Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Serena Software Partners Valtech in Agile Software Development Services

A new partnership announced Tuesday between application lifecycle management (ALM) leader Serena Software and Valtech, a provider of strategic software consulting, lean and agile-focused software engineering, skills training and coaching, promises to usher in a new era of Agile software development in the enterprise.

As pre the partnership, Serena is combining its enterprise IT tool-making expertise 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 faster and 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 more quickly, since “user stories” replace “specs” in the application development process.

The partnership will see both organisations support Serena Agile development tools via a series of training and documentation.

“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.”