Hello all,

(Please forgive the cross-posting)

I hope you all had a great summer, weather notwithstanding!

We're pleased to announce our schedule for the coming season. The
meetings are going to be held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, so mark
the following dates: September 8th, October 13th, November 10th,
December 8th, January 12th., February 9th, March 9th, April 13th, May
11th, and June 8th.

Our season kick-off meeting will be Tuesday, September 8th at 7:00 PM at
The Clocktower Pub, 575 Bank St., Ottawa. This will be an informal
gathering allowing everyone to get to know each other a bit, considering
that we have a large number of new faces in the group!

For those new to Agile Ottawa, our web site can be found at:

http://agileottawa.wordpress.com/

Hope to see you all there!

--

Dave Rooney
Mayford Technologies
"Helping you become AGILE... to SURVIVE and THRIVE!"
http://www.mayford.ca
http://practicalagility.blogspot.com
Twitter: daverooneyca

TV Agile is a directory of agile software development videos and tutorials,
categorizing material on all agile aspects: scrum, TDD, lean, XP, etc. You are
encouraged to propose material for this directory.

http://www.tvagile.com/

The Methods & Tools newsletter has just released in its html archive section the
article "Scrum Roles - an Unsolvable Puzzle?". This article discuss the
different roles in Scrum projects and how you can relate them to traditional
project management roles.

http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=92

Agile Coach

Salesforce.com San Francisco, CA HQ office

Change the way the world does business at salesforce.com, the global leader in software as a service (SaaS). More companies trust their vital customer and sales data to salesforce.com than any other on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) provider in the world. Salesforce.com has evolved from a startup founded by four people in a cramped San Francisco apartment 9 years ago to an organization with more than 2,700 employees. For fiscal year 2008, we reported revenue of approximately $748.7 million, an increase of 51 percent from fiscal 2007.

Why? We deliver integrated, customizable business applications for companies ranging from small nonprofits to global enterprises. Or maybe it's because Salesforce is so easy to learn and use. Or it could be the unprecedented speed with which our customers see real, tangible ROI. Or maybe it's because of our 100-percent dedication to the success of our customers. In fact, more than 43,000 companies and 1,000,000 subscribers worldwide depend on Salesforce to manage their sales, marketing, customer service, and other critical business functions. We are proud to be contributing to the success of companies of all sizes, in all industries, around the globe. Top talent across the world joins salesforce.com for its "change the world" mentality; the opportunity to excel in a fast-paced, performance-based, competitive atmosphere; and the chance to be surrounded by peers and leaders that inspire, motivate, and innovate.

Are you interested in creating and shaping a highly effective Agile software development organization? Are you excited about the opportunity to influence others? Are you passionate about cutting edge ways to create and innovate? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, this is your opportunity to join the innovative and dynamic Technology team at salesforce.com, the market leader in on-demand computing.
As a member of the Agile coaching staff, you will coach and influence all levels of the Technology organization in our Adaptive Development Methodology to drive increased agility, velocity, predictably, creativity and product quality. You will be using cutting edge agile methods and tools to enable teams to rapidly deliver functionality that drives customer satisfaction. You'll also help us break new ground as we roll out agile beyond our software teams.

Responsibilities:

• Expand the understanding and practice of lean software development and agile principles throughout the Technology organization to include software and operations teams alike
• Collaborate directly with scrum teams to coach and guide them on the mechanics of Lean and Agile methods to achieve optimal team effectiveness
• Expose our technology teams to the latest innovative thinking and ideas from the agile community to increase agility
• Influence all levels of the Technology organization relative to messaging of principles, incentives and organizational development
• Deliver hands-on coaching of individual scrum teams in all aspects of scrum – daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, etc.
• Create, build and deliver customized Agile training
• Provide Agile Leadership coaching and training to ScrumMasters, Product Owners, functional managers and executives
• Work directly with managers and scrum teams to remove enterprise-wide systemic obstacles that block our ability to achieve sustainable increases in velocity
• Advise and influence the development and training of internal agile tools to enhance team collaboration

• 3+ years of large scale Agile coaching experience with methods such as XP, Scrum, Lean, or Crystal.
• Deep knowledge of Agile principles and practices and the ability to transfer that understanding at all levels of the organization.
• Expertise in XP practices such as Test Driven Development, paired programming, user story development and release planning.
• Consulting and facilitation skills in leading technical teams in the adoption and improvement of agile methodologies.
• Senior Agile Leadership skills with an ability to lead by example and challenge command and control behaviors.
• Excellent presentation and training skills
• Ability to learn and adapt
• 5+ years experience in software organizations.
• Certified ScrumMaster and Product Owner or equivalent.

http://www.salesforce.com/company/careers/locations/a0800000000Ab4bAAC/a017000000AUIVw.jsp

or send resumes to: fajlouny@...

