Being a developer I can say that agile programming is nothing new, only a rebrand of some best practices. Some key point of agile programming are 1)unit test of waht you do 2)pair programming i.e. your work get reviewed by some other people Considering 1 and 2 I can think of Thomas Kyte as 'agile', I let you decide if programmer, dba or both Giovanni P.S. I still don't understand the agile term referred to a manager -------------------------------------------------------------------- Another free oracle resource profiler http://sourceforge.net/projects/oraresprof/ NEW VERSION 0.8 with many bug fixes and warnings on file truncated, timed_statistics=3Dfalse, incorrect tracing deactivation and more -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l