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The pilot program for our new Agile Essentials For Project Teams training program is wrapping up, and we recently announced special pricing on the class for teams in North America through the end of 2011. Now’s your chance to train up to 20 members of your development organization in Agile concepts, without the costs typically associated with private training. Seapine is offering 15 private classes at a greatly reduced rate through the end of the year. All-inclusive pricing starts at only $4,995. Contact Agile Services for more information and to sign-up.

Building a Lego dune buggy during Agile Essentials class

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Remember when you used to be able to track test cases and pass/fail results in a simple spreadsheet? It took all of 30 minutes a week to update the data, and no one asked for it more often than that. However, over time, the need for more precise and timely test information grew and the spreadsheet grew too. At the same time, the applications you test also became more complex. You started with 100 test cases but you’re currently up to 400 and counting.

Your spreadsheet now includes more information about each test case, such as when a test case was run, how long it took, where it failed, if a defect report was created, how long it took the defect to be resolved, and much more. That spreadsheet now has several dozen columns, with a jumble of dates, numbers, and text. You can’t easily view or report on the data you’re tracking.

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There were many updates to our blog on November. Here is our monthly recap:

Three Quick Ways to Tweak the Default Requirements Workflow – Explains how to make three quick tweaks to the sample workflow: configuring when requirements and requirement documents are locked, enabling test cases to be generated from requirements, and configuring the workflow states and events.

Collaborative Agile Task Board Boosts TestTrack – Shows how easy the Agile Task Board is when using it in TestTrack.

Webinar Recording – Agile XXL: Scaling Agile for Project Teams – Discusses the people, process, and tools that must be in harmony before you can successfully scale an enterprise Agile team.

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