Sponsors

The following companies have recently sponsored XP Denver. Our thanks go out to these companies for helping us to provide a forum for local software professionals that share our mission and goals. Email us if you are interested in sponsorship!

From an initial pilot project to enterprise rollout, Rally helps companies succeed with Agile software development. Rally's family of Agile life cycle management products give teams the visibility and collaboration needed to deliver high-value software in rapid iterations, and its world-renowned coaching services help mentor teams to create internal Agile experts. Based in Boulder, Colo., Rally maps an incremental road to Agile adoption for thousands of subscribers from leading software vendors, Internet companies and corporate development teams. For more information, visit http://www.rallydev.com.

Magpie Telecom Insiders
With roots in Bell Laboratories, Magpie brings you leading-edge thinking in an agile environment. We're free to go beyond the conventional to help guide complex projects, integrate resources, and meet extreme challenges. Our technical excellence is based on academic credentials and real-world experience from a team that has worked together for over 20 years.

Mountain Goat Software
Mountain Goat Software, founded by Mike Cohn in 1993, specializes in the application of agile techniques to difficult software problems. Whether you are looking for training, mentoring, or consulting, it is likely we can help you.

bivio Software
Every successful product is built on a solid infrastructure. In June 2001, bivio released their web application framework as open source. This enables clients and the web community at-large to gain access to bivio fundamentals free of charge. Even if you are using another web-delivered application platform, you will want to take a critical look at the bivio OLTP Platform (bOP).

Softpro Books
SoftPro Books is an independent computer bookstore with locations in Denver and Boulder. They are the best resource for technical books in the area, carrying over 9,000 titles at each of their Colorado locations.

Qwest
With one of the largest, most technologically advanced networks in the world, Qwest is powering the exchange of multimedia content, images, data and voice.

Object Mentor
Object Mentor's mission is to develop our customers' skills while helping them create software of the highest quality, in the shortest time. To do this they offer them their knowledge, minds, and abilities. Mentors join their project teams and take part of the customer's project load. They share customer goals and deadlines. They teach -- by lecture, demonstration, and example -- the principles of object oriented technology.

Clarkware Consulting
Clarkware Consulting provides pragmatic software consulting and mentoring to help your project deliver better software faster. Customized training and mentoring is available to help your team quickly become productive using agile design and testing tools and realize the benefits of test-first design techniques. Agile development and performance consulting services are also available to help your project effectively build high-quality and performant systems based on today's business needs rather than speculation.

Fowler Software Design
Fowler Software Design was founded in 1984 by Rex Fowler and Jan Fowler. Its goal was (and is) "To profitably provide flawless computer software service to able and productive clients thus making them more able and more productive." Currently most of the technicians who design and write software for FSD are owners of the company.

Addison-Wesley Professional/Pearson Technology Group
Addison-Wesley is one of the world's largest and most respected academic publishers. PTG represents the publishing industry's leading imprints for authoritative and cutting-edge technical and professional information. They are also the publisher of the original XP Series that introduced Extreme Programming.

O'Reilly & Associates
O'Reilly & Associates is a premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies through their books, conferences, and web sites. Their books are widely recognized with their animal covers and their "Nutshell" books are bestsellers. O'Reilly offers XP Denver members several special benefits as listed on their User Group page including 20% discounts on online purchases and O'Reilly conferences.

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The following companies have supported and sponsored Agile Denver in the past.

Telelogic
Telelogic is the leading global provider of software and services for Enterprise Lifecycle Management (ELM). Award winning Telelogic products go beyond Requirements Management and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) by combining the voice of the customer with business objectives to drive development of products, applications, advanced systems and software.

Virtuas Solutions
Virtuas Solutions, LLC is a premier group of individuals focused on helping organizations optimize their software development efforts. Since 1999, Virtuas has provided customized, leading-edge solutions for organizations of all types in sizes. Virtuas also provides training and mentoring services in Agile development practices such as Extreme Programming, as well as open source integration with Struts and Tomcat. For more information, please contact 1-866-4virtuas, or visit our website at www.virtuas.com.

