This is the third year in a row that Rally Software has won the Jolt Product Excellence Award in the Project Management Tools category . The Jolt awards are one my favorite nerd awards handed out by Dr. Dobb’s Journal .
If you are a software developer and have the word “agile” in your vocabulary, you should take a serious look at Rally’s products . I’ve been an investor in the company almost since inception and am tickled whenever I think about the amazing job the team at Rally has made in nailing the next wave of application lifecycle management. When Rally was starting out in 2001, there was a lot of “Agile what?” from people. Now Agile and software development – and Rally – are rapidly becoming synonymous.
Rally just issued its 2008.1 release which – among other things – includes new integration connectors for IBM Rational ClearQuest, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, and Seapine TestTrackPro. Who says you need to replace your software tooling to really go agile?