Ivar Jacobson International's Essential Practices and EssWork Offering Recognized as Key Competitive Differentiators by Ovum Research

    OTTAWA, ON, June 17, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A technology audit released this month by Ovum Research on Ivar Jacobson International's Essential Practices and EssWork gives readers a full review of IJI's software development process framework. The report is available free of charge at: www.ivarjacobson.com/Ovum_agile.aspx. The audit provides a number of key findings that will assist software development organizations looking for lean - agile enablement.

The principal analyst in the report - Michael Azoff - made some key recommendations:

"(For) legacy process users looking for Agile - Lean enablement, ... users will find EssWork and Essential Practices a good process to adopt, covering a range of practices that span waterfall to Agile. Essential Practices takes an aspect-oriented thinking approach, meaning that it looks at practices that cross-cut lifecycle activities.

"Organizations seeking a disciplined approach to process adoption, EssWork and Essential Practices provide a more mature approach to process adoption, and would be suitable for organizations aspiring to level two and higher on the CMMI scale. The solution can help large enterprises consolidate their processes and methodologies and also help enforce company standards."

Users can download a free copy of the report at www.ivarjacobson.com/Ovum_agile.aspx.

A trial version of EssWork is also available online for non-commercial use at http://www.ivarjacobson.com/process_improvement_technology/esswork/.

Ivar Jacobson International is a global services company that helps software organizations transform and improve the way in which they develop software solutions as well as guide them in meeting the expectations of the business. www.ivarjacobson.com

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