Under the partnership, Serena will combine its enterprise IT tool-making expertise with Valtech’s transformation, coaching and education techniques to help corporate employees make use of Agile processes and on-demand, without extensive prior training.

Jeremy Burton, CEO of Serena, said: Agile development methodologies are seeing tremendous adoption in independent software vendors and IT departments of all sizes. We are committed to delivering a pure-Agile toolset via SaaS later in 2008 and are delighted to have Valtech as our partner of choice as we roll that toolset out to market.