Agile2021 Global Partner

Since 2001, we have supported the agile movement as the only member-driven For Impact certifying body in the agile space. As a trade association, we were founded and funded by the community for the community, a privilege we take seriously. We continue to nurture the agile movement by providing education, advocacy, research, community, and connection.
Our vision is to be a trusted ally for our members as they create a world of work that is joyful, prosperous, and sustainable. Join us in our mission to empower members as they inspire and guide individuals and organizations with agile practices, principles, and values.
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Apptio is the leading software to fuel digital transformation. We help technology and finance leaders make smart decisions as they plan, analyze, and optimize technology investments in pursuit of digital transformation. Apptio’s software uses machine learning to translate technology costs and utilization across on-premises systems, vendors, projects, agile and cloud systems into a holistic, business-centric view. With Apptio, IT leaders make smarter digital transformation investments. Companies of all sizes and geographies trust Apptio to fuel their digital transformation, including 50% of the Fortune 100.

Atlassian's mission is to unleash the potential in every team. Our products help teams organize, discuss, and complete their work. And what teams do can change the world. We have helped NASA teams design the Mars Rover, Cochlear teams develop hearing implants and hundreds of thousands of other teams do amazing things. We have an incredible opportunity to help millions more teams in organizations across nearly every industry. Teamwork is hard. We make it easier.

Rally Software® from Broadcom is an enterprise-class agile management platform that is purpose built for scaling agile development practices for organizations that rely on transparency, efficiency, and accountability from empowered teams to deliver business value. Rally is part of the ValueOps solution from Broadcom. With ValueOps you can fund, plan and manage value streams across the enterprise, connecting executives and product development teams to ensure all are aligned to the product strategy with the data required to make informed decisions – from concept to cash.

Excellarate is a global technology services and solutions company with more than two decades of domain expertise in health, insurance, finance, and enterprise technologies. We empower businesses to drive innovation, achieve business agility, and speed time-to-market with cutting-edge technologies and solutions.
Excellarate solves complex business problems with simple, tangible solutions. Our teams of skilled and dedicated engineers utilize innovative frameworks to promote digital transformation and accelerate product roadmaps. Following an agile approach, we tailor our work to meet your needs and deliver reliable solutions on time.

We founded FLA on our success, helping companies bridge the gaps between strategy and effective Agile operations. Our goal is to support folks along their journey to Business Agility beyond the workshop, classroom or consulting engagement. We do this through our community, events, and our Youtube Show Flight Club. We wanted a way to help more people without always travelling and embracing modern and virtual learning environments and personalising hands-on coaching.

The digital and the cognitive revolutions are affecting how companies connect with users and employees. Companies are simultaneously looking to boost their consumer experiences and to transform themselves internally. Globant is a pure play on the digital and cognitive space. We leverage the latest technologies and methodologies to help organizations transform in every aspect. We want to transform the world, one step at a time. We thrive by transforming organizations for a digital and cognitive future, and we dream to transform our industry with world-class opportunities for talent around the globe
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Learn how to apply an agile perspective within a business analysis framework and discover new opportunities in agile analysis and product ownership analysis. The International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®) is a professional association dedicated to supporting business analysis professionals to deliver better business outcomes. IIBA connects almost 30,000 Members, over 120 Chapters, and more than 500 training, academic, and enterprise partners around the world. As the global voice of the business analysis community, IIBA supports recognition of the profession, networking and community engagement, standards and resource development, and comprehensive certification programs.

LeadingAgile is a fast-growing consulting company that is 100% focused on helping large enterprises solve complex business problems through the systematic application of Agile delivery methods across the entire organization. We’re committed to engaging in a way that respects where each company is today while laying a foundation for where it needs to be in the future. Our goal is to help your organization safely make a meaningful shift toward greater Business Agility and enable you to achieve better business outcomes through the pragmatic implementation of Agile methodologies.

Lucid offers two cloud-based visual productivity applications utilized in over 175 countries by more than 14 million users. Lucidchart is a visual productivity platform helping anyone understand and share ideas, information, and processes with clarity. Lucidpress is an intuitive design and brand management platform for creating on-brand content.
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Planview has a single focus on helping enterprises transform strategy to delivery in today’s fast-paced, highly-disruptive markets. Our solutions create organizational focus on the strategic outcomes that matter and empower teams to deliver their best work, no matter how they work. Planview is uniquely positioned to help organizations navigate strategy to delivery transformation by providing the full spectrum of enterprise Portfolio Management and Work Management solutions.
Imagine adapting to the changing world of work,realizing agile at scale, creating a culture of innovation, and making the product shift.
Planview makes it possible.

As the world’s leading authority on project management, PMI empowers people to make ideas a reality. Through global advocacy, networking, collaboration, research, and education, PMI prepares organizations and individuals to work smarter in an ever-changing and dynamic world.
Building on a proud legacy dating to 1969, PMI is a “for-purpose” organization working in nearly every country around the world to advance careers, strengthen organizational success, and enable changemakers with new skills and ways of working to maximize their impact. PMI offerings include globally recognized standards, certifications, online courses, thought leadership, tools, digital publications, and communities.

