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Compuware unveils Agile Accelerator

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GARDEN GROVE, USA: Compuware Corporation has announced that it is helping its customers more effectively manage Agile development efforts by offering the Agile Accelerator, a pre-configured version of its market-leading IT portfolio management solution (ITPM), Changepoint.

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IT organizations are embracing Agile delivery methods to improve responsiveness to the business. To maintain a comprehensive view of the overall project portfolio, Agile projects must be managed along with more traditional waterfall type projects in the same environment.

Changepoint's Agile Accelerator delivers best practices to support the agile development process and the associated reporting requirements, giving customers a starting point to manage agile development within a broader portfolio of projects, added press release.

"We are looking forward to utilizing Changepoint's new Agile Accelerator to improve the effectiveness of our SCRUM methodology," said Greg Livingston, director of I.S. Planning and Systems Development for Shaw Industries, Inc.

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"One of the most effective ways to improve the effectiveness of a team is to give that team more control over its own destiny. Agile provides a very clear set of approaches to team empowerment that can add value to any PMBOK-oriented management approach," wrote Dave West, senior analyst at Forrester Research.

He added, "Using Agile methods has the potential to improve the degree of trust between the customer and the development team, enabling more-fluid delivery of requirements and more-efficient decision-making."

"While interest and adoption in Agile development are increasing, IT organizations are still also using traditional approaches. This requires a flexible ITPM solution to manages the total project portfolio and support these different methodologies," said Lori Ellsworth, vice president of Compuware Changepoint Solutions.

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Compuware Changepoint is a business-centric IT management solution that enables IT executives to take a comprehensive approach to managing supply and demand, unlocking the potential of an IT organization to effectively meet the needs of the business.

Using Changepoint, CIOs can deliver maximum business value through enhanced IT performance, improved collaboration between IT and business leadership, closer alignment of resources and activities with the business strategy, increased responsiveness to changing business needs and more effective life cycle management of the entire IT portfolio.

Recently, Compuware Changepoint was placed in the "leaders" quadrant of Gartner Inc.'s "Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio

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