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To meet the increasing demand for Agile adoption in the enterprise, Serena Software has announced it will deliver a pure Agile solution via the Software-as-a-Service model later this year. Serena Agile On Demand will enable software development groups to add Agile to their development portfolio and support global teams working on multiple projects.
Serena Agile On Demand offers a new approach to adopting Agile practices by coupling the developer tool with Agile adoption and training services from Valtech, an Agile services provider and Serena partner. The combined tool and services offering is designed to meet the needs of today’s development environment, which includes multiple projects running in multiple languages across multiple continents.
“Traditionally, Agile practices have had higher adoption rates among smaller, co-located development teams, which today are a rarity,” said John Scumniotales, co-developer of the Scrum Agile methodology and vice president of product development at Serena Software. “Our new Agile On Demand solution has been designed from the ground up to support multi-project and multi-methodology environments, making Agile accessible to any development team.”
Agile On Demand
Serena’s new Agile On Demand solution will make it simpler and faster to manage concurrent Agile projects with innovative capabilities and virtual training that foster team collaboration whether a team is in the same room or spread across continents and time zones.
Agile On Demand combines tooling with Agile transformation services, such as:
o Video instruction on common agile practices
o Just-in-time virtual training on a comprehensive list of Agile topics
o Live coaching where an expert is only a phone call away
In fact, the ‘Coach Live’ service is an exclusive offering from Valtech available only in Agile On Demand. Coach Live gives users predictable access to an Agile coach, who can walk a development team through adoption and transformation issues, thus, increasing the pace of Agile adoption in complex environments.
Other Agile On Demand capabilities include:
o Work Management: track time and work status, manage impediments, and allocate resources
o Sprint Planning: user story estimation, including drag-and-drop allocation of user stories to sprints and real-time demand versus capacity displays
o Release Planning: user story authoring, backlog management, and alignment of stories with strategic initiatives and themes
o Reporting and Dashboarding: real-time burndown and velocity charts, release demand versus capacity views, acceptance test reports, unit test and build status reports
o Collaboration: RSS notifications, instant messaging (IM) integration, integrated Wiki support, and virtual whiteboard for remote standups
o Mashup Integration: integrates fully with the Serena Business Mashup platform