On September 9-10, Joe Little will lead a Certified ScrumMaster course in
Greenville, SC.

Joe is an experienced Agile coach, with in-depth practical experience in helping
teams become very productive with Scrum and Agile.


ScrumMaster training provides an applied understanding of the Scrum process.
This is a great opportunity to develop the tools, insights, and skills required
to apply Scrum to your projects and across your organizations.

For more information, or to register, see below:

http://bit.ly/3GyxFy

Or, contact me with any questions.

Regards,
Julia Hill

Hello-

This is just a short intrusion on your day to let you know that Mike Cohn will be holding some training courses in San Jose in November.  Mike is the author of the popular books, User Stories Applied and Agile Estimating and Planning.  This should be a particularly exciting week as Mike's new book, Succeeding with Agile is schedule to be published that week. You can get information on the book on the Mountain Goat Software site.  With any luck, Mike will be able to have a couple of copies of the book at the classes.

Specifically, Mike will be teaching the following classes:

Nov 2, 2009                Effective User Stories for Agile Requirements

Nov 3-4, 2009             Certified ScrumMaster
Nov 5, 2009                Agile Estimating and Planning

You can take one or both classes. The current early bird price is $1100 for the two-day Certified ScrumMaster class and $550 each for the one-day User Stories for Agile Requirements and one-day Agile Estimating and Planning classes.

Register by October 5^th as prices go up to $1300 and $650 respectively at that time.

Groups of three or more can save 10% and additional savings are available if you take more than one class (see the website for details).

Classes will be held at the Domain Hotel.

Details on the Certified ScrumMaster class are at:

http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/certified-scrummaster-training

Information on the Effective User Stories class is at:

http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/user-stories-training

And information on the Agile Estimating and Planning class is at:

http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile-estimating-planning-training  

You can see course agendas; download PDFs describing the course, etc from those links.

Venue information and registration links are at:

http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/city/16-san-jose

If you have questions or want additional detail, please email me.

Regards,

Jennifer Rai

Mountain Goat Software

Jennifer@...

Most agile teams find initial success after implementing the basic
agile framework, such as the Scrum practices.  But many teams find
they quickly reach a plateau, and wonder how to take agile to the
next level.  How can we do that?

This month, Adam Sroka will show us the core mechanisms that make
agile work, and how to implement and tune the full set of feedback
cycles that are essential for building a well-oiled agile machine.

This meeting is in TWO WEEKS - Wednesday, September 16th at 6:00 PM.

Please RSVP to agilesocal@... !!!

-----

What Is "Feedback?" Why Does It Matter?
Steering and Adaptation in Agile Processes

A common theme in Agile methods is that we do something, observe the
results, and then do it again with a renewed effort informed by
earlier results.  In Extreme Programming such an approach has been
referred to as a "Feedback Loop" and, in fact, XP has Feedback as one
of its core values.

Feedback comes up in many ways in many different practices from the
large scale "Inspect and Adapt" cycles of Scrum to the very small
"Red-Green-Refactor" cycles of TDD.  We are going to discuss all of
the different ways that feedback applies to Agile methods, including
specific practices, and attempt to understand how these different
applications are informed by the same values and principles.  We will
look at how feedback can help us to solve the most seemingly
insurmountable of problems, and also where misunderstandings or
misapplications of feedback can break things down quickly.

Feedback cycles are essential to all agile practices.  This session
will benefit all agile team members, from developers and testers, to
agile team leaders and managers.


Your Speaker:

Adam Sroka has been writing software for over twenty years including
eleven years professionally.  For the last eight years he has
specialized in using Agile methods such as XP and Scrum, applying
XP's engineering practices to solve real world problems in a number
of different domains, and training fellow programmers on the
practices and their application.


