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emergn Announces Industry First – Agile and Lean Continuous Improvement Platform
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010emergn Prepares for Growth in 2010 to Follow Strong Inaugural Year
Monday, December 14th, 2009Brand-name customer wins and unique service offerings establish foundation to capitalize on growing industry trends
NEW YORK and LONDON– December 14, 2009: emergn, a specialized consultancy enabling lean and agile principles across the value chain, experienced a successful year of growth and expansion in 2009. After launching the company in the second quarter of 2009, emergn launched new engagements with twelve global companies, and concludes its inaugural year with a strong benchmark of revenue and forecasted growth.
Since its inception this year, emergn has been successful in completing several strategic initiatives, including the hiring of executive leadership and top industry consultants, and the launch of several new service offerings. These include AgilePMO™ and emergn education, which comprises a complete curriculum of practical training courses for corporations that focus on lean, agile, and sourcing competencies. The emergn offerings are part of the company’s leading model called emergn enablement™, a comprehensive framework supported by best practices and process IP developed by emergn and recognized by industry consortiums.
Since the company’s launch in 2009, emergn has secured significant contract wins and furthered other existing relationships with customers including British Airways, Deutsche Telekom, Standard Life, British Telecom, HBOS, and Centrica.
“Companies are seeing a real need to address the misalignment between business, IT, and service providers,” says Alex Adamopoulos, Founder and CEO of emergn. “In today’s fast paced business environment, companies need a more flexible model to deal with changing business practices and keep everyone working towards the same business goals. By helping companies implement lean and agile principles across the entire value chain, emergn establishes a foundation for companies to optimize their IT organizations extending out to their vendor community.”
In July, emergn launched its AgilePMO™ service offering, providing a sustainable model that cuts across any IT project. AgilePMO™ leverages the practices within the emergn enablement model, providing transparency and a common framework for planning focused on attainable and measurable business value. The success of AgilePMO™ is predicated on embedding lean and agile practices and methods into an enterprise’s PMO and vendor community. This significantly increases business value across project environments and drives more accurate decisions at the PMO level, enhancing ROI and several other value currencies that define performance indicators. emergn has already seen an uptake in this offering as many companies are recognizing its value to overcome project failures.
Looking ahead, emergn has several new initiatives planned to build upon its success, including the introduction of AgileContract™. This new offering brings best practices from successful engagements to provide customers with structured contract management techniques and methods for projects that are not only focused on agile principles, but also significantly improve traditional waterfall contracts. In the past, contract structures have been unfairly weighted, putting all the risk on the buyer of sourcing services or completely outsourcing the risk to a third-party. But now, as companies are realizing this imbalance and are being pushed by tighter budgets and higher quality standards, they want to make vendors more accountable for the services they provide while still acknowledging their responsibilities. Organizations are looking for ways to facilitate better relationships through business methodologies like lean and agile and contracts must help buyers and suppliers collaborate and work towards common goals.
For more information, visit www.emergn.com. If you are a member of the press or analyst community interested in speaking with an emergn executive, please contact Meredith L. Eaton at emergn@marchpr.com to set up a briefing.
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About emergn Corporation
emergn Corporation is a specialized consultancy enabling organizations to apply lean and agile principles for continuous improvement across the value chain. By providing advisory, consultancy, and delivery expertise, emergn enables organizations to address the challenges of ad hoc project delivery, as well as the misalignment that exists between business, IT, and service providers. The emergn enablement framework puts best practices into place so that valuable skills and lean and agile principles are transferred into the foundation of the organization, enabling future project delivery. emergn was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in New York and London. For more, visit www.emergn.com.
