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  • DevOps Chats: XebiaLabs/CollabNet Version One Merger Executive Discussion

    DevOps Chats: XebiaLabs/CollabNet Version One Merger Executive Discussion

    In this special DevOps Chats Video Edition we dive into the XebiaLabs/CollabNet Version One Merger. Joining us for this video discussion is the CEO of the new company, Ashok Reddy and President and former XebiaLabs CEO, Derek Langone.

    Ashok, Derek and devopsy.kinsta.cloud editor-in-chief, take a deep dive into the reasons for this merger and what it means in the end-to-end DevOps market.

    Have a listen for some great background on this merger and what we can expect to see in the market soon. Below is the transcript of the conversation if you would like to read along.

    Transcript

    Alan Shimel: Hey, everyone, this is Alan Shimel for devopsy.kinsta.cloud, and you’re listening to another one of our—actually, our video DevOps Chat edition. Thanks for joining us.

    We have a great DevOps Chat video lined up for today. As many in our audience know and in the DevOps community, last week was a pretty exciting week with continued consolidation in the DevOps space. The big story was a merger, acquisition, private equity—I’ll let them define it, but the joining of XebiaLabs with the CollabNet VersionOne team, financed by a private equity company. And then kinda the surprise cherry on the cake was the addition of a CEO, a pretty well-known name to us in the DevOps community for both his days at IBM, CA/Broadcom, Ashok Reddy, as CEO. And we’re lucky enough to have Ashok Reddy, CEO of the new company. I’m gonna let Ashok handle the name.

    And joining Ashok is a friend of ours who needs no introduction in the DevOps space, our friend Derek Langone. Derek is the CEO of XebiaLabs, you know, one of the main companies in this merger, and Derek will be the president of the new entity going forward.

    So, Ashok, Derek—welcome to DevOps Chat. Thanks for joining us.

    Ashok Reddy: Thank you, Alan. Great to be here. Thanks for inviting us.

    Derek Langone: Hi, Alan.

    Shimel: Yeah—no, it’s great. Okay. So, guys, let’s jump into this. Ashok, as I said, you need no introduction in the DevOps space. You’ve accomplished, between mainframe and DevOps and IBM and CA, you’re an accomplished executive in this space. What motivated you to come on board here as the CEO of this new entity, and also would you mind—I don’t even know, I’m not sure what to call the new entity. Should I call it Xebia, CollabNet, some Newco? I’m not sure. So, go ahead.

    Reddy: Yeah, so start with that. I think we are working on, obviously, we’re doing a branding initiative. We’ll be coming up with a new name shortly.

    But as well, Alan, I think in terms of, you know, why did I join this is, it’s really, in the past, if you look at what I personally have done is focused more on transforming existing businesses, very large businesses, whether it’s in the Mainframe or in the large existing portfolios, and I think that was very good in terms of what I did there.

    But what I found here with TPG, as a private equity firm, which is very well known for transforming, the investments they make are really transforming industries. As examples, TPG was an investor in Spotify or Uber, an early investor in Airbnb and some other companies like Chobani and others where, they’ve kind of transformed the industry. So, when they had this thesis around DevOps is one of the most important transformational things going on in the industry, and there’s really, it’s not just a consolidation, but really, coming up with a true platform all the way from end to end, from how do you define value to how do you measure value and how do you plan and track and deploy and secure?

    To me, it was more of a sort of just transforming existing things to build out a new platform with, starting with some of the best of breed companies, right, technologies. So, to me, that was really what the attractive part is. Plus, you know, we can define—there’s no boundaries in terms of which industries and customers we want to, but really, truly focus outside in from the market perspective, and every company is becoming digital, everybody talks about that, but I don’t think we have a platform which really provides that.

    So, I think that’s really why I changed. And also, you know, in terms of the naming, as I said, we are still working on something which is, represents the broader platform we are building and not just the things, what we have today.

    Shimel: Fair enough. Derek, I’m gonna ask you a slight—I’m gonna ask you the same kind of subject, but slightly different. Hey, man, you’re CEO, you know, you’re the boss, and now you’re president of the new company which obviously still covers a lot of territory, a lot of responsibility. But, you know, as an organization, why did you feel it was best for Xebia to do this, and then you personally, right? Is this—where do you see, you know, what gets you excited about your role in this new adventure?

    Langone: Yeah, so, I’ll try to answer that a couple ways, Alan. First, from a business perspective, why this made sense—I mean, as you followed our progression at XebiaLabs over the years, you know, we’ve established ourselves as a premier vendor to large enterprises and helping them, you know, sort of realize real release orchestration and deployment automation and now reporting on important aspects of the software life cycle.

    And we’ve been able to gather meaningful clients, you know, the largest banks, insurance companies, airlines, health insurers use our platform because it’s so scalable and so robust. However, the feedback we got from customers quite often was,  “Hey, you know, you really only own a small slice of my life cycle, and what is sort of adjacent to you is a tapestry of individual tools that we’ve woven together, and it would be great if you had a wider footprint.”

    So, the opportunity with TPG, looking at the market, and the opportunity at the very, very top of the market in the Global 5000 to create an enterprise scale platform gave us the chance to consolidate with CollabNet VersionOne to put two best of breed technologies together to have much more of a horizontal influence on the software life cycle and the power of those two pieces together really does give you that formula of one plus one equals three or greater. So, that was what was exciting from a business perspective.

    For me personally, it’s terrific to be able to have Ashok as a leader in our organization and someone that I can learn from. And you’re absolutely right, I’ve been the CEO, so I’ve sort of been the boss. However, I’ll tell you, it’s an easy transition, for two reasons. Number one, Ashok’s a great leader with an incredible track record and a skill set that I would like to learn from. And then, number two, I haven’t been the boss at home for many years, so it was sort of an easy transition to not being the boss at work.

    Shimel: [Laughter] Amen to that, brother. I’m with ya. We won’t tell anyone—no one’s listening, though, don’t worry.

    So, we’ve got this new entity now, which represents the assets of CollabNet VersionOne, XebiaLabs kind of put together. Ashok, you mentioned sort of best of breed technologies within their places.

    Let’s lay it out for our audience, right? Where are the strengths of this new entity? Where is the best of breed functionality? You know, when we look, I call it the end to end DevOps kinda market, right, the players who are trying to do end to end DevOps. No one has the whole enchilada yet.

    But as you sit here today, gentleman, where do you see the strengths? Where are the real assets of this new entity today?

