Rally Launches Agile Research Program

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In collaboration with the Software Engineering Institute and enterprise-class customers, the new Software Development Performance Index program will seek to quantify the performance impact of agile practices.

Rally, a provider of Agile solutions, is joining forces with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University and other software development organizations to explore the performance impact of agile practices. The Software Development Performance Index program will “quantify valuable insights about development work and provide feedback on how process and technology decisions impact development team performance.”

"Rally shares a core strategy with the Software Engineering Institute — to openly engage a broad-based community with a focus on improving the effects of software in the world," said Todd Olson, Rally's vice president of products. "Both of our organizations have a passion for pursuing research into the efficacy of Agile practices, so I'm confident that this collaborative effort will result in valuable insights."

"The Software Engineering Institute has been pursuing its own research into the efficacy of Agile practices," said Dave Zubrow, manager of software engineering measurement and analysis at SEI. "When we learned that Rally had already made good progress toward …

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