In This Issue

• Agile Tool Evaluator Guide
• Early mainstream: Agile Develops In The Enterprise - Application Development Trends
• VersionOne In The News - InfoWorld
• The Command & Control Management Method - Joel on Software

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Agile Tool Eveluator Guide

After spending the week at Agile 2006 talking with customers and other like-minded agilists, we received feedback that an Agile tool evaluation guide would be appreciated by those looking to continue to deploy Agile. The Agile Tool Evaluator Guide outlines features within a life cycle planning and management tool for Agile development and will help you decide what features are important to your organization.

http://www.versionone.com/Resources/Agile_Tool_Evaluator.asp

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Early Mainstream: Agile Develops in the Enterprise

By Kathleen Richards for Application Development Trends
From all accounts Agile software development is making inroads in the enterprise, moving beyond high-tech companies to become part of the arsenal of corporate development teams in industries such as insurance, telecom and financial services...

Read the entire article at: http://www.versionone.com/pdf/ADT_Article.pdf

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VersionOne in the News

By Paul Krill for InfoWorld
V1 Adds Web Services API to Agile Platform - Life Cycle management offering integrates with third-party tools....

To view the article click HERE or cut and paste the link below:
http://www.versionone.com/pdf/InforWorld_July-20-2006_PaulKrill.pdf

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The Command and Control Management Method

The Command and Control form of management is based on military management. Primarily, the idea is that people do what you tell them to do, and if they don’t, you yell at them until they do, and if they still don’t, you throw them in the brig for a while, and if that doesn’t teach them....

From JoelonSoftware on August 8th
To view the article click HERE or cut and paste the link below:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/08.html