    Reddy: Yeah, no, I think it’s—so, let me start with, you know, when you start with the overall, it’s really, the focus is value stream management, for example. Companies who look at how do I measure value; how do I look at agile? From an agile planning perspective, I think there is, VersionOne is best of breed in the sense it was built ground up to be almost like a reference architecture for the same framework. If somebody is adopting the new, say, 5.0, for example, updated where it’s got value streams and how do I drive value streams—it’s actually built for it. All the way from how do I blueprint things to how do I create epics and stories to be able to plan and do the resource planning?

     So, that’s one aspect of it, but then the second part is, even with CollabNet, you know, people kind of forget CollabNet started many of this open source movement around Subversion and it’s, 35% of the market today still uses Subversion.

    But the Git part, which is where I find not many people know that, but you have Git which is secure Git. Because many times, there is many vectors, the three security vectors in enterprises—if you used distributed Git, you don’t get. And something like CollabNet actually has implemented really strong security protocols and a centralized way of managing, so you can actually manage Git in a centralized way with secure. And the people like Intel, you know, tens of thousands of people use it.

    So, you have a system of record in agile planning and resources to the source control and version management in CollabNet and in the TeamForge SCM, which is a part of GitAgile. Then, of course XebiaLabs. I mean, I think, you know, we competed with XebiaLabs in the past, but it’s really in terms of how XebiaLabs was, you know, both from a release automation to release orchestration, because it can do it without actually having scripts and people—scripts break in a transformation. Things change. The technology is platform agnostic. It can run on any cloud, supports on any cloud. And just being end to end, and now they have complete visibility with AI and machine learning.

    So, I think those are the three elements which I feel like are the best of breed. And then there are some things which we, you know, obviously, we’ll organically develop and then we’ll acquire other best of breed technologies. But I would say those are the strengths is connecting all the way—it’s not just orchestrating releases, you can now orchestrate business outcomes in a very agile fashion.

    Derek, did you want to add anything else?

    Langone: Yeah, I think, Ashok, you covered most of it, and you also said something important, which is our goal, to be that software life cycle system of record.

    But really, Alan, if you look at these two pieces together, what VersionOne has done for the engineering side of software life cycle, giving you that velocity and that sort of iterative agile approach. We’re trying to apply to the entire software life cycle. So, take those principles and apply them to release orchestration, deployment automation, and collect data along the way to be used for value stream, for compliance reporting, security reporting—things like that.

    So, essentially, create this platform that does a couple of things—gives you the ability to increase your velocity, scalability and so forth in your software factory, but the important element to understand about our approach is, even though we’re building an end to end solution, it’s going to be reliant on its integrations with all the best of breed tools that have already been invested in by these big organizations, right? So, I won’t name tools, but they’re very common CI tools, planning tools, provisioning tools, ITSM tools. We have all those integrations built out of the box. So, we leverage all of those investments as part of the process, so we’re not displacing any technology. Quite the contrary—those technologies come along with our process, and it allows them to be a part of the solution of that system of record validation for software life cycle.

    Shimel: You know, and I think it’s worth mentioning—many of those tools, Derek, are actually open source projects as well, right? Because open source plays such a big part in this.

    You brought up, what both you and Ashok said here brings up kinda two thoughts in my mind. Number one is, no one just wants a collection of disparate tools. We all want things that work together, right? And Xebia actually—truth be told, I’m much more familiar with XebiaLabs than I am with the CollabNet VersionOne suite. Xebia did a great job of integrating with open source tools, right, as well as third party tools.

    I wasn’t aware of a XebiaLabs CollabNet VersionOne integration, though. Are there any? What are the plans for them? Let’s hit that first and we’ll go from there. I don’t know if that’s an Ashok or a Derek thing, or maybe it’s too far in the weeds.

    Reddy: Yeah, we’ll—I think I’ll just say that, you know, as far as from a VersionOne and CollabNet perspective, I think there has been, I think, as you said, XebiaLabs has done a fantastic job with this periodic table type of things, tools in the DevOps tool chain. So, as part of that, the whole integration on SCM, the Git with CollabNet’s support for the GitAgile, there is already integration.

    There are some things in terms of more of API level integrations between VersionOne and a couple of the other things at XebiaLabs, but we are now strengthening that. But Derek, you may have, you know, some things based on what we have done in the past with Xebia and the CollabNet VersionOne that you may want to add other things.

    Langone: Yeah. So, Alan, to your question about the integration that exists today between CollabNet VersionOne and XebiaLabs—that’s been a long standing integration. We have several customers in common that have benefited from those technologies together, and frankly, that was one of the validation points when we decided to become part of this merger, that we had already seen customers benefit from these two technologies together and felt like if we did that in a more purposeful way, we could built out a higher degree of value for these customers and benefit ourselves by expanding our functionality on sort of both sides of the balance sheet.

    So, I think you’ll see much deeper integration and a lot of our opportunity to build out that value stream thesis by building these bridges to other products, including, you know, these two companies’ products, collecting that data, and then providing that data for these purposeful value stream management reports.

    You know, I look at it from a couple of perspectives. The data that we are collecting from all the tools in the process is used to give high degree performance measurement metrics, KPIs, things like that. Some of the unanswered questions that CIOs have been struggling with for years are, “Hey, I’m spending $500 million a year on Devs,” and now, for the first time, they will have that. And then, for really practical reasons, a lot of these customers that we have—big banks, insurance companies, airlines are heavily regulated, so we’re able to give them chain of custody reporting, compliance reporting, security reporting, testing coverage. Things like that, that have largely been unanswered questions for years.

    So, I think the power of these two technologies together and that deeper integration will only serve to provide more and more value from the information we collect.

    Shimel: Excellent. So, guys, excellent answers from both of you, and I understand what you’re saying. I think one of the—it’s sort of a, you know, this balancing act that we’re seeing, maybe it’s because it’s early in the game for the end to end DevOps provider. Because on one hand, you have to be open—you know, you have to be able to integrate with this whole multitude of tools that have grown up, some open source, some not, within that DevOps end to end software development and delivery life cycle, right?

    You know, so that’s out there, and if my hands go off the screen, I apologize. But at the same time, part of the allure, part of the benefit that we would get with an end to end DevOps solution is that, maybe I could use less. I don’t have to have all of these different tools that I have—I have one suite, one platform, right, that gives me a lot of it, right?

