Agile project management tools company VersionOne has announced the introduction of a new Portfolio Timeline and enhanced Conversations under its Spring 2013 release.

Rapid Development, Quality Assurance (QA) and Deployment have become key drivers for IT projects to gain a competitive edge and realize financial benefits quickly. This need has driven companies to adopt various new strategies to shorten Development, QA, and Deployment durations. Agile methodology was found to be one such effective approach and most of the companies have started to embrace the same.

Planning, tracking and collaborating on a project can get trickier should there be no use of an appropriate software irrespective of size of project or a business. One such software is Zoho Projects which has seen a big makeover from its current version.

Imagine the number of applications that you have to work today ranging from simple date calendars to helpdesk systems, conference systems, project and task management softwares, emails, office tools and the list can go on. That says that we need integrations to be quite strong for the design of any product so we can use them as we like to simply our lives.

Organizations are seeing a huge benefit adopting to DevOps and Continuous Delivery and a variety of ALM applications have come to light in the recent past supporting the very concept. Serena Software is one of the leading player within the pack and no one better than Mark Slater, regional director for the UK and Ireland at Serena Software to have a quick catch up with.

Self-organizing team is one of the factors for success in Agile. Loosely it is defined as – “Self-organization is a process where some form of global order or coordination arises out of the local interactions between the components of an initially disordered system. This process is spontaneous” (Wikipedia).

With the innovation around most of the people wish to create something of their own, be it a product or a service. However the biggest challenge is to get to the word "Go". Once you start it, what i do realize is there is a cycle that no matter what, one has to go through before a business starts clicking. Patience and Passion are for sure required in abundance to really come through this cyclic phase.

A variety of solutions have come into play in last few years with an aim to simplify collaboration with in the teams and almost every product today has some collaboration feature built in. Comindware is one of the few products that has really unified collaboration, workflow system and task management to go hand in hand.

Oracle, a software giant has announced the release of Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for Process. These two products are designed to automate business processes for companies of all sizes. They also help companies to implement the efficient business process so that they can reduce cost and increase profitability.

VersionOne, a recognised leader in agile project management tools, has launched a comprehensive suite of agile visualisation products to help enabling teams to view data more easily, identify problems and collaborate, thus achieving their set goals in a more holistic manner.