Since when has ThoughtWorks been in sydney? Wha? Sudden urge to cut'n'paste my resume into this here text field ;-)

We've only recently set up a physical office space in Sydney, but we've had people working for the virtual "Sydney office" for a couple of years.

I've personally been working for Thoughtworks in Sydney for about 12 months.

how do you find thoughtworks gets along in the very conservative sydney business market? don't they expect on their big projects to have the usual conservative processes?

This is a question that takes much more detail to answer than a simple blog comment. Needless to say the fact we are agressively hiring is a good sign. Perhaps we can chat more offline? Maybe I'll blog about some of the issues I see as well...

the consulting company i work for in sydney is or just was also hiring aggressively so perhaps this is just a sign of the general market? we have started on many new sites. anyway I could have used some XP this last fortnight because I spent the whole two weeks struggling with people wanting design-for-the-future when there is no clear requirements from the business for anything but the single feature. but i reckon the client would have a heart attack at the first mention of agile methodology.

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scot

I think this might be a sign of market improvement too. Lets hope so.

Thoughtworks has such a strong culture of using agile methods from the top down that by the time we're talking about design, the mention of agile methods should be no surprise. Our CEO, senior consultants (from Martin Fowler down), sales staff and junior techos are all talking about agile. We're probably naturally going to talk to clients that are more open to considering it as a result.

Can someone please explain or point to info on agile development? What exactly is it, how does it benefit me as a developer, and potentially any clients I work for? Is there a ThoughtWorks in the USA, specifically San Diego area?

Thanks.

Here's a couple of URL's for starters:
http://www.xprogramming.com/
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgrammingRoadmap

There's *heaps* more, but you'll probably find a lot just by navigating from there. The answers to your questions could fill books, so I won't even try in a blog comment.

You can see the ThoughtWorks offices listed across the top of the job ad. See http://www.thoughtworks.com/contactUs.html for specific locations.

I have heard a lot about Thoughtworks and interested to join such company (also my dream to join Thoughtworks), but the problem is, they always recruite top notch people, where should people like me(ordinary / meduim knowledge) should go!, We should be getting trained by top notch people to improve ourself ? or just learn and exausht which has no values?.
Is Thoughtwork employes people like me and train to become top notch like you!

Hi SHiremath,

The best way I find to learn from top notch people (Thoughtworkers or not) is to hang out at places where they do. If you don't work with them, so to the community groups (like XP groups, geek nights or java groups), or, if you can afford it, a good conference.

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