Enthiosys and Serena Announce Integration of Innovation Games Online with Agile On Demand
Leaders in Application Development and Agile Product Management Demonstrate Collaborative Roadmapping and Customer Prioritization at Agile 2009 Conference
Chicago, IL – August 25th, 2009. Enthiosys, the leading provider of agile product management strategy and consulting services, and Serena Software, the leader in application management tools, today announced integration of their software solutions. The companies have built interfaces between Serena’s Agile On Demand suite of development solutions and Enthiosys’ Innovation Game® Online collaborative tools. Serena customers can now use Innovation Games Online to involve stakeholders in collaborative product planning, organize project portfolios, and prioritize feature backlogs.
“We’re excited to give our application development customers a new way to gather and understand customer input” said Jeff McKenna, Chief Agile Evangelist at Serena Software. “Our Agile On Demand users can reach out to their customers and stakeholders for real-time interactive collaboration about product plans and priorities. The Agile 2009 Conference is an ideal place to demonstrate this capability.”
Innovation Game Online includes two collaborative games based on Luke Hohmann’s book “Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products through Collaborative Play.” Buy A Feature Online is the seriously fun way to prioritize serious – and not so serious – things with other people. Prune the Product Tree Online is the seriously fun way to visually collaborate in solving complex problems of corporate and product strategy.
“Serena’s world-class software development community is a perfect audience for Innovation Games” said Luke Hohmann, Enthiosys CEO. “Improving the market responsiveness and customer intuition of software teams and their product managers will boost their business ability and have a direct positive impact on revenue. Enthiosys is honored to have Serena as a partner.”
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 de
liver real-time collaboration across the Internet.
About Serena Software, Inc.
Serena is a privately owned company, headquartered in Redwood City, California, with 29 offices in 14 countries and more than 700 employees. Serena provides software on premise and on demand to over 15,000 customers including 96 of the Fortune 100. Serena enables teams of programmers to become more efficient by standardizing and automating development processes across both mainframe and distributed environments. Serena enables IT business analysts and power users to improve productivity with a new generation of Web 2.0 tools to build Business Mashups. Serena® Business Mashups can be used to automate common, everyday processes; they are visual and do not require coding. Serena also enables IT executives to gain visibility into their projects, resources and costs – CIOs should have access to the same quality of information about IT as the CFO has about Finance. For more information on Serena, visit http://www.serena.com.
Media Contact:
Jason Tanner
Enthiosys, Inc.
(919) 740-9678
jtanner@enthiosys.com
Enthiosys, the Enthiosys logo and Innovation Games are registered trademarks of Enthiosys Inc. Serena and the Serena logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Serena Software, Inc. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
