Rod Coffin’s Weblog

Nowadays everyone is looking for better ways of doing more with less. Companies are reducing staff, slashing budgets, and deferring major new investments while those remaining are left to shoulder the added burden created by these cuts. I believe that in order for software development teams to successfully meet these challenges they need to continue to find new and innovation ways of applying disciplined software development practices to their craft. Project automation, continuous integration, unit testing, test/behavior driven development, and continuous testing are practices that should be a part of every software developer’s arsenal.

These are all topics that I’m passionate about sharing with others and for a very limited time I am offering free 2-4 hour consulting sessions to explore any of these areas with you and/or your company, no strings attached! For companies in the DFW Metroplex I would be happy to come to you to run a brown-bag session, talk about any challenges you’re experiencing or questions you my have, or even pull up a chair and do a little bit of pair programming. If you’re outside of DFW I would be happy to talk on the phone or run a web-based presentation for you.

What I hope to get out of this is simple: opportunities to talk with others about areas that I find interesting, to run through presentations I will be giving at industry events later in the year, and to forge new relationships with people and companies. So if you’re interested in taking me up on this offer then please feel free to contact me by email at rod.coffin@improvingenterprises.com.