• Career Counseling: What's the right direction to take in this company?
• Decisions: Who's the sounding board who can help you make trade-off decisions?
• Architect: Who knows the company's architecture? Not the published one,the real one.
• Impediment Remover: Who can get problems removed for you?

Jared and I are hosting a benefit dinner for Citcon on March 29th in the RTP area for a limited number of RTP executives. Our guest of honor will be Dr. Jeff Sutherland, the co-inventor of Scrum (a leading Agile Software Development methodology). Dr. Sutherland will be seated at the dinner table where you will have an unparalleled opportunity to discuss Agile with one of the signatories of the Agile Manifesto, co-author of Scrum - the leading Agile software method used today.

Agile methodologies are being used across the software industry to improve team's ability to ship solid software. Take this opportunity to learn more about Scrum and the Agile movement, and how your company can take advantage of this game-changing paradigm shift. Whether you're wondering "What is agile?" or "How can we accelerate our agile transition?", this is a golden opportunity to have your questions answered by one of the leaders in the field.

The event is a benefit dinner in support of the Citcon conference: For the first time ever, the North American Continuous Integration and Testing Conference is coming to Raleigh. Citicon brings internationally recognized experts together and provides your teams with complete access.

For a requested donation of $500 towards Citcon, you will receive:
- 1 hour special consulting on Continuous Integration from Continuous Integration experts (who are hosting the Citcon event) for two of your staff members during the Citcon event April 15.
- A confirmed seat at the dinner table for 3/29 with Dr. Jeff Sutherland, other leading RTP executives and Continuous Integration expert Jared Richardson.

The event details:
-Date/Time: 6:30pm - 9pm on 3/29/10 -Please email Catherine Louis with your RSVP, and secure your spot at the dinner table with Dr. Sutherland by clicking the PayPal link with proceeds going directly to Citcon:

Thank you very much, if you have any questions about the event, please contact Catherine Louis +1.919.244.1888 or Citcon prime Jared Richardson, +1.919.760.7085.

About Citcon:

CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, is a world-wide series of events for developer-testers, tester-developers, and anyone else with an interest in Continuous Integration and the type of Testing that goes along with it.

CITCON provides a forum to connect with other people on topics you care about, to learn from their experience and share your own. Past topics include:
What is Continuous Integration (CI)?
What CI tools are there?
What is the best language for writing tests?
What is the future of build languages?
What is Behavior Driven Development and Test-Driven Development?
How can we overcome barriers to CI Adoption?

About Dr. Jeff Sutherland:

Dr. Sutherland is the creator of Scrum, and was a signer of the Agile Manifesto, which marked the start of the Agile movement. He began his career as a fighter pilot in the US Air Force, and went on to join the faculty at the University of Colorado Medical School. Dr. Sutherland has served as VP of Engineering or CTO at eleven software companies, managing the last seven entirely using Scrum, and achieved industry-leading, hyper-productive results. Dr. Sutherland is the Chairman of the Scrum Training Institute, and Senior Advisor to OpenView Venture Partners where he is Agile coach for portfolio companies.

Please proceed to the PayPal link to confirm your attendance.

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