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Agile ALM: Picking the right partner
WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper considers key criteria for choosing an Agile ALM vendor, and what benefits companies can expect from a successful partnership. Read on to see if you are headed down the right ALM path.
Posted: 09 Jan 2015 | Published: 09 Jan 2015


Survival Guide to Going Agile
WHITE PAPER: This Guide provides tips for using Agile approaches to plan, manage, and deliver high-value work. You'll learn more about the differences between traditional project management and Agile, find the Agile role that's best for you, understand the dynamics of Agile teamwork, and get started on the transition to becoming an Agile practitioner.
Posted: 14 Nov 2013 | Published: 14 Nov 2013


Agile Business eBook Excerpt - Build the Right Thing
WHITE PAPER: Great companies build products that customers love. While this means they build valuable and useful features, it also means they don't build things that aren't valuable. Access this guide to understand how a unifying vision and customer-centric mindset avoids the wasted time, money, and demoralized morale that come with building the wrong thing.
Posted: 14 Nov 2013 | Published: 14 Nov 2013


Build Your Agile Business - The Sourcebook: Agile at the Program Level
WHITE PAPER: This resource provides guidance for groups of Agile teams to work successfully towards continuous value delivery at the Program Level. This guide contains content, agendas, and real-world advice from experts and peers on how to effectively organize around enterprise value streams, and align to a common mission.
Posted: 14 Nov 2013 | Published: 14 Nov 2013


Agile Business eBook Excerpt - Transform Your Organization
WHITE PAPER: Successful adoption of Agile - involving organizational and cultural change - will transform your organization into one that innovates, leads, adapts, and delivers. This excerpt guides you through an incremental and achievable approach to organizational change.
Posted: 04 Nov 2013 | Published: 04 Nov 2013


Agile Portfolio Management
PRESENTATION: Access this interactive presentation to explore how strategic portfolio planning can help your business cultivate innovation, and learn why an agile approach to portfolio management can help you overcome the shortcomings of traditional methods.
Posted: 01 Aug 2013 | Published: 24 Jul 2013


Presentation Transcript: Rally Software Agile Webinar Series: Scaling Agile with SAFe
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Just because agile development was originally intended for small teams, doesn't mean you can't apply those same strategies to larger projects. In this comprehensive resource, discover how agile teams can work together to achieve common delivery objectives using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
Posted: 24 Jul 2013 | Published: 24 Jul 2013


Rally Software Agile Webinar Series: Scaling Agile with SAFe
VIDEO: Traditionally, most of the success seen from agile development practices is at the team level. However, a second wave of agile adoption is gaining strength, at the project and portfolio level. Watch this on-demand webcast to learn how, using the Scaled Agile Framework®, you can apply lean and agile practices on an enterprise scale.
Posted: 23 Jul 2013 | Premiered: 12 Jul 2013


Why Agile? Top Reasons to Adopt Agile Development Teams
EGUIDE: Check out this exclusive e-guide to hear from experts in the software development space as they explore the ways agile methods can help you get the most out of software development and overcome typical project challenges.
Posted: 12 Jul 2013 | Published: 12 Jul 2013


The Secrets to Long-Term PPM Success
EGUIDE: Effective project and portfolio management (PPM) is a critical component of project success ,so as you might imagine, there are a plethora of PPM application vendors. How do you know which is right for your organization? Turn to this exclusive expert e-guide and you'll find out.
Posted: 02 Jul 2013 | Published: 02 Jul 2013


Agile Portfolio Management: Getting Images Gains Visibility and Alignment with Kanban Portfolios
WHITE PAPER: Few organizations have succeeded in moving beyond static, up-front development timelines to the more dynamic process of working with agile teams. In this case study, discover how Getty Images managed to become one of the few agile champions after struggling with the transition to lean and agile development.
Posted: 26 Jun 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2011


Case Study: Level 3 Communications - Going Agile at Scale
CASE STUDY: You might think agile development is only for small organizations - but that isn't necessarily true. In this case study, discover how Level 3 was able to overcome the difficulties of a segmented office space and multiple development projects to successfully implement Agile throughout the entire organization.
Posted: 25 Jun 2013 | Published: 25 Jun 2013


Best Practices for Enterprise Agile
EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, discover agile development best practices for projects on the enterprise level for development and application lifecycle management (ALM). Explore the challenges that arise and learn how to overcome these problems with the right tools and strategies.
Posted: 11 Jun 2013 | Published: 11 Jun 2013


Rally Software: Iteration Planning Guide
WHITE PAPER: Check out this brief guide to explore why iteration planning is important to agile development, who will play a role in the process, and what you need to begin. In addition, you'll discover five essential steps to planning, an iteration planning agenda, and much more!
Posted: 29 May 2013 | Published: 29 May 2013


Your Guide to Release Planning
WHITE PAPER: Agile development might seem like a foreign language if you're new to the game - with a new set of roles and terminology, it's not surprising that you might be a little confused. In this quick, helpful guide, learn about one of the key concepts in agile methodology - release planning. Discover what it is, who does it, and why it's important.
Posted: 28 May 2013 | Published: 28 May 2013


Essential Guide: Project and Portfolio Management: Analyzing Business Project Needs
WHITE PAPER: View this informative resource to learn more about proper sequencing, marketing a software project and how you can keep everything under control with the right tools. It provides a step-by-step process on managing customer driven software development as well as other important steps.
Posted: 20 Dec 2012 | Published: 20 Dec 2012


The Top 3 Cost-Cutting Mistakes CIOs Make And How to Avoid Them
WHITE PAPER: The current economic downturn has resulted in contraction of IT Department budgets and a mandate to allocate resources to only the most critical projects, then execute it flawlessly. In these tough times, it is imperative for CIOs to deliver more value as IT budgets fall.
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 | Published: 03 Apr 2009


Leaning IT : Applying the Principle of "Pull" to Scale Agile Teams
WHITE PAPER: Is your organization ready for this Agile "means to an end" or is Agile adoption inadvertently creating a classic "fix that fails?" Can Agile truly work at the Program level? This white paper is based on actual experiences of professionals who helped steer many of the largest Agile implementations done over the last five years.
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 | Published: 03 Apr 2009


Mastering the Iteration : The Heartbeat of Agile Development
WHITE PAPER: This white paper is an excerpt from the book "Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises", and describes the iteration pattern and activities that a team engages in to create tested, value-delivered code in a short time box.
Posted: 14 Aug 2008 | Published: 14 Aug 2008


Principles of Agile Architecture
WHITE PAPER: The benefits of Agile methods are becoming more obvious and compelling. While the most popular practices were developed and proven in small team environments, the interest and need for using Agile in the enterprise is growing rapidly...
Posted: 14 Aug 2008 | Published: 14 Aug 2008


How BMC Is Scaling Agile Development
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper describes how BMC Software's Infrastructure Management Group transformed their development organization using agile development practices management applications from Rally Software Development.
Posted: 14 Aug 2008 | Published: 14 Aug 2008