Rally®, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM), today announced that Agile Coach Karl Scotland and Product Owner Larry Maccherone will present at the Lean Software & Systems Conference in Boston, Mass. Karl and Larry will introduce a disruptive new form of quantitative feedback using Kanban methods.

Who: Karl Scotland, Rally Agile Coach, and Larry Maccherone, Rally Product Owner

What: “KanbanMetrics: APerformanceIndexFramework”

When: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 from 4:20-5:00 p.m. ET

Where: The LeanSoftware& SystemsConference, Seaport Hotel, Boston, Mass.

Why: Kanban is about visualizing the work but also about providing quantitative feedback in the form of lead-time and other metrics. This talk introduces a disruptive new form of quantitative feedback, the Time In State InSITe visualization for visualizing any time in state data.

Karl is a versatile software practitioner with more than 15 years of experience covering development, project management, team leadership, coaching and training. For the last 10 years, he has successfully applied Agile methods and serves as a pioneer and advocate of using Kanban Systems for software development. Karl is a founding member of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium and the Limited WIP Society.

Larry loves his roles as the Product Owner of Analytics and Connectors for Rally. Prior to his work at Rally, he spent 7 years as an Agile coach in a variety of organizations. Larry is also working on a PhD in Software Engineering Analytics at Carnegie Mellon University, and he serves on an advisory board for IARPA.

About RallyRally is the recognized leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM). Rally is dedicated to helping organizations embrace Agile and Lean development and portfolio management practices that dramatically increase the pace of innovation, improve product quality and boost customer satisfaction. According to a study by QSM Associates, software-driven companies that rely on Rally’s Agile ALM products and services are 50% faster to market and 25% more productive than industry averages. The company’s experienced services group, including training through Agile University, guides companies through the organizational change required to become innovative, Agile businesses. Together, Rally’s on-demand Agile ALM platform and its leading Kanban-based project collaboration tool,AgileZen, support more than 136,000 users in 116 countries.

Rally, the Rally logo, Rally Software Development, Agile University and AgileZen are trademarks of Rally Software Development Corp. Third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/rally-software-to-present-at-the-lean-software-systems-conference-2012-05-10

Rally® is the Top Midsize Employer in Colorado, says The Denver Post. In addition, Rally’s CEO Tim Miller is one of only three executives honored as a Top Leader among the Top Workplaces winners.

The Denver Post’s 2012 Top Workplaces is a new annual report based on surveys completed by over 25,000 employees from 178 companies, highlighting local organizations that strive for excellence in their workplaces. The surveys asked employees to score employers on a variety of measures, including appreciation of workers, direction, confidence in leadership, values and ethics, encouragement of ideas, competence of management, and pay and benefits.

“I’m passionate about maintaining the type of place where employees enjoy coming to work,” said Miller. “Our commitment to building a great company depends on everyone being comfortable sharing ideas and opinions, so we continue to foster a culture where we treat each person as a critical part of our success. This award absolutely recognizes those core values.”

Watch our “Culture & Leadership” video to see highlights from The Denver Post’s ‘Top Leaders’ Roundtable discussion and to hear Miller’s thoughts about building a successful organization and motivating employees.

Rally Software has been ranked as one of the “Best Companies to Work For” in Colorado for five years running, as well as a two-time finalist of Outside Magazine’s Best Places to Work. Rally is hiring over 75 people in its offices around the world.

About RallyRally is the recognized leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM). Rally is dedicated to helping organizations embrace Agile and Lean development and portfolio management practices that dramatically increase the pace of innovation, improve product quality and boost customer satisfaction. According to a study by QSM Associates, software-driven companies that rely on Rally’s Agile ALM products and services are 50% faster to market and 25% more productive than industry averages. The company’s experienced services group, including training through Agile University, guides companies through the organizational change required to become innovative, Agile businesses. Together, Rally’s on-demand Agile ALM platform and its leading Kanban-based project collaboration tool, AgileZen, support more than 136,000 users in 116 countries.

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/rally-software-named-denver-posts-top-workplaces-2012-winner-2012-04-16

Rally® has been named a finalist for GOODMagazine’sGoodCompanyProject, which recognizes companies that are innovative, sustainable, socially responsible, creative, diverse and globalized.

The GOOD Company Project aims to identify the top 40 businesses between 100 and 1,000 employees “that are working better and smarter for a smarter, better world.” The project recognizes businesses that are big enough to have weathered some major challenges and growing pains, but are still nimble enough to be responsive to change. Ultimately, the GOOD Company Project intends to answer the question, “What does a GOOD company look like?”

“A GOOD company never really stops to feel ‘good,’ but sees it as a marker along the path to becoming great,” said Rally’s CTO and Founder Ryan Martens. “For Rally, that path includes our ongoing social mission to attract and energize customers, partners and employees to be CitizenEngineers. This is the mark of a GOOD company – one that recognizes its movement toward being great, continues to create its desired future, and understands that its work is never done.”

Rally employs more than 290 people worldwide and continues to hire in 2012. Currently, Rally has more than 25 open positions in Software Development, Agile Coaching Services, Engineering, Sales, Marketing and Customer Success. Rally emphasizes collaboration and employee involvement at all levels and encourages employees to donate one percent of salaried time to volunteer efforts. To view and apply for open positions, visit Rally’sCareerPage.

About Rally

Rally is the recognized leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM). Rally is dedicated to helping organizations embrace Agile and Lean development and portfolio management practices that dramatically increase the pace of innovation, improve product quality and boost customer satisfaction. According to a study by QSM Associates, software-driven companies that rely on Rally’s Agile ALM products and services are 50% faster to market and 25% more productive than industry averages. The company’s experienced services group, including training through Agile University, guides companies through the organizational change required to become innovative, Agile businesses. Together, Rally’s on-demand Agile ALM platform and its leading Kanban-based project collaboration tool, AgileZen, support more than 125,000 users in 109 countries.

Rally, the Rally logo, Rally Software Development and Agile University are trademarks of Rally Software Development Corp. Third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/rally-software-named-a-finalist-for-the-good-company-project-2012-01-10