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.

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.

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.