Idée-Force Communications
An idée-force (ee DAY force) is an idea so powerful that it captures the collective imagination and shapes the course of history. Idée-Force Communications is an integrated marketing agency that invents powerful marketing ideas that positively impact the success of your business. We know how to market start-ups and established technology companies--software, hardware, broadband...you name it. We execute our powerful ideas flawlessly so that they become reality. Our mission is to capture the essence of your company and the soul of your brand. You can count on us to recommend the most compelling marketing strategies possible and to design the most potent integrated campaign options. We are driven to make your product is the one that people ask for, and to make your company is the one that people want to work with. If everybody wants to do business with you, then we've done our job. Contact Heather at 303.295.3845 or visit our web site for more information.

The Complete Programmer Network
The Complete Programmer Network is a full service Information Technology consulting, training, and placement firm specializing in the metro Denver, Colorado market. Their mission is to be more than a typical "head-hunting" firm - and to build a network of highly skilled IT professionals.

ProTech
ProTech is a professional services firm and IBM S/390 Partner in Development specializing in Enterprise Systems Management and Automation. ProTech operates two divisions. ProTechConsulting.com offers expert consulting, staff augmentation and ESM software services. ProTechTraining.com offers over three hundred instructor-led and online courses for OS/390, UNIX and open-standards Internet developers including two XP offerings.

Select Business Solutions
Select Business Solutions, a member of Gores Technology Group, is a leading international software company with customers drawn from the Global 1000. Select provides comprehensive solutions consisting of pragmatic tools and services, for business critical IT software development, deployment, management, information access and enterprise reporting. Headquartered in Boulder Colorado, Select operates sales offices throughout North America and Europe, in addition to a network of international distributors. Select Business Solutions' mission is to improve our customers' productivity by providing comprehensive solutions consisting of pragmatic tools (like Scope Manager) and services for business critical software development, deployment and management, as well as information access.

TogetherSoft
Dedicated to improving the ways people work together, TogetherSoft Corporation is a leading provider of software and services that enable enterprises to increase innovation, raise productivity, and speed time to market. TogetherSoft solutions provide proven and predictable ways to manage change, mitigate risk, and deliver frequent, tangible, team-driven results.

BoldTech
BoldTech Systems is a fast-growing Denver-based business integration consultancy. BoldTech leverages its innovative methodologies, advanced technology, and technical skills to deliver bottom line business value.

Rational
Rational software from IBM helps organizations create business value by improving their software development capability. The Rational software development platform integrates software engineering best practices, tools, and services. With it, organizations thrive in an on demand world by being more responsive, resilient, and focused. Rational's standards-based, cross-platform solution helps software development teams create and extend business applications, embedded systems and software products.

Kuvera
Boulder based Kuvera provide its customers with a business-driven approach to Enterprise Application Integration while ensuring customer success through technical excellence, valued relationships, and superior technology.

Rogue Wave Software
Rogue Wave provides the fastest way to bring durable mission-critical applications to market with large-scale, platform-independent, business frameworks, components, and services. Enterprises of all sizes use Rogue Wave's application development technology and extensive consulting services to build their business and e-business solutions, across hardware platforms, operating systems, and geographies.

Xede Consulting Group
Xede is committed to building a different technology consulting company. Their charter is simple: build a company that focuses on delivering exceptional eBusiness solutions to companies with urgent needs to compete in our fast-paced economy. With offices in Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Denver, the founders and employees are committed to building Xede into the premier consulting services company that focuses on its local markets.

GT Alliance
From start-ups to non-profits to Fortune 500's, GT Alliance is helping organizations realize their overall business strategy and process goals through the innovative implementation of traditional Information Technology and Web services solutions. We provide your project with recognized leaders in the high-tech industry, at reasonable costs. Our senior staff has a proven track record in all areas of business and technology, with numerous awards, technical books, articles, and speaking engagements to their credit. All of our consultants and developers come to GT Alliance with years of experience, most having worked in the technology industry long before it was a mainstay of business activity. So whether you're looking for high-level strategy, detailed design, or training solutions, you can be sure you're getting the best people for the job.

ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks was founded on a simple premise: to create enterprise-transforming software, you find the industry's most capable heavy lifting specialists. Provide an environment that enables them to thrive professionally and personally. Turn them loose on ambitious, groundbreaking projects. And reward them handsomely for coming through.