2008-08-05 08:00:00
On-demand and just-in-time coaching will extend Agile programming best
practices across the enterprise
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 5 /EMWNews/ -- A new partnership
announced today between application lifecycle management (ALM) leader
Serena Software and Valtech, a global provider of strategic software
consulting, lean and agile-focused software engineering, skills training
and coaching, promises to usher in a new era of Agile software development
in the enterprise. Building on its commitment to support the exponential
growth of Agile methodologies in the enterprise, Serena is combining its
enterprise IT tool-making expertise with Valtech's transformation, coaching
and education techniques to help corporate employees make use of Agile
processes quickly and on-demand, without extensive prior training.
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."
Attendees of the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto
(http://www.agile2008.org/) will be able to experience the new partnership
firsthand at the "Agile Story Corps Booth," where conference goers can
record personal stories about their Agile experiences. These stories will
influence support for Agile in Serena products and services. An extension
of the Agile methodology Serena uses to develop products, Agile Story Corps
is a way to incorporate users as a part of the development team. This
allows Serena products to better meet the needs of its users.
Serena will also be sponsoring free Agile training at the Serena TAG
conference taking place September 10-11 in Santa Clara, California.
"Valtech enables organizations to leapfrog the endemic challenges that
early Agile and Lean adopters have encountered when attempting to catalyze
strategic organizational and personal change within the software and
product development lifecycle. A focus on developer adoption without an
equal focus on corporate and business alignment has consistently proved
ineffective," said Brad Murphy, CEO of Valtech North America."
"Valtech's OnDemand Learning, Training and Organizational change
programs identify only those Agile and Lean outcomes that organizations can
and should adopt -- and do so in ways that lead to quick wins crucial to
winning support for sustaining the outcomes that Agile and Lean can
provide," Murphy said. "Together, Serena and Valtech will ensure that
business stakeholders, product owners and engineering teams can all equally
succeed at acquiring the skill and value that Agile tools and best
practices offer across the entire software and product development team
while moving quickly to adoption and showing a compelling business return."
Serena and Valtech jointly will support Serena Agile development tools
with training and documentation delivered in a variety of flexible formats,
including:
-- On Demand: tools and process training for individuals over the Web
through the Serena community at http://community.serena.com
-- Just in time: 10-minute task-specific training for individuals to
help beef up skills before taking a specific step; and
-- Traditional training: available as needed.
About Valtech
Valtech is a global provider of high performance enterprise software
development, outsourcing, and organizational transformation services.
Valtech offers strategic software consulting, lean and agile-focused
software engineering, skills training and coaching. The company partners
with customers as no development company dares to, by sharing the risk and
return of development. Valtech's OnDemand services are focused on one
single outcome: Delivering business agility. Serving customers across a
variety of industries, including finance, travel, energy, media, high-tech
and online, Valtech OnDemand offerings result in priority business ideas
and products converted to working, tested and deployable software every two
weeks. Headquartered in Dallas, Valtech North America is a leading member
of the Agile Alliance and Agile Project Leadership Network. For more
information, please visit http://www.valtech.us/us/index.html
About Serena Software, Inc.
Serena is a privately owned company, headquartered in Redwood City,
California, with 29 offices in 14 countries and almost 1,000 employees.
Serena provides software on premise and on demand to over 15,000 customers
including 96 of the Fortune 100. Serena enables teams of programmers to
become more efficient by standardizing and automating development processes
across both mainframe and distributed environments. Serena enables IT
business analysts and power users to improve productivity with a new
generation of Web 2.0 tools to build Business Mashups. Business Mashups
automate common, everyday processes, are visual and do not require coding.
Serena also enables IT executives to gain visibility into their projects,
resources and costs - CIO's should have access to the same quality of
information about IT as the CFO has about Finance. For more information on
Serena, visit http://www.serena.com/
Serena is a registered trademark of Serena Software, Inc. All other
product or company names may be trademarks of their respective owners, and
their use is intended for identification purposes only and not in
association with or as sponsorship or endorsement by such owners. Copyright
(C) 2008 Serena Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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