Jim Highsmith Addresses Agile Project Management as Part of Rally's Free ''Road to Agile'' Webinar Series.

Highsmith Shares Insights into New Project Management Practices That Help Software Development Organizations Respond Faster and Easier to Changing Business Needs

Who:            Jim Highsmith
                Co-author of the Agile Manifesto, Director at Cutter
                Consortium http://www.adaptivesd.com/index.html

                Highsmith is a recognized leader in the Agile project
                management and software development movement and has
                worked with organizations worldwide to help them
                accelerate development in increasingly complex,
                uncertain environments. He is Director, Agile Project
                Management Practice at Cutter Consortium, and is the
                author of Agile Project Management, Addison-Wesley
                (2004), Adaptive Software Development, Dorsett House
                (1999), and Agile Software Development Ecosystems,
                Addison-Wesley (2002). Jim was a co-author of the
                Agile Manifesto and is a founder and board member of
                the AgileAlliance.

What:           Agile Project Management - Reliable Innovation Webinar
                (To register, visit Rally at www.rallydev.com)

                From materials to drugs to software, companies are
                relentlessly driving the cost of change out of product
                development processes to foster true innovation. Agile
                Project Management (APM) is designed to help software
                teams better manage new projects where risky
                technologies are incorporated; requirements are
                volatile and evolve; time-to-market is critical; and,
                high quality must be maintained. APM can severely
                challenge traditional "production" oriented project
                management practices that attempt to optimize, predict
                paths and conform to detail plans.

                Some of the Agile Project Management principles
                Highsmith will present include:

                --  Moving from a "production" to an "exploration"
                    software culture

                --  How APM principles and practices deliver
                    improvements in Agile

                --  Determining product vision and project scope

                --  Developing a feature-based release, milestone and
                    iteration plan

                --  Delivering tested features

                --  Reviewing delivered results and adapting to
                    changing requirements

                --  Concluding the development project

                This free online presentation is part of the "The Road
                to Agile" Webinar series hosted by Rally Software
                Development. The Webinars provide teams with practical
                tips and techniques for adopting Agile practices that
                help their companies win more business by increasing
                software development agility, responsiveness and
                productivity. Through live interaction with the
                presenters, Webinar attendees also have the unique
                opportunity to get feedback and advice on their own
                Agile development efforts.

                Archives of the entire "Road To Agile" Webinar series
                - focused on providing software teams with the
                practical tools, tips and techniques for succeeding
                with Agile development practices - are available now
                at: www.rallydev.com

When:           Friday, Dec. 3, 2004
                11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon (Mountain)

Contact:        For more information, please contact Guy Murrel at
                Catapult PR-IR 303-581-7760, ext. 17 or
                [e-mail]