Press Contact
Meredith L. Eaton
March Communications
+1 617 960 9877
emergn@marchpr.com
Impediments to agile development remain
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 |
Impediments to agile development remain Read full article here |
emergn Builds Blueprint for British Airways’ Agile Enablement
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Short Takes
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
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Short Takes Read full article here |
Webinar – Agile in the Enterprise – .NET Development & Beyond
Monday, October 19th, 2009
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This previously recorded webinar with emergn is now available here |
emergn Executives To Lead Live Discussion on Enterprise Agile Enablement
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009New York, September 29, 2009: Today emergn announced that the company’s CEO, Alex Adamopoulos, and Chief Strategy Officer, Portia Tung, will lead a webinar discussion on how to enable Agile management practices in the enterprise. The pair’s presentation will outline how emergn rolled-out an enterprise-wide Agile development and management program for a Fortune 50 company to overcome common software challenges.
Attendees Will Learn:
• How to overcome traditional software development limitations using Agile approaches.
• How to develop a roadmap to Agile adoption and greater development efficiencies.
• How to create tangible value of adopting Agile for your organization.
Webinar Details:
The webinar, “Agile in the Enterprise – .NET Development and Beyond,” will be hosted by InnerWorkings and will take place on October 8, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. To register for the webinar, click here.
Supporting Quotes:
“Enterprises rely on their software development teams to develop IT systems and applications on time and within budget, but often struggle to align project deliverables to the broader goals and needs of the business. In this webinar, we’ll be presenting methods we have used with our clients to roll out an Agile-based development program that can scale to meet enterprise requirements and create effective development environments,” commented Founder and CEO, Alex Adamopoulos.
Resources:
• Register for the webinar, click here.
• Download emergn case studies on enterprise Agile enablement.
• Alex Adamopoulos’ blog.
• Follow @emergn on Twitter.
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emergn, Agile, .NET, Software, IT, InnerWorkings
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About emergn Corporation
emergn Corporation is a sourcing strategy and Agile enablement consultancy. The company’s unified sourcing model brings the right balance of sourcing expertise, delivery and fulfillment capability, and industry-leading Agile enablement services to help companies address the continuous challenges of ad hoc project delivery and the misalignment that exists between business, IT, and service providers. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in New York with offices in London and Guangzhou, China. The company maintains close relationships with leading industry organizations, such as the Scrum Training Institute, Agile Alliance, LISA, IAOP, and many others. For more, visit www.emergn.com.
Press Contact:
Meredith L. Eaton
March Communications
+1 617 960 9877
emergn@marchpr.com
emergn Offers Agile and Lean Training Courses
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Participants will Learn how to Improve their Software Development Processes
London, September 22, 2009: Today emergn announced a series of new Agile and Lean training courses designed to accelerate the learning curve. Courses such as the Agile Overview, Agile Development, Agile Project Management and Testing for Developers with xUnit will be delivered globally for both the public and corporations beginning in Dublin and London throughout October and November. These courses will help Agile developers and team leaders put theories into practice. The instructors are experts in their industries and will share valuable experiences and discuss how these practices work in the real world. Scheduling and registration information is available on emergn’s website here.
Upcoming Course Details:
• Agile Overview: October 28 in Dublin, November 23 in London
This intensive 1-day course will provide participants with information to begin applying Agile at work through a series of learning games and exercises.
• Agile Development: October 19-20 in Dublin, November 16-17 in London
This 2-day hands-on tutorial will provide techniques for improving productivity and quality of deliverables while reducing the organisation’s technical debt. It will also help participants understand the role and responsibilities of an Agile Developer so challenges become opportunities.
• Agile Project Management: October 22-23 in Dublin, November 19-20 in London
This 2-day course consists of interactive exercises that provide Agile project managers and team leads with the opportunity to put effective tools into practice.
• Testing for Developers with xUnit: October 12-14 in London
This 3-day course provides the participants with a vocabulary of test smells and patterns to elevate their test code writing. These smells give them a way to reason about the quality of their test code and the reusable test code design patterns can be used to eliminate the smells.