When: Wednesday, September 16th
Networking and food, 6:00-6:30 PM.
Presentation and Q&A 6:30-8:30 PM.


YOU MUST RSVP to agilesocal@... !!!


Where: The Capital Group Companies
6455 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
Exit the 5 or 405 at Sand Canyon.
From the 5, go south to Irvine Center and turn right.
From the 405, go north to Irvine Center and turn left.
Take the first right into the main parking lot at Capital Group.
Park (no permit needed), go to the main entrance, look for the signs.


Thanks to Capital Group for providing the meeting facilities.
Thanks to VersionOne (www.versionone.com) for providing the food.
Thanks to JetBrains (www.jetbrains.com) for free tool licenses.
Thanks to the many exhibitors at Agile 2009 for free agile stuff:
   Serena, Electric Cloud, Atlassian, Cyrus Innovations, Pyxis,
   TenPearls/Manning, and NetObjectives


To be eligible for the drawing for free JetBrains tool
licenses and agile stuff YOU MUST RSVP to agilesocal@...
and be present to win.


Agile/XPSoCal is your resource for all things agile. Find us:

On Yahoo! Groups (group name "xpsocal") at
   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xpsocal/

On LinkedIn (group name "Agile SoCal") at
   http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1833155

On Twitter (timeline name "agilesocal") at
   http://twitter.com/agilesocal

.... Interested in having a say in what goes on there next?

Great ideas.

Your input NEEDED to take it to the next level.

www.implementingscrum.com/subscribe or just let me know your thoughts!

Thank you,

- Mike Vizdos
   Vizdos Enterprises, LLC

  Contact Information

           Phone:  (262) MVIZDOS / (262) 684-9367
           Web:      www.implementingscrum.com
                         www.michaelvizdos.com
           AOL IM:  MikeV Work
           Twitter:   www.twitter.com/mvizdos
           Skype:    mvizdos

PS: Come to one of my workshops.  Visit michaelvizdos.com/enroll.

PPS: Visit implementingscrum.com/subscribe.  Receive 2 FREE videos.

Chris Sims and Steve Bockman are hosting a workshop on September 30 in Redwood City, CA.

This one-day experiential workshop will equip you with tools to understand who your users are, what they do, what they need, and how your product can deliver maximum value to them. You will be ready to provide product leadership to your development team, at agile speed.

The workshop is ideal for agile product owners, product managers, business analysts, and anyone who wants to understand how to gather and manage requirements for an agile development team. Developers are encouraged to participate in order to experience what it's like to own the product.

Please visit http://agilelearninglabs20090930.eventbrite.com/ for more details.

Hope to see you there!

--Steve

1. Agile Process Coaches. We are seeking senior process coaches with a passion for coaching teams in a co-sourced environment.  Typical responsibilities include facilitating team kickoff and project Discovery, implementation of visual agile management systems, facilitating backlog generation and user story creation; and mentoring apprentice coaches.
2. Technical Leads/Coaches. We are seeking senior developers with strong experience in Agile development and a passion for coaching teams in a co-sourced environment. We'd like you to have expertise in test-driven development, simple design, re-factoring, solid engineering principles, and automated testing on J2EE, ASP.Net, or Ruby on Rails platforms.
3. QA Leads/Coaches. We are seeking senior Quality Assurance leads with strong experience in Agile testing and a passion for coaching teams in a co-sourced environment. We'd like you to have expertise in test-driven development, executable specifications, and automated testing on a J2EE platform. You should have experience with testing automation tools and with integrating various types of testing (functional, performance, usability, etc.) into an Agile process. In addition, because we are a consultancy, you'll need to have strong team and client interaction skills with an ability to mentor others.
   

Hi folks,

Just a reminder about the Agile Ottawa season kickoff meetup tonight at
7:00 PM at the Clocktower Pub at 575 Bank St. in Ottawa.

See you there!

Dave...

