We believe in unit testing and test driven development, and we also know how hard it is to learn to write proper unit tests that are readable, maintainable and trustworthy. That’s why we created Test Lint – the world’s first and only coding advisor for unit tests in Visual Studio 2010.

ATLANTA - March 8, 2010 - VersionOne, recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile management tools, today announced the availability of VersionOne Ultimate Edition -- a comprehensive agile lifecycle management platform for scaling agile organizations. The Ultimate Edition builds on VersionOne's proven agile development platform and delivers an organizational solution that includes new Agile Analytics, Test Management and Ideas Management capabilities. The Ultimate Edition provides the only integrated, out-of-the-box agile management platform where all stakeholders - customers, managers, product owners, executives, developers, testers and analysts - can easily work together in a single, centralized environment.

Cincinnati, OH – March 2, 2010 – Seapine Software, a leading global provider of quality-centric application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, announced today that its upcoming TestTrack 2010.1 product release includes a number of new capabilities to support Agile development. Key features enable development teams to better collaborate, improve productivity, shorten release cycles, and deliver higher-quality software products.

Ottawa, Canada - March 8, 2010 - The Eclipse Foundation today announced new initiatives to support the ongoing growth of the Eclipse Mylyn ecosystem. The open source Mylyn project is a widely extended framework for integrating task and application lifecycle management (ALM) tools with the Eclipse IDE. The project will create new sub-projects representing key IDE/ALM integration categories. New projects include: the "Tasks" project for integrating task and change management; "SCM" for integrating source code management; "Build" for integrating build management and continuous integration; and "Review" for collaborative code review. The new sub-project leadership will support a broader range of leading Agile vendors contributing to the ongoing evolution of Mylyn.

What fascinates me the most in the Lean software development approach is the quality of the people that support it. The Poppendieck are not an exception to this rule. Their book achieves the seemingly contradictory goals of being very insightful but still easy and captivating to read. It might be however easier to have the right flow when you are a Lean adept ;o)

Before applying to Pillar- please consider the following.
• Are you downright crazy about writing quality software?
• Do you refactor like Animal plays the drums (think Muppets)?
• Are some of your heroes “Uncle Bob”, Ward Cunningham and Michael Feathers?
• Would you love to be considered an Agile Ninja amongst your peers?
• Do you own “Munchkin” or at least have engaged in one heated game of it in your life?
• Do you want to work with people that value software craftsmanship and know the value of TDD, continuous integration, and lightweight design"
• Do you have a light saber app on your iPod… ? (C’ mon you know you do…)
• Do you want to work with people pushing the boundaries of agile thinking? Do you want to work with people that use Scrum, XP, and Kanban in their sleep and know when to break the rules?"

Hopefully, we have got your attention and you have said yes to at least 2 of these things- the light saber doesn’t count, that’s just gravy to us. If so, you please keep reading about Pillar and our current opportunities.

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Looking for a Heavy Agile Developer with strong Java and TDD.

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I have just finished reading the great book “Leading Lean Software Development” by Mary and Tom Poppendieck and I wanted to share with you two quotes excerpted from it.

LAFAYETTE, CALIF. – March 1, 2010 – TechExcel, Inc., a leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management software, today announced the release of Agile Studio, a new Agile Development platform that empowers organizations to mix elements from multiple Agile and traditional development methods. With Agile Studio, organizations can now balance both Agile and non-Agile practices to best support their processes and priorities, while still retaining the benefits of a single integrated system across the entire enterprise.

SAN FRANCISCO and BANGALORE, March 1, 2010 ­ ThoughtWorks Studios, (www.thoughtworks-studios.com) a global leader in Agile ALM and training, today announced the latest version of its Agile test automation solutions, Twist® 2.0. Designed to manage the rapid pace of software testing within Agile environments, Twist 2.0 helps testers, developers and business analysts work together to ensure testing is highly efficient and collaborative, resulting in faster release cycles of quality applications.