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Job posting is below.  Here are some of our references for this position: http://www.agilearchitect.org/agile/index.asp http://www.agiledata.org/essays/enterpriseArchitecture.html Agile Application Architect Are you experienced with enterprise applications, tiered architecture, agile development, and Ruby on Rails? Do you communicate ...

Or maybe that should be "Roles IN Relationships". My mother is almost 82 years old. We have a great relationship.  We've always been able to talk about almost anything. And in that relationship, sometimes I'm needy and she's supportive and wise. And sometimes she's needy and I'm supportive and wise. Roles. I've been married for ...

More excellent content from the Pfeffer/Sutton book (page 94)...What is true for individuals is also true for organizations, groups, and teams. Exceptional performance depends heavily on experience and effort. No matter how gifted (or ordinary) team members are to start out, the more experience they have working together, the better their teams ...

A week of learning, meeting people, establishing new connections, and realizing how much I do and don't know about agile. I got to hear and meet some of the household names in the agile community: Alistair Cockburn, Diana Larsen, Esther Derby, Christopher Avery, Jim Highsmith, Jim Shore, Brian Marick, Naresh Jain, Arlo Belshee (author of the ...

There's all this fascinating stuff going on. I attended a session on pair programming, as I mentioned in my last post.  There was some excellent discussion about the challenges of pair programming, and a few fun exercises designed to help us learn some of the basics.  Much of it was familiar to me, but clearly challenging for much of ...