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Rally Software Tops 10,000 Members on Agile Commons Social Networking Community
November 03, 2009 -- BOULDER, Colo., BUSINESS WIRE --
Editors Note: Photos and a video are included with this release.
Highlights / Key Facts
Agile CommonsTM, the online social networking community that empowers Rally Software customers and Agile practitioners to interact, exchange knowledge and ultimately improve the results of their Agile practices, has topped 10,000 users, according to Rally, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM). Rally unveiled a redesigned Agile Commons earlier this year that has more than doubled membership year to date. Rally launched Agile Commons in 2007 and was one of the first ALM providers to utilize collaborative online communities to increase customer and community engagement.
In addition to the launch of redesigned Agile Commons, Rally has continued to add new elements to the company's lineup of social media offerings throughout 2009 to drive further engagement with their customers, solicit direct product feedback and interact with the software development community at large. Rally's social media lineup now includes:
- The Agile Blog (re-launched in January 2009) currently has over 2,500 subscribers and was recently listed as #43 on Noop.nl's list of the top 200 blogs for developers
- A Rally-branded YouTube channel with dozens of educational videos, including five "chalk talk" instructional videos with Agile Fellow Jean Tabaka1.
- The Agile Manifesto
- The Agile Manifesto Iteration Retrospective
- Iteration Demo and Review
- The Daily Meeting
- Scrum Framework
- An increased presence on Twitter for supporting customers and delivering targeted Agile-related news to over 1,500 followers
- An open Rally Software group on LinkedIn to expand access to non-employees, customers and the Agile community
- A comprehensive repository of videos from Rally's Agile Success Tour on Vimeo
- A new blog from the Rally engineering team
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'We realized the value of social media early on when we launched Agile Commons in 2007,' said Ryan Martens, CTO and founder of Rally. 'Agile Commons enables us to deliver on one of the core components of Agile ' collaboration. Agile Commons and our additional social media elements give us a unique opportunity to collaborate and engage with our customers, our employees and the entire software development community.'
Links
Homepage: www.rallydev.com
Agile Commons: www.agilecommons.org
Agile Blog: http://www.rallydev.com/agileblog/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/rallysoftware
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/RallySoftware
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=872607
Rally Agile Success Tour Videos on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/rallysoftware/videos
Engineering team blog: http://www.rallydev.com/engblog/
About Rally Software
Rally is the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) dedicated to making distributed development organizations faster and leaner by dramatically cutting the time, cost and effort needed to deliver high quality applications.According to a study by QSM Associates, software-driven companies that rely on Rally's Agile ALM products and services are 50% faster to market and 25% more productive than industry averages. Rally's products were honored with four consecutive Jolt awards (the software industry's equivalent of the Oscar award) in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The company's end-to-end solutions for Agile development also include Agile University, the leading source for Agile training, and Agile Commons, the largest collaborative Web 2.0 community dedicated to advancing software agility. Rally currently supports more than 1,800 corporate customers, 48,000 projects and 75,000 users in 50 countries. For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.
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