I have updated my website and blog. I've created three blogs: my personal blog, ramblings about agile software development and my thoughts on Web 2.0. The feeds are also updated, but the old blog links and feeds still work, though I recommend that you update to use the new feeds, for those that are actually reading.

There may be some cross-posting and updates to existing entries as a I finish the reorganization. Let me know what you think of the changes.

I hope you enjoy reading.

This is my first posting since March. That's a long time. Since my last post I've left consulting and I am now currently the VP of Engineering for Nominum, Inc.

I started at Nominum as a consultant, to lead their Scrum and XP adoption. I decided to stay and a major reason is the quality of the team. They are genuinely one of the best teams I have ever been exposed to. (I am not the only consultant who "defected" and joined the company, the coach of the XP team did as well.)

I am looking to add people to the team, about two or three developers. A recent candidate told us "we are the dream team" anyone could hope to work with. I feel the same way. I generally enjoy coming to work everyday. So, enough of a sales pitch. If you or anyone you know wants to join an XP team, send me an email, resume, smoke signal...christian.sepulveda@nominum.com

Our team room....

(P.S. My grand executive office has been "converted" into a nice coffee lounge for the team, as I don't use it. We have a very nice Gaggia espresso machine in there.)

I am starting work, with the help of William Rakocy, on a web based collaboration tool for managing an XP project. I work remotely quite often so it would help to have online access to story cards to other project items. I have experimented with some wikis, MS Excel files and other techniques, but I think I could I could benefit from a tool.

I experimented with XPWeb and XPlanner, but wasn't particularly satisfied with them, at least for the needs of my project.

So, xTeamWorks will support the basic elements of XP, like story maintenance, task definition and signup, velocity tracking and iteration planning.

xteamworks.sourceforge.net is the website for the project. I will probably post updates as we go here.

If anyone has thoughts or requests, let me know.

Based on interest to my talk at the Agile Development Conference on remote agile development, I have started a yahoo group on the topic. I encourage you to join the group if you have any interest of experience with agile software development, remote teams or just want another group to read.

Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/remoteagile/