Gear Stream Announces Launch of Agile Affiliate Program

RALEIGH, NC - Feb 17, 2010 -- Gear Stream, The Agile Enterprise Transformation leader, announced today the launch of their Gear Stream Agile Affiliate Program.  This program is designed to accelerate collaboration among global Agile and Lean thought leaders who have committed to help extend the Gear Flow Transformation Services Platform and Program Roadmap.

Gear Flow is a comprehensive and integrated set of end-to-end program driven frameworks, designed to help CIO's, PMO's and R&D Heads to pragmatically implement program level change to enable high velocity Lean and Agile development.

"Our Affiliate Program is already making a huge impact for our clients, said Jane Tudor, VP Transformation Services for Gear Stream, Inc.  The inspiration and innovation that our valued Affiliate's bring to this program, coupled with their depth and breadth of Agile and Lean services delivery experience is proving instrumental in helping Gear Stream scale our ability to meet growing global customer demand for pragmatic, large scale transformation to an Agile and Lean software and product development life cycle."

"This Affiliate Program is unique, in that it allows Gear Stream to leverage real-world knowledge through the active collaboration of Agile practitioners across the country, shared Shelley Staten, CSM.  Contributing to this program allows me to share what I've learned, while expanding my knowledge base along the way.  I get a great sense of satisfaction knowing that my knowledge and experiences can be leveraged in a broader perspective by others, hopefully making their path to Agile adoption a little easier."

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 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 with additional offices in New York, Austin, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, D.C., and Argentina. 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).

Copyright © 2009-2010 Gear Flow is a registered trademark of Gear Stream, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this release are the property of their respective owners.

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Jack Perez
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