Inc. is a global IT consultancy providing systems development, consulting, and transformation services to Global 1000 companies. The company’s pioneering approach, which includes industry-acclaimed Agile and Lean best practices, helps CIOs maximize investment performance across a portfolio of complex, business critical applications, while reducing time and risk. ThoughtWorks’ 1000 professionals serve clients from offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Fabasoft

Fabasoft is a leading vendor of rock-solid, highly scalable and extensible software products for enterprise content and business process management, and offers a platform to develop content enabled vertical applications (CEVAs). Cutting-edge software demands agile ways of development. Featuring intuitive and powerful tools fully embracing agile software development and holistic application life cycle management, the Fabasoft software platform is the first choice for rapid enterprise application development, testing, profiling, deployment, and maintenance. Fabasoft, established in 1988, is a public company headquartered in Austria with offices in Germany, Switzerland, and Winthrop, MA.

Micro Focus

Borland Software, recently acquired by Micro Focus, is the leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)—open to customers’ processes, tools and platforms—providing solutions that transform software delivery into a more manageable, efficient and predictable business process. Micro Focus software, services and training help customers manage, measure and improve each critical process within the delivery lifecycle. Our Open ALM platform delivers process-based integration across all lifecycle assets, activities and tools so that customers can collaborate, share information and track the entire software delivery process. For additional information please visit: www.microfocus.com

Serena Software

Serena Agile On Demand combines management software, best-practices, and coaching into a solution that will make your Agile teams more effective and productive. Agile On Demand is the ideal tool for multi-team and multi-project environments. You can manage releases, stories, backlogs, sprints, and tasks. Built-in reports and dashboards let you track burndown and velocity in real-time. It’s pre-configured with a complete set of Agile best practices. However, we know that your style of Agile is a little different. That’s why we’ve made it simple to quickly tailor Agile On Demand to fit your management style. Get started today>>

TargetProcess

With over 400 corporate customers in more than 35 countries TargetProcess has deserved a reputation of being the most intuitive and customizable Agile project management tool on the market. TargetProcess supports SCRUM, XP and other agile processes. Development teams can also easily setup processes and workflows of their own. Headquartered in Amherst, NY, the company continues to deliver an agile project management solution that maximizes business productivity and quality assurance. Company’s mission is to simplify the planning, tracking and quality assurance activities required by shorten development cycles in agile process development.

AccuRev

AccuRev is a US-based software vendor focused on optimizing and automating the software development process for organizations challenged with todayís highly evolving geographically distributed, parallel and Agile software development environments. More than 500 organizations around the world rely on AccuRev software to develop, release and maintain their mission critical applications.

Atlassian

Atlassian develops affordable, lightweight software that helps enterprises collaborate better. Its products include Confluence, recognized as the most widely-used enterprise wiki, JIRA, one of the world’s most popular issue trackers and GreenHopper, a plug-in for JIRA that adds a agile project management capabilities. The company has more than 15,000 customers worldwide, including 30 of the world’s top 50 corporations. For more information, visit: http://www.atlassian.com.

ATSC

ATSC, formerly Number Six Software, is a leading provider of agile development services that helps our clients achieve REAL results, REAL fast. We focus on complex and critical business problems in need of a technical solution, attack our client’s challenges with passion, and develop a complete solution on time and on budget. We have multiple Certified Scrum Masters and are able to leverage a variety of toolsets to help accelerate your results. ATSC is headquartered in McLean, VA with offices throughout the US.

Blue Collar Objects

Blue Collar Objects is a disruptive force, using wiki technology, creating and using Service Oriented Architecture-based software, Agile practices and highly disciplined management to enable high performance decentralized crowds. As experts in agile software development and the Scrum methodology, we’ve continually refined our toolsets and processes to enable our vision.

We are proud to announce BlueJean Enterprise Scrum Tools, which are a collection of business services which complement wiki technology and open source tools, to enable an enterprise to execute Fully Distributed Enterprise Scrum. These services will be continually augmented to meet the changing needs of our customers.

Cyrus Innovation

Agile since birth, in 2003, Cyrus Innovation is a 30-person Agile Software Development consulting firm specializing in Agile coaching and Agile team augmentation. Our coaches are accomplished Agile developers. We believe that the most effective way to create a sustainable Agile process is for Cyrus “developer-coaches” to join with client development teams and build great software together. Our Agile developers who augment client development teams respect the client’s culture and smoothly integrate their capabilities with the client’s. Cyrus has offices in New York City and Boston, and works with midsize to large companies. Some clients come to us for coaching; some for team augmentation; and some for both.

Danube Technologies, Inc.

