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Toronto, Canada Area, Ontario Canada
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Coaching, Consulting, and Developing
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Technology / Software / Internet
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I have spent my career learning how to create valuable software and how to teach others to create valuable software. Valuable code is software that is valuable now and in the future. Software by itself is rarely valuable. Instead, it becomes valuable when it can be created and tended by skilled and passionate executives, business analysts, testers, developers, and many others with all sorts of different skills.
I am an Agile Coach at ValuableCode. I work with all kinds of people helping them to create valuable code: I might coach a member of the executive team on effective meetings; I might spend the afternoon pairing with a developer to create testable software; I might facilitate a tea...
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