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News & EventsRally Software Development Assembles World-Class Technical Advisory Board
Advisory members pour decades of success and experience into launch of Agile software development management start-up
BOULDER, Colo., July 23, 2004 - Rally Software Development, a provider of on-demand software development management solutions, today announced it has recruited some of the most successful and experienced luminaries in the software development industry to serve on its technical advisory board. The board provides insight and guidance into the design and advancement of Rally, the industry's first on-demand Web subscription service for managing Agile software development.
Members of the technical advisory board include:
Mary Poppendieck - Ms. Poppendieck has been in the IT industry for 25 years and has managed solutions for companies in several disciplines, including supply chain management, manufacturing systems and digital media. Today, Poppendieck is treasurer of the AgileAlliance (www.agilealliance.org) and president of Poppendieck LLC. Her book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, Addison Wesley, 2003, won the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004.
Dean Leffingwell - Mr. Leffingwell is an entrepreneur, software industry executive and technical author who provides product strategy and business advisory services to software companies. He is the lead author of Managing Software Requirements: Second Edition: A Use Case Approach, Addison Wesley, 2003. Leffingwell was co-founder, chairman and CEO of Requisite, Inc. before its acquisition by Rational Software in 1997. In addition to being an active software team consultant, he's a director and advisor to numerous software and technology companies.
Philippe Kruchten, Ph.D., P.Eng. - Dr. Kruchten is a professor of software engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Prior to UBC, Dr. Kruchten spent 17 years at Rational Software, now part of IBM, first as a technical consultant for the design of large software-intensive system and as the development manager for the Rational Unified Process (RUP), a software process framework now commercialized by IBM. He also spent eight years at Alcatel, developing telephone switches. He is the author of five books, including the very successful "The Rational Unified Process-an introduction" (Addison-Wesley, 2003), translated in nine languages. He is associate editor-in-chief of the IEEE Software magazine.
Randy Stafford - Mr. Stafford is a chief architect at IQNavigator, a leading provider of services procurement and spend-management solutions and an early Rally user. Stafford has long been a prominent member of the enterprise application architecture community, having contributed to such books as Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, and Floyd Marinescu's EJB Design Patterns. He serves as a reviewer of books on Agile development and conducts workshops at conferences such as the Agile Development Conference.
Shai Koenig - Dr. Koenig has more than 23 years of experience in software development organizations, specializing in software development processes, methods and tools. He currently works for Comverse where he manages the development of the company's proprietary system for product life cycle management. Dr. Koenig is also on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at The Open University of Israel, where he teaches software engineering courses in the university's graduate program. Prior to Comverse, Dr. Koenig managed Tadiran Telecom's Software Engineering Quality and Processes Group.
"Rally represents a fresh approach to managing software development and helping customers achieve the utmost value from the various Agile methodologies that support iterative development," said Tim Miller, CEO of Rally Software Development Corp. "Our world-class team of advisors provides highly valued input into the Rally offering and we appreciate their commitment and support as we grow Rally into the leading on-demand solution for managing software development."
About Rally
Based in Boulder, Colo., Rally Software Development was founded in 2002 with a mission to improve the profit and ROI of software-driven companies through the adoption of a new class of Agile software development management solutions. Rally enhances development productivity and agility with an on-demand, hosted subscription service that provides unmatched coordination and management of the entire Agile software development life cycle. Rally is backed by Mobius Venture Capital and Boulder Ventures, with a technical advisory board comprised of luminaries in the Agile community and software development industry. For more information about Rally, visit the company's Web site at www.rallydev.com
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