Band XI: Professional Affiliations

Eclipse Foundation
The source for extensible development platforms and application frameworks for building software.

“Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation formed to advance the creation, evolution, promotion, and support of the Eclipse Platform and to cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products, capabilities, and services.“
Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGI)
Dynamic services for networked devices.

“The OSGi Alliance Service Platform enables new & exciting services and applications for networked devices. OSGi technology improves time-to-market and reduces costs of manufacturing and development with unique new after-market sales opportunities for device manufacturers and service providers.”
Agile Alliance
Delivering value to organizations and end users faster and with higher quality.

“The Agile Alliance is a non-profit organization that supports individuals and organizations that use agile approaches to develop software. Driven by the simple priorities articulated in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, agile development approaches deliver value to organizations and end users faster and with higher quality.”
Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN)
Connecting, developing, and supporting great project leaders.

“APLN was founded in 2004 by a group of people who are active in writing about, practicing, and evangelizing the movement towards fast, flexible, customer value driven approaches to leading projects of many types. Although this organization is separate from the Agile Alliance, our intention is to work closely with that group within the software community, but also work with people and companies outside of software and IT to help them become better Project Leaders.”
Scrum Alliance
It’s about common sense.

“Scrum is an agile, lightweight process that can be used to manage and control software and product development using iterative, incremental practices. Wrapping existing engineering practices, including Extreme Programming and RUP, Scrum generates the benefits of agile development with the advantages of a simple implementation. Scrum significantly increases productivity and reduces time to benefits while facilitating adaptive, empirical systems development.”