    And I understand, Derek, you framed it well, and Ashok, I know you’re familiar with it is, there’s this balancing act of, you gotta play nice with everyone. Because all of these companies are using all of these different tools, but at the same time, you know that your end game has to be, “I’m gonna try to give you as much as you can from one provider.” Is that—you know, and it’s a tough balancing act, frankly.

    Reddy: Yeah. No, I think, to me, if you look at the DevOps landscape—yes, there are, some of the vendors would say they have built out a single application or whatever. But the reality of it is that, you know, we can actually do the same thing with the type of capabilities from planning to tracking to SCM and, you know, some of the release, and as we buy other companies. We build it out, it’s completely integrated, and we make that work, right?

    But the only thing is, it’s, in enterprise Global 5000, many people already are using different things, and it’s, what’s an application in an enterprise? It’s typically a multi-tiered application. Some of it will be, you know, maybe an Android aspects, there will be a mobile app in iOS. So, you have to use Xcode, you have to use Git for something, you have to use Jenkins and you may have to use now, in a multi-cloud, Spinnaker.

    So, I don’t think there will be a choice to just use something from one vendor on everything. But even if it did that, we are saying that we can still provide that entire end to end from one vendor, or you actually have an option to replace parts of it because you’re already using something, and things get updated, even open source. You said open source is everywhere, and it’s going to continue to change because of innovation. So, accommodating that, and then, is it compliant, is it secure? That’s a big aspect of it.

    And one other thing which I think is important, Alan, is it’s not—you know, from a DevOps and agile perspective, it’s not just about the tooling and the end to end. It’s really about the transformation and the cultural parts of it and coming in with more of agile cultures and others, which is what we do a lot, and customers start with that. You know, people can use all sorts of tools, they deploy a thousand times a day, but that doesn’t get them the business outcomes and how do I transform them to work? To me, that’s another aspect of it which we are to consider. Even if you have one tool, how do you change the culture, how do you get people to change in a constantly changing world?

    Shimel: Absolutely. Guys, I’d like to move in a different area, if it’s okay. We’ve spoken about sort of what the market looks like and what the strengths are. You know, we wouldn’t be fair and balanced if we didn’t talk about maybe what the weaknesses are or where. And I don’t mean weaknesses, but where—where do you see places where this new entity can improve from the current lineup? Whether it be building organically or buying, right? You know, it was—at the announcement of the merger, it was made pretty clear that this isn’t gonna be the last acquisition or merger, that there were funds set aside for more acquisition activity. I assume you’ll also be building holistic additions to the platform in the suite.

    In what areas can we expect to see additional functionality added here?

    Reddy: Yeah, I think it’s a great point. I mean, we—I mean, you start with the life cycle. I mean, obviously, in the front end, you know, we have the whole notion of planning and then how do you actually track things and how do you deploy. But then, you know, the quality is a big aspect of it, right? The whole continuous quality, the continuous testing is something we obviously can integrate today with many of those things, other products and open source technologies. But if you think about from a platform perspective, I do expect, you know, some sort of continuous testing and quality as a key aspect.

    The other one is, you know, security. Because I think, especially with applications and the more and more data driven applications, security is a key aspect. And some form of more feedback—we have some feedback loops built into every aspect of our platform, but I do say from a customer experience monitoring perspective, being able to bring in some of the feedback loops is important.

    So, Derek, do you have any other thoughts in terms of the various areas we could improve based on some of the customer interactions you’ve been having?

    Langone: Yeah, Ashok, I think you hit on the fundamental part to DevOps transformation. So, I think that, you know, we’ve got an eye towards that functionality, and whether we have, you know, sort of an inorganic, acquisitive approach to that or primarily a partnering approach. I think we’ll continue to kinda round out that functionality.

    And again, it has to dovetail back with our thesis. We are building a platform for the enterprise that has all of the elements required of enterprises, right? These businesses are heavily regulated, so security is front of mind, quality of what they release out to their customers and consume internally is top of mind, right?

    So, again, when we look at how we build out this platform, there’s gonna be a few elements to it, but it will all be towards the approach of giving best of breed functionality and then always staying open, because we are gonna have to work around investments that have been made in the enterprise.

    So, we recognize that this is not the end of the story and we’re moving aggressively to round out the story from a product and messaging standpoint, and that’ll be an endeavor that happens in earnest throughout the rest of this calendar year.

    Shimel: Fantastic. I’ll just add one thing to that—Ashok, I long for the day that when you say, quality, we mean security. Right? Security has to become synonymous with quality, and then, hopefully, we’ll really start achieving what we need to achieve in security—not just in DevOps, but in IT in general, and in business in general.

    Guys, I wanna thank you. We’ve only got a few more minutes, here. I wanted to just kinda bring us towards our end goal line with this thought and get both of your opinions on it. You know, you’re talking to the devopsy.kinsta.cloud community. It’s probably the largest singular focused community on DevOps in the world today, worldwide, right? It’s a worldwide community. I want you to look in the camera and talk to the audience. As DevOps practitioners, why should they care? Why is this new entity important to them? Why do they need to take a good look at this?

    Reddy: Yeah. I mean, I think, you know, part of the—I mean, I’ve worked with the DevOps community for many years now. And I think, you know, I find they’re really the, what I call, the digital athletes of the digital transformation, right? Because I think, when you look at the DevOps engineers and the community, they are the ones who are helping change the companies they work for. I mean, everybody is trying to become a digital business. They are the heroes—I mean, I use the Nike analogy of just get it done, just get IT done. And who does that? It’s the DevOps community.

    And so, what happens is, it’s the ops, to me, is the constraints enterprises have, which is, I want to go fast, everybody talks about going fast and speed, but you need a direction. But you have the constraints of, you need to still be reliable. SRE is a big aspect. So, I want to shift left. So, you want to be compliant, you want to have quality. So, you can’t just go fast.

    So, the challenges with what DevOps engineers are trying to do is, how do I go fast, but still have the reliability, the quality, the security, and still transform the companies they’re trying to do and remove the constraints for the business to go faster in an ever changing world? To me, that’s what we provide with this platform is really to help them make much more productive and make sure that we remove the constraints. They can—even if they are working for a large enterprise, they can still have the benefits of being a born in the cloud company and not have the constraints.

    That, to me, is one of the fundamental things. And they are the digital athletes of the world. And so, to me, that’s really what we are here for, to support the chief digital officers to everybody who is transforming, but the DevOps engineers of the community is who are making this happen.

    Shimel: Fair.

