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CONFERENCE SPONSOR Rally is the #1 partner for Agile success through its family of products, coaching and community support. With a dedicated focus on Agile, Rally helps software organizations of all sizes incrementally adopt Agile C:0 M:90 Y:86 K:0 practices to shorten their development cycles and collaborate across distributed teams and silos. Rally’s on-demand Agile lifecycle management products were honored with three-time Jolt Product Excellence Awards (the industry’s Oscars) in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and support over 300 corporate customers and 12,000 subscribers across 30 countries. www.rallydev.com INDuSTRy SPONSORS Borland is the leading vendor of Open Application lifecycle Management (AlM) solutions—open to customers’ processes, tools and platforms—providing the flexibility to manage, measure and improve the software delivery process. Borland offers integrated Open AlM products, services and training to help customers transform software delivery into a managed business process. www.borland.com Mountain goat Software was founded by Mike Cohn, author of Agile Estimating and Planning and User Stories Applied, to offer coaching and training that helps teams succeed with agile. Onsite and public courses include Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Effective User Stories for Agile Requirements, and Agile Estimating and Planning. www.mountaingoatsoftware.com Net Objectives provides targeted lean-Agile Training Solutions with coordinated technical offerings in design patterns and test-driven development to help you foster sustainability, and deliver product and business value faster. We offer the most comprehensive lean-Agile curriculum in the industry, Professional Scrum Certifications, Assessments, on-site Training, custom curricula, Coaching, and Enterprise Agility Consulting services for teams, management and IT. www.netobjectives.com SolutionsIQ offers a full spectrum of services to develop software and fulfill technical talent needs, while improving your Agile knowledge and capabilities. A Microsoft gold Certified Partner, clients include AT&T, Amazon, Corbis, Expedia, Federal Home loan Bank, InfoSpace, Key Bank, Microsoft, Nordstrom, Safeco, and US Bank. learn more at www.SolutionsIQ.com VersionOne is recognized by Agile practitioners as the leader in Agile project management tools. 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. Since 2002, companies such as Adobe, Siemens, Sabre, Disney, IBM, lockheed Martin, Sony, 3M and Business Objects have turned to versionOne. www.versionone.com IN COOPERATION WITH MEDIA SPONSORS PLUS SEE THESE EXHIBITORS AND SPONSORS AT THE EXPO (NOVEMBER 12–13) Please note, these are the sponsors and exhibitors as of the brochure printing. Visit the Web site below for the most up-to-date information. AccuRev ACM Queue Addison-Wesley Professional and Prentice Hall Professional Agile Project Leadership Network Better Software Magazine Borland CM Crossroads CoDe Magazine InfoQ Methods & Tools Mountain goat Software Net Objectives Quantitative Software Management Questcon Technologies Rally Software Development Scrum Alliance Software Quality Engineering SolutionsIQ SQE Training StickyMinds.com TargetProcess TechExcel VersionOne Agile Development Practices 2008 sponsors are listed in bold. For sponsor/exhibitor news and updates, visit: www.sqe.com/agiledevpractices 26 CAll 888.268.8770 OR 904.278.0524 TO REgISTER • W W W. S Q E . C O M /A D P R E g http://www.rallydev.com http://www.rallydev.com http://www.borland.com http://www.borland.com http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com http://www.netobjectives.com http://www.netobjectives.com http://www.SolutionsIQ.com http://www.SolutionsIQ.com http://www.versionone.com http://www.versionone.com http://StickyMinds.com http://StickyMinds.com http://www.sqe.com/agiledevpractices http://WWW.SQE.COM/ADPREg

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Agile Conference Brochure Contents Conference-at-a-Glance The EXPO Special Events Conference Speaker Index 36 In-Depth Pre-conference Tutorials 4 Keynote Presentations 42 Concurrent Classes Agile Leadership Summit by APLN Conference Venue and Things to Do in Orlando, FL Conference Sponsors & Exhibitors Registration Information Event Location Ways to Save

Better Software - September 2008

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