Enthiosys and VersionOne Announce Integration of Innovation Games Online with VersionOne ALM at Agile 2009 Conference
Leaders in Agile Product Management and Project Planning Link Tools for Customer Collaboration and Prioritization
Chicago, IL – August 26th, 2009. Enthiosys, the leading provider of Agile product management strategy and consulting services, and VersionOne, recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile management tools, announced integration of their software solutions. The companies have built interfaces between the VersionOne Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform and Enthiosys’ Innovation Games® platform so that VersionOne’s customers can involve internal and external stakeholders in collaborative product development.
“As pioneers of the agile lifecycle management market, we’re always looking for ways to improve our customer’s software development process. Innovation Games Online lets our customers involve their own users into the planning cycle” said Ian Culling, VersionOne CTO. “They engage stakeholders more intimately, understand requirements better, prioritize backlogs more effectively, and thereby increase business agility.”
The Innovation Games platform currently includes two online collaborative games based on Luke Hohmann’s book “Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products through Collaborative Play.” Buy A Feature brings together groups of users to collectively decide which product features are most valuable. Prune the Product Tree lets participants collaboratively design visual representations of a product’s evolution. These online games provide rich, real-time interactions without the cost or complexity of bringing participants physically together.
“VersionOne has helped define the agile tools market, with thousands of teams at innovative software organizations worldwide” said Luke Hohmann, Enthiosys CEO. “Innovation Games Online can help these teams collaborate with customer sprint by sprint, ensuring that market inputs keep pace with Agile’s dramatically faster pace of development.”
About Enthiosys
Enthiosys is an Agile product management consulting firm that helps clients achieve business agility: delivering great results as well as great software. As the leading authority on Agile product management, the firm works collaboratively with clients to gain crucial insights into customer needs, translate those insights into superior products, and manage products across the lifecycle. Innovation Games are the seriously fun way to do serious work, providing collaborative methods and tools for understanding what customers and markets need. Innovation Games Online deliver real-time collaboration across the Internet. To learn more, visit www.Enthiosys.com and www.InnovationGames.com .
About VersionOne
VersionOne is recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile management tools. By simplifying the process of planning and tracking agile software projects, we help development teams consistently deliver software faster. Since 2002, companies such as Adobe, Dow Chemical, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Novell, Sony and Symantec have turned to VersionOne to help provide greater value to their customers. Today more than 10,000 teams and 70,000 users in 50 countries use VersionOne’s agile project management tools to streamline and standardize their agile development efforts.
Whether you’re a small, single agile team just getting started with agile development or a multi-team, global enterprise, with VersionOne you’ll get the best tools in the industry backed by the pioneers in agile project planning and management. VersionOne. Start small. Scale smart. See for yourself at www.VersionOne.com.
Media Contacts:
Jason Tanner
Enthiosys, Inc.
(919) 740-9678
jtanner@enthiosys.com
Denise Grey
VersionOne, Inc.
(+1) 678.268.3326
denise.grey@versionone.com
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