David Griffiths

Current

• Author at O'Reilly Media

Past

• Agile coach at Exoftware
• Author at O'Reilly Media
• Integration architect at Leicestershire County Council

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Education

• University of Nottingham

Recommended

2 people have recommended David

Connections

27 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Picasa photos
• Head First Rails
• My RSS feed

David Griffiths’s Summary

Agile development coach and author. When not writing and coaching, he spends his time writing open source software, traveling and looking at his lovely wife Dawn.

He has just finished writing Head First Rails for O'Reilly Media.

David Griffiths’s Specialties:

Test driven development, acceptance test definition, Java and Rails.

David Griffiths’s Experience

• Author

  O'Reilly Media

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

  Using meta-cognitiion to get technical information past the basal ganglia's crap filter.

• Agile coach

  Exoftware

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  February 2008 — November 2008 (10 months)

  Enabling companies to ship valuable software with a lower risk of failure.

• Author

  O'Reilly Media

  (Computer Software industry)

  2007 — 2008 (1 year )

• Integration architect

  Leicestershire County Council

  (Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

  October 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 3 months)

David Griffiths’s Education

• University of Nottingham

Additional Information

David Griffiths’s Websites:

• Picasa photos
• Head First Rails
• My RSS feed

David Griffiths’s Interests:

Meta-cognition and agile development. If I'm not thin-slicing, I'm vertical slicing.

David Griffiths’s Groups:

Dennis the Menace Fan Club (2001-4)

•    O'Reilly Media

David Griffiths’s Honors:

Most Likely to Lose his Hair by the Age of 30 (Gateway VIth Form College)

David Griffiths’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• getting back in touch