    Langone: That’s a great point, Ashok. And I think, Alan, to just add a little emphasis—you know, what we’re trying to build is a platform that provides functionality that’s complementary to the activity that’s already going on today, right? So, you had mentioned it earlier that, you know, as you’re making these changes inside an organization, a lot of it is sort of people changing their day to day routines, right? So, you know, being more agile, following new processes and things like that.

    What our goal is, is to provide functionality that a lot of the change has abstracted from the user, right? So, in other words, DevOps engineers continue to use the same tools that they were using months ago and weeks ago in the same way, but they plug into a process that’s largely abstracted from them, but gets all the benefits that—delivers all the benefits that an enterprise needs, right? So, to try to make the change and the transition that’s required to really embrace DevOps as, you know, as lightweight and as little impact on people’s days as possible.

    So, that’s really the goal, is to provide functionality that has not existed before, and do it in a way that doesn’t have to require changes of behavior.

    Shimel: Fair enough. Ashok Reddy, CEO of CollabNet VersionOne Xebia, until we find a different name; Derek Langone, president of the entity as well—thank you for joining us, both, today on DevOps Chat.

    We’re gonna—you know what, we’re gonna be watching. This is a great story, it’ll be interesting to see how it progresses, right, both in terms of mergers and acquisitions activity as well as in terms of just—hey, man, this end to end, as I wrote about last week, this end to end DevOps market is open for the taking. There is no one, I think, who really has that whole story yet. It’s a developing thing, and it’ll be interesting to see, you know, how the market in our community helps pick the winners here as well as what you guys do with it, right? It’s yours for the taking.

    Best of luck to both of you and to the combined company.

    Reddy: Thank you, Alan.

    Langone: Thank you. Good to talk to you.

    Shimel: Great talking to both of you. This is Alan Shimel for devopsy.kinsta.cloud. Thanks for joining us on this DevOps Special Edition Video Chat. Stay tuned, and we’ll see you soon.

    — Alan Shimel

  • DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Consolidation This Way Comes

    DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Consolidation This Way Comes

    The merger of XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne announced this week will accelerate the ongoing consolidation of providers of DevOps platforms that has been slowly gaining momentum for the better part of two years.

    Under the terms of the agreement, the unnamed combined company will be led by Ashok Reddy, formerly with Broadcom, CA Technologies and IBM. Current XebiaLabs CEO Derek Langone will become president of the combined company. Current CollabNet VersionOne CEO Flint Brenton is stepping down from the combined company.

    CollabNet has been trying to make a case for employing value stream management tools to better align application development projects with business objectives ever since it merged with VersionOne, a provider of an application lifecycle management (ALM) platform anchored around version control software, in 2017. Late last year, CollabNet VersionOne was acquired by TPG Capital, which pledged to make $500 million in funding available to drive organic and inorganic growth. The decision to appoint Reddy as CEO of the combined company was made by TPG.

    XebiaLabs, meanwhile, raised $100 million capital in early 2018 to drive investments in building a continuous delivery platform. The goal now is to more tightly integrate the respective platforms of the two companies to advance value stream management with Global 5,000 class organizations, says Langone.

    “There is no enterprise-class player in this space,” said Langone.

    Rival offerings either don’t scale to meet the needs of larger enterprises or they are simply too shallow to meet business requirements, he noted.

    Of course, value stream management is where most of the rivals of the combined entity are also focused. CloudBees, for example, has already rolled out value stream management modules as an extension of its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey said the company is now taking that concept to the next level by building a software delivery management (SDM) platform that normalizes data from multiple data sources. The open source Jenkins CI/CD platform, along with the Electric Cloud application release platform CloudBees gained via acquisition last year, would be one of many data sources for that platform, he said, while value stream management would be one of several applications available to different classes of users within that SDM platform.

    While mergers and acquisitions among DevOps vendors have been occurring slowly, Labourey said he expects the pace of such deals to increase in the months ahead as organizations embrace more complex modern application architectures based on microservices.

    “The destination is now clear,” he said.

    GitLab, meanwhile, has already signaled in 2020 that it will be adding value stream management capabilities to its namesake platform. Rather than trying to merge disparate code bases acquired by acquisitions, GitLab is building an end-to-end platform on a common code base, says Jackie Meshell, a senior product manager for GitLab.

    “We’re seeing the market follow that fast,” Meshell said.

    There are, of course, other approaches to value stream management applications that span multiple application development platforms, including offerings from Plutora, Tasktop and Panaya.

    Value stream management has become an industry buzzword of late as more organizations appreciate the degree to which their businesses now revolve around the rate at which software gets built and delivered. Value stream management applications are roughly the equivalent of business intelligence software for business managers, who pull metrics and data from application development platforms to determine whether projects are falling behind and what impact those delays might have on the business.

    Most business leaders are going to lean toward value stream management applications that can be applied across multiple application development platforms, said Bob Davis, chief marketing officer for Plutora. Few organizations are standardized on a single application development platform, he noted.

    While it’s still early days in terms of adopting value stream management applications, Davis said it’s already apparent that in the age of digital business transformation the category is red hot.

    “Value stream management these days is everywhere,” he said.

    It remains to be seen whether a strategy that focuses mainly on slower-moving enterprise IT organizations will succeed at a time when more agile startups continue to gain share at the expense of larger incumbents in almost every industry. Many of those enterprise IT organizations may get exposed to value stream management by acquiring a rival that has already adopted an application. Of course, it’s also just as likely that by the time many of those enterprise organizations reach the point where they need value stream management applications, it may be past the point where they remain relevant.

    Regardless of how they get there, however, wider adoption of value stream management as an extension of SDM is coming. The only unknown now is how and when.

    — Mike Vizard

  • CollabNet VersionOne and XebiaLabs Combine to Create Integrated Agile DevOps Platform

    • Combined Company announces new CEO to drive next phase of growth

     

    • Transaction, backed by TPG Capital, marks a transformational step in a broader strategy to create a leading, integrated Agile DevOps platform for enterprises

     

    Atlanta and Boston – January 21, 2020 – CollabNet VersionOne (CollabNet), a leading provider for Agile planning and collaborative development, and XebiaLabs, the leader in release orchestration, deployment, and continuous delivery, announced today that the two companies have merged. The combination, which was backed by TPG Capital, unites CollabNet’s upstream Agile planning and enterprise version control functionality with XebiaLabs’ downstream release orchestration and deployment automation capabilities to create an Agile, end-to-end, DevOps platform for enterprises.

