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It’s An Agile World

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One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” ” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. We just had to go build it to prove our point.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

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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. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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Engage in the New Colorado Digital Service

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I much prefer this approach, with a highly functional agile team of experts, rather than yet another $100 million contract with a large consulting firm, government contractor, or legacy technology company that will result in a three-year build and deployment of a system that never actually sees the light of day.

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Rally Acquires AgileZen

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If you are an Agile software development shop, or follow ALM, Rally just added Kanban to the mix. Tags: My Investments acquisition agile agilezen kanban rally. How could you not fall in love with a company named AgileZen ? And congrats to both Rally and AgileZen – I’m excited for you guys.

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Rally Gives $1.3 Million To The Boulder Community

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Part of that vision became the agile software development products that Rally makes. He had a huge vision that started to be turned into practice when Tim Miller joined him as CEO about a year after he started the company. But Ryan’s vision was always bigger than that.

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Rally Software Acquires Agile iPhone Product

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Rally has re-released the product (previous a $15 download) as a free product called Rally for the iPhone that tightly integrates with the Rally SaaS-based Agile software lifecycle environment. Tags: My Investments acquisition agile iphone rally.

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The Awesomeness of a Hackathon

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I’ve become a big advocate of true Agile development (partly because of my experience with Rally Software – the leader in Agile software development environments) and – more recently – the notion of trying to get to continuous deployment which has been popularized by Eric Ries. Some release weekly, or even daily.