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Welcome Mendelt

April 28, 2009 by Artem Marchenko

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.

Welcome Jack

February 13, 2009 by Artem Marchenko

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.

Collection of articles on people and requirement management

November 30, 2008 by Artem Marchenko

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.

Welcome Janusz

November 27, 2008 by Artem Marchenko

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.

Welcome Matt

September 1, 2008 by Artem Marchenko

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.

Welcome Mike

August 29, 2008 by Artem Marchenko

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.

Upgr-r-rade

August 26, 2008 by Artem Marchenko

If you are seeing this message we have just upgraded AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com. Not all the functionality has been ported to the new version of the platform yet (some might even no be ported at all) and there might be some elves running here and there, but the basic upgrade is done. You want see any immediate benefits, but it means quite a lot on the administration side - with the new version of the platform it will be way easier to customize the site, make it look nicer and more useful.

On top of [almost] all programming sites

July 24, 2008 by Artem Marchenko

Great news for those who like AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com and for the site writers. We have been added to the alltop's Programming section.

Welcome Peter

July 23, 2008 by Artem Marchenko

Dear readers

We just got a new writer for AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com. His name is Peter Stevens. He is originally from US, but moved to Zurich, Switzerland years ago.

Peter studied Computer Science at Colgate University and was working for Microsoft for many years. Nowadays earns his living as a Scrum coach and will add the coach perspective to our site. Peter also writes to his own Scrum Breakfast blog, check it out.

Please, welcome Peter and comment on his writing.

Best regards,
Artem.

P.S.
By the way, if you are thinking about becoming a permanent contributor to AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com author, contact me directly.

Agile on DZone

July 12, 2008 by Artem Marchenko

As you might have noticed above every post on this site there is was a "digg this" icon. Apparently, digg is not the best aggregator for the sites that don't cover gadgets, politics or Linux. So I decided to replace it with "Submit/vote on DZone"  widget. DZone is a digg-like site, where you can submit and vote on the links relevant to developers. Dzone seems to be quite relevant for this site as our post manage to come to the DZone's front page quite regularly.

Participating on the social aggregator, where people actually vote helps seeing what kind of articles you tend to like or not to like. Therefore it would be very kind of you to click  on the DZone widget to vote up whenever you like the article and to vote down whenever you don't like one.

P.S.
I implemented the DZone support in a custom Drupal module. And at some point will probably release it to the wild. If you happen to be a seasoned Drupal developer, who would like to take such module under maintenance/ownership, please, let me know.