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.

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VMC Consulting and Rally Software have partnered to host an Agile Café event in Bellevue on Wednesday, November 2, 2011. This event focuses on Agile development best practices and practical application, including discussions from VMC and Rally experts showcasing how Rally’s software helped bring a successful Agile culture to a client company. The event will be at the Westin Bellevue in Bellevue, WA from 9:00am-12:00pm PST on Wednesday, November 2.

“We have designed a session that gives a hands-on application of practices that we’ve found helpful in Agile development environments,” said Scott Bowen, Director of Software Development at VMC. “We will share some success stories on a project where we partnered with Rally, and then we’ll take you through some interactive exercises to help break down some of the cultural and social blocks that interfere with adopting and scaling Agile practices successfully.”

“I’m always excited to share real-world advice about Agile and some of the key characteristics seen in high-performance delivery teams and organizations,” said Ann Konkler, Agile Coach at Rally Software. “As an Agile Coach, I love helping others understand and achieve the benefits of an adaptive work culture, fostered by collaborative leadership and motivated teams.”

At this session, attendees will learn how Agile tools and best practices can increase visibility across teams and reduce defects. The benefit of establishing a strong foundation in Agile methodology, including meeting iteration commitments and successful release planning, can help an organization scale Agile from a single team to multiple teams or even across the enterprise.

The Agile Café will include presenting an Agile case study success story, a workshop by VMC on building teamwork, a Rally Software Demo and an interactive Q&A with VMC and Rally Software presenters.

Source:http://www.pr.com/press-release/365110

Rally®, a title sponsor of this week’s Agile 2011 conference, strengthens its support for multi-process Agile development with new and enhanced features for Scrum, Kanban and High Assurance methods such as those used in regulated environments. Rally’s Agile ALM platform provides common progress dashboards, so multi-team programs can keep synchronized with their release goals, even if they use different development methods.

Rally’s powerful roll-up capabilities give new visibility into the status of multi-team programs and improve predictions of how long it takes to deliver large, system-level features – even for organizations that use different development methodologies. For example, a Kanban team can map the columns on Rally’s enterprise Kanban board to states in Rally used by a Scrum team, enabling roll-up and drill-down of status, progress and quality across multiple projects and teams.

For Scrum teams, Rally is delivering a new iteration overview panel that promotes Scrum best practices with built-in coaching that signals problems and suggests the right course of action to help teams get back on track.

Rally has added a number of new Kanban features that include:

Customizable defect charts – highly suited for Kanban teams, yet applicable to all teams working to analyze the quality of their development activities, new defect reports can be customized to match the cadence of the team.

Class of service support – highlight a class of service, such as a type of card that should flow across the Kanban board faster.
In-column aging for Kanban – shows how long a card has been in a column in order to identify blocks and keep work flowing.

Rally now provides a variety of dashboard panels and applications to meet specific compliance requirements in high assurance environments. New high assurance panels and apps include:
Product Requirements Document (PRD) Traceability Matrix – allows the creator to select from their list of tagged PRDs and creates a trace report showing all of the features associated to the PRD along with test cases, results and design outputs.
Software Requirements Specification (SRS) Document – generates a PRD document directly from user stories within Rally, which can be exported for formal signoff and storage in a document repository.
Iteration and Release Traceability Apps – displays stories with their associated tasks, test cases and defects for an iteration or a release to highlight dependencies and assumptions in the plan.
Build Traceability App – provides a view of Rally artifacts (defects, stories and/or tasks) within a particular build, making it easy to identify what has changed from one build to the next.
Release Dependencies App – displays a table of stories scheduled for the selected release that either has a predecessor or a successor to visualize risks, dependencies and the overall critical path.
Complete Artifact-to-Artifact Traceability – provides detailed artifact-to-artifact traceability by linking requirements to the test cases, tasks, defects, changesets, and builds to which associated artifacts are tied.

Source:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rally-software-delivers-multi-process-agile-support-for-scrum-kanban-and-high-assurance-methods-127307593.html

Boulder’s fast-growing Rally Software Development Corp. said Tuesday it plans to relocate to larger quarters early next year.

Rally said it will lease a 65,545-square-foot building at 3333 Walnut St. and move there in February.

The company currently is located at 4001 Discovery Drive, Suite 220, Boulder.

Rally said it also recently doubled the size of its space in Raleigh, N.C., and London.

The company said it now employs more than 200 people at its various locations and now has 20 positions open in engineering, IT, professional services, sales, support, marketing and administration.

“Ultimately our business achievements result from deep collaboration among our staff, as well as a dedication to positive customer interactions,” Tim Miller, Rally’s CEO, said in a statement. “We’re involving employees and customers in the process of designing the new office space at Walnut Street to create a place where employees, customers, partners and members of the community feel comfortable sharing ideas and opinions.”

