Projectplace has introduced Agile Gantt. Agile Gantt is the first tool that combines the functionality of Gantt charts and Kanban boards to bridge the gap between project managers, team members and senior management. Agile Gantt offers powerful project steering and agile self-organization, uniting teams, project managers and senior management on the same platform for the first time.

LiquidPlanner has announced it has secured $8 million in Series B funding from TVC Capital, a San Diego based growth equity firm focused on investments in and acquisitions of software companies and software-enabled service firms.

Want that your work should be like a game? Do you have bad motivation at work? High Five Driven Development is a very easy way to increase motivation at work. This is a very easy coaching technique for everyone.

With the evolution and scaling of Agile environment – there is a growing misconception amongst the leadership towards the need for consistency across software development teams. The moment we endeavour this worship for invariability – we lose sight and flexibility of true agile and lean principles.

How does a business minimize the uncertainty and risks it faces when launching a new product to market? Markets are full of uncertainties with ever changing demands. New products are entering the marketplace all the time. These products cause severe turbulence and unexpected outcomes.

Did you know that teams where all the members are dedicated to that one Agile team produce half as many defects than teams that have even 25% “multi-taskers”? A relatively simple decision (dedicate folks to one team) for such a huge gain in quality.

Inflectra is pleased to announce the release of SpiraTest, SpiraPlan and SpiraTeam v4.1. This new version includes support for requirement workflows, task workflows, use cases, as well as improved agile planning and requirements/task management. In addition, it introduces an integrated instant messenger.
SpiraPlan is an essential tool for planning and managing today’s highly complex software projects in a collaborative environment. Designed specifically for agile methodologies such as Scrum, XP, Kanban, DSDM and AUP it allows teams to manage their requirements, user stories, releases, iterations and tasks. Comprising SpiraTest and SpiraPlan in …

Worksoft has announced that Worksoft Certify is now integrated with Atlassian’s JIRA issue and project management software. The integration with JIRA allows users to capture and track the results of Worksoft Certify’s automated business process tests and easily submit incident tickets directly into JIRA, utilizing a customer’s existing workflows and defect management processes. Worksoft Certify’s integration within JIRA workflows offers users an efficient and effective means to view data, report issues and seek resolution.

This article presents the “Open Security Assurance Maturity Model” (Open SAMM). It is very important to have a basic understanding of “Open SAMM” as this is going to be the base for the approach that I’m going to demonstrate for the implementation of S-SDLC. Open SAMM as a framework is very flexible and can even be extended if required. This means organizations can use it as a base and then extend it further or even customize it to suit their requirements. However, proper thoughts need to be put into place …

Solving a technical problem is relatively easy: there tends to be precedence, easily accessible data, black and white results, and a long list of knowledgeable developers to lean on. People problems are stickier; there are far more variables, no tests you can write, no debugger to use. This talk focuses on our biggest issues as developers and community members. It examines what’s broken, what works, and some useful people katas.