Dallas, TX – The PMI (Project Management Institute) Dallas Chapter held its meeting at Crown Plaza North Dallas/Addison this month, and two members of Improving’s leadership team were invited to present. Barry Rogers and Ken Howard joined forces to deliver “Improving Team Dynamics” for a crowd of over 150 attendees.

Improving Enterprises was proud to be a Platinum Sponsor at the Dallas TechFest 2010 Conference on July 30^th, 2010. The event took place at UTD in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. Over 425 IT professionals showed up looking to expand their knowledge in cutting edge technologies of today’s ever changing software development tools and best practices.

Venture Launch Partners of Dallas Texas, investors in Sticviews.com, recently chose Improving Enterprises to help create a suite of commercial services on top of their advanced printing platform. The services automate the online experience of creating and ordering custom decals that stick anywhere and come off clean. Using these services, businesses can create and edit custom images on their websites and electronically submit print orders to Sticviews for fulfillment.

Improving Enterprises, in conjunction with Microsoft, will present AgileDotNet 2010 on April 30th in Dallas, Texas. This conference is explicitly designed to bring together the world of .NET development with Agile methodologies. The conference curriculum targets those within .NET development environments with experience applying Agile techniques and those just beginning to adopt Agile in their teams and organizations.

Improving Enterprises, a leading provider of advanced technology training and software development solutions, was chosen as one of Dallas’ fastest-growing private companies – ranking #16 on the prestigious list of 100 – by the Dallas Business Journal and SMU’s Caruth Institute.

Improving Enterprises was honored today by the Dallas Morning News as one of the Top 10 of the Top 100 Places to Work in 2009, ranking 7th overall out of the companies chosen to participate in this year’s prestigious list. In addition, Improving placed #1 in the Work Place Environment category. Over 1000 people from these D-FW role-model companies attended the award ceremony at the Fairmont Hotel where Mayor Tom Leppert gave the opening keynote presentation.

Today, Improving Enterprises, a leading provider of advanced technology training and software development solutions, was honored by the Dallas Chapter of BNI (Business Network International) and presented with the prestigious OSCAR award.

Today, Inc. magazine announced its 28th annual Inc. 500 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Improving Enterprises, a leading provider of advanced technology training and software development solutions, ranked 120th on the list, with three-year growth of 1,417.1%. As a first year honoree of the Inc. 500, Improving was ranked as the 8^th fastest growing IT Services company and as the 2^nd fastest-growing company in the D-FW metroplex.

Snap Drape, a leading provider of customized table skirting and the first in the industry to introduce the patented clip-on table skirti…

First United Bank, one of the nation’s premier financial institutions providing a wide range of products and services to customers throughout Oklahoma and Texas, has selected Improving Enterprises to help develop and implement its technology strategy to position the bank to achieve its growth goals. First United has earned a reputation as a reliable, secure financial institution that also provides excellent customer service through its neighborhood banking centers.

Today, Improving Enterprises announced the opening of their new state-of-the-art development center in Bryan/College Station, Texas. Located in the heart of Galleria Village, the new office is fully equipped with the latest technology and contains many amenities, including conference facilities and training rooms.

Improving Enterprises was selected by Dashfly Technologies, Inc. to build a user-friendly web-based mapping tool. The resulting product was Dashfly.com that allows users to create optimized routes in seconds. The online tool also provides valuable mileage tracking and expense reporting options.

Improving Enterprises became one of the elite Microsoft partners from around the world to join the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Inner Circle. The VSTS Inner Circle has 3 key pillars – readiness, engagement, and specialization. As a compliment to the normal Microsoft partner program, this bridge initiative is intended to assist those partners who are deeply committed to Team Systems prior to the official launch of the Application Life Cycle Management specialization.

Improving Enterprises, along with several key sponsors, established the first technology conference explicitly designed to bring together the world of .NET with the world of Agile methodologies. The event curriculum was built specifically for those within .NET development environments with experience applying Agile techniques and for those just beginning to adopt Agile in their teams and organizations.

Symon Communications, a global provider of digital signage solutions, chose to partner with Improving Enterprises to develop a new version of their web-based management application for digital signs and media players.

Tenet Healthcare Corporation recently chose to move its information, collaboration, and content management systems to one of the Microsoft Corporation’s most successful products, Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). This decision reflects alignment with a growing industry trend to adopt SharePoint for a variety of business purposes.

Announced today, Todd Girvin, co-founder and Leader of the Microsoft Technology Practice for Improving Enterprises, Inc., a Dallas-based advanced software and technology consulting firm, received the Microsoft MVP Award for his efforts and involvement with Visual C#.

Today, Improving Enterprises announced that David O’Hara, Principal Consultant with Improving Enterprises, Inc., a Dallas-based advanced software and technology consulting firm, received the Microsoft MVP Award for his efforts and involvement with ASP/ASP.NET: Architecture.

Improving’s Rod Coffin was published yesterday in JavaWorld.com. JavaWorld.com is the leading independent source for Java™ technology programmers and enterprise managers who require more information about Java programming language and related technologies.
In this article, entitled, “Behavior Driven Development with easyb”, Rod explains the concepts of BBD and discusses the difference between test-driven development (TTD) and [...]

Improving’s Jef Newsom will be delivering the closing Keynote at this year’s TulsaTechFest. Over sixty speakers from around the world will be convening in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to deliver tracks on topics such as enterprises architecture, software and web development, databases, project management, data security, and even graphic deign. The goal of the conference’s organizers is [...]