The Agile Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the advancement of Agile software development principles and practices announced that speaker submissions for Agile2013 close this Friday, February . With four days remaining, Agile2013 organizers encourage software professionals to submit session proposals that fit with this year’s theme of – Practitioners Making Agile Work at http://agile2013.agilealliance.org/speakers/.

Rally introduces AgileZen for iPad, bringing the power of Rally's simple, real-time project collaboration solution to the iPad. Built natively for iOS, AgileZen elegantly displays projects visually on the iPad as an electronic drag-and-drop board. AgileZen syncs activity between its iPad and cloud apps in real-time to keep distributed team members up-to-date, organized and efficient.

VersionOne, recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile project management tools, today launched a comprehensive suite of agile visualizations in its Winter 2013 product release focused on enabling teams to more easily identify problems and collaborate.

Planview® today announced that Planview Enterprise®, its market-leading project portfolio management (PPM) solution, now integrates with Rally Software’s Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform. This integration provides visibility into financial costs of Agile projects and enables better collaboration within software development organizations. The combination of leading PPM and ALM solutions ultimately helps clients improve the pace of innovation and capacity to deliver products to market.

Inflectra announced the full release of SpiraTest, SpiraPlan and SpiraTeam v4.0. This new version includes a major update to the user interface, support for mobile devides (iPod, iPad and Android), enhanced custom properties and workflows and a new custom report generator.

Delivering complex, large-scale systems faces the ongoing challenge of how best to balance rapid deployment with long-term value. From the original description—"not quite right code which we postpone making it right"—various people have used the metaphor of technical debt to describe many other kinds of debts or ills of software development.

Tasktop Technologies announced that its Tasktop Sync 2.5 provides full support for Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2012. With Microsoft’s recent improvements to its integrated toolsets and availability of Team Foundation Server as a cloud service, Tasktop Sync connects Team Foundation Server to a growing range of developer tools and extends the reach for developers building applications for .NET, Azure, Windows 8, and Windows Phone use. Tasktop Sync provides groups using Team Foundation Server deep data and workflow integration and connectors for a growing number of tools, such as JIRA, HP Quality Center and IBM Rational Team Concert.

Typemock now offers all developers a free mocking and unit testing alternative to open source and other free mocking tools. Typemock Isolator Basic includes many of the most useful and powerful unit testing components available based in its leading enterprise tools at no cost.

In a recent article on ScrumExpert.com, Nancy Nee, VP Global Product Strategy at ESI International, discusses "How Organizations Transition to Agile and Scrum". She give her viewpoint on Agile and Scrum adoption in large corporation, both on the "soft" (values) and "hard" (best practices" sides of Agile. She also explains her “proof point” concept and discusses how flexible Agile change agents should be with request like having a Gantt chart for their project.

Read the complete article on http://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-organizations-transition-to-agile-and-scrum/

Agile Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the advancement of Agile software development principles and practices, today announced Agile Alliance Open Space Florianopolis2013. The one day event will bring together Brazil’s foremost Agile thought leaders to discuss key trends and best practices. The conference is scheduled for January 24, 2013 in Florianopolis, Brazil.