Press Release / April 23, 2013

Method Park announces a strategic partnership with Scott Ambler + Associates

Process Management solution provider Method Park announces a strategic partnership with Agile best practices and thought leadership consulting group Scott Ambler + Associates. Effective June 1, 2013, Method Park will include process guidance on Disciplined Agile Delivery within its flagship Stages product. Stages is a management system for product development, systems & software engineering processes.
The partnership benefits customers in the software and systems engineering business because it will bring enterprise aware agile and lean best practices to large companies who are looking to speed up solution delivery and staying compliant with their regulations of their industry. Company officials are expected to run a series of events in June and later this year.
“With its unique process tailoring and execution capabilities, Stages is a great platform for efficiently adopting Disciplined Agile Delivery at enterprise scale.” says Scott Ambler, Founder and Principal Consultant.“When moving to enterprise agile, organizations need tooling such as Stages to help them to support the complexities of process tailoring to properly address the situational context faced by individual teams.”
“By providing Disciplined Agile Delivery with Stages, we empower our customers to implement agile methodologies throughout the enterprise without violating compliance requirements.” states Erich Meier, Method Park’s CTO and Stages chief architect, “This is a key enabler for agile solution delivery in critical or regulated environments.”
Method Park officials expect this partnership to also widen its customer training and services offerings. In addition to improving client success, Method Park will be able to provide agile and lean thought leadership to enterprise customers in Germany.

About Scott Ambler + Associates
Scott Ambler + Associates is an agile and lean process consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations be more effective applying disciplined agile and lean processes within their business context. Based on our extensive research and experience we provide disciplined agile coaching and training that improves business results because it is pragmatic and realistic. We have worked with dozens of organizations around the world and trained and coached thousands of agile practitioners.
About Method Park
For many years Method Park has successfully offered consulting in questions of software for safety-critical systems in the automotive industry and in the medical technology area, for which the company develops its own software solutions. Method Park brings extensive know-how to fields with high and extremely high safety requirements. With this knowledge Method Park offers its customers a variety of solutions from a single source that contribute to the success of each company. 
Method Park is the competent partner for consulting, coaching, training, engineering services and products for all questions of software development processes. The "Stages" Web-based process management portal developed by Method Park supports users with the practical implementation of development processes. Stages ensures the realization of predefined quality standards and process models and can be integrated in all common development environments. Furthermore, Stages enables the global distribution of development tasks beyond corporate boundaries.
Founded in Erlangen in 2001, Method Park employs around 125 persons at sites in Erlangen, Munich and Stuttgart, as well as in Detroit and Miami in the USA.
For further information please contact:
Philipp Donnert, Marketing
Method Park Holding AG, Wetterkreuz 19a, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Tel. +49 9131 97206-285, Fax +49 9131 97206-280
Philipp.Donnert@methodpark.de 	www.methodpark.de