Rally Software Development's Richard Leavitt to Present Agile Defect Tracking Presentation at PSQT North 2005

Who:

Richard Leavitt, vice president product marketing
Rally Software Development
www.rallydev.com

Leavitt currently serves as vice president of product marketing at Rally Software Development. He co-founded Software Edge, the creator of PVCS Tracker® later acquired by Merant/Serena. He helped start the RequisitePro^TM product line before it was acquired by Rational/IBM.

Rally provides on-demand software lifecycle management solutions for scaling Agile development practices across the enterprise and around the globe. The company's Web-based tooling marries Agile project management with tracking of requirements, tests and defects so larger or distributed teams gain the visibility and collaboration needed to define, develop and deliver high-value software in rapid iterations.

What:

At PSQT North http://www.psqtconference.com/2005north/, Rally's Leavitt will deliver the following presentation focused on improving Agile-based processes:

How Agile Ended Our Defect Report-Fix-Check-Rework Cycle
In this session, Leavitt will outline how teams transitioning to Agile must re-think their workflows and project metrics originally designed to handle many hundreds of defect reports that occur in typical test-last development cycles. While implementing key practices, like early testing and continual integration, isn't without bumps and bruises, it can lower the number of open defect reports by an order of magnitude, improving how the team communicates, reducing delay and giving them more direct measures of project status, feature progress and release readiness.

Where:

Radisson Hotel and Conference Center
3131 Campus Drive
Plymouth, Minnesota 55441

When:

Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.