Toronto — January 27, 2009 —Brightspark 3.0 Inc, Canada’s leading startup experts, today announced the release of Agilebuddy, an Agile and Scrum project management software service that guides users through the Agile and Scrum process.

Agilebuddy is a full featured web based project management application built on a rich collaboration platform, it allows for flexible, dynamic project administration and offers users an easy way to create, estimate and plan Scrum development projects.

Agilebuddy is designed to be used with any Agile process including Scrum, eXtreme Programming (XP), Feature Driven Development (FDD). These methodologies and processes are gaining momentum with software development teams around the world.

“Agilebuddy provides our customers complete transparency into the software development process” says Jack Milunsky, COO and Scrum Master, Brightspark 3.0. “We are committed to Agile, we practice Scrum daily and we built Agilebuddy using the Agile and Scrum methodology”.

“Agilebuddy has really helped our teams to easily transition to adopting Agile methods. It’s simple to use and the highly effective collaboration features provide full visibility into the development process, thereby keeping all team members on the same page at all times. As a result, our development teams are able to deliver more frequently and are able to respond to customer feedback more rapidly than in the past”, said Desmond Hirson, VP Engineering, VisualSonics Inc., developers of high-resolution imaging systems.

“Even though we grew up on the Waterfall methodology, we realize how much more productive Agile is. It allows for a more flexible approach and tightly coordinated planning, ensuring that the development team is always working on the features that matter,” says Mark Skapinker, Co-CEO of Brightspark 3.0. “Finally, by using Agilebuddy we have a software development methodology with no surprises in the process; and that means that products ship on time”.

Agilebuddy’s unique and intuitive design lets teams quickly and easily adapt from traditional Waterfall to Agile. Agilebuddy is productive for experienced Agile professionals, as well as new Agile users and ensures that teams follow the iterative incremental approach to software development.

Brightspark is offering full technical support for Agilebuddy customers. Brightspark is also providing Agile Primer seminars, training and consulting.

Agilebuddy is available in three versions: A free trial-edition for a maximum of three users; a Team edition for $19.95 per user per month and an Open Source edition for free. As an introductory special, the team edition is available for a limited time at $9.95 per user per month.

For more information: www.agilebuddy.com
About Brightspark 3.0 Inc (www.brightspark3.com)

Brightspark 3.0 Inc. is a privately-based company that develops and operates innovative software and Internet businesses. Brightspark is 3.0 is part of the Brightspark group of companies. Other Brightspark businesses provide software development services, Venture Capital financing, Brightspark was founded by a team of serial entrepreneurs. Brightspark is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.