321 Gang - Newsletter - January - 2024

Welcome to our first Newsletter of 2024!

Our year began on a high note in Arizona for our 2024 Team Kickoff, drawing participants from across the United States, France, and the Netherlands. In the midst of shared companionship, we took a moment to contemplate our past successes and charted the path for the promising year that lies ahead.

Exciting news! Chad Goodgion has joined 321 Gang to lead our Agile tools and services practice. With a robust background in software development and project management, Chad is ready to collaborate with organizations seeking to enhance their development processes and achieve project success.

Connect with Chad on LinkedIn for Agile-related opportunities. Welcome aboard, Chad!

Partner News and Announcements

pure::variants

Read our blog post: Creating a product reuse platform with modern product variant management HERE

Planview

American Multinational Energy Corporation Gains Effective Portfolio Management With Planview Advisor HERE

GitLab

WEBINAR! Tune in to learn about DevOps and CI/CD fundamentals for embedded systems. Through demonstrations and real-world examples, you’ll learn about how to apply modern CI/CD concepts to embedded software development.

This webinar will introduce you to how to design and implement a CI/CD pipeline using GitLab. Participants will learn how to set up and leverage these tools so that they can benefit from modernizing their development cycle effectively. Presented by Jacob Beningo and 321 Gang. HERE

Jira Align

The Atlassian Jira Align team is pleased to announce Jira Align v.10.128.

Save the date! Atlassian Team ’24 begins April 30. What’s impossible alone is possible together. Navigate transformation and get a first look at Atlassian’s products and AI innovations.

IBM

Engineers and Product Developers! Get ready for a transformative experience at the IBM TechXchange: Orlando Engineering Symposium and Workshop! Join us on Jan 30th at the University of Central Florida for an exclusive, no-cost symposium dedicated to IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM). Whether you’re into MBSE or looking to enhance your product development life cycle, we’ve got you covered!
HERE for more info!

IBM has announced that Rational Synergy and Change will reach end of support in September 2024. The clock is ticking. If you need help moving to a alternative solution contact us!

Apptio

Lack of visibility into work-in-progress, budgets, and resources makes continuous alignment to strategic priorities challenging — something most organizations face today. This leads to financial blind spots that can handicap value planning and realization.

Check out Targetprocess, a leading Portfolio Management and Enterprise Agile platform that enables end-to-end visibility and dynamic management of work, resources, budgets, and portfolios while ensuring continuous alignment to strategic priorities and more.