     

    In connection with the transaction, Ashok Reddy, an accomplished industry veteran and former Broadcom executive, has joined the combined company as CEO. He replaces Flint Brenton, who is stepping aside to focus on family and personal interests after nearly five years of successful stewardship. Derek Langone, current CEO of XebiaLabs, will serve as President of the combined company. Stephen Gregorio, EVP and CFO of XebiaLabs, will serve as the combined company’s CFO.

     

    “The combination of CollabNet and XebiaLabs will provide enterprise customers with the end-to-end visibility and management capabilities needed to develop software quickly, reliably, and securely, ultimately helping accelerate their digital transformation and drive business outcomes,” said Nehal Raj and Art Heidrich of TPG Capital. “We congratulate Flint on a successful tenure, and look forward to partnering with Ashok, Derek, and the broader team to further accelerate our strategy to create a leading enterprise DevOps platform company.”

     

    Founded in 2008, XebiaLabs is a high-growth provider of release management and automation developer tools. The company provides release orchestration and application delivery software that enables enterprises to orchestrate, automate, and analyze the entire software release pipeline at enterprise scale. XebiaLabs’ downstream capabilities complement CollabNet’s upstream product portfolio, which includes VersionOne for enterprise Agile planning and management, VS for connected workflows and visibility throughout the entire delivery value stream, and TeamForge for enterprise-scale version control management and application lifecycle management. Both companies’ platforms and tools are recognized by analysts as industry-leading offerings that drive innovation into the market.

     

    “We are on a mission to fundamentally transform how enterprise software development and delivery is done,” said Reddy. “The combination of CollabNet and XebiaLabs will provide a platform that enables digital transformation at scale with Agile and DevOps processes to continuously adapt, learn, and improve, especially in a world of AI-driven intelligent apps and experiences. I am thrilled to be joining at this critical juncture and look forward to working with the entire team to lead the combined company through its next chapter of growth.”

     

    “XebiaLabs has established itself as the standard for DevOps in large enterprises. Counting among our clients the world’s largest financial, healthcare, and manufacturing companies, our focus has been on creating a platform that takes advantage of existing tooling and processes while providing the scale, standardization, security, and reporting that large companies require,” said Langone. “I am thankful for what we have been able to achieve with the support of Susquehanna Growth Equity and Accel. By combining XebiaLabs and CollabNet, our mutual clients will now benefit from the most capable Agile DevOps platform available in the market. This is a game changer for businesses that need to maximize their software application assets while navigating complex regulatory, compliance, and security requirements.”

     

    Most recently, Reddy led Broadcom’s multibillion-dollar Enterprise Software Division, where he helped create a platform for global enterprises to scale their digital transformations and become real-time digital businesses. With a career spanning more than 25 years in enterprise software and deep experience in Agile and DevOps transformation, Reddy has held leadership positions at several Fortune 500 companies including IBM, CA Technologies, Rational Software, Honeywell, and Novartis. Reddy will work closely with Langone and Gregorio, both experienced software executives, to lead the combined company.

     

    “I thank my colleagues at CollabNet for the success created by their hard work and dedication,” said Brenton. “While I am proud of all we have built together, I have decided it is the right time for me to return to California and begin the next chapter of my life. CollabNet and XebiaLabs are in strong and capable hands with Ashok, Derek, and TPG Capital, and I am confident that under their leadership, the combined company will achieve even greater success and scale.”

     

    Barclays, Evercore, and KeyBanc served as financial advisors to TPG Capital and CollabNet, and Ropes & Gray LLP served as legal counsel. Shea & Company served as financial advisor to XebiaLabs, and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP served as legal counsel. XebiaLabs’ existing shareholders, Susquehanna Growth Equity and Accel, have sold their respective stakes in the company as part of the combination. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

     

    About CollabNet VersionOne

    CollabNet VersionOne is a leading platform provider for Value Stream Management, Agile planning, DevOps and source code management. Its offerings provide global enterprise and government industry leaders a cohesive solution that enables them to ideate, create and orchestrate the flow of value through continuous delivery pipelines with measurable business outcomes. To learn more visit: www.collab.net  

     

    About XebiaLabs

    XebiaLabs’ mission is to help large companies accelerate their software releases with more reliability – no matter how diverse the infrastructure or complex the processes. The XebiaLabs DevOps Platform is the industry’s only end-to-end DevOps toolchain orchestration and reporting solution, providing the automation, control, and visibility enterprises need to deliver software faster and with less risk. With the XebiaLabs DevOps Platform, organizations can connect all their DevOps tools, manage their interactions, deploy to any environment, and create a data hub for reporting, without ad-hoc scripting and endless maintenance. For more information, please visit www.xebialabs.com.

     

    About TPG

    TPG is a leading global alternative asset firm founded in 1992 with more than $119 billion of assets under management and offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, and Singapore. TPG’s investment platforms are across a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, growth equity, real estate, credit, and public equity. TPG aims to build dynamic products and options for its investors while also instituting discipline and operational excellence across the investment strategy and performance of its portfolio. For more information, visit www.tpg.com

     

  • TPG Closes on CollabNet VersionOne Acquisition

    CollabNet VersionOne and TPG will help large enterprises connect Agile and DevOps to business value

     

    San Francisco; Fort Worth, Texas; and Atlanta – October, 7, 2019 – TPG Capital, the private equity platform of global alternative asset firm TPG, announced today it has finalized its acquisition of CollabNet VersionOne (“CollabNet”), a leading platform provider for Agile planning, DevOps, and Value Stream Management (VSM). Together with TPG, CollabNet is poised to meet the needs of large enterprises that require end-to-end software infrastructure to connect Agile and DevOps teams and activities to business value, and speed application delivery to improve bottom-line results.

    “Software agility that drives tangible, measurable value is vital for every business today,” said Flint Brenton, CEO of CollabNet. “Having the resources and support of TPG will accelerate our ability to meet the unique needs of larger organizations that are frustrated with disparate tools and processes that hinder business transformation. Our customers, partners and employees are responding positively to our new partnership with TPG, as the firm continues tohelp us drive growth and innovation.”

    Through its investment, TPG Capital will commit up to $500 million of equity capital to build CollabNet into a leader for enterprise-focused Agile, DevOps and Value Stream Management success. TPG Capital and CollabNet management are mapping strategy and execution plans to accelerate the growth of the company’s existing portfolio. The company also plans to aggressively pursue acquisitions in strategic adjacencies that complement Agile planning and delivery, as well as testing, release management, and the emerging market for VSM.

