Southern Ontario friends, I have some big news for you! The Jerry Cans, Nunavut's favourite folk rock band, are taking over the weekend of June 20th, first in Ottawa, then in Toronto as part of NXNE. The Jerry Cans are an Iqaluit-based band; the band members are Andrew Morrison (lead vocals and guitar), Nancy Mike, (throat singing and accordion), Brendan Doherty (bass and vocals), Steve Rigby (drums and vocals), and Gina Burgess (violin and vocals). You can check them out on Facebook, Twitter, and SoundCloud to get yourself in the mood.

Yes, that's right - a Nunavut band is playing in Canada's largest and capital cities, and you should absolutely make it a point to go to one (or both!) of their shows. Why? Well, first of all, Iour Founding Fathers, was that they got to the essence of human behavior — including the depravity and moral weakness, and corruption by power, that we humans suffer from. They designed a system of government that accounts for such weaknesses, and that provides a means of feedback and correction. Correcting in the small (local and state government), and in the large (amendments to the document itself).

The Agile Manifesto is similarly poised. The four main tenets of the Manifesto are irrefutable, getting to the essence of software development. The Manifesto sets the stage up for great success without the shackles of a tyrannical, command and control form of management. It works from the bottom up.

There are many in the software world that decry the freedom of agile developers practicing