Accentient
Accentient specializes in helping software teams achieve excellence in delivering high-quality products swiftly and efficiently by embracing Scrum, Azure DevOps, and complementary practices. They offer consulting, training, and coaching services to help teams implement and optimize Agile, Scrum, and DevOps methodologies.
Services
Accentient specializes in helping software teams deliver high-quality products efficiently by adopting Scrum, Azure DevOps, and complementary practices. The company provides consulting, training, and coaching services aimed at enhancing teams' capabilities in these areas. Key services include Agile, Scrum, and DevOps assessment and coaching, software development consulting, quality assurance consulting, and tuning and integration services for tools and practices. Additionally, Accentient offers specialized migration services, such as moving teams from Azure DevOps Server (TFS) to Azure DevOps Services.
Products
Accentient offers a variety of training courses and resources for software development teams. Popular courses include Assuring Quality Using Azure Test Plans, CI/CD Using Azure Pipelines, and Continuous Delivery Using Azure DevOps Services. The company also provides courseware for digital or physical purchase, covering topics like Scrum, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio, and Jira. This courseware includes notable publications like 'Professional Scrum Development Using Azure DevOps' in multiple languages, and other educational materials by Microsoft Press.
History
Accentient was founded in 2002 as a developer-focused technical training company and is located in Boise, Idaho, USA. Over the years, the company has played a significant role in advancing Scrum and DevOps practices globally. Key milestones include partnering with Microsoft and Scrum.org to create the Professional Scrum Developer course in 2009 and building the Nexus framework for Scaled Professional Scrum in 2015. Their publications and training events have made significant impacts, such as organizing the largest-ever Professional Scrum Train-The-Trainer event in Munich, Germany in 2017.
Notable Projects
Accentient has a history of noteworthy projects, including helping the State of Colorado with their Azure DevOps and Scrum implementations in 2023 and migrating the International Monetary Fund to Azure DevOps Services in 2019. The company has also assisted Microsoft's internal Dynamics CRM training through TFS courseware creation and has produced instructional contents like Microsoft's 'How Do I' videos for Visual Studio and Hosted TFS Preview. Notable publications include 'Professional Scrum Development Using Azure DevOps' (2020) and earlier works like 'Working with Visual Studio 2005 Team System' (2005).