Niagara Falls, April 1st - The Waterfall Alliance will organize a protest march during the Agile 2011 Conference in Salt Lake City that will celebrate the 10-Year Anniversary of the Agile Manifesto.

Cincinnati – March 29, 2011 – One of the best ways to improve business profitability, software quality, and employee satisfaction is to improve your company’s agility, says Alan Bustamante, leader of Seapine Software’s new Agile services team. However, you may want to take one Agile step at a time.

Pulse is a continuous integration server: it builds your code on every change and notifies you of the results. Pulse 2.3.6, the first stable build in the 2.3 series, has been released. This version introduces many new features, with a focus on improving usability and saving time.

March 16, 2011 3:58 AM - San Francisco, CA, and Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) -- Atlassian has released the latest versions of JIRA and Confluence, two software development and collaboration tools used by tens of thousands of product development teams globally. The new versions are more tightly integrated and introduce dozens of new features and fixes.

VANCOUVER, BC, March 22, 2011 Tasktop Technologies, creators of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tools and a leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, today announced Tasktop Enterprise 2.0, which features new Task Federation™ capabilities. Task Federation includes bi-directional task synchronization between ALM components (such as HP Quality Center and IBM Rational Team Concert) and cross-repository Agile planning. Additionally, this release includes several new Mylyn connectors and the general availability of Tasktop for Visual Studio.

This conference implements a new and revolutionary concept of interactive participation of conference attendees with you as submitting expert and among all participants of sessions. The feature of the conference is a Keynote with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland about Agile Development in the Enterprise: Transforming the Way of Work

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Newbury, England, 7th March 2011 — Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announced a new release of its market-leading Silk integrated testing suite. Micro Focus SilkPerformer, SilkTest and SilkCentral Test Manager (SCTM) 2010 R2 provide a range of new capabilities for software testers and QA professionals, including goal-based testing, configuration testing and extended support for an improved configuration suite, and support for additional development environments and web 2.0 applications.

MONROVIA, CA (March 7, 2011), Parasoft Corporation, a leading provider of automated solutions that improve software quality and the development process, today announced the release of Parasoft Test for Visual Studio 2010.

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.- (BUSINESS WIRE) - With more and more organizations applying Agile techniques in the management of successful projects, the Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading project management member association, today announces the launch of an Agile certification. A pilot of this new certification, which ensures the examination is suitably developed, will start in May 2011. Interested practitioners will be able to submit applications for this certification in May 2011, with examinations commencing in the third quarter, 2011.

BRISBANE, Calif., March 1, 2011 — CollabNet®, the leader in Agile development in the Cloud, announced today the general availability of CollabNet TeamForge Project™, an integrated suite of Web-based development and collaboration tools for Agile software development. The general availability release follows a four-month beta test by more than 100 organizations.