In This Issue

• War Stories - Fighter Jets & Agile at Lockheed Martin
• VersionOne Opens Agile Management Platform
• David Hussman on Helping Organizations Adopt Agile
• Next Generation, Interactive Taskboard
• Lean and the Reasons for Going Agile

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War Stories - Fighter Jets & Agile Development at Lockheed Martin

When you think of a highly regulated, very large company like Lockheed Martin, you would not tend to think of Agile development projects. Lockheed Martin is a Fortune 500 company that consists of four business areas, has 140,000 employees, is located in 45 states in 457 cities, and has 939 facilities in the United States alone. Internationally, Lockheed Martin is present in 56 nations and territories. The implementation of Agile practices at Lockheed Martin was not a case of finding Agile and seeing how it could fit, but looking for a better way to develop software-centric products and finding Agile.

To read the case study - CLICK HERE

http://www.agilejournal.com/content/view/313/33/

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VersionOne Opens Agile Management Platform

VersionOne announced the latest release of V1: Agile Enterprise this week. Release 7.1 extends VersionOne's Agile Management Platform by delivering open source integrations with 3rd-party tools Subversion and FitNesse. Integrating V1: Agile Enterprise with these popular source control and testing framework tools solidifies VersionOne as the leading integrated Agile life cycle platform.

CLICK HEREto learn more about the release.
http://www.VersionOne.com/LatestRelease

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David Hussman on Helping Organizations Adopt Agile
[Video Interview]

David Hussmann "Agile Geek at Large" (and VersionOne training partner) spoke with InfoQ about his approach to coaching teams adopting Agile, including how to customize it for different kinds of organizations, and some common factors to retain, to achieve lasting success.

To view the interview CLICK HERE
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/interview-david-hussman-agile

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VersionOne Delivers Next Generation Taskboard

One of the most exciting new features in the latest release of V1: Agile Enterprise is the new interactive taskboard which acts to extend the Agile team room across the enterprise. Taking the traditional taskboard beyond the team room for dramatically improved distributed team collaboration, VersionOne’s taskboard provides a single view of project progress and status changes.

CLICK HEREto learn more about the taskboard.
http://www.VersionOne.com/Taskboard

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Lean and the Reasons for Going Agile (2 part series)

Alan Shalloway and Jim Trott of Net Objectives consider what the five most compelling reasons for going Lean-Agile are:

• Add value to the business quickly
• Gaining clarity on customers’ needs
• Projects can be managed better
• Early feedback makes for motivated teams
• Engineer practices favor Agile

Read or listen to the podcasts HERE
http://blogs.netobjectives.com/2006/12/01/lean-and-the-reasons-for-going-agile-part-1/

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