--

Dave Rooney
Mayford Technologies
"Helping you become AGILE... to SURVIVE and THRIVE!"
http://www.mayford.ca
http://practicalagility.blogspot.com
Twitter: daverooneyca


Dave Rooney wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> (Please forgive the cross-posting)
>
> I hope you all had a great summer, weather notwithstanding!
>
> We're pleased to announce our schedule for the coming season. The
> meetings are going to be held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, so
> mark the following dates: September 8th, October 13th, November 10th,
> December 8th, January 12th., February 9th, March 9th, April 13th, May
> 11th, and June 8th.
>
> Our season kick-off meeting will be Tuesday, September 8th at 7:00 PM
> at The Clocktower Pub, 575 Bank St., Ottawa. This will be an informal
> gathering allowing everyone to get to know each other a bit,
> considering that we have a large number of new faces in the group!
>
> For those new to Agile Ottawa, our web site can be found at:
>
> http://agileottawa.wordpress.com/
>
> Hope to see you all there!
>

Hi all,

I will be in San Antonio starting Sunday afternoon (Sept 13) and
leaving Wednesday morning (September 16).

From there I will be in Seattle, Washington, until Saturday morning
(September 19).

While I am doing some public classes there (and you are welcome to see
more at www.michaelvizdos.com/enroll), the main purpose of this email
is to see if you'd be interested in meeting up with me (and others) in
the area while I am there.  Over the years of doing this, I have met
some of the most interesting people on the planet -- and it is WAYYYYY
better than me hanging out in yet another hotel room (smile).

Let me know if you'd like to meet-up while I am either in San Antonio
or Seattle next week!

Thank you,

- Mike Vizdos
   Vizdos Enterprises, LLC

  Contact Information

           Phone:  (262) MVIZDOS / (262) 684-9367
           Web:      www.implementingscrum.com
                         www.michaelvizdos.com
           AOL IM:  MikeV Work
           Twitter:   www.twitter.com/mvizdos
           Skype:    mvizdos

PS: Come to one of my workshops.  Visit michaelvizdos.com/enroll.

PPS: Visit implementingscrum.com/subscribe.  Receive 2 FREE videos.

Just a reminder, our September monthly meeting is NEXT WEDNESDAY,
September 16th, at 6:00 PM.  We have a great talk scheduled with
Adam Sroka, who will show us the core mechanisms that make agile
work, and how to implement and tune the full set of feedback
cycles that are essential for building a well-oiled agile machine.
You won't want to miss this!

This meeting is NEXT WEEK - Wednesday, September 16th at 6:00 PM.

Please RSVP to agilesocal@... !!!

-----

What Is "Feedback?" Why Does It Matter?
Steering and Adaptation in Agile Processes

A common theme in Agile methods is that we do something, observe the
results, and then do it again with a renewed effort informed by
earlier results.  In Extreme Programming such an approach has been
referred to as a "Feedback Loop" and, in fact, XP has Feedback as one
of its core values.

Feedback comes up in many ways in many different practices from the
large scale "Inspect and Adapt" cycles of Scrum to the very small
"Red-Green-Refactor" cycles of TDD.  We are going to discuss all of
the different ways that feedback applies to Agile methods, including
specific practices, and attempt to understand how these different
applications are informed by the same values and principles.  We will
look at how feedback can help us to solve the most seemingly
insurmountable of problems, and also where misunderstandings or
misapplications of feedback can break things down quickly.

Feedback cycles are essential to all agile practices.  This session
will benefit all agile team members, from developers and testers, to
agile team leaders and managers.


Your Speaker:

Adam Sroka has been writing software for over twenty years including
eleven years professionally.  For the last eight years he has
specialized in using Agile methods such as XP and Scrum, applying
XP's engineering practices to solve real world problems in a number
of different domains, and training fellow programmers on the
practices and their application.


When: NEXT Wednesday, September 16th
Networking and food, 6:00-6:30 PM.
Presentation and Q&A 6:30-8:30 PM.


YOU MUST RSVP to agilesocal@... !!!


Where: The Capital Group Companies
6455 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
Exit the 5 or 405 at Sand Canyon.
From the 5, go south to Irvine Center and turn right.
From the 405, go north to Irvine Center and turn left.
Take the first right into the main parking lot at Capital Group.
Park (no permit needed), go to the main entrance, look for the signs.


