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News & EventsRally Software Development Expands Agile Coaching Team With Addition of Michele Sliger
Sliger brings wealth of experience in Agile coaching - from large corporations to start-ups - to help software teams succeed with Agile practices
BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 25, 2005 - Rally Software Development Corp., a provider of on-demand software development management solutions for Agile teams, today announced it has hired Michele Sliger to help grow its Agile software development coaching services. As a Rally Agile Coach, Sliger will be responsible for mentoring software development organizations and teams on how to effectively adopt Agile practices that result in increased development productivity and shorter release cycles.
Rally offers the first and only on-demand subscription Web service for managing the entire Agile software development lifecycle, and seamlessly marries Agile project management with tracking of requirements, test cases and defects. As part of a total solution for helping organizations succeed with Agile development practices, Rally's world-class team of Agile experts provide a set of coaching services that help development teams define, develop and deliver their first Agile projects within 60 days. Delivered on-site or via phone and Web conference, Rally's coaching services range from one-day Agile workshops to three-part mentoring programs where coaches actively participate in release planning, iteration scheduling, management demos and team retrospectives.
Sliger has extensive experience in Agile methodologies, having served as an Agile coach at Qwest Communications. She also was a founding member of the engineering teams at biotech start-ups UroCor and Genomica. At Genomica, Michele honed her Scrum and XP skills while working under Mike Cohn, a recognized founder of the Agile movement. She carried that experience forward into Qwest, where she served as an XP Coach on a team tasked with developing high-profile financial applications. She has an undergraduate degree in MIS and an MBA. She is a registered Project Management Professional (PMP), a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and an active member of the board of the Agile Denver chapter.
Besides serving as an Agile Coach for Rally, Sliger is currently an adjunct faculty member of the University of Colorado where she teaches Software Project Management to graduate engineering students. Throughout her career, she has performed the gamut of software development roles, including programmer, database administrator, quality assurance manager, process manager and project manager.
"Michele's passion and skill in Agile practices, coupled with her knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle, makes her a valuable addition to our Agile coaching team," said Tim Miller, CEO of Rally. "Her real-world experience expands our service capabilities to our customers, allowing them to quickly and effectively jump-start Agile methodologies within their organizations."
"Rally's team is truly dedicated to helping clients deliver valuable software solutions faster and more effectively into their respective marketplaces," said Sliger. "Rally's approach of combining knowledge, coaching and tooling provides a complete set of capabilities for helping clients 'deliver early and deliver often.' I am honored and excited to be part of a company that is helping organizations dramatically improve the returns achieved from their software development efforts."
About Rally
Based in Boulder, Colo., Rally Software Development was founded in 2002 with a mission to dramatically increase the responsiveness and productivity of software-driven companies by delivering the knowledge, coaching and tooling needed to succeed with Agile development practices. Rally's on-demand, hosted subscription service enables software organizations to reliably deliver valuable software in rapid iterations by marrying Agile project management with customer-centric requirements management, early testing and defect tracking. Rally's world-class coaches and technical advisory board is comprised of luminaries in the Agile community and software development industry. The company is backed by Mobius Venture Capital and Boulder Ventures. For more information about Rally, visit the company's Website at www.rallydev.com
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