Atlassian has just released Confluence 5.0, a completely redesigned version of its best-in-class social and team collaboration platform used by more than 36,000 teams worldwide. This latest release showcases Atlassian's design-centric approach to usability and user experience across the company's entire range of collaboration software for product teams. Speed and efficiency are incredibly important in the modern workplace, and each design decision and new feature for Confluence 5.0 was conceived to shave valuable seconds from each end-user's interaction, thereby helping teams get more work done, faster.
CircleCI, a continuous integration platform for web application developers, today announced $1.5M in seed funding from a leading list of investors in the cloud and agile development space, including key Heroku investors and founders.
The Agile Alliance and the Agile Leadership Network (http://agileleadershipnetwork.org), both non-profit organizations dedicated to the promotion of Agile principles and values, announced that they will be teaming up to host the Agile Executive Forum scheduled for Monday August 5, 2013.
Rally, a leader in Agile software development management, has acquired Flowdock, a social collaboration hub for teams. The acquisition will add unified communication and collaboration to Rally's Agile ALM platform to ensure teams perform at a high level by keeping them connected and making the status and progress of work transparent.
Electric Cloud®, the leading provider of Software Delivery Acceleration solutions, today announced an industry-first solution optimized for Android that dramatically reduces delivery times by up to 75 percent. Introduced at the 2013 Android Builders Summit, the solution helps Android device manufacturers succeed in today's highly competitive and fast-paced mobile and embedded devices marketplace by accelerating end-to-end Android software build, test, and release cycles.
A lot of the open source projects for Scrum tools have been abandoned recently. In a recent article, the ScrumExpert web site has published an article listing the commercial scrum tools that you can use for free, either after downloading them or on a hosted base.
Methods & Tools - the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers - has just published its Winter 2012 issue with the following articles: * Testing Performance of Mobile Apps - Part 2: A Walk on the Server Side * Agile Facilitation & Neuroscience: Transforming Information into Action * Test Driven Development Traps * Data Management Tools for Embedded Application Development * JSHint - a JavaScript Code Quality Tool * No More Mocks in NoSQL Applications with NoSQLUnit
The Continuous Improvement Framework (CIF™) helps organizations using Scrum manage their investment in becoming more agile,providing an effective way to continuously improve and gain a competitive advantage
The Eclipse Foundation today announced the release of Hudson 3.0. Used around the world with more than 30,000 installations, Hudson is a continuous integration (CI) server used to significantly improve the software development process. Hudson increases productivity by coordinating and monitoring executions of repeated jobs, making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project and for users to obtain a fresh build. Incorporating feedback from its community, Hudson 3.0 introduces important new functionality and simpler installation and administration for developers.
Visual Paradigm International Limited announced today the release of Agilian 10.1. Agilian provides a set of sophisticated modeling toolsets including UML, Business Process Modeling (BPMN), EPC Diagram, Process Map Diagram, Mind Map Diagram, User Interface Designer, ERD, DFD, Textual Analysis and CRC, Organization Chart for applying agile modeling.