Thanks to Capital Group for providing the meeting facilities.
Thanks to VersionOne (www.versionone.com) for providing the food.
Thanks to JetBrains (www.jetbrains.com) for free tool licenses.
Thanks to the many exhibitors at Agile 2009 for free agile stuff:
   Serena, Electric Cloud, Atlassian, Cyrus Innovations, Pyxis,
   TenPearls/Manning, and NetObjectives


To be eligible for the drawing for free JetBrains tool
licenses and agile stuff YOU MUST RSVP to agilesocal@...
and be present to win.


Agile/XPSoCal is your resource for all things agile. Find us:

On Yahoo! Groups (group name "xpsocal") at
   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xpsocal/

On LinkedIn (group name "Agile SoCal") at
   http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1833155

On Twitter (timeline name "agilesocal") at
   http://twitter.com/agilesocal

• October 6-7, (Register)
• November 3-4, (Register)

• October 20-21, (Register)
• November 24-25, (Register)

Hi, all --

John Goodsen and I are establishing a forum where people in the New York metro area from diverse industries can meet to share knowledge, stories and strategies for implenting Lean. Our first meeting is Thursday, 24 September.

Please visit the group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYC_Lean and let us know your successes and challenges, questions and interests concerning Lean.

While topics are not limited to software development, Kanban and Lean software development are definitely included.  

If you have any questions, please reply to this message offline. 

Regards, 

Alina

Scrum Planet (http://www.scrumplanet.com/ ) is a web site that aggregates for
RSS feeds focused on Scrum and agile project management. If you know about a
good blog feed that is missing from the current roster
(http://www.scrumplanet.com/aggregator/sources), I would be please to add it.
Thanks for your cooperation.

Silicon Valley Code Camp is holding their annual event Saturday Oct 3rd and Sunday Oct 4th at Foothill College near San Jose. This year there will be a track dedicated to Agile and additional Agile presentations throughout the weekend. Code Camp is a technology summit hosted by developers for developers. Last year there were over 700 attendees and 112 sessions. Everything is absolutely free and it's a great opportunity to learn more about your favorite technical topics or to sit in and learn about something new. Go to their web site to see more about what is happening this fall.

Silicon Valley Code Camp
Oct 3rd - Oct 4th, 2009

Main website: http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com
Agile Track:    http://tinyurl.com/pzjozf

Agile/XPSoCal is excited and honored to present a special evening
meeting on Monday, October 5th!

For this special event, we will have agile thought leader Lisa
Crispin join us for an evening on agile testing.  Lisa has
literally written the book (two of them, actually) on agile testing,
with her latest being Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers
and Agile Teams (with Janet Gregory).

You won't want to miss this special event!

IMPORTANT!  This meeting is MONDAY, October 5th at 6:00 PM.

NOTE THE DAY AND DATE CHANGE FROM OUR NORMAL SCHEDULE!

You MUST RSVP to agilesocal@... to reserve your seat!!!

-----

7 Key Factors for Agile Testing Success


Agile development presents unique challenges for testers and test
teams.  Working in short iterations, often with limited written
requirements, agile development teams can leave traditional testers
behind.  Common testing-related activities such as user acceptance
testing, testing inter-product relationships, and installation testing
require different approaches to work within agile projects.

In this session Lisa Crispin presents seven key factors for testing
success within agile projects ­ using a whole team approach, adopting
an agile mind set, automating regression testing, collaborating with
customers, providing and obtaining feedback, looking at the big
picture, and building a foundation of core agile practices.

Learn how to overcome cultural and organizational obstacles to
successful testing and discover the critical factors for delivering
maximum value to your business.


Your Speaker:

Lisa Crispin is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing:
A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009).
A tester on agile teams since 2000, Lisa currently works as a tester
and Manager of Agile Software Development at Ultimate Software Group,
working on one of 28 Scrum teams.  From 2003 until 2009, she worked as
a tester on an amazing XP/Scrum team at ePlan Services Inc.,
developing web-based financial applications.  She also helps teams and
testers transition to agile.  Lisa leads tutorials and workshops on
agile testing at conferences in North America and Europe, and has
helped organize several of the Agile 200x conferences.  She regularly
contributes articles about agile testing to publications such as
Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, and Methods and Tools.  Lisa
co-authored Testing Extreme Programming with Tip House.  For more
about Lisa's work, visit her Web sites: http://lisacrispin.com and
http://www.agiletester.ca .


