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Talia is delighted to have been chosen as the plugin of the month for JIRA. Register to join the webinar on June 18, 2010 by clicking on the following link  https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/985138474 .

Dialoog, a subsidiary Pyxis Technologies, has just released Talia for JIRA, the first enterprise-class chat robot that assists project managers with time tracking and issue updates. The product is not just an Instant Messaging interface to your JIRA, it really is a proactive robot specifically devoted to freeing project managers from the monthly time sheet nightmare. Find out more at http://www.dialoogsolutions.com/talia/jira/.

Another blog from Microsoft (Aaron Bjork) about Urban Turtle http://bit.ly/b1dh5c . Thank you!

Team Urban Turtle is proud to announce that Urban Turtle 3.0 has sim-shipped alongside Team Foundation Server 2010 and is now available for download. During the last two weeks, we’ve been hard at work to fully support the RTM version of TFS 2010. We also manage to squeeze in several UI changes to correct various graphical glitches. We firmly believe this is by far the best version ever of Urban Turtle. We look forward to hearing from everyone about this release!

The Urban Turtle team is proud to finally present the release candidate of our Agile Project Management extension to Team Web Access 2010: Urban Turtle 3.0. This new version sports a brand new look, a streamlined user interface and full support for Team Foundation Server 2010. Make sure to download it and request a free 30-day trial, you’ll find that you can’t do Agile in TFS 2010 without Urban Turtle.

In the last few months, we’ve spent quite some time working on our template support. Out of the box, Urban Turtle supports the MSF Agile 5.0 process template. We’re actually quite proud to introduce what we think is the first and only 3-column task board to work with MSF Agile 5.0 without any modifications.

But what’s even better is that we support virtually any process template through an xml mapping file. We already provide one such file to support MSF Agile 5.0, but new ones can be added to support your own template.

We’re aiming to sim-ship alongside Team Foundation Server 2010 which has just been made available, meaning the RTM version should be ready before the end of the month. Right now, the release candidate has only been tested with TFS 2010 RC. We recommend using Microsoft’s virtual machine to try Urban Turtle 3.0 RC.

We hope you enjoy this latest release, and please do provide some feedback so that we make the turtle even better!

By 2012, agile development methods will be utilized in 80% of all software development projects (Gartner “Predict 2010: Agile and Cloud Impact Application Development Directions”). Pyxis Technologies develops tools that help Agile teams deliver successful projects.

Pyxis Technologies announced that it has been selected to join Microsoft Corp.’s Visual Studio Team System Inner Circle program. The Inner Circle program engages specialized application life-cycle management (ALM) partners worldwide who enable customers to achieve ROI on their Visual Studio Team System tools investmen

“Pyxis Technologies is very excited about becoming a member of this elite program“, says François Beauregard, CEO of Pyxis Technologies. “With the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 launch and this new strategic relationship, we will be able to provide even more value to customers using Visual Studio Team System and moving to Agile development methods. Since 2005, we have trained and certified more than 1200 Scrum masters and participated in numerous Agile development projects. At Pyxis, Agility guides our practices every day. This is why we are the reference in Agile software development.“

Urban Turtle is an Agile project management solution fully integrated into Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. This innovative solution simplifies project planning, helps developers update their work in real-time, improves project progress visualization and encourages communication within the team.

GreenPepper has mature support for .NET and Visual Studio IDE integration which allows teams to efficiently use executable specifications and acceptance test driven development practices in their development process. The Inner Circle partnership will help us to rapidly reach one of our strategic goals in 2010, which is to have tight integration with Team Foundation Server and the Testing features of the Visual Studio ALM platform.

“Microsoft is delighted to add Pyxis Technologies to the Visual Studio Inner Circle program,” said Cyrill Glockner, director of Business Development, Platform and Tools at Microsoft Corp. “Pyxis Technologies offers a unique set of products and services to help customers consistently improve their software development productivity through the use of Agile development methods”

Pyxis Technologies will release the 2010 version of Urban Turtle simultaneously with the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 launch on April 12^th 2010.

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