ThoughtWorks Studios Launches New 'Business Agility Review' Service for Agile Benchmarking and Planning

ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- ThoughtWorks Studios (www.thoughtworks-studios.com), a global leader in Agile ALM solutions, today announced Business Agility Review, a new service that helps IT organizations clearly understand their current state of Agile practice adoption and provides recommendations for efficiently and effectively scaling Agile across the enterprise. The two-day, on-site service is offered through the ThoughtWorks Studios Agile Workshop series, a set of training programs that help development organizations adopt proven best practices for all aspects of Agile ALM.

"As Agile practices move deeper into the enterprise many organizations want to take stock of the investments and progress they have made, and develop a clear roadmap that takes into consideration their own, unique requirements," said Adam Monago, vice president of client services for ThoughtWorks Studios. "Business Agility Review provides a process to quickly gain true visibility into the state of the organization's Agile transition program and develop guidance around education and awareness, human resources, as well as tools and technologies that will work best to achieve a highly productive Agile program."

Based on ThoughtWorks' extensive experience developing and managing enterprise-wide Agile engagements, Business Agility Review consists of in-depth interviews with key technical and business stakeholders to obtain a holistic view of the entire application development process. There are six areas of focus around management practices, including; assurance, communication, governance, metrics, quality responsiveness and shared responsibility. On the technical side, the Review focuses on build and deploy, configuration management, requirements, simplicity and testing. The result is a detailed report that provides both the analysis of an organization's Agile readiness and specific recommendations for future success. The recommendations may include tools, training or services, such as delivery, coaching or consulting, from across ThoughtWorks broad portfolio of offerings.

ThoughtWorks Studios Agile Workshops are a compliment to Adaptive ALM™, the company's integrated Agile ALM solution designed to support the hybrid nature of Agile processes and the requisite management and engineering practices. It manages the entire software lifecycle – from requirements definition and portfolio management to test automation, quality assurance and release management. The Agile Workshops provide customers with the training needed to improve program visibility and performance. Covering all aspects of Agile ALM, ThoughtWorks Agile Workshops are taught by highly experienced development experts. The workshops are grouped into four primary areas of practice, including: Agile Foundations (core training around technical and business requirements), Team Collaboration and Project Management, Testing and Quality Assurance, and Continuous Build and Release Management (including Continuous Delivery).

For complete information on the entire ThoughtWorks Agile Workshops curriculum, please visit http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/services/agile-workshops. For more information on the Business Agility Review offering, please visit http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/services/technical-solutions/BAR.

About ThoughtWorks Studios

ThoughtWorks Studios is the global leader in Agile ALM tools and training. A division of ThoughtWorks®, the pioneer in Agile development and best-practices, it offers the only holistic, fully integrated delivery lifecycle platform designed exclusively for sustainable, enterprise-wide Agile ALM success. Based on ThoughtWorks ground-breaking experience and commitment to software excellence, Adaptive ALM™ helps organizations manage all aspects of the software development lifecycle – from requirements definition and portfolio management to test automation, quality assurance and release management. The company also provides in-depth training courses that cover all facets of Agile ALM through its Agile Workshops series. Customers include 3M, Barclays, BBC, eBay, Honeywell, McGraw-Hill, Rackspace and Vodafone. ThoughtWorks Studios is headquartered in San Francisco and Bangalore, with offices in London and select cities in Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, please visit www.thoughtworks-studios.com.

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