When: Monday, October 5th
NOTE THE DAY AND DATE CHANGE FROM OUR NORMAL SCHEDULE!
Networking and food, 6:00-6:30 PM.
Presentation and Q&A 6:30-8:30 PM.


YOU MUST RSVP to agilesocal@... to reserve your seat!!!


Where: The Capital Group Companies
6455 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
Exit the 5 or 405 at Sand Canyon.
From the 5, go south to Irvine Center and turn right.
From the 405, go north to Irvine Center and turn left.
Take the first right into the main parking lot at Capital Group.
Park (no permit needed), go to the main entrance, look for the signs.


Thanks to Capital Group for providing the meeting facilities.
Thanks to VersionOne (www.versionone.com) for providing the food.
Thanks to Lisa Crispin for providing a copy of her latest book.
Thanks to JetBrains (www.jetbrains.com) for free tool licenses.
Thanks to the many exhibitors at Agile 2009 for free agile stuff:
   Serena, Electric Cloud, Atlassian, Cyrus Innovations, Pyxis,
   TenPearls/Manning, and NetObjectives
Thanks to the Agile Open organizers for free agile stuff.

To be eligible for the drawing for free JetBrains tool
licenses and agile stuff YOU MUST RSVP to agilesocal@...
and be present to win.


Agile/XPSoCal is your community for all things agile. Find us:

On Yahoo! Groups (group name "xpsocal") at
   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xpsocal/

On Linked-In (group name "AgileSoCal") at
   http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1833155

On Twitter (timeline name "agilesocal") at
   http://twitter.com/agilesocal

Hello!

Cyrus Innovation, a boutique Agile shop in Downtown NYC is looking for Agile
developers to join our team.  The detailed job description is below. If you're
interested, please email me at cmerrell@...

Caitlin Merrell
Technical Recruiter & Human Resources
Cyrus Innovation
www.cyrusinnovation.com
(212) 647-7186

Cyrus ranked #231 on the Inc 500 fastest growing companies:
http://bit.ly/cyrus_inc_500

___________________________

Cyrus Innovation's unique approach to sustainable agile development has been the
basis for our success and growth over the past six years.  We pride ourselves on
being named the #231st Inc 500 fastest growing private company for 2009.   At
the same time, we have fostered a collaborative environment with a group of
talented individuals who are all passionate about agile and continue to rise to
the challenge of excellence every day.

We are looking for innovative individuals who value team work and strive to work
with a company that values quality software as much as you.

As a Developer you will
- Work with highly analytical, experienced agile developers and coaches
- Code in a Test First Development, Paired Programming environment
- Constantly learn and implement the latest Agile practices
- Create complex software solutions using the latest agile methodologies
- Implement an Object Oriented coding approach
- Use cutting edge open source tools including Google Web Toolkit, Ruby on
Rails, Selenium, rspec, mockito, Spring, FIT, JUnit, Webwork, PicoContainer,
Hibernate, Mule, and more
- Interact directly with clients to gather and analyze business requirements
- Experience all phases of software development from design to implementation
- Participate in design decisions
- Create quality software that truly delivers value to its users
- Gain experience in a variety of domains and client environments

As a Cyrus employee, you will enjoy
- A quarterly bonus based on company revenues
- A true 40-hour work week
- An energized yet casual working environment
- A collaborative environment where your opinion is heard
- An annual personal budget and paid time off for professional development
(conferences, workshops, etc)
- Weekly knowledge-sharing brown bag sessions
- Weekly process improvement sessions

We are looking for you if you have
- A true passion for coding
- Knowledge of Agile Methodologies (Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, other)
- Extensive knowledge of design patterns, refactoring and continuous integration
- The desire to learn new technologies quickly
- The ability to inspire others to create great code
- 3+ years experience with Object Oriented languages (Java/J2EE, Ruby/Rails,
etc.)


Other Qualifications include
- Ability to work in New York City
- Ability to interact well with clients
- Strong interpersonal skills

Cyrus Innovation (www.cyrusinnovation.com) is a boutique Software Consulting and
Agile Development firm located in New York City.  We are serious about our
commitment to our employees and invite you to join our team.

If you are interested in learning more, send a cover letter and resume to
Caitlin Merrell at cmerrell@....