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A new leaf
The start of the year will also be the start of a new leaf in my career, pardon the cliche. I have resigned from my current employer and will transfer to an agile company situated in The Fort. I am pretty excited at what the new year can bring, and hopefully this will not be like my short-lived previous two employments. Smile
Posted 11-30-2006 1:15 PM by cruizer

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keithrull wrote re: A new leaf
on 11-29-2006 10:42 PM

congrats cruizer!

When are you starting in this new company?

rdagumampan wrote re: A new leaf
on 11-29-2006 11:11 PM

congratulations master! One of the reasons I decided to go independent is that I cannot find a  semi-agile company here in PH except like your's, so unfornute I missed cormant. he he.

I hope I can find a semi-agile company in PH which into software product development too. Product development is the best on all it type companies IMHO. I may say the experience is different.

lamia wrote re: A new leaf
on 11-29-2006 11:24 PM

Hmmm... I had 3 leaves in 1 year... Hmmm...

jokiz wrote re: A new leaf
on 12-01-2006 12:20 AM

i hope maging teammates tayo boss!

cruizer wrote re: A new leaf
on 12-01-2006 2:20 PM

one reason that I'm excited as well is the presence of great developers in the company I'm joining :) who knows, maybe I'll morph into a Java developer there too... :P

unclebear wrote re: A new leaf
on 12-04-2006 9:44 AM

cool! good luck, cruizer!

question though. what do you really mean when you say that it is an agile company? This is probably a dumb question but I've heard that word being used in so many situations that it gets really confusing at times.

cruizer wrote re: A new leaf
on 12-04-2006 3:27 PM

well agile means that the development system/process is more adaptable to change. you can try looking at the www.agilemanifesto.org for more info on agile. i don't think my new employer practices everything that's there in the agile manifesto but at least it implements some of them (e.g. continuous integration, iterative development, a bit of TDD)

hope this helps clear things up for you, unclebear :)

unclebear wrote re: A new leaf
on 12-04-2006 7:58 PM

Thanks, cruizer.

The thing is, one of the projects in my present company is said to be using an agile methodology but I've just been so confused as how QA (since I am no longer doing development =P) fits into this type of process.

I'll probably go over the site and see what I can pick up from there! Thanks again!

cruizer wrote re: A new leaf
on 12-04-2006 10:21 PM

Agile doesn't mean you don't do QA. That is a common misconception, and is one of the reasons why some doubt at or look upon agile with disdain. Of course, by doing TDD, you'll probably make life a bit easier for your QA :)

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