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Agile Management Solutions from CA fuel Business Agility by helping enterprises adapt how they work, how they manage and how they provide customer experience -- so they can respond fast to the changing conditions of the application economy. Connect with our Agile Experts to help you on your path to agile success.

FEATURED RESOURCE

Finding the Right Agile Software for Your Organization
Learn the four main considerations you should know prior to purchasing agile software. This guide will provide valuable insight and a handy vendor worksheet to help you sort through the criteria that matter most.

Trials

Free Trials: Get Started
Harness a software platform that helps you turn market disruptions into opportunities and improvements. CA Central’s ALM software platform gives you the power to plan, track, manage, and improve your work, so you can respond to change, deliver value faster, and delight your customers.

TechValidate
Tracking work is important. But agile is more than just tracking work. CA Agile Central has unique features like capacity planning, team planning, portfolio Kanban and release tracking to help connect the company’s most important business initiatives to its development work. Imagine connecting strategy to execution to predictably plan and reliably deliver what your customers want. Read peer reviews of CA Agile Central.

Ebooks

Recognizing the 12 Failure Modes in Agile Transformation
Agile may be simple, but it still takes work. Often, organizations fail to adopt agile methods for similar reasons, and many of these reasons are cultural. Read this eBook to learn how you can move beyond just implementing agile principles within your groups to actually achieving business agility.

Digitally Remastered: Get Agile to Digitally Transform Quickly
The path from idea to business outcome—fueled by the need to innovate for competitive advantage—is now the critical path at the heart of your business. Agile is critical to quickly innovating. Don’t get fooled into thinking that loosening up some parts of your development cycle for more iteration is the same as “doing agile.” Agile is an end-to-end system, which is why it is able to effectively drive systemic change. In this excerpt from CA CTO Otto Berkes’ book Digitally Remastered, you’ll learn why agile software development is critical to success and how to get started.

Agile Portfolio Management for a Fast Paced World
The biggest risk you can take in a fast-changing environment is to keep doing what you’re doing without adapting to change. Read this whitepaper to learn how you can keep pace with the speed of business by applying the fundamentals of Agile portfolio management. See how an adaptive mindset will increase your investment returns, decrease time to market, deliver what your customers want, and let you make better decisions going forward.

Research

Accelerating Velocity and Customer Value with Agile and DevOps
In today’s fiercely competitive environment for customer satisfaction and brand loyalty, agile and DevOps are driving happier customers and employees. Results from a new CA Technologies global study reveal that advanced users of agile or DevOps realized significant increases of up to 52 percent in customer satisfaction and up to 50 percent in employee productivity. Read and learn how your organization can excel.

Five Criteria for Choosing Enterprise Agile Development Software
Agile software development is no longer just for startups or considered merely a fad – it is a requirement for any successful, modern, and adaptive development organization. If you are ready to start researching agile software development platforms, the whitepaper is a must read. It identifies the five key criteria you should consider when selecting an enterprise agile solution as well as why Apprize360 believes CA Agile Central Provides one of the strongest agile development management solutions in the industry.

Whitepapers

A CIO’s Guide: Five Steps to Business Agility
As a CIO, you’re an executive sponsor and leader who’s key to achieving business agility and making it your competitive advantage in today’s fast-moving application economy. This CIO's Guide: Five Steps to Business Agility identifies the steps and mindset changes you need to successfully transform your organization and make that transformation stick.

How to Kill Agility
Effective metrics and measurements are critical to running a high-performance business. Properly applied, they lead you to better insights, better decisions and better business outcomes. But many businesses misuse these powerful tools in ways that actively destroy the agility they seek to create. In this paper, we highlight nine mistakes organizations make involving agile measurement at enterprise scale — and how to do it right.

Discover the Benefits of Agile
As the pace of change accelerates and disruption becomes the norm, the most successful companies will differentiate themselves by sensing market opportunities and responding more readily and confidently than their competition. Read this “introduction to Agile” whitepaper to learn more about Agile, Lean, and Scrum approaches and how you can jump start your path to organizational agility.

Case Studies

Cisco Case Study
Cisco, the largest networking company, accelerates innovation and boosts its competitive advantage while delivering new IT capabilities quickly and cost-effectively. Read how the global IT team took a new approach to how it serviced employees and partners.

TeamQuest Case Study
Read how TeamQuest, an IT optimization company, can release new products every quarter instead of twice a year. The agile adoption has been so successful for the engineering team that the company is looking into how it can benefit its customer support team.

Other Resources

Why Your PMO Should go Agile
Business demands have shifted and business pressures have intensified, putting increased pressure on the PMO. Finishing late now means finishing last and missing the opportunities for growth. The PMO needs to level-up performance to meet the business demands of the digital age. Review this infographic to see why your PMO should go agile.

Four Ways Financial Institutions Find Value in Agile
Today's consumers want banking that's seamless, quick, inexpensive, relevant and personalized. The number of non-traditional banking choices is on the rise, and customers—especially millennials—are curious. And if they don't get what they want from their current bank, people won't hesitate to switch to a new one. To compete effectively in this disrupted, globally connected and rapidly evolving industry, many financial services providers are undergoing digital transformations and adopting agile practice. Read this paper to see the four reasons.

Integrated Solution Overview: CA PPM and CA Agile Central
The integrated solution of CA Project & Portfolio Management and CA Agile Central (formerly Rally) helps you effectively balance agility and governance by connecting the work of agile teams to your enterprise portfolio. Supporting an evolutionary approach to adopting agile, the solution lets you continue using traditional methods, while growing agile adoption to deliver on portfolio investments faster—with higher quality and predictable business results. A holistic view across all projects helps portfolio managers optimize budgets and resources for maximum return on investment.
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