About Danube Technologies, Inc. Founded in 2000, Danube Technologies, Inc. provides software and training exclusively focused on the Scrum method of agile software development. The company’s ScrumWorks® Pro and ScrumWorks Basic products are licensed to more than 105,000 software professionals worldwide, making it the most widely used software in the industry for managing Scrum projects. Danube complements its software offering with a comprehensive schedule of ScrumCORE™ training courses, which are taught globally by Danube’s seven Certified Scrum Trainers.

Electric Cloud

Electric Cloud is the leading provider of software production management software production management (SPM) solutions. Electric Cloud solutions automate, accelerate and analyze software build/test/deploy processes to optimize both physical and virtual IT environments. The company’s patented and award-winning products help development organizations to speed time to market, boost developer productivity, and improve software quality. Leading companies across a variety of industries, including semiconductors, enterprise IT, ISVs, mobile devices, and transactional Web sites rely on Electric Cloud’s SPM solutions to transform software production from a liability to a competitive advantage.

EMC Consulting

EMC Consulting enables organizations to leverage information to transform the way they compete and create greater value for their customers. EMC Consulting’s acquisition of Conchango expands its industry leading services which help organizations leverage Agile methods and practices. EMC consultants provide Agile expertise and services that address the needs of the entire organization, including: Agile Enterprise Adoption Assessment, Strategy and Change Management services, Agile Coaching and Project Delivery services, customized Agile, Certified ScrumMaster, and Product Owner Training, as well as the popular Agile tool, Conchango’s Scrum For Team System. Visit www.emc.com/consulting or www.scrumforteamsystem.com for more information.

Hansoft

Hansoft is an integrated solution for collaborative scheduling, Agile, bug tracking, workload coordination, and document management, used by developers in more than 20 countries. The tool is fast and easy and builds on principles of team empowerment, increased communication, transparency, and collaboration. New Hansoft 5.3 also includes an Asset Pipeline Editor to manage complex art creation flows, a Workflow Editor for testing, quality iteration and management sign-offs, as well as a new flow-based Report Generator.

IBM

At IBM, we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry’s most advanced information technologies. Jazz is a next-generation technology platform for collaborative software delivery, using Eclipse and Web technology. Uniquely attuned to global and distributed teams, our latest products are designed to transform how people work together to build software—making software delivery more collaborative, productive, transparent, and ultimately more agile.

Industrial Logic

Industrial Logic helps organizations scale agility faster by providing state-of-the-art transitions and training in Extreme Programming (XP) and Agile Management. Our coaches are pioneers of the XP/Agile movement who work with executives, managers, customers, programmers, testers, auditors and others to successfully transition whole departments and organizations to agility. Our innovative and economical eLearning albums have helped companies successfully improve the skills of thousands of people around the globe.

Klocwork

Klocwork helps developers create better code. As an enterprise software company, Klocwork provides source code analysis software products that automate security vulnerability and quality risk assessment, remediation and measurement for C/C++/C# and Java software. Our tools help developers, development organizations and security specialists identify critical security vulnerabilities, quality defects and architectural issues in their mission-critical code quickly and accurately.

Microsoft

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 is an integrated Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes (MSF, Scrum, XP, FDD etc.) and guidance to help everyone on the team improve their skills and work more effectively together. Visual Studio Team System enables members of your team to: Collaborate and communicate more effectively with other team members and business stakeholders. Ensure software quality using advanced quality tools at every step of the application life cycle. Gain visibility into project activity and priorities to make informed decisions based on real-time data. In addition, over 200 Visual Studio Industry Partners offer products to support a broad range of software processes, tools, and platforms.

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OpenMake Software

OpenMake Software and Creoss delivers a combined Agile Practice with enhanced Continuous Integration

The benefits of “Agile” cannot be realized without a predictable, automated, disciplined framework. By integrating a solid continuous integration process with an innovative Software Engineering Framework, OpenMake Software and Creoss together delivers the solutions that allow you to gain all the benefits that Agile has to offer. Creoss’ Paceline provides a turnkey “Software Engineering Framework” that will allow customers to specifically match business imperative to technology deliveries. Combined with OpenMake Meister’s ability to accelerate CI builds and eliminate build bottlenecks, the combined approach provides the predictability, accuracy and productivity needed for agile methods across the business and technology life cycle.

OutSystems

OutSystems’ award winning Agile Platform is the first unified solution based on Agile methodologies to address the full life cycle of delivering and managing web business applications. Companies use the Agile Platform to integrate, assemble, deploy and manage applications on-time and on-budget—delivering business value within weeks versus months or years.

The Agile Platform is complemented by the Agile Network which provides complete control and visibility for managing agile application delivery projects without compromising the flexibility required to address continuous business change. The Agile Network supports IT Management through the entire application life cycle with rich reporting and management functionality.

