LeanKit and Focused Objective announced a partnership to provide customers with an integrated product offering. The combined solution will bring industry leading quantitative analysis to LeanKit’s and Focused Objective’s customer base in an easy to use and immediately available way. This analysis includes forecasting project delivery dates, pinpointing what factors such as staffing, quality, scope change, etc. are having the greatest impact on delivery dates, and the ability to find what staff skill additions will have the most impact.

The Agile Alliance announced its full conference program for Agile2012. The finalized schedule is available for review at http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/program/schedule/. Agile2012, the world’s largest conference for Agile teams, developers, managers and executives, will take place Aug. 13-17 in Grapevine (Dallas area), Texas.

The Agile Alliance has announced Bob Sutton, Dr. Sunita Maheshwari and Joe Justice as keynote speakers for the Agile2012 Conference. Agile2012 is the leading international conference on Agile methods in software development, bringing together many disciplines in the fields of information systems and software development to foster the exchange of fresh ideas and best practices.

Axosoft, the company behind the leading project management software for software developers, announced today that its newest version of OnTime will now be the lowest priced, feature-rich scrum project management tool in the market. OnTime 12, the 10th anniversary edition of the popular software, will now be offered as three separate products with blazingly fast speed, increased ease-of-use and at a fraction of its previous price tag – up to 90 percent less.

InvulgoSoft has just released their second title for iPhone and iPad called InvulgoScrum 1.0. This simple free App enables the users to plan and execute small agile projects as an individual or as a team.

While working hard to release tinyPM 3.0, tinyPM has decided to make one more release for v2.x which would include the most urgent changes. So here comes days off on iteration burn-down charts as well as a few more improvements and fixes to exports and API.

EMC Corporation announced it has acquired San Francisco-based Pivotal Labs, a privately-held provider of agile software development services and tools. The all-cash transaction is not expected to have a material impact to EMC GAAP or non-GAAP EPS for the full 2012 fiscal year.

Atlassian announced the release of GreenHopper 5.9.1. GreenHopper adds Agile project management to any JIRA project.

Agile Advantage announced the availability of its new impediment-tracking tool for software development teams that use Agile, Scrum, Lean, and Kanban methods called Impediment Monkey.

VersionOne announced its Winter 2012 product release. The new release expands VersionOne capabilities in the areas of strategic planning and agile portfolio management through program-level Kanban boards, Epic-level project visibility and enhanced custom analytics. The new functionality is designed to help organizations better plan, manage and report on cross-project initiatives in sync with their agile portfolio management strategy.