Gear Stream Launches Disruptive Freeware Program for Scrum, Agile and Lean Training Courseware

Raleigh, NC -  January 26, 2010 -- Gear Stream, The leader in Agile Enterprise Transformation, today announced the launch of its completely free, Scrum, Agile and Lean courseware membership program. This new membership program is designed to provide companies robust training materials that address Scrum, Agile Engineering, Agile Product Management, Agile Requirements Management and Lean Software / Product Development without the exorbitant fee’s charged by others in the Agile community

“I’ve been both an internal and external champion and coach to many aspiring agile teams and a big challenge has been the limited availability of high quality, in-depth Agile training materials that didn’t come with continuing licensing costs or mandatory training fees, ” said Mike Russell, Agile Product Engineering Advisor “When I first heard about Gear Stream’s new program I was initially skeptical, but that quickly changed when I reviewed their first available course materials. The quality and completeness of their 2-day Scrum Fundamentals class exceeded my expectations and even includes student handouts. I have high standards for excellence; the material is an excellent foundation for teams eager to get started with Scrum.”

“When we first discussed the idea about making our Agile courseware materials available for free there was the usual concern about how to underwrite the costs” said Brad Murphy, Founder and CEO of Gear Stream, “we didn’t debate the merits of launching a free program for very long though… it became obvious to us that making it easy for teams to start learning Agile and Scrum would help accelerate interest and use of Agile practices within enterprise firms, something that is good for both the industry and Gear Stream.

Gear Stream freemium Agile and Scrum courseware memberships can be obtained by visiting:
http://www.gearstream.com/product-content-downloads.html

About Gear Stream, Inc.
Gear Stream is the leading large-scale Agile Enterprise Transformation and Agile Outsourcing Partner in North America focused on supporting Agile team transitions that drive broad company support for innovating the entire software and product development life-cycle. In contrast to others, Gear Stream’s Agile Transformation Framework integrates direct involvement from CIO’s, PMO’s, Product Marketing, QA and Operations Leaders utilizing Lean and Scrum principals to insure that broad company change is constructively supported and implemented.

Gear Flow, Gear Stream’s flagship transformation framework, is designed to guide Enterprise executives on how best to drive sustainable Lean and Agile change across the organization resulting in up and down stream enterprise workflows better synchronized with Agile team speed and cadence. The Gear Flow framework also includes a keen focus on identifying and eliminating excessive, unnecessary governance resulting in driving additional Agile team productivity and dramatic improvements to end-to-end cycle-time and software and product quality - something we like to call “Getting in the Flow.”

Gear Stream, Inc. is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina and is privately held. For more information about how Gear Stream makes software innovation flow, visit online at http://www.gearstream.com or by calling 1-919-415-1800 (US, Canada and International).

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