Scaled Agile, Inc., is the provider of SAFe®, the world’s leading framework for business agility. Through learning and certification, a global partner network, and a growing community of over 800,000 trained professionals, Scaled Agile helps enterprises build agility into their culture so they can quickly identify and deliver customer value, capitalize on emerging opportunities, and improve business outcomes. Scaled Agile is a contributing member of the Pledge 1% corporate philanthropy and community service movement. Learn more at scaledagile.com.

Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. We are focused on helping people learn through free online resources, consistent, experiential live training led by our more than 340 Professional Scrum Trainers around the world, ongoing learning paths, and certification to validate their knowledge. Scrum.org supports people wherever they are on their learning journey from beginner to highly experienced practitioner helping them to grow over time. Through our community we provide the opportunity to share knowledge and gain new insights with other community members.

ServiceNow Enterprise Agile solutions provide visibility into the entire software value stream. ServiceNow enables you to prioritize, plan and manage agile portfolios to deliver optimal business value; and makes work execution easier so your teams can deliver products and services faster. For information please visit Agile Development and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
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SparkPlug Agility is an agile consultancy committed to unlocking the potential of individuals, teams, and organizations. In addition to helping professionals achieve success in establishing and growing the agile mindset, we are uniquely focused on developing the next generation of agile leaders. SparkPlug’s intensive training programs are designed specifically for up-and-coming coaches and trainers to take the next step in their careers. Our coaching and consulting options enable a personalized approach to problem solving, applying over 20 years of industry and leadership expertise to today’s unique challenges.Visit our website

For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people, and led by our purpose, we partner with our clients from design to operation. Through our nimble approach, we identify their core challenges and craft disruptive solutions that bring their vision to life. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, we embed innovation and agility into our clients’ organizations – delivering measurable value and lasting change across industries, and around the world. Together, with over 26,000 employees in 25 countries, we build for boundless impact – touching billions of lives in the process.

Adventures With Agile is a professional community of practice that offers the highest quality training and coaching available anywhere in the world. We use a coaching approach that puts people over processes and our job is to make your working life better. Helping you with your own development so that you can help your teams, your departments, and your whole organization to be better.

Are you facing a talent gap in your shift to Digital and Agile ways of working? You're not alone. Many leaders have a real need to accelerate and scale developing new roles and re-skilling existing team members on new practices and ways of working. Top priority roles include Team Coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Release Train Engineers and Managers. This session will explain how to accelerate the development of Digital and Agile skills by measuring individual role maturity across defined competencies with a Learn > Measure > Grow > Mentor approach.

At CertiProf, our goal is to foster the professional development and growth of all the lifelong learners in the community. Through deep partnerships and a steadfast dedication to listening to our community, CertiProf has been enhancing professional lives since 2015, offering a wide range of IT certifications and agile framework training with recognized international validity. CertiProf works directly with our partners to provide key tools that align training and certifications for a seamless experience. Best of all, the content of both the courses and certifications allow lifelong learners to greatly increase their knowledge in the areas of their choosing while networking with like-minded individuals.
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LitheSpeed Lean-Agile-DevOps experts help organizations enable Business Agility through strategic consulting, team coaching and enterprise training. We offer a uniquely pragmatic approach, having supported hundreds of Agile transformations across industries. Our consultants have shaped management strategy for two decades to judiciously implement Lean Portfolio Management, including with SAFe. Our Business Agility Sparks drive team, program and portfolio-level transformation, from building a dynamic strategy to establishing an Agile Value Management Office® CIO Review named us one 2020’s Top 10 Agile Consulting/Training Services Providers for innovative work in Lean Portfolio Management and Leadership Development.

Modernization – it’s about effectively and efficiently supporting federal agencies to deliver services to people. It's about using automation and integration to streamline user engagement and operations. That’s what we do. We develop solutions for federal agencies that create synergies between people, processes, and technology at scale. Using Agile delivery, we augment and enhance your development life cycle, empowering teams to deliver 98% defect-free code in as few as 15 minutes. The result? User friendly technology that works. Carry your organization through 2021 and beyond. Ask for a demo and learn how we can help you rapidly deploy technology solutions to meet your mission objectives.
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Published in Fremont, California, CIOReview (www.cioreview.com) is one of the leading print magazines in the US. It is the knowledge platform where C-suite executives deliberate on critical market challenges and current technological trends across industries. We are a unique magazine because all of our contributors are senior executives from the industry.

Whether are you a programmer, developer, or project manager InformIT has the most comprehensive collection of agile books, eBooks, and video training from the top thought leaders including Bob Martin, Ken Rubin, Mike Cohn, Lyssa Adkins, and more. This includes books from Pearson Addison-Wesley, proud publisher of The Agile Manifesto signers Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Jim Highsmith, Alistair Cockburn, and Ward Cunningham. Agile 2021 attendees can save 35% on books and eBooks with coupon code AGILE2021.

For nearly 30 years, Manning Publications has been an innovative and reliable source of knowledge. As an independent publisher of technology books, video courses, and hands-on tutorials—Manning has empowered software developers, engineers, architects, system administrators, and managers with the skills needed to take their careers to the next level.
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