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Let me introduce a new permanent contributor to the site. We were lucky to get Mendelt Siebenga on board.
Mendelt Siebenga has been working as a software developer for close to ten years. For the last five years he has been applying practices and ideas from XP, Scrum and Lean in several adverse conditions like in fixed-price projects, teams distributed over several timezones and even during a SOX compliance implementation. Mendelt intends to cover particularly comprehensively the point of view of an agile developer acting as a change agent in a more traditional environment
Please, join me in welcoming Mendelt and take a look at his private blog as well.
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Dear readers
We just got a new writer for AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com. His name is Jack Milunsky.
As COO and Scrum Master, Jack Milunsky heads software development at Brightspark. Jack is an early adopter of Scrum and has a great passion for early stage startups. Jack is co-creator of Agilebuddy, a next generation Scrum Application SaaS. Jack combines over 18 years of experience managing software development teams both large and small. Jack also writes to his own blog - check it out.
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This is my last post on AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com. I let Artem know that I need to concentrate on my own blog for a while. The success of my site is a welcome surprise for me, but it also means that it's demanding all of my attention.
On AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com I published 46 articles this year, including some timeless classics such as 10 Principles of Agile Project Time Management, The 12 Best Questions for Team Members, and Oh My God, They Fixed the Bug!. I also published my share of useless and controversial drivel, such as Professionalism = Knowledge First, Experience Last, and Specialization is Good. But I had fun writing it, and I'm glad that most of the people throwing bricks at me missed me.
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Our web-site is publishing advices on Agile software development for over 3 years and there is a large set of useful articles that are not very easy to find. This weekend I digged through our archive and gathered the best of the best articles to the new pages focused on managing people and things in Agile. Enjoy!
Also it would be very kind of you to take a moment and tell (in the comments) what you think about the usefulness of these link collections.
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Dear readers
We just got a new regular contributor for AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com – Janusz Gorycki
Janusz Gorycki is a developer and team manager with over fourteen years of experience. He has spent most of that time at Intel Corporation, working in many areas, from telecommunications and embedded systems, to internal IT software development. While working for there, he was working together with our other regular contributor – Przemyslaw Bielicki. Janusz has left Intel with a group of colleagues to start a software development and consulting company Spartez where he works to this day. Janusz and his team have been using agile development methods for the last three years and you can find basic details about his company in the recently published interview.
Please, welcome Janusz and comment on his writing.
Artem, Editor-in-Chief
P.S.
If you are thinking about becoming a regular contributor to this site, shoot me an e-mail. We are particularly interested in joining forces with people with testing and UI-related experience.
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A Cisco's PR person contacted me to share the information about the developer contest and I found it interesting enough to share with the site readers.
The point is to develop an application for the Cisco's router and the cool part is that it runs Linux and supports Java, Perl and even Python. If you are lucky to propose one of the most interesting concepts, you get 90 days for the actual implementation and can win up to $50 000. You can find more information at http://cisco.com/go/thinkinside and http://youtube.com/watch?v=RrqTv3MkIHI
Have fun!
P.S.
I am not affiliated with Cisco in any monetary way
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We were lucky to get one more regular contributor to the site! Welcome Matt Grommes!
Matt Grommes is a developer at a large insurance company, writing and integrating mostly internal applications. He's been programming in Java for 2 years and in Perl for 10 years. His team has been using Scrum on a large project for a year and a half. His experience with Scrum has been great from the team's perspective but they've had puzzling problems which led him to start reading and writing about his experiences in order to try to figure what they've been doing right and where they've gone wrong.
Please, join me in welcoming Mike and take a look at his personal blog Matt O'Rama as well.
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Let me introduce a new permanent contributor to the site. We were lucky to get Mike Cottmeyer on board.
Mike is a Product Consultant and Agile Evangelist for VersionOne. Prior to joining VersionOne, Mike was a Senior Project Manager for CheckFree Corporation where he led a portfolio of projects for their online banking and bill payment business unit. Mike has a traditional project management background and has worked primarily with agile methodologies for the past four years.
Mike is a certified PMP project manager and a certified ScrumMaster. Mike was involved with the creation of the DSDM Agile Project Leader certification, holds this certification at the Foundation, Practitioner, and Examiner levels. Mike was recently named an honorary member of the DSDM consortium and serves on the board of APLN.
Please, join me in welcoming Mike and take a look at his personal blog Leading Agile as well.
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