LONDON, INDIANAPOLIS, Mar. 26, 2010 - RippleRock recently recruited industry veteran trainer and Agile Coach Rod Claar. Rod is an internationally recognized leader in the area of software development. His special focus is on large teams and projects to increase the velocity of software development through coaching, training, and consulting. He has spent considerable time in the classroom training on Design Patterns, Test Driven Development, Scrum, and Agile Methodologies. Not only does Rod speak to all levels of an organization effectively, he also spans many technologies in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) space to take advantage of software tools to increase visibility and productivity of teams. By combining methodologies and tools along with world-class training, Rod is a powerhouse of experience and wisdom. His witty sense of humor and gaming theory is also a pleasure to work with. “Rod’s passion, caliber and experience are a huge asset to our team, really strengthening our hand for our mission of enabling better software. I am absolutely delighted to be working with Rod!” said Founder Colin Bird. The Company along with partner Microsoft® are assisting customers with services ranging from training to technical implementation of best practices to reduce cost and improve quality.
ABOUT RIPPLEROCK
RippleRock formed in 2009 with the mission to assist customers drive dramatic improvements in their software development capability. The Company applies expertise across the full lifecycle; facilitating organizational transformation to enable Agile practices, all the way down to improving engineering practices within the teams.
The team at RippleRock has a strong track record in the Agile space, coming together from various organizations in the industry to bring together a new company unheard of in the Agile consulting space. As a specialist in this area, the Company also offers access to the most experienced Agile coaches, trainers and consultants with a particular mix of skills required to work with people, process, organizations and tools.
RippleRock has bases of operation in the UK and US and travel to Europe and India as part of engagements.
Ward Cunningham coined the term “Technical Debt”. This concept is so important for enterprise sustainability. He has published a great video on the topic. All Agile Coaches should keep this handy!
The Twitersphere is expanding as fast as the universe! I will admit to being skeptical, but I have come around because of the tremendous value that micro-blogging can be, no matter what you are interested in.
I’m sure that there are plenty of Twitter subscribers that are using it to just keep up with friends, news and the rich and famous. That’s fine. At least they are learning about what they are interested in instead of letting the media stuff their agenda at them through the boob-tube!
I have a couple of sources that I follow that are in that category. CNNBRK is one and I also follow twitscoop to keep up with what is happening on Twitter.
However mostly the Tweeters that I follow are in the Agile / Scrum software community. The process of following and commenting on statements and questions is not only very fun, it also can push ideas around very quickly. Even if a question asked does not get a good answer in 140 characters, at least you have an idea where to go and who to ask.
Then came Twibes . With Twibes you can create a community within the Twitter user base that is keyword based so that all comments from the Twittersphere on that topic come into the Twibe list. I created agile_coaches and belong to scrumdev. While these two Twibes are very new, they are already getting some followers and it is growing steadily. I think that the community will truley gain value from these nearly instant platforms to ask questions and let people share in your ideas.
Give it a try! Create a Twitter account with your name or something you are interested in and see what happens for a few days. Then if it seems like there are more birds like you tweeting, start or join a Twibe!
Tweet on!
Rod Claar
http://rod-claar.net
http://twitter.com/agile_coach
http://www.twibes.com/group/agile_coaches
