Rally and Valtech partner to accelerate success of agile adoption for global enterprise

Together, their offerings comprise the “Agile Rollout for the Enterprise,” which is a combination of strategy, training, and coaching services, along with the specific tooling required to help the largest organisations incrementally and successfully adopt Agile methods. Built from 14 years of proven success, Valtech’s unique Agile adoption approach includes transformational services that accelerate the performance of entire product lines by re-skilling teams to leverage Agile disciplines. Rally adds to the rollout process its award-winning Agile life cycle management products and world-renown Agile coaching services.

Rally and Valtech forge this partnership on the successes already established with joint customers including BMC Software, Channel Advisor, Darty, HP Peregrine and The Trizetto Group.

“Rally has been key in helping us transition to Agile development, and their expertise in this area was evident the first time I talked to someone there,” said Megan Sumrell, director of quality assurance for Channel Advisor. “We plan on continuing to engage Rally and Valtech’s services to ensure a successful implementation of Agile practices throughout our development organisation.”

As part of the agreement, Valtech is deploying Rally’s software life cycle management tools to all of its 800 consultants across the US, Europe and Asia.  In addition, Valtech will integrate the Rally product into its project outsourcing services in its effort to reduce the development costs so often incurred with globally distributed teams.

“Rally is a clear leader among Agile life cycle management products. Rally directly tackles the challenges enterprises face in streamlining their product development practices and sharply reduces the obstacles so typical of distributed product teams,” states Jack Carter, director of partner channels for Valtech. “With this partnership, Valtech has extended its Agile Partner Network to bring to global enterprises the benefits that Agile development has proven to be successful, and Rally’s product will help make that happen.”

“A blend of expert services and appropriate tooling is the best recipe for achieving Agile success,” said Richard Leavitt, vice president of partners and alliances for Rally. “Valtech has an incredibly deep bench of talented Agile coaches and consultants with a long track record of customer success. Together, we can be the trusted Agile partner companies seek out, to dramatically improve the results of their custom development projects.”

About Valtech

Valtech is a global software engineering company that translates business needs into effective, workable solutions for software development.  Valtech adopts an iterative approach by breaking down complex tasks into a series of small manageable stages to reduce project risk.

The company offers four key services: professional services to plug a skills gap in a project and provide IT knowledge transfer; entire project outsourcing; transformational outsourcing to facilitate a change in methodology; and functional outsourcing where Valtech staff become an internal part of a clients development team.

Valtech works with companies in a broad spectrum of market sectors including finance, aerospace, travel and government.  Its clients include Airbus, Bank of America, Man Investments and vielife.

Valtech is at the forefront of technology advancements, making early investments in Java, J2EE, XML, .NET and Web Services.  Valtech opened the first Sun J2EE Training Centre in the UK and was the first to adopt the Agile methodology in delivering offshore projects.

Valtech was founded in 1993 and its UK offices are based in London.  For further information, please visit www.valtech.co.uk.

About Rally

From an initial pilot project to enterprise rollout, Rally helps organizations succeed with Agile software development – one of the fastest growing trends in the technology industry. Rally’s Agile life cycle management products give teams the visibility and collaboration needed to deliver high-value software in rapid iterations, and its world-renown coaching services help mentor teams to create internal Agile experts. Rally maps an incremental road to Agile adoption for thousands of subscribers from leading software vendors, Internet companies and corporate development teams. Based in Boulder, Colo., the company is privately held and backed by Mobius Venture Capital, Boulder Ventures and Vista Ventures. For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.

For further information, please contact:

Kate Bartholomew/Michael Erskine

Berkeley PR

Tel: 0118 988 2992

Email: valtech@berkeleypr.co.uk

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