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News & EventsRally Software Development Continues Driving Agile Software Adoption With Growing Client Roster
In just a year, company has carved out a clear leadership position as the on-demand Agile software lifecycle management provider
BOULDER, Colo., March 15, 2006 - Rally Software Development Corp., the leading on-demand provider of Agile software lifecycle management solutions, continues to lead the industry adoption of Agile practices for a growing number of software organizations. With just more than a full year of revenue under its belt, Rally has demonstrated the push to adopt Agile development practices is widespread and being mandated by software-driven organizations across the globe. Rally started the year with a record-setting performance by thousands of end-user customers deploying Rally Agile Team and Rally Agile Pro, Rally's latest on-demand solutions.
In addition to strong customer gains, Rally continues to drive the mainstream adoption of Agile development practices through world-class training and coaching while continuing to evolve of its on-demand Rally tools. Recent developments for Rally include:
- Rally Agile Team - recently launched to enable a single team of 10 developers and testers to communicate and manage their iterations more effectively. It provides the basic project management, test management and defect tracking features that smaller teams, or initial teams within a larger organization, need to gain the experience, visibility and confidence to succeed and eventually scale Agile development methodologies.
- Agile Coaching - through customer engagements, free seminars, Webinars and a series of publicly available ScrumMaster certification classes, Rally has helped more than 1,500 software professionals put Agile practices to work for their organizations. Most recently, Rally has teamed with Scrum founder Jeff Sutherland to offer advanced ScrumMaster courses (See separate news release: Rally Software Offers Advanced SCRUM Courses with SCRUM Co-founder Jeff Sutherland).
"Rally is extremely proud of its efforts to help customers adopt and scale Agile practices to better meet the needs of customers and business goals," said Tim Miller, Rally's CEO. "Today, customers with hundreds of developers in multiple locations around the globe are able to quickly and inexpensively synchronize their efforts via the power of Rally and our software-as-a-service model. As any development professional knows, this was virtually impossible just a few short years ago."Recent new customers, including Shopzilla (www.shopzilla.com), Acorn Systems and WVR Group, comment on their experiences using Rally:
"Rally is the only tool we've found that definitively tracks where we are today, when we will be done and how we will know when we're done," said Torsten Weirich, executive vice president for product development for Acorn Systems. "Rally reduces cycle time and increases quality by allowing us to track our test results closely together with requirements, features and associated dependencies."
"As the largest and fastest growing shopping search site on the Web, one of the reasons we chose Rally was because of its unique ability to scale Agile practices from initial pilots up to an enterprise level very quickly - in our case, in less than 60 days," said Christophe Louvion, vice president of engineering for Shopzilla. "In our fast paced industry Rally's one-stop-shop approach for coaching services and tooling make them a solid partner as we rapidly grow our business."
"As the leading provider of online vacation property information, we are always striving to deliver a great user experience and drive the highest level of service and support for our clients," said Ross Buhrdorf, CTO for WVR Group. "Rally has enabled us to adopt an Agile approach to rolling out new features and functionality that are completely customer-driven. Now our development teams can focus exclusively on developing software that drives value to our customer and our business."
About Rally's On-demand Solutions
From small pilot projects to distributed, multi-team programs, Rally's family of leading on-demand software lifecycle management solutions give teams the visibility and collaboration needed to formalize and scale Agile development practices that deliver high-value software in rapid iterations. Rally unites Agile project management with tracking of requirements, tests and defects so everyone has a real-time picture of a project's features and quality, priorities, roadblocks and risks. Its deep support for all roles and activities in the software development life cycle provides an alternative to expensive and poorly integrated point tools. Rally is delivered through a highly secure, hosted Web service that starts fast and scales easily across platforms and geographies for low-risk, low-cost deployment.
About Rally
Based in Boulder, Colo., Rally Software Development is helping change the way companies around the globe define, develop and deliver software. Rally's family of on-demand solutions for Agile software lifecycle management support the mainstream adoption of Agile development practices, a fast-growing trend that helps software organizations respond faster to changing customer needs. The company's customers include thousands of subscribers from leading software vendors, Internet companies and corporate development teams that are committed to delivering high-value software that adapts quickly to new business realities. Rally's world-renown coaches and expert partners complement its on-demand applications with training, mentoring and consulting services for creating the Agile organization. The company is privately held and backed by Mobius Venture Capital and Boulder Ventures. For more information about Rally, visit the company's Web site at www.rallydev.com
Press Contact: Anne Greenhaw
303-565-2832
anne@rallydev.com