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think-box provides a range of consultancy services to companies wanting to adopt agile methodologies. We are committed to building lean and effective software develoment teams that deliver the right software quickly and often, thereby realising tangible business value. Through our hands-on coaching, we impart our expertise in Extreme Programming development practices and Scrum management techniques, enabling project teams to become agile, disciplined, and capable of delivering success repeatedly.

Bio of Simon Baker: Simon Baker has over 12 years experience in software development and has spent the last 5 years using Extreme Programming and more recently Scrum. He is a certified Scrum Master. Simon has an honours degree in Electronic Engineering and started as a software developer writing C++ code for embedded UNIX systems, later moving to enterprise applications and Java. With full project lifecycle experience, he moved to project and then development management cultivating a management style based on agile values and principles, which is hands-on and people-centric. Simon is convinced that iterative, incremental and adaptive techniques are the only way to develop software. He created think-box in 2003 to enable him to consult and share his knowledge and experience of agile methods with others.

Email: simonbaker@think-box.co.uk
Blog:  www.agileinaction.com

Agilesque offers a wide range of consultancy services using Agile methodologies and processes in the development of enterprise software. Convinced that the quality software is only as high as the quality of its test coverage, we strongly believe in the benefits of Test-Driven Development and other Extreme Programming (XP) practices. We offer Agile and XP expertise in a broad spectrum of application domains, such as econometrics, e-commerce, real-time messaging, rule-based categorisation and search engines.

QUATIVA is a technology company specialising in high volume 24x7 enterprise solutions, mission critical middleware development and software-based services management and distribution. The rigorousness of the scientific approach followed by our experienced and creative people make Quativa "the creative equation to innovate". For enquiries, email info@quativa.com

Bio of Gianni Scenini: Gianni Scenini has 15 years of experience in computer science, distributed technologies, programming languages, OO, transactional systems and relational databases. Through his company QUATIVA Ltd, he focuses on high volume, 24x7 enterprise solutions and mission critical middleware development on the J2EE platform using agile methods. He is currently helping one of the world's largest application service providers, based in France, to design and develop performant and scalable business applications managing more than 220 million transactions a day. Previously, Gianni has worked as a senior architect for Lastminute.com, Europe's leading independent travel and leisure website, and as technical leader for ATG Inc where he developed an EJB2 container for their commercial J2EE certified application server. He represented ATG in the EJB Sun Java Expert Group JSR-153. Gianni has also held positions as chief architect of the e-business group for PSINET USA, and as a technologist at IBM delivering enterprise solutions for large European customers. He co-authored three IBM Redbooks on WebSphere enterprise, CORBA, EJB and emerging technologies at the IBM ITSO laboratory in San Jose, California.

Email: gianni@quativa.com

Thirsty Bear Software is a consultancy specialising in developing software using agile methods. We aim to produce quality software and to raise awareness of agile software development techniques by demonstrating that they genuinely improve the quality and timeliness of delivered software. The services provided are firmly grounded in the real world - we practice what we preach and continually adapt to the reality of the situation. We have several ways of operating. The choice is yours.

• We can design and develop bespoke software using Java (and other) technologies for you.
• We can teach your development team how to use Agile development techniques including Extreme Programming and Test Driven Design.
• We can mentor your development team on a day-to-day basis providing guidance and advice as required. This enables your developers to consolidate their skills within a real project environment - training from the "inside out". In many cases this is preferable if you are new to the techniques.
• Finally we can join an existing Agile development team to supplement your resources.

Bio of Chris Pitts:Coming soon.

Email: chris@thirstybear.co.uk