Today, CA announced a partnership with salesforce.com to create CA Agile Planner, a management solution in the cloud for agile developers. The new solution from CA will better enable users to simultaneously manage multiple development methodologies such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP). Scheduled to be released in the first half of 2010 and integrate with CA Clarity PPM, the CA Agile Planner will enable our customers to achieve enterprise visibility and control over all their projects, whether they are using Agile, traditional waterfall, or another type of methodology.

CA is one of the first major enterprise vendors to develop a new product on salesforce.com's (Force.com platform) to make deployment faster and easier by users. By leveraging Force.com, CA Agile Planner joins the more than 135,000 custom applications built by the salesforce.com community of 200,000 developers.

To assist with the success of this new partnership, CA also announced an the Agile open community where anyone can submit, discuss and vote on ideas to shape the initial and ongoing features of the product. Participants will be able to provide feedback on the latest product designs from the Clarity team, and get the latest news and product updates.

The announcement took place this morning at Dreamforce, salesforce.com's annual user conference. At the event, CA is also showcasing the use of CA Clarity PPM to manage Salesforce CRM's implementations and, Security and Application Performance Management solutions - all of which add value to their implementations. Anyone interested in agile development should visit ca.com/agile to find out more.