Saint or Sinner ?
October 26, 2007 by Simon Voice
Saint or Sinner, I’m now a certified Agile Project Leader. Well I did pass the exam at the 2007 Agile Business Conference. Surely this means that I qualify to apply for any Agile role in the market, welcome to my world.
This year’s conference was in my opinion the best yet - new people, new votes and new presenters on some varying topics. Connections, once again, was a key sponsor of the event and next year will again be sponsoring to a higher degree.
The main observation from this year was that there were still some underlying points:
- Still a wide variance of knowledge and wisdom
- Companies are struggling to cope with the surge of required experience in hiring the right people
- Mentoring/Coaching is the key to enabling your existing team
- The “Agile” word is only going to get bigger, broader and more widely used
- The definitions of the word “Agile” are so blurred from person to person and company to company
2008 will see Connections going to Toronto, to join in and engage with World Community, similar to the recent event in Washington DC.
Going forwards currently I’m seeing a sizeable demand for contract and permanent resource in the following technology areas:
- Selenium
- Spring
- Fitnesse
- TDD
- Ruby
- Java
- .Net
And job positions such as:
- Project/Programme Management
- Development
- QA/Testing
- Business Analysis
- Transformation and enablement
Should you be looking for work yourself or be in a position that you’re looking to recruit people yourself, please give me a call:
