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.

Uppsala, Sweden, November 27, 2012 – Hansoft, with its eponymous tool already popular for boosting productivity among software developers, telcos and game developers, is adding social collaboration to its feature set spanning over agile ALM and PPM.

VersionOne announced the availability of its Fall 2012 Release with an innovative new Team Room environment. TeamRoom is a simple, lightweight team-based environment dedicated to supporting the daily activities of today’s agile development teams. In addition to TeamRoom, innovative new visualizations, Kanban improvements, and new reporting capabilities round out the release.

CollabNet®, the global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM, and UC4 Software, the leader in IT Process Automation, have entered into a strategic partnership to help IT organizations achieve enterprise DevOps at scale. The companies will jointly develop, market, sell and support a comprehensive end-to-end DevOps platform. The joint offering provides the automation, scalability and governance enterprises need to bring development and IT Operations closer together to deliver software faster and reduce IT costs.

Parasoft, industry leader in Development Testing, and Electric Cloud®, a leading DevOps optimization company, today announced a partnership to help organizations greatly reduce risks associated with rapidly delivering and continuously evolving software.

Santeon Group announced it has released the Team, Professional and Enterprise versions of Dr.Agile, a cloud-based Agile Practice Self-Assessment tool. With the rapid adoption of Agile as a transformational path to managing value-based software projects, increasing demand has given rise to a new breed of software products that enable organizations to manage the Agile software development lifecycle. At the forefront of these tools is the need for groups at the team, department, division and enterprise levels to measure their readiness of adopting an Agile-based approach.

ESI International, the world’s leading project management training company, today announced the release of a new Agile-specific assessment designed to allow organizations to benchmark their current Agile knowledge and behaviors against the capabilities that enable successful execution of Agile projects.

Rally announces the formation of the Software Development Performance Index research program. Representatives from leading software development organizations, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University, and Rally are joining forces to quantify valuable insights about development work and provide feedback on how process and technology decisions impact development team performance.

TechExcel is excited to announce the release of DevSuite 9.1 featuring improved hybrid agile support for requirement and quality integrated agile development and MyDevSuite for iPad and Android tablet users.