    “The software delivery and DevOps industry is growing and consolidating quickly. The acquisition of CollabNet provides a great opportunity for TPG to build a world-class company that meets the growing needs of larger enterprises in this area,” said Nehal Raj and Art Heidrich of TPG. “We look forward to making investments that help CollabNet accelerate organic growth, while also pursuing a targeted M&A strategy that positions CollabNet as a broader DevOps platform for enterprise customers.”

    CollabNet, a recognized leader in enterprise Agile planning and VSM by leading analyst firms Gartner and Forrester, focuses on enabling enterprises to develop and deliver high-quality software that drives business outcomes. CollabNet’s Value Stream Infrastructure includes VersionOne for enterprise Agile planning and management, VS for connected workflows and visibility throughout the entire delivery value stream, and TeamForge for enterprise-scale source code management and application lifecycle management. CollabNet also recently introduced Ossum, a SaaS DevOps offering that integrates and streamlines software development from idea to release.

    Barclays and RBC Capital Markets acted as financial advisors to TPG and Ropes & Gray LLP served as legal counsel. KeyBank Capital Markets, Inc. served as financial advisor to CollabNet and Sidley Austin LLP served as legal counsel to CollabNet and Vector Capital.

    About CollabNet VersionOne

     

    CollabNet VersionOne is a leading platform provider for Value Stream Management, Agile planning, DevOps and source code management. Its offerings provide global enterprise and government industry leaders a cohesive solution that enables them to ideate, create and orchestrate the flow of value through continuous delivery pipelines with measurable business outcomes. To learn more visit:  www.collab.net.

     

    About TPG

     

    TPG is a leading global alternative asset firm founded in 1992 with more than $108 billion of assets under management and offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, and Singapore. TPG’s investment platforms are across a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, growth equity, real estate, credit, and public equity. TPG aims to build dynamic products and options for its investors while also instituting discipline and operational excellence across the investment strategy and performance of its portfolio. For more information, visit www.tpg.com.

     

  • CollabNet VersionOne’s Value Stream Infrastructure Supports Business Agility with the SAFe Framework

    CollabNet VersionOne will demonstrate its commitment to enabling SAFe in the enterprise at the 2019 Global SAFe Summit

    ATLANTA and SAN DIEGO, October 2, 2019 — CollabNet VersionOne (www.collabnet.com), a global leader in Enterprise Agile Product Delivery and Value Stream Management, will share its latest insights and solutions that support software business agility as a sponsor at the 2019 Global SAFe Summit. Hosted by Scaled Agile, the event takes place in San Diego, California September 29 – October 4. CollabNet VersionOne plans to demonstrate how its Value Stream Infrastructure serves as a reference architecture to provide support for SAFe’s commitment to Business Agility.

    “Enterprises need to foster collaboration, encourage measurement and provide full visibility into the software delivery process,” said Dean Leffingwell, SAFe creator and chief methodologist. “CollabNet VersionOne has been a long-standing supporter of SAFe, and we are pleased they are a sponsor of the 2019 Global SAFe summit. We look forward to hearing more about how their products and solutions support business agility, and how that relates to the adoption of Value Stream Management as a catalyst for successful software delivery and digital transformation.”

    “Agile product development, the combination of Agile and DevOps practices, is no longer enough. Product development must be tied back to business value at every step of the software delivery lifecycle in order to be successful.” said CollabNet VersionOne CEO, Flint Brenton. “While SAFe is the operating system for business agility, CollabNet VersionOne provides the infrastructure to make it happen – connecting all the teams, tools and processes an organization has in place to gain context and visibility needed to speed time-to-market and deliver business agility.”

    To learn more about VersionOne, its market-leading and award-winning enterprise Agile management solution, please visit: https://www.collab.net/products/versionone. CollabNet VerisonOne experts will provide demonstrations of VersionOne and educate attendees on how it supports the SAFe framework through features that align with software business agility.

    “We are proud to sponsor the 2019 Global SAFe Summit and share our support of SAFe, said Eric Robertson, vice president, product marketing management at CollabNet VersionOne. “We believe SAFe is an outstanding proponent of software business agility, ensuring that value is at the core of all enterprise software development and delivery. CollabNet VersionOne’s Value Stream Infrastructure provides the foundational support that ensures any enterprise can take full advantage and achieve Business Agility.”

    The 2019 Global SAFe Summit is happening at Marriott Marquis, in San Diego. Attendees come to connect with SAFe coaches, thought leaders and change agents to share best practices, gather advice and network and discover firsthand how organizations use SAFe to continuously deliver value to customers.

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    About CollabNet VersionOne

    CollabNet VersionOne is the Enterprise Agile Product Delivery and Value Stream Management leader that accelerates high value software development and delivery, while improving quality and reducing risk. Our offerings provide global enterprise and government market leaders a cohesive solution, spanning idea through delivery, that enable them to capture, create, deliver and measure the flow of business value throughout their application development lifecycles. www.collab.net.

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  • CollabNet VersionOne Picks Up $500M to Fuel Value Stream Management

    CollabNet VersionOne Picks Up $500M to Fuel Value Stream Management

    CollabNet VersionOne today announced it has picked up an additional $500 million in funding to help fuel what is rapidly becoming an arms race to drive adoption of value stream management in DevOps environments. TPG Capital, the private equity arm of TPG, signed a definitive agreement to acquire CollabNet VersionOne. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but TPG pledged to invest up to $500 million to take value stream management to the next level.

    CollabNet VersionOne CEO Flint Brenton said part of the funding will be used to fuel both organic and inorganic investments in value stream management, a rapidly growing segment of the IT market that is just now coming into its own. Value stream management represents a holistic effort to align application development and delivery with strategic business objectives. In effect, IT leaders are now looking to apply advanced analytics to determine how a delay to one aspect of a development project might impact the revenue goals of the business.

    Brenton said now that more organizations are viewing themselves as software companies that make a product or deliver a service, they need tools to manage application development projects in much the same way software companies operate. Rather than building those tools, many of those companies are looking to vendors such as CollabNet VersionOne to provide those tools within a unified platform.

    CollabNet VersionOne is, of course, not the only IT vendor pursuing that opportunity. However, rather than viewing value stream management as an extension of a specific development platform, CollabNet VersionOne is pursuing an approach that makes it possible for an organization to manage software investments across multiple platforms.

