Create a Center for Agile Training. Oregon has significant talent who could draw thousands of people to learn and provide cutting-edge training to local companies:
Diana Larsen - co-author of Agile Retrospectives, chair of the Agile
Alliance board
James Shore - co-author of The Art of Agile Development, Gordon Pask
Award recipient (The Pask award is the community's highest honor.)
Ward Cunningham - one of the "three amigos" credited with creating
Extreme Programming, co-author of The Agile Manifesto. (The Manifesto
is the Agile movement's founding document.) Ward is also known for
his contributions to the Patterns movement and his invention of the
Wiki.
Arlo Belshee - Gordon Pask Award recipient
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock - previous member of the Agile Alliance board,
member of Agile conference steering committee. (The Agile conference
is the pre-eminent Agile conference worldwide.)
Phil Brock - managing director of the Agile Alliance
Preston Smith - author of Flexible Product Development: Building
Agility for Changing Markets, cofounder of the Agile Project
Leadership Network (APLN)
Kent Beck - the primary creator of Extreme Programming and a co-author of The Agile Manifesto.
Comments (3)
Mark Ace said
at 7:56 am on Mar 16, 2009
Harvey, Cayuse added item#2 above, and we created a new page to describe it in more detail.
Dave Howell said
at 4:59 pm on Mar 23, 2009
A shamelessly self-interested pitch:
Avatron Software is developing software called Air Publisher, which enables IT departments to publish documents to people with iPhones and iPod touches.
Our publishing tool will be useful for enabling efficient communications within corporations, between companies, from companies to customers, between schools and students.
We support documents in a variety of formats, including PDF, Office, plain text, web archives, images, video, audio, and other formats.
Our publishing system will help companies and schools to save money, and to avoid lost communications, by pushing document changes to end users automatically.
Our first iPhone app, Air Sharing, has over a million users. We're profitable now. We're hiring. But we would like to grow faster and hire more Oregonians.
Avatron is currently located in Washington but would be glad to relocate to Oregon to participate in the stimulus program.
(Check us out at http://www.avatron.com)
Charles Radley said
at 12:12 pm on Mar 24, 2009
Andromeda srl is an Italian company who has developed PTESY, a systems engineering toolset.
http://www.andromeda-srl.com/
Andromeda wishes to expand into the western hemisphere and Pacific Rim, and seeks a US partner to support this initiative.
Andromeda will license their IP and software to the US partner. The US partner will set up a software maintenance center in the USA to enhance the toolset, and to integrate it into other identified products to expand the range of offerings.
The US partner will market the existing and future toolsets into mutually agreed markets and/or GEOs. Revenues will be shared according to formula to be negotiated.
The US partner will secure funding from the Oregon Stimulus package to pay for software enhancements, and capital expenses for setting up the maintenance and sales support center in Oregon.
Oregon contact: Charles F. Radley, Stratowave Corporation, tel 503-579-4686
charles@stratowave.com
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