The news is finally out! I've been working on this deal since the day after I left Corbis. We put the ink on the contract back in April (on my birthday as it happened.) My firm, Modus Cooperandi and Valtech have entered a strategic partnership. Valtech will be offering our change management consulting services as part of their service catalog and I will be assuming the role as their Chief Process Scientist. My first official duty in this new role is to give the key note speech at the Agile Edge event in McLean, Virginia on Thursday this week (sign up now, it's only $149.)

I'm very excited about the partnership with Valtech. I'm impressed with Brad Murphy's vision for the business and their new Software OnDemand business model for outsourcing and consulting. It's a smart play that shows that Brad and his colleagues deeply understand Lean and want to offer true business agility to their clients through a pull based near/on-shore outsourcing model. Valtech are driving in the direction of a software engineering value chain - a vision I've held for several years. In my opinion its part of the natural maturity of our industry away from a hand-crafted neo-cottage industry that it is today. As a thought leader in software engineering process and practice I want to be part of the maturing of our industry in the 21st Century and see it grow and scale like other industries have over the past 300 years. I expect to see craft based labor-arbitrage outsource businesses become a thing of the past over the next decade as Lean Thinking and Software Factories (Software Product Lines) technology combine to deliver orders of magnitude improvement over craft-based development. Teaming up with Valtech helps me progress that vision and I (and the Modus Cooperandi team) look forward to being part of their success with Software OnDemand. Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Valtech, Software+Engineering, Lean, Agile+Edge, Brad+Murphy, Modus+Cooperandi, Agile