Serena Joins Valtech For Agile Software Development

A new partnership announced between application lifecycle management (ALM) provider Serena Software and Valtech, a provider of strategic software consulting, will usher in a new era of Agile software development in the enterprise. Building on its commitment to support the growth of Agile methodologies in the enterprise, Serena is combining its enterprise IT tool-making experience with Valtech’s transformation, coaching and education techniques to help corporate employees make use of Agile processes quickly and on-demand, without extensive prior training.

Agile is an iterative software development methodology that promotes team collaboration and adaptability throughout a project lifecycle. It’s more responsive than the traditional waterfall model, which takes a purely sequential approach to creating software. As a result, Agile developers deliver software that more closely matches actual customer needs quickly, since ‘user stories’ replace ‘specs’ in the application development process.

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“Agile development methodologies are seeing tremendous adoption in ISVs and IT departments of all sizes,” said Jeremy Burton, CEO of Serena. “We are committed to delivering a pure-Agile toolset via SaaS later this year and are delighted to have Valtech as our partner of choice as we roll that toolset out to market.”

“Valtech enables organisations to leapfrog the endemic challenges that early Agile and Lean adopters have encountered when attempting to catalyse strategic organisational and personal change within the software and product development lifecycle. A focus on developer adoption without an equal focus on corporate and business alignment has consistently proved ineffective,” said Brad Murphy, CEO of Valtech North America.

“Valtech’s OnDemand Learning, Training and Organisational change programmes identify only those Agile and Lean outcomes that organisations can and should adopt—and do so in ways that lead to quick wins crucial to winning support for sustaining the outcomes that Agile and Lean can provide,” Murphy said. “Together, Serena and Valtech will ensure that business stakeholders, product owners and engineering teams can all equally succeed at acquiring the skill and value that Agile tools and best practices offer across the entire software and product development team while moving quickly to adoption and showing a compelling business return.”

Serena and Valtech jointly will support Serena Agile development tools with training and documentation delivered in a variety of flexible formats, including on demand, just-in-time and traditional training.