    Brenton said organizations should expect CollabNet VersionOne to focus on value stream management. As part of that focus, the company will look to fill in gaps in its portfolio by investing in product development, partnering with providers of complementary applications such as providers of business intelligence (BI) tools or acquiring smaller companies.

    In effect, there is now an arms race underway when it comes to building the next generation of value stream management platforms. Much of the investments in this area will be focused squarely on advanced analytics infused with machine and deep-learning algorithms that will enable organizations to begin applying artificial intelligence (AI) to the management of software delivery.

    It’s not clear to what degree CollabNet VersionOne may one day be a target for acquisition itself as the entire DevOps vendor community continues to consolidate. As DevOps processes increasingly are embraced by enterprise IT organizations, many vendors are concluding they need to “go big or go home.” In fact, Brenton noted the acquisition of CollabNet VersionOne was initiated by TPG Capital, which was looking to find an attractive investment in the DevOps sector.

    It may be a little while longer before every enterprise has mastered the nuances of value stream management, but the one thing that is clear is there will be no shortage of options as investment dollars continue to pour in.

    — Mike Vizard

  • TPG Acquires CollabNet VersionOne

    Large-scale technology investor to create leading enterprise DevOps platform

    San Francisco; Fort Worth, Texas; and Atlanta – September 4, 2019 – TPG Capital, the private equity platform of global alternative asset firm TPG, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CollabNet VersionOne (“CollabNet”), a leading platform provider for Agile planning, DevOps, and Value Stream Management (VSM), from Vector Capital. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

    The investment marks the first step in a broader strategy in which TPG Capital will commit up to $500 million of equity capital to build a leading, integrated, enterprise-focused DevOps platform company. TPG Capital and CollabNet management will work together to accelerate the growth of the company’s existing portfolio, as well as aggressively pursue acquisitions in strategic adjacencies that complement Agile planning and delivery, as well as testing, release management, and the emerging market for VSM.

    “We have studied the software delivery and DevOps space for several years. The space is highly fragmented with several smaller vendors addressing the low end of the market,” said Nehal Raj and Art Heidrich of TPG. “As large companies across industries continue to prioritize in-house software development and digital transformation initiatives, we see a compelling opportunity to build an integrated DevOps company focused on larger enterprises. CollabNet’s strong product footprint and commitment to enterprise customers make the company the right starting point from which to build and consolidate. We look forward to working together with management to create a leading, enterprise-focused DevOps platform.”

    “We are grateful for Vector’s partnership over the past five years and look forward to continuing to expand the CollabNet platform with the resources and growth vision of TPG. This commitment will rapidly build on our success through organic innovation and outside acquisition,” said Flint Brenton, CEO of CollabNet. “We have served large global customers with an integrated, enterprise-scale software planning and delivery offering since our inception, along with some of the largest government accounts in the industry. Together with TPG we will continue to lead in Agile, DevOps, and VSM.”

    CollabNet, a recognized leader in enterprise Agile planning and VSM by leading analyst firms Gartner and Forrester, focuses on enabling enterprises to develop and deliver high-quality software that drives business outcomes. CollabNet’s core products include VersionOne for enterprise Agile planning and management, VS for connected workflows and visibility throughout the entire delivery value stream, and TeamForge for enterprise-scale source code management and application lifecycle management. CollabNet also recently introduced Ossum, a SaaS DevOps offering that integrates and streamlines software development from idea to release.

    “Under Vector’s ownership, through a combination of accelerated organic development and strategic M&A, we successfully transformed CollabNet from a point provider of developer tools to a leading enterprise-grade DevOps platform,” said Rob Amen, Managing Director at Vector Capital.  “We are proud of the outcome we achieved for our investors and wish the management team and TPG continued success during the company’s next chapter.”

    Barclays and RBC Capital Markets acted as financial advisors to TPG, and Ropes & Gray LLP served as legal counsel. KeyBank Capital Markets, Inc. served as financial advisor to CollabNet, and Sidley Austin LLP served as legal counsel to CollabNet and Vector Capital.

    About CollabNet VersionOne

    CollabNet VersionOne is a leading platform provider for Value Stream Management, Agile planning, DevOps and source code management. Its offerings provide global enterprise and government industry leaders a cohesive solution that enables them to ideate, create and orchestrate the flow of value through continuous delivery pipelines with measurable business outcomes. To learn more visit:  www.collab.net.

    About TPG

    TPG is a leading global alternative asset firm founded in 1992 with more than $108 billion of assets under management and offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, and Singapore. TPG’s investment platforms are across a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, growth equity, real estate, credit, and public equity. TPG aims to build dynamic products and options for its investors while also instituting discipline and operational excellence across the investment strategy and performance of its portfolio. For more information, visit www.tpg.com.

    About Vector Capital 

    Vector Capital is a leading global private equity firm specializing in transformational investments in established technology businesses. With more than $4 billion of capital under management, Vector actively partners with management teams to devise and execute new financial and business strategies that materially improve the competitive standing of businesses and enhance value for employees, customers, and all stakeholders. For more information, visit www.vectorcapital.com.

  • 14th Annual State of Agile Study Commences at Agile 2019 and Attendees are Invited to Participate

    Report provides the industry insights on Agile, DevOps and more

    Washington D.C. – Agile 2019 #Agile2019 – August 6, 2019 – CollabNet VersionOne (www.collab.net), a global leader in Enterprise Value Stream Management, Agile management, Git version control and DevOps, today announced the opening of the 14th Annual State of Agile Report, the industry’s longest-running and most widely cited data on Agile software development adoption and trends. Software professionals are invited to participate and share experiences at www.stateofagile.com.

    The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete and gathers valuable input on the adoption of Agile, emerging practices, insights on culture, DevOps and more. Each year the State of Agile Report is used and cited by industry leaders and publications as a benchmark on the evolution of Agile. The 14th annual State of Agile report will be published in Spring 2020.

    The most recent State of Agile Report released this year revealed the primary driver for organizations to adopt Agile, what is required to make DevOps successful, how the industry views the importance of Value Stream Management and much more. To download the 13th annual State of Agile Report, please visit www.stateofagile.com.

    “Our State of Agile research is globally recognized and has been in continuous use for more than a decade as a source of information and decision support resource for businesses and IT leaders making important decisions about software innovation, development and delivery,” said Flint Brenton, CEO at CollabNet VersionOne. “We are honored to launch the 14th annual survey here at Agile 2019 and encourage wide participation in this year’s questionnaire from software professionals at all different stages of Agile adoption.”