DLR Group is designing the new headquarters space, which also will be home to Agile University, a training center for Rally’s Agile application lifecycle management products.

Source:http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2010/10/04/daily14.html

Boulder-based Rally Software Development Corp. once again is relocating its ever-swelling headquarters operations, and this time it’s settling in a familiar locale.

Rally, a provider of software development tools to businesses, inked a lease to occupy the entire 65,545-square-foot building at 3333 Walnut St., a property that served as a base for its operations three years ago.

At that time, Rally’s 60-person staff filled a 30,000-square-foot space in the Walnut building. By the fall of 2008, Rally had grown its local presence to 130 people and moved into a 60,000-square-foot space at 4001 Discovery Drive.

By February, Rally’s 150-person-strong Boulder office will move back to Walnut.

The new space won’t be dramatically bigger, but occupying the whole building will allow Rally to create a floor plan that aligns with Agile Software Development principles that are heavily focused on collaboration, efficiency and productivity, said Tim Miller, Rally’s chief executive officer.

“It’s a flexible, reconfigurable work space that I think is really going to help a lot of the collaboration,” Miller said.

Rally officials visited sites such as Stanford Institute of Design’s d.school and Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Menlo Innovations to gain some ideas for the new site and hired Colorado Springs-based DLR to design it, he said.

Paige Coker Heiman, president and managing broker of Acquire, represented Rally in its 3333 Walnut St. lease transaction.

“We wanted to extend our stay in Boulder. …We needed a space that could hold us for the next several years and not require us to move again,” Miller said.

Rally’s sublease at 3333 Walnut St. — a space vacated by Gilead Sciences — expires in three years, but Miller said he’s optimistic that the company could occupy the space beyond that time frame.

Susan Graf, CEO of the Boulder Chamber, called Rally a “great fit for Boulder,” noting some of the company’s sustainability-focused actions such as bike commuting and carbon reduction.

“It’s great that we can continue to work with them as a community,” she said, noting Rally was able to find a space and fit the location to its needs. “We would hope the next iteration (if Rally needs to expand) would involve the same kind of considerations.”

The relocation comes amid an already busy year for Rally. The company began 2010 by landing $16 million in funding that later helped it acquire Ohio startup AgileZen and an Agile-focused iPhone app.

Despite the likes of IBM and Microsoft putting a greater focus on the Agile market, Rally was ranked highly by independent technology research firm Forrester Research in its second-quarter report on the Agile development sector.

“We’re crushing it,” Miller quipped.

A primary driver for Rally’s recent growth has been the company gaining footing with large, 5,000-to-20,000-person enterprise businesses.

In response, Rally not only bulked up its Boulder site but also its remote offices in Raleigh, N.C., and London.

Rally officials are now eyeing a couple of new markets and also potential acquisitions, he said.

Source:http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_16253377

Rally®, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM), today announced that it has been named the #1 medium-sized “Best Company to Work for in Colorado” by ColoradoBiz Magazine for the second consecutive year. Published in the August 1 issue, ColoradoBiz Magazine’s “Best Company to Work for in Colorado” initiative was designed to honor companies in Colorado that show dedication to their employees’ growth and quality of life.

“Celebrating Colorado-based companies like Rally that have created and maintained a great workplace couldn’t be more important,” said Michael Cote, Editor of ColoradoBiz. “Keeping workers inspired and appreciated not only improves the bottom line, but creates dividends that transcend it.”

“We have a shared vision at Rally that encourages employees to create their own personal and professional realities where passion, value and being the best in world intersect,” said Tim Miller, Rally’s CEO. “Our commitment to building a great company depends on everyone being comfortable sharing ideas and opinions, so we’re thrilled to continue to foster a culture where we treat each person as a critical part of our success.”

Among the company’s core values are maintaining a healthy work-life balance, treating one another with respect, and giving back to the community. As part of the philanthropic culture of Rally, the company set aside 1% of its equity, upon founding, as part of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado. Rally’s 1% philanthropy model also encourages Rally employees to pledge 1% of their paid time per year to volunteer for the non-profit of their choice.

Behind the philanthropic culture is also serious business. As announced in January 2010, Rally closed a $16 million round of funding to accelerate the company’s rapid growth. The company has also made two acquisitions this year – AgileZen, a leading Kanban-based project collaboration tool, and a mobile application for the iPhone, called Rally for the iPhone. Last year, the company nearly doubled its product revenue and the company recently topped 123,000 users of its product.

Rally currently has positions open in Engineering, IT, Professional Services, Sales, Support, Marketing, and Administration. To view and apply for open positions, visit Rally’s Career Page.

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