Jim Newkirk is an Programmer/Architect/Project Manager (depending on which day of the week) at Thoughtworks. He co-founded ObjectMentor with RobertCecilMartin and was Vice President until early this year (2001).
He co-authored the book ExtremeProgrammingInPractice with RobertCecilMartin. This book is a case study of an XP Project.
He also shared in authorship of the book "EnterpriseSolutionPatterns".
For more information about Jim Newkirk and Thoughtworks, please see his company's home page at:
Jim, why you leave ObjectMentor? and why ThoughtWorks?
Many reasons... Send me an email and I'll let you know.
Jim, why you leave ThoughtWorks ? Is it voluntarily ?