In This Issue

• Whitepaper Download: A Manager's Roadmap for Success
• Important Upcoming Training Dates
• Fall 2006 V1: Agile Enterprise Release Highlights
• External Blog Highlight (video): Ken Schwaber Visits Google

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Whitepaper Download:
Agile Development - A Manager's Roadmap for Success

VersionOne recently released its latest whitepaper entitled "Agile Development - A Manager's Roadmap for Success". This "Roadmap for Success" will help guide you in implementing and scaling Agile within your organization.

As an Agile Chronicles newsletter member you can download it directly without registering by clicking the link below.

Download direct by going to: http://pm.versionone.com/whitepaper_AgileManagersRoadmap.html

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VersionOne/Net Objectives Training - Oct. 31 - Nov. 2nd

We have coupled product and Agile process training with Net Objectives to ensure your team maximizes the value from your Agile efforts and the use of VersionOne. These classes have been carefully designed to provide pragmatic training sessions that will bring practical use to your team.

• Implementing Scrum for your Team – 2 day course
• Agile Life Cycle Management with VersionOne – 1 day course

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Fall 2006 Release

VersionOne is releasing v6.3 this week and here is a peek at some of the highlights:

• Executive “Scorecard” Reports: Project and program summary reports have been added to give executive level summaries of current status and insight into key metrics in a single snapshot.
• Agile Resource Planning: VersionOne provides the ability to better understand trends and workload that impact resource planning by brining the Velocity and Member Load trend reports forward into the planning area of the application.
• Microsoft Visual Studio® Integration: To further improve ease of use and productivity, VersionOne's Microsoft Visual Studio plug-in allows developers to view and update VersionOne assets without leaving the Visual Studio environment.
• Usability and Performance: VersionOne continues to enhance both usability and performance with the implementation of AJAX enabled components and more customizable page configurations.

To get more information about the Fall 2006 release, click here for release notes or contact your account executive.

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External Blog Highlight (video): Ken Schwaber Visits Google

Although to watch the entire thing is an investment in time (about an hour), this talk by Ken Schwaber at Google is a great Scrum primer with lots of good information and perfect for forwarding to management needing to be introduced to Agile development.

Google Tech Talk:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7230144396191025011#