emergn™ cultivates involvement with an extensive network of industry relationships and alliances. These are partnerships that allow community learning and the exchange of ideas and practices. We feel that it is important to give back to the agile and lean communities, creating opportunities for other individuals and organizations to collaborate with one another as well as with emergn.
emergn is dedicated to sharing the knowledge, experience, tools and techniques that we use to improve the way organizations achieve their goals. We encourage you to check out the podcasts below as information resources.
Listen to our “Enterprise Agility" Webinar
Presented by Mike Croucher, Head of Software Engineering at British Airways, and Alex Adamopoulos, emergn Founder and CEO on April 20,2010.
emergn Business Agility – Listen to an in-depth discussion of how emergn improves the way organizations achieve their goals through the application of agile and lean principles across the enterprise. Presented by Alex Adamopolous, emergn founder and CEO.
July 2010: emergnEducation™ – Find out more about the intent, design and experience of emergn courses and workshops. Presented by Portia Tung, emergn Chief Strategy Officer and Consultant-Coach.
August 2010: emergnEnablement™ – Learn about emergn’s innovative, problem-centric and value-driven continuous improvement platform designed to help companies deliver value by diagnosing and addressing systemic issues facing both IT and business organizations. Presented by Phil Black, emergn Chief Operating Officer.
The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) is the global, standard setting organization and advocate for the outsourcing profession. With more than 100,000 members and affiliates worldwide, IAOP helps companies increase their outsourcing success rate, improve their outsourcing ROI, and expand the opportunities for outsourcing across their business.
With more than 5835 members located around the globe, the Agile Alliance is driven by the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto. We recommend Agile approaches to software development because they deliver value to organizations and end users faster and with higher quality.
The ScrumAlliance is a nonprofit organization committed to delivering articles, resources, courses, and events that will help Scrum users be successful. Founded by Ken Schwaber, Mike Cohn, and Esther Derby, the Scrum Alliance's mission is to promote increased awareness and understanding of Scrum, provide resources to individuals and organizations using Scrum, and support the iterative improvement of the software development profession.
LISA was founded in 1991 to enable companies and individuals share experience and build a community of those involved with the processes needed to adapt products for local markets. By working together in LISA, LISA members successfully created a new industry—the localization industry—and have raised the profile of their activities to the point that increasing numbers of corporations are treating product globalization as an area of strategic importance.
The British Computer Society (BCS), The Chartered Institute for IT, promotes wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice. BCS serves over 70,000 members including practitioners, businesses, academics and students, in the UK and internationally.
The Agile Bazaar is the leading community of Agile enthusiasts, practitioners and learners in New England. Based in Boston, we are committed to fostering a greater knowledge of the Agile values and practices. We are a learning community focused on broadening our own understanding as well as the spreading that knowledge to the broader community of professionals in the area.
The Pomodoro Technique, created by Francesco Cirillo in the 90s, has long been viewed as a precursor to some of the methodologies that have evolved over time into Lean and Agile. Staffan NÖteberg, a software developer and noted follower/instructor of the technique, recently authored the Pomodoro Technique Illustrated, a new take on this effective practice of time management. Portia Tung, emergn Chief Strategy Officer, helped review the book prior to its publication. Portia says 'Thank you for such a beautiful and thoughtful book! It's on my Christmas list for my friends. You can visit Steffan’s blog at http://blog.staffannoteberg.com.
The Agile Coach Toolkit, a collaboration of agile coaches/consultants Portia Tung, emergn’s Chief Strategy Officer, Pascal Van Cauwenberghe and Vera Peeters. This web site reflects a coaching partnership developed as a way to share agile coaching tools, describe how they are applied and provide insight on using agile values and practices.
VersionOne is recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile management tools. By simplifying the process of planning and tracking agile software projects, we help development teams consistently deliver software faster. Since 2002, companies such as Adobe, Dow Chemical, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Novell, Sony and Symantec have turned to VersionOne to help provide greater value to their customers. Today more than 30,000 teams in over 170 countries use VersionOne's agile project management tools to streamline and standardize their agile development efforts. Whether you're a small, single agile team just getting started with agile development or a multi-team, global enterprise, with VersionOne you'll get the best tools in the industry backed by pioneers in agile planning and management. Agile Made Easier @VersionOne.com.
