Charity Work

As most of you will know myself and five friends are raising funds for Maggie's Centres as well as training for their Bike'n'Hike event.

From the Maggies webite
What is a Maggie's Centre?
A Maggie’s Centre is a place to turn to for help with any of the problems, small or large, associated with cancer.

One in three people are affected by cancer, that is a terrifying ratio. Having visited the Glasgow Centre it is clear how incredibly important this charity is to people at a harrowing time in their life.

So what do I intend to do to help raise funds I hear you ask?
I am offering my services as an Agile Coach and Developer to anyone who is willing to donate £500 or more per day to Maggies Cancer Centres.

What do you get for your donation over and above a warm fuzzy feeling for helping out a much in need charity?
Presumably the overarching goal for your company is that I can help your team make more ( or save more ) money faster.

How can I help achieve that with your software development team?
* Introduce Agile Techniques and the values of Communication, Feedback, Simplicity and Courage.
* Aid improvement of the teams current process
* Pair up with developers to improve technical skills like Acceptance Testing, TDD, and Refactoring.

I have added a section about my experience to date below. If it sounds like I could be of benefit to your company or development team why not get in touch and make me an offer?

In summary, I am offering my services for a period of up to 5 days to help your team or develop software. Ideally this would be in early April, and for each day onsite you would donate at least £500 to Maggies Centres via http://justgiving.com/jiggypete

The types of technology that I am most familiar with are Ruby, Rails and Java.
If you have any questions please do get in touch, this is all for a very good cause.

You can contact me via any of these methods,
Email: jiggypete at gmail .com
Twitter: @jiggy_pete
Website: jiggypete.com

My Experience:
For 10 years I have been working in XP teams and have been heavily involved with the Scottish Agile community.
The types of applications I have worked on are,
* Tools to create Blu-ray discs,
* Multi-million pound trading applications,
* Pension apps,
* Tools to allow bus drivers to submit timesheets
* and applications that run a repair line,

Thankyou for your time,
Peter Aitken