Supporting Quotes:
• “emergn is a strong proponent of continuing education through Agile courses, especially in an industry that is experiencing significant growth. We regularly use the principles and practices described in our courses to provide value and affect ongoing improvement in both enterprises and providers,” commented Founder and CEO, Alex Adamopoulos.
Resources:
• For scheduling and registration, visit emergn’s site.
• Follow @emergn on Twitter.
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emergn, Agile, Training
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About emergn Corporation
emergn Corporation is a sourcing strategy and Agile enablement consultancy. The company’s unified sourcing model brings the right balance of sourcing expertise, delivery and fulfillment capability, and industry-leading Agile enablement services to help companies address the continuous challenges of ad hoc project delivery and the misalignment that exists between business, IT, and service providers. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in New York with offices in London and Guangzhou, China. The company maintains close relationships with leading industry organizations, such as the Scrum Training Institute, Agile Alliance, LISA, IAOP, and many others. For more, visit www.emergn.com.
Press Contacts
Meredith L. Eaton
March Communications
+1 617 960 9877
emergn@marchpr.com
Standard Life and BT Executives Share IT Success Stories at London Forum
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009London, September 16, 2009: emergn announced today the details of a live forum, called Agile: Business Enabled Through IT, to be held in London on September 24, 2009. The Forum will feature presentations from Standard Life and British Telecom (BT) executives detailing how Agile methods have enhanced their companies’ IT performance.
Standard Life’s Head of Business Solutions, Bill Birnie, and BT’s Managing Director of Global Platforms, Ashish Gupta, will discuss how they have each enabled Agile project teams to deliver higher-quality applications more quickly and increase overall productivity across their organizations.
Key Facts:
• Ashish Gupta’s presentation, Enabling Agility, will outline how BT addressed delivery challenges for the telecom provider’s 21CN initiative through widespread Agile development methods enablement. Further, he will describe how the lessons from 21CN have been extended to other complex initiatives at BT with excellent results.
• Bill Birnie will show how Standard Life’s award-winning Agile enablement strategies are achieving higher productivity levels and reducing application development costs. He will describe the process of enabling these new methods that Standard Life used to change business processes and beliefs that had been in place for many years.
Supporting Quotes:
• “Here we have two IT leaders from brand-name businesses talking about the strategies that have worked to solve major delivery challenges within their organizations. And, unsurprisingly, these strategies have involved large-scale enablement of Agile-based methods,” said Alex Adamopoulos, CEO, emergn Corporation. “With the enablement of Agile methods that are directly tied to the needs of the business, Ashish Gupta and Bill Birnie have both enabled their companies to deliver critical systems faster and increase cost efficiencies. This Forum will provide a chance to hear straight from them exactly what has worked, what hasn’t, and to learn how these lessons can be applied across other IT-critical situations.”
Resources:
• Contact John Vanderpool at john.vanderpool@emergn.com to attend this invitation-only event.
• Download Standard Life, BT and other exclusive emergn content.
• Visit emergn CEO Alex Adamopoulos’ blog.
• Visit emergn’s company blog, blogn, to hear from other emergn executives.
• Follow @emergn on Twitter.
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emergn, Agile, Sourcing, Enablement, IT, BT, Standard Life
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About emergn Corporation
emergn Corporation is a sourcing strategy and Agile enablement consultancy. The company’s unified sourcing model brings the right balance of sourcing expertise, delivery and fulfillment capability, and industry-leading Agile enablement services to help companies address the continuous challenges of ad hoc project delivery and the misalignment that exists between business, IT, and service providers. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in New York with offices in London and Guangzhou, China. The company maintains close relationships with leading industry organizations, such as the Scrum Training Institute, Agile Alliance, LISA, IAOP, and many others. For more, visit www.emergn.com.
Press Contact
Meredith Eaton
March Communications
+1 617 960 9877
emergn@marchpr.com
emergn’s Alex Adamopoulos launches unified sourcing
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
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emergn's Alex Adamopoulos launches unified sourcing Listen to podcast here here |