Aculis - A team of technical experts dedicated to providing high quality and innovative software services in three key areas: quality assurance, onsite staffing, and localization. Their experts understand all aspects of the development life cycle - including how software services fit into modern development methodologies such as Extreme Programming, AGILE and the Rational Unified Process. In addition, Aculis understands the benefits of establishing and maintaining high quality assurance requirements.
ASK Processes, Inc. - ASK Process specializes in Software Quality and Process Improvement. We provide Consulting Services, Training, and Public Speaking on these topics. ASK Process is a Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Transition Partner for the Personal Software ProcessSM (PSPSM) and Team Software ProcessSM (TSPSM). They have produced books and articles about Agile Development and about the CMMI.
Evo: Evolutionary Delivery - Evo is an evolutionary project organization method that has elements of Agile project planning. This software development methodology is characterised by short short development cycles and each development cycle having a complete waterfall (requirements - architecture - design - realisation - test - delivery).
eXoftware - At eXoftware is committed to advancing eXtreme Programming throughout the software development industry. A key to this objective is giving IT professionals access to comprehensive XP training.
Head Strong - A global consultancy with a 20+ year history delivering targeted solutions and a full complement of services from assessment to implementation to maintenance using multi-shore resources and global project management, methods and standards.
Industrial Logic - Bay Area based Extreme Programming company, offering training and coaching world-wide, including The Extreme Programming Workshop and The Testing & Refactoring Workshop.
Learning Patterns - Created by Rick Hightower, CTO of LearningPatterns and author of the best selling software development book, "Using Java Tools for eXtreme Programming", this three day comprehensive workshop with get your team up and running with XP - Agile concepts in three intense, hands-on days.
Menlo Innovations - The Menlo Institute exists to teach the principles learned from Thomas Edison and in The Menlo Software Factory. We seek to improve the software development community through formal training classes, free resources and process mentoring services. These offerings are designed to speak to visionaries, executives, managers and developers.
Object Mentor - Home of the fantastic XP Immersion class, and some of the very best XP consultants around.
Founded in 1991 by Robert C. Martin, Object Mentor is a team of highly experienced software professionals specializing in object-oriented technologies and Agile/XP development methodologies. With an average of just over 22 years of programming experience, Object Mentor's strength lies in its people. This experienced team provides leadership through consulting, training, mentoring, and development services.
Object Mentor is an advocate of object-oriented software technologies and cutting-edge Agile development methodologies. The company strives to define, lead and and advance the software community by regularly publishing books, papers, articles, and talks on a variety of state-of-the-art topics in C++, Java, Agile/XP and Object-Oriented Design.
For example, in 1998, Object Mentor helped to define the Agile development method known as Extreme Programming. In 2000, Object Mentor helped form the Agile Alliance — a group of professionals dedicated to the advocacy of lean and emergent software methods. Today, Object Mentor continues to lead the software industry.
SurgeWorks - Surgeworks specializes in rapid application development with Ruby on Rails. Some of the best Rails developers in the world are on our star team. We know Rails and we know how to make it work for you. We also have experts in a variety of other technologies, including PHP, .NET, Java, C++, and system administration.
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