Calling all Silverlight and dojo gurus: Hiring again

That’s right, DTSAgile is again looking to expand our team building next generation RIAs and GeoWeb applications in our Fort Collins, CO office.

As we have a backlog of projects that use diverse technologies, we’re looking for an excellent developer with one of the following skill sets.
SL, EF, ADO.NET Data Services
If you have bona fide project [...]

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The Agile Process: What my 3 year old taught me

I love spending time with my son.  He frequently reminds me that sometimes, life perceived through the eyes of a child is a pretty acceptable way to go.  I was a bit naive going into father hood and thought that I’d be the one doing all of the teaching. Yet every day I spend with [...]

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Follow up on “Spotting Agile”

So Jeff Langr has a good starting list on how to spot an Agile team on the right track over here. Clearly a team being “on the right track” needs to go beyond the mechanics and get into the behaviors of Agile. My picks focus less on delivery than Jeff’s but here are some things [...]

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Hiding your flaws and ignoring sustainable pace

I got together for breakfast awhile back with a colleague of mine in the industry who has been instrumental in getting me to drink the Agile/Scrum kool-aid and we got to talking about some of the more challenging fallacies we’ve both run into surrounding Agile.  The one topic of our discussions that really stands out [...]

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“Architect”…proving my value in Agile and GIS

In my RSS aggregator, I’ve been seeing a lot of talk on the role of an architect in the IT industry. Periodically there is a flurry of commentary out on the web generally revolving around the question “What is an architect?” Alan, a technology evangelist over on the MSDN blogs, references a recent [...]

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Agile evangelism for my own team

So about once every quarter we try to get our entire geospatial development staff together in the same room for a couple of hours to catch up with everybody.  It’s a “dinner-n-learn” type of thing after hours where we might cover new projects and developments within the company, recognize heroic acts by team members, and [...]

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Agile in your architecture process…where to put it?

Of late, I’ve been struggling with how to integrate formidable architecture tasks for large projects within the Agile process.  Small projects, maintenance work, pretty much anything that is well understood is OK for “Design as you go” or “Design only what you need” type approaches.  But a ground-up design and build of a large system really almost [...]

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Musings on offshore development

The last few large projects that my team and I have worked on have involved the use of offshore development resources as a supplement to the onshore (stateside) development team.  I can see why companies lean toward the relatively economical pricetag of offshore developers, but the results I’ve seen are so varied that I’m still [...]

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Semantics and your dev process…walking the talk

As a solution architect, I’m usually the team member that sets technical direction for a given project and it usually falls to me to negotiate the process with the client that will be used for design and development.  We’re trying to move more toward the “Agile is the way we do things” mantra, but I’m [...]

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Assembla…one kewl resource

As consultants, my team is seldom gathered all in the same place at the same time.  While we do have several large projects that frequently occupy many of us, we’ve got lots of smaller consulting gigs that keep us running around the greater Denver area a fair amount.  However, we all collaborate regularly on little [...]

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