In This Issue

• Lean Portfolio Management
  Guy Beaver for Better Software
• Webinar: Measuring Agility - The Top 5 Metrics and Myths with Pete Behrens
  - LIVE TOMORROW - WED MARCH 18
• Take the Agile Salary Survey
  ASPE/VersionOne Survey
• Webinar: Selling Agile: How to Get Buy-in... with Michele Sliger
  Live Wednesday March 25
• VersionOne Partners with AutomatedQA
  V1 Propaganda Dept.

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Lean Portfolio Management - Guy Beaver for Better Software Mag.

Improving your software development process is only valuable if it fills the highest priority needs for your business clients with speed and quality. Lean principles provide guidance on how to create a structure that lets business priorities drive the selection of the right products for creation and enhancement.

Read the article here.
(http://tinyurl.com/c6hf8g)

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Measuring Agility - The Top 5 Metrics and Myths - Live Webinar with Pete Behrens Tomorrow!

This webinar will explain the Top 5 agile metrics to measure and drive agile teams along with the Top 5 agile metric pitfalls to avoid in measuring agility. This webinar takes place Wednesday March 18th, 12 -1pm EST.

Presented by Pete Behrens, Agile Leadership Coach and the President of Trail Ridge Consulting.

Learn more & register here.
(http://tinyurl.com/dyvlgo)

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Take the Agile Survey Sponsored by ASPE and VersionOne

Take the Agile Salary Survey sponsored by ASPE and VersionOne to find out where you stand in the Agile world. The purpose of the survey is to provide benchmarks and analysis on how agile practitioners are compensated.

• Survey open March 16th - June 15th, 2009
• Responses are strictly confidential and data will only be reported in aggregate
• Get the results first - just give us your email address*

* If you choose to submit your email to obtain the results directly, it will not be associated in any way with your individual responses or used for any other purpose.

Take the survey at: http://AgileSalarySurvey09.questionpro.com

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Selling Agile: How to Get Buy-in from Your Team, Your Customers and Your Managers - Live Webinar with Michele Sliger

This presentation will look at questions surrounding how to best 'sell' agile in your organization. This webinar takes place Wednesday March 25th, 12 -1pm EST.

Presented by Michele Sliger, co-author of The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility.

Learn more and register here.
(http://tinyurl.com/cpkwxh)

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VersionOne Announces Partnership with AutomatedQA

AutomatedQA delivers automated functional, unit, regression, HTTP load and scalability testing in one affordable, easy-to-use and totally integrated product called TestComplete. AutomatedQA provides an opportunity for Agile developers to introduce test automation immediately and affordably. Learn more about AutomatedQA’s award winning product TestComplete or take a free 30 day test drive at www.automatedqa.com/lp/agile.

Interested in becoming a technology or training partner of VersionOne? Visit our site for more info.