    CollabNet VersionOne is a Title Sponsor at Agile 2019 — the largest Agile event of the year, hosted by Agile Alliance, August 5 – 9 in San Washington D.C. If you are attending please visit booth #102 to learn more about the State of Agile Report or to find out how organizations can achieve Agile plus DevOps success through Value Stream Management. For more information about the event, please visit:

    https://www.agilealliance.org/agile2019

    Share This: Take the 14th Annual #StateofAgile survey at www.stateofagile.com today! #Agile #DevOps #ValueStream @CollabNetV1

    About CollabNet VersionOne

    CollabNet VersionOne is the Enterprise Value Stream Management leader that accelerates high value software development and delivery, while improving quality and reducing risk. Our offerings provide global enterprise and government market leaders a cohesive solution, spanning idea through delivery, that enable them to capture, create, deliver and measure the flow of business value throughout their application development lifecycles. www.collab.net.

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  • CollabNet VersionOne Demonstrates Major New Agile and DevOps Capabilities at Agile 2019

    Users can unify Agile and DevOps workflows to manage value streams

    WASHINGTON D.C. – Agile 2019 #Agile2019 – August 5, 2019 – CollabNet VersionOne (www.collab.net), a global leader in Enterprise Value Stream Management, Agile management, Git version control and DevOps,  introduces its latest VersionOne for Agile management and Continuum for DevOps offerings, as well as it’s VS solution that combines both. The releases offer enhanced support for Agile at scale and Agile frameworks such as SAFe, and Value Stream Management.

    New capabilities of the products make it easier for organizations to unify Agile planning and management, and DevOps and software delivery into an integrated workflow that supports Value Stream Management. Unifying visibility and data flow makes it easier for software organizations to manage development and processes based on priorities and value potential.

    “High performing software organizations are bridging Agile and DevOps initiatives together through common goals that focus on business value,” said Flint Brenton, CEO for CollabNet VersionOne. “To help customers deliver software that impacts the bottom-line, we continue to add new functionality that supports teams and the need for organization-wide, data-driven workflows.”

    With its heritage in enterprise software collaboration and integration, CollabNet VersionOne brings high-level management and the industry’s most complete level of visibility for organizations adopting Value Stream Management. Its latest enhancements help customers improve data-driven decision making, the ability to capture and realize key KPIs that deliver business value, and unmatched capabilities to create a single workflow across the entire software delivery lifecycle.

    As a founding sponsor of the Agile Conference spanning more than a decade, CollabNet VersionOne is demonstrating its new software in booth #102 at Agile 2019 being held now in Washington, DC.

    To help customers improve software delivery performance in the face of continuous change, CollabNet VersionOne’s award-winning and analyst validated leadership in the areas of Agile management, DevOps and Value Stream Management come together in its VS solution. It blends the strengths of the VersionOne and Continuum platforms to beyond ‘done,’ by orchestrating delivery pipelines, bringing together disparate DevOps tools – version control, CI/CD, infrastructure, testing and more into one unified platform.

    Highlights of CollabNet VersionOne’s new software capabilities include:

    • VersionOne ECHO – VersionOne to ALM Synchronization
    • VersionOne Portfolio Level Dependency Board
    • VersionOne Progress Data Visibility in Continuum
    • VS Exchange – Marketplace for custom and preconfigured Continuum and VersionOne extensions and workflows.
    • Continuum TestDrive improvements to streamline provisioning.

    To learn more about VersionOne for Agile, please visit: https://www.collab.net/products/versionone

    To learn more about Continuum for DevOps, please visit: https://www.collab.net/products/continuum

    To learn more about VS, please visit: https://www.collab.net/products/vs

    Share This: Stop by booth #102 at #Agile2019 to learn more about @CollabNetV1’s latest product announcements – an end to end solution for leveraging Agile and DevOps.

    About CollabNet VersionOne

    CollabNet VersionOne is the Enterprise Value Stream Management leader that accelerates high value software development and delivery, while improving quality and reducing risk. Our offerings provide global enterprise and government market leaders a cohesive solution, spanning idea through delivery, that enable them to capture, create, deliver and measure the flow of business value throughout their application development lifecycles. www.collab.net.

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  • CollabNet VersionOne to Showcase Agile Management and Scaled Agile Advancements as Title Sponsor at Agile 2019

    VersionOne platform ties Agile initatives to business value

    ATLANTA – August 1, 2019 – CollabNet VersionOne (www.collabnet.com), a global leader in Enterprise Value Stream Management, Agile management, Git version control and DevOps, will continue its support of the Agile community as a Title Sponsor at the Agile 2019 conference in Washington D.C., August 5 – 9. The company will demonstrate its latest VersionOne platform that provides teams with better visibility into the value Agile initatives deliver. Attendees can visit the company at booth #102  to learn more and see how they can increase business value throughout the product lifecycle, and adopt improved strategies for scaling Agile.

     

    CollabNet VersionOne will make announcements at this event, including the 14th annual State of Agile report, the longstanding and popular industry study. It also will announce the new functionality for VersionOne, its award-winning Agile Management platform, and how it scales Agile using frameworks such as SAFe.

     

    “Our brand has been a leading voice at the Agile conference for many years and we look forward to gathering with this vibrant community in Washington D.C. next week,” said Flint Brenton, CEO and President at CollabNet VersionOne. “We’ve seen how Agile transformations enable enterprises to carry out digital transformation initiatives and now with Value Stream Management, organizations are more empowered to make value-driven decisions throughout the product development lifecycle.”

     

    CollabNet VersionOne will also host an event to celebrate its customers. The event will include a special party featuring live music at Agile 2019 on Tuesday, August 6. “We wouldn’t be able to innovate as an organization without our dedicated customers and their valuable feedback,” Brenton said. “We look forward to honoring their successes at this festive event. This will be a more relaxed and fun summer event and I look forward to see our customers there.” 

     

    Agile 2019 is presented by Agile Alliance. There are 279 sessions scheduled across a wide range of Agile topics. Every year thousands of Agile professionals from more than 40 countries gather at the conference to exchange ideas, learn about cutting-edge Agile practices, and engage with others trying to solve the same types of problems they are. To learn more about the conference or to register, please visit: https://www.agilealliance.org/agile2019/.

     

     

    Share This: Join title sponsor @CollabNetV1 at #Agile2019 Aug. 5 – 9 in Washington DC, where we will be rocking out at booth #102 sharing strategies for Enterprise Value Stream Management and demonstrating solutions for scaling Agile.

     

     

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