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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. In 2003 – while Agile was known – it was largely limited to ISVs and a few leading IT organizations.

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Rally Acquires AgileZen

Feld Thoughts

How could you not fall in love with a company named AgileZen ? Today, Rally Software – a company I’ve been an investor in since 2003 – announced that they have acquired AgileZen. If you are an Agile software development shop, or follow ALM, Rally just added Kanban to the mix.

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Micro-Multinationals, And How They Will Define Our Era

YoungUpstarts

Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers. .” – Sir Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group. billion [1].