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Things have been busy at Ronin. Here is the most up-to-date information:

Scott Ambler is busy working on an update to the Object Primer; you should see the third edition released sometime next spring! We are also very happy to announce that Taku Fujii's translation of Agile Modeling has been published. The Amazon Japan URL is: (you may need to load the character set to view this from a US browser).

The August, 2003 column in SD magazine is now online at http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=8689/sdm0308h/sdm0308h.html. This article argues that modern software development processes take an evolutionary (iterative and incremental) approach to development, therefore for data professionals to be effective they must also work this way. The article also overviews a collection of agile techniques that data professionals should consider adopting. You will need to register (free) at the site if you are not already a member there.

Interested in Feature Driven Development (FDD)? Check out http://www.agilemodeling.com/artifacts/feature.htm, a very short description of features in FDD.

A new article regarding user stories can be found at: http://www.agilemodeling.com/artifacts/userStory.htm

Finally, ongoing work regarding artifact descriptions is available at: http://www.agilemodeling.com/artifacts/index.htm

Scott is speaking this week at the XP Agile Universe conference. Details can be found at: http://www.xpuniverse.com/schedule/T7.

SD East in Boston is coming up quick in September – please visit www.sdexpo.com for more information. Scott will be presenting a ton of workshops, and I will be there too! Please let me know if you’d be interested in setting up a meeting with Scott and I during this event; I will coordinate it (sign up early – Scott’s schedule is usually packed that week!).

There are some upcoming events in October and November - I will send updates as the dates are confirmed.

Thanks for reading this information!

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