looking for IT people

[trooper1212]

Afternoon

Our company is in dire need of good, senior people. So if any of this list means anything to you, mail me and I'll give you more details...

Java developers
.Net developers
Project managers
QA managers
Business Analysts.

Permanent jobs, head office is in the city, but it's a consultancy so you must be prepared to travel if necessary. If you know anything about Agile or XP, you'll be on a very good footing.

[monker]

Hi Neil,

this may not be the ideal response, and you can call me a cheeky opportunist ,... but I work for an IT recruitment agency called computer people and we would be happy to assist in the search for these types of people. Very good fee rates for fellow TVR owners and psitonheaders of course.. !!

if you are stuck my contact details are
Tony Monk
0161 491 8902
[e-mail]

[stevieb]

trooper1212

YHM

[Podie]

If anyone is looking for second level support or NT to XP migration... I could be tempted with a change of scenery...

[Gaffer]

Or me. Helpdesk/desktop level.

I make a good buttie as well.

Claire

[trooper1212]

Thanks for the responses guys and gals.
XP in the Extreme Programming sense, rather than the Windows XP sense though.

[nasz]

Anyone looking for a capable IT Manager - look no further ;-)

[JonRB]

I've heard quite a bit about Extreme Programming.

Sounds like a one-way ticket to early burnout, but I've met a few people who really enjoyed it.

Certainly wouldn't be any time for a crafty perusal of PH at work, so I guess that's one of the reasons it raises productivity.

(BTW, why are you messing around with Java when you could use a real language like C++? )

[plotloss]

Looks pretty good, trying to get their heads around it at my place.

Bless their cotton filled heads...

[trooper1212]

JonRB said:

I've heard quite a bit about Extreme Programming. Sounds like a one-way ticket to early burnout, but I've met a few people who really enjoyed it. Certainly wouldn't be any time for a crafty perusal of PH at work, so I guess that's one of the reasons it raises productivity. (BTW, why are you messing around with Java when you could use a real language like C++? )

Agile is the way brother!

XP really is the outside edge of agile processes (hence the name) but Agile does work, just ask our customers

The basic ideal is to do what you need to do to get the work done, keep iterations of work small, tasks even smaller and just do what is necessary to do each task. Less documentation, less politics, less process, more production...

It doesn't take any prisoners though, so that guy in the corner who spends his day surfing the web, he won't last very long

[Bodo]

trooper1212 said:

Less documentation, less politics, less process, more production...

Although I think that most of the people on here like it quick and dirty, ...

trooper1212 said:

... so that guy in the corner who spends his day surfing the web, he won't last very long

...PH is probably the wrong place to find somebody that doesn't exactly behave like you described above

[lanciachris]

Well, this sounds like my calling perhaps not - you said senior. Pity though as I graduated a BEng in software engineering last summer, course was pretty java focused, including an industrial year where I used java commercially and helped the company take up xp. Then after graduating ive started working using .net

Computer people couldnt find me any jobs when i graduated had to do the searching myself.

[brumster]

If only finding SeeBeyond work was so easy.... :-)

[Don]

trooper1212 said:

JonRB said: I've heard quite a bit about Extreme Programming. The basic ideal is to do what you need to do to get the work done, keep iterations of work small, tasks even smaller and just do what is necessary to do each task. Less documentation, less politics, less process, more production...

Pah. It sounds like hacking (if you chaps remember what the word really means in the early eighties sense before it was corrupted).

Don't bother to design it - just rely on the fact that your best people are talented enough to make it work without all the formalities.

Small IT businesses have done this for years to do stuff at prices the big boys couldn't match.

[pdV6]

Don said:

Small IT businesses have done this for years to do stuff at prices the big boys couldn't match.

Posh words for RAD! Small businesses can't afford to do things "properly" (in the software lifecycle sense), so necessity breeds invention.

[victormeldrew]

Not quite RAD. A key attribute of XP is working in pairs - to eliminate coding errors. One types, the other proof reads as you go. But yes, otherwise it is a lot like RAD/4GL development, where a prototype is knocked up and then iteratively refined with end user input.

I agree wholeheartedly that this is how IT development generally works in the SME marketplace. You can sell anything to corporates if you dress it up in enough jargon!

[trooper1212]

Don said:

Small IT businesses have done this for years to do stuff at prices the big boys couldn't match.

Indeed they have and more power to them.

However small businesses are generally not employed to do large scale work for big business, because they just don't have the resources to get the system out the door in a reasonable amount of time and at a reasonable cost.

The key is to keep the flexibility and ingenuity of the small scale hacker, but get that into big business and large systems.

[victormeldrew]

trooper1212 said:

The key is to keep the flexibility and ingenuity of the small scale hacker, but get that into big business and large systems.

Wow, use of hacker in its original context! Impressed!

[victormeldrew]

jobserve said:

Our client are looking for two top level .NET Designer/Developers. Working as part of a team under a Microsoft Solution Architect you will be a professional and driven Developer who has had experience of developing enterprise scale projects in .NET. As well as the core .NET Development skill set (C# or VB.NET) you should have experience in Winforms. Ideally you will also have knowledge of methodologies such as RUP, Agile or XP. You will be a committed team player who is used to communicating technical ideas to non technical people. Travel is involved. In theory your clients could be based all over the UK but in reality the majority of clients are based well inside the M25. If you are keen to work with a progressive consultancy of over 100 staff that are expanding fast into the Microsoft arena then call for a full spec.

Is this the vacancy?

[trooper1212]

victormeldrew said:

Is this the vacancy?

Certainly seems familiar...