Perforce Software

Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management System, versions and manages source code and digital assets for enterprises large and small. Perforce facilitates Agile workflow to churn out projects within fast changing environments. It is tightly integrated with many build and automation tools to support continuous integration, constant refactoring, Agile development methodologies, and codeline branching with subsequent merging.

Pillar Technologies

Pillar Technology specializes in the Agile transformation of small to mid-sized IT organizations. By partnering with change-agent CIOs and Application Development leaders, we are helping to deliver radical improvements in time to market, and dramatic reductions in TCO. If you are ready for major transformation, or simply need an Agile development team to rapidly bring your project to reality, Pillar Technology is your best bet. Custom Application Development – Automated Testing Tools – Agile Transformation Coaching – Real-time Agility Assessments.

ProKarma, Inc.

ProKarma is an 800 person global IT Services company leading Agile transformation at Fortune 500 enterprises and small to mid-size companies. Through free “Introduction to Agile” Lunch & Learn sessions, ProKarma brings Improved Business Value concepts to the practical level. Offering Formal training, Agile coaching/mentoring, Agile tune-up services, staff augmentation, project-based delivery, and strategic outsourcing of software development activities, ProKarma customers benefit from our distributed Agile, Architecture/SOA, Java/J2EE, Microsoft/.net/Sharepoint, Open Source, and Mobile development expertise.

ProKarma also leads in Business-Process Outsourcing of utility and telecom bill payments and cost containment services.

Urban Turtle

At Pyxis Technologies, with our wide experience in Agile approaches (Scrum), we developed Urban Turtle to transform your TFS into an Agile tool. Urban Turtle’s interactive and intuitive interface will enable you to manage your projects Agilely. Plan your sprints and follow your progress in a single view. With Urban Turtle, your TFS will fully support iterative development cycles. Help your team succeed: adopt an Urban Turtle!

Agile Experience Ltd

Agile Experience :: accelerating agile transitions. Unleash the potential of your team with Agile coaching. From first steps to outstanding performance, learn how you can get there with Agile Coaching. We help you grow Agile Coaches to sustain Agile Teams. Read our new book “Agile Coaching” to get started.

Esther Derby Associates, Inc.

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.

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FutureWorks Consulting, LLC

FutureWorks Consulting, LLC is sponsoring two stages: Agile & Organizational Culture, and Agile Adoption. Thank you!

JetBrains s.r.o.

JetBrains is a technology-leading software development company with an international presence and rapidly surging annual sales. We are passionate about making developers more productive through smart, innovative software solutions, such as our industry-leading Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA; our award-winning continuous integration & build management solution, TeamCity; and other products.

Net Objectives

Net Objectives helps businesses realize value faster from their software development investment. Our typical clients are trying to extend their agile endeavors from the team to include management concerns and business priorities. We offer consulting services, coaching and training to achieve enterprise agility. Our range includes Lean, Agile, Kanban, Scrum, Acceptance Test Driven Development, Test Driven Development, Design Patterns and more. All of our trainers and consultants are seasoned practitioners, authors and thought leaders.

Poppendieck.LLC

Book Available in October: Leading Lean Software Development: Results are Not the Point – by Mary and Tom Poppendieck.

Quality Tree Software

Quality Tree Software, Inc. has been helping software organizations grow quality from the ground up since 1998. Elisabeth Hendrickson, president and founder, is an internationally recognized thought leader in Agile Testing. Our clients range from small startups to members of the Fortune 100 across a diverse range of industries.

Software Engineering Professionals

SEP solves difficult business and technology challenges for our clients by developing custom software solutions. We use a collaborative engagement model, working closely with clients from initial discovery and feasibility, all the way through development, verification and support.

SEP was founded in 1988 and has grown to include 70+ employees.

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Accelinnova

Accelinnova helps you accelerate business agility within your organization. Face it, you’ve heard a lot of consultants say they can come in and fix your particular issues, things like speed-to-market, new product development, improved operations, or what-have-you. Our approach is quite different. We are NOT going to tell you the answers. We provide you with a set of proven leadership tools, described in our book, Stand Back and Deliver (Addison Wesley, 2009) - tools that you can put to work today!

BestBrains

BestBrains is a leading danish agile and lean consulting company. We have been providing agile consulting and software solutions to our customers for nearly a decade. Under the headline “Software Excellence”, we have worked with more than 50 Danish and US clients to create flow and improve quality in mission critical projects.

GNstudio S.r.l.

GNstudio is an Italian software house specializing in RIA development on the Flash Platform following agile methodologies. The company was founded in 2001. Its fields of expertise are: Flex, Flash, Flash Media Server, Flash Lite, J2ME, Cold Fusion, Java and the accessibility of the Flash Platform and of HTML pages. The company is comprised of 14 developers, one graphic designer and one technical leader.

