VersionOne announced a strategic partnership with OpsHub, a provider of application lifecycle management (ALM) migration and integration solutions. Leveraging OpsHub Integration Manager, VersionOne is further extending the broadest open ALM platform, providing cross-functional teams with the data and tools needed for efficient project execution and management.

Codice Software, which makes agile development tools for small and large teams of gaming, mobile and enterprise software developers, today launched GitSync for Plastic SCM. The new GitSync for Plastic SCM software release integrates with Git repositories and provides the world's first native Windows distributed versioning control system (DVCS) that connects to GitHub, the best place to share code with more than three million users. Software development teams can now benefit from the full power of Plastic SCM's ability to locally push and pull code changes to GitHub, Codeplex, BitBucket or any Git server using native Git network protocols.

ZeroTurnaround, the company that’s improving the way the world develops, tests and runs software, announced today the availability of LiveRebel 2.6, its software release automation tool that helps operations and QA teams get software to users quickly, easily and safely.

Rally Software, a provider of solutions for managing Agile software development, announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined.

The Outercurve Foundation announced that xUnit.net, a popular unit-testing tool for .NET, is the latest addition to its growing ASP.NET gallery. xUnit.net delivers an extensible, free and open source framework to make test-driven development more manageable for enterprise agile developers who are using the .NET platform.

QSM Associates and Pillar Technology announced a partnership designed to deliver Agile software solutions, and benchmark time to market, speed to value and the quality of results. Under the agreement, believed to be unique in the software industry, Pillar will provide Agile enablement to enterprises, and QSM Associates will perform benchmarking services that are drawn from the software industry’s largest and most complete database of project statistics.

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.