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Feel free to invite me anywhere with any amount of notice. You never know what we can work out. Be sure to tell me enough about your invitation to pique my interest!
See you on the road, which would be a town near you!
Friends, I have been carefully constructing a rather complex travel itinerary for August and September, and one of my prospective clients has gone rather dark on me. As a result, I have ten days of time available that I would like to offer to you at cost. You read that correctly: you can hire me to help your organization between September 1 and September 10 at the unusually low rate of covering reasonable travel costs for Sarah and me. As you might expect, some conditions apply.
I will be in Amsterdam, Netherlands on August 31 and I need to fly to Chicago, USA on September 11, so you could hire me in the period in between for up to 9 days, as I’d prefer to have Monday as slack in our travel schedule.
I would like to work out a fixed travel budget for our travel expenses, rather than submit receipts.
We don’t need a fancy hotel, but prefer someplace with a kitchenette so we can prepare our own meals in the room.
We need to eat well, so we prefer a hotel near a local market or good-quality grocery store with fresh produce that is either less than a 15-minute walk or easy to reach with public transport.
I want fun work, which means a multi-disciplinary opportunity, including all aspects of your software delivery system, from the boardroom to the bullpen.
If prospective client gets back to me by Friday and wants me during this time, then I need to give them priority.
If this interests you, please send email right now to the address in the top-left corner of the page with the subject “Crazy Joe’s September 2008 Consulting Special” or something like that, and I’ll get back to you.
I recently had the honor of speaking at the Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference, where I renewed some friendships, made some new acquaintances, and spoke about something I enjoy: failures.
Last summer I debuted XP: My Greatest Misses 2000-2007, which became popular due to its honesty and directness. (See an example of the response to it.) I followed this theme of reflecting on failures to gather some mistakes I have seen people make as they make the transition from work group in chaos to agile team. It’s important to note that I didn’t talk about the five biggest mistakes, the five most common, nor the five most dangerous; but rather, simply about five mistakes that came to my head. As you’d expect, once I’d written my five in the notes, I found a number more, especially as I sat in my fellow presenters’ sessions. Even when they weren’t describing mistakes at all, they triggered a number of memories—so many that I could easily have written the 20 mistakes new agile teams make.
Please enjoy Five Mistakes New Agile Teams Make, and if you’d like me to visit your user group, please contact me at the prominently-displayed e-mail address on this site. You should also consider contacting the Agile Alliance to find out how to qualify for funding to bring out-of-town speakers to your user group or event.
Another in the series of videos from Enerjy in which my fellow conference speakers and I answered the question, “Why are companies slow to adopt metrics programs?”
This is just a reminder that I am presenting Refactoring: Where Do I Start? at Better Software’s Agile Development Practices conference in Orlando on December 6 at 10:00 AM. I’ll spend about 20 minutes talking about refactoring, about 40 minutes doing it and about 30 minutes answering your questions. If you’re unsure how to refactor code, how to begin to learn about refactoring or which part of your system to attack first, this presentation is for you. I hope you see you there.
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