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 450 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.

Intelliware Development

Intelliware is a leading practitioner of Agile software development practices which ensure the delivery of timely, high quality solutions for their clients. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Intelliware is engaged as a technical partner by local, national and global organizations in sectors that span financial services, E-Health, retail, manufacturing, and government.

Redpoint Technologies

At Redpoint Technologies we solve complex business problems by applying Agile development practices and leading edge technologies. Agile practices are disciplined yet flexible, allowing development teams to react quickly to changing business needs and competitive pressures. Effectively adopting Agile requires a significant change to a business’ software development mindset and processes. Redpoint’s Agile Adoption services provide the right mix of preparation, training and hands-on assistance to ready an organization for developing software using Agile.

Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall (Pearson)

Addison-Wesley and Prentice Hall are the leading publishers for information on Agile software development. With classic titles on Use Cases, eXtreme programming, Agile software development and Agile project management, programmers, developers and managers will find essential information for producing and sustaining high quality software. We are proud to bring you the best resources from the experts including Alistair Cockburn, Jim Highsmith, Craig Larman, Mike Cohn, Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck, Robert C. Martin. Martin Fowler, and Kent Beck among others.

Agile Journal

Agile Journal is the premiere social networking community for agile focused on providing members need-to-know information and resources they need to develop software for an agile business and enables members to interact with their peers in a focused business environment with With a readership of over 60,000 the Agile Journal online magazine is a must read for software professionals involved in developing agile applications. Join the community at http://www.agilejournal.com

Agile Project Leadership Network

Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) is a non profit organization that is focused on making people great project leaders by focusing on the values set in the Declaration of Interdependence: continuous flow of value, frequent interactions with customers and shared ownership, manage uncertainty, unleashing creativity and innovation in individuals, group accountability, and development of situational specific strategies, processes and practices. Find out more at www.apln.org.

Better Software Magazine

Better Software is the magazine for software professionals who care about quality. Each issue brings you relevant, timely information to help you build better software. Continuing to deliver in-depth articles on testing, tools, defect tracking, metrics, and management, it’s the only commercial magazine exclusively dedicated to software professionals. Within the pages of each issue you’ll find heavy hitting articles about solutions to common management problems, coverage on emerging technologies, and more. You’ll benefit from expert analysis and

DSDM Consortium

DSDM is a proven and robust agile project framework that provides best practice guidance for on time, in budget delivery of projects in any business sector. Atern is the latest version of DSDM that is free to view and is complemented by a full set of materials including a handbook and templates. For more than 15 years the Consortium has been at the forefront in developing processes which combat the common causes of project failure and Atern is the culmination of practitioners’ experiences drawn from a wide range of public and private sector projects.

DZone

DZone delivers “fresh links for developers.” According to PC Magazine, “DZone is a developer’s dream-a vast network of user-submitted links to message boards, news, coding tricks, and more” Launched in June, 2006, DZone is closing in on a spot in Alexa’s top 5000 sites, surpassing established leaders like DevX, Sys-con, FTP Online and TheServerSide.com. DZone is the only vertically focused site regularly listed among the web’s largest social bookmarking sites. In its first year of operation DZone sent over 5 million visitors to other developer websites.

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.

Manning Publications

Manning Publication publishes computer books for professionals—programmers, system administrators, designers, architects, managers and others. Our focus is on computing titles at professional levels. We care about the quality of our books. We work with our authors to coax out of them the best writing they can produce. We consult with technical experts on book proposals and manuscripts, and we may use as many as two dozen reviewers in various stages of preparing a manuscript. The abilities of each author are nurtured to encourage him or her to write a first-rate book.

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.

Project Connections

The theory is never enough! ProjectConnections.com provides practical content including technique briefs, how-to guidelines, and interactive learning opportunities, to help teams kick-start projects, deal with obstacles, and learn new techniques fast. Corporate resource suites help PMOs and executives provide daily support to their teams as they add value to the business. Visit www.projectconnections.com

Projects@Work

Projectsatwork.com is the only business-to-business online magazine, e-newsletter, market research and email resource of its kind, addressing over 350,300 PM & IT professionals and executives who have front-line responsibility for all areas and all industries of project management — including people, technology, tools & services. Are you looking for practical project information, agile case studies, best practices, industry news, product reviews and requirements research? Sign-up today for your FREE subscription at www.projectsatwork.com.

Software Business

Software Business is focused exclusively on the software industry and provides industry leaders with twice monthly eNewsletters, an information packed website and annual conferences. Readers and attendees are top executives and managers of companies that provide software-based products and services including packaged software, customized software, and information technology products and services that are based on proprietary software code. To learn more visit www.softwarebusinessonline.com.