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Next Meeting of the XP Club

The June 14th meeting will feature a talk by guest speaker Clarke Ching.

Talk: An overview of Agile with an emphasis on why agile works, why waterfall doesn't, the big mistake we made in the 70's

After last months very successful and interesting How to sell TDD to your colleagues and bosses presentation, Clarke returns to do another presentation while he is still based in Sheffield.

Bio: Clarke Ching is a New Zealander who now calls Scotland home. He is a passionate advocate of agile software development and is chairman of AgileScotland special interest group. He is a frequent speaker and part-time lecturer on agile methods. Clarke has an MBA specialising in Technology management and is an independent consultant specialising in the use of Agile and Theory of Constraints in software development. He is currently writing a "business novel" - see www.RollingRocksDownhill.com - which shows how Lean, Quality and Constraints Management thinking SHOULD be applied to software and product development organisations.

Next Meeting of the XP Club

The May 10th meeting will feature a talk by guest speaker Clarke Ching.

Talk: How to sell TDD to your colleagues and bosses.
Clarke uses excel - a tool on most peoples desktops and one that managers, in particular, don't find intimidating - to demonstrate Test Driven Development. Ron Jeffries, the XP guru, said he loved this approach. The demo has been used in a number of companies and universities to demonstrate the concepts of TDD, without freaking people out. It's a great conversation starter around the importance of TDD, good design, pairing and refactoring. Clarke has written up the session for his book and will share the instructions so that you can use it with your colleagues and bosses.

Bio: Clarke Ching is a New Zealander who now calls Scotland home. He is a passionate advocate of agile software development and is chairman of AgileScotland special interest group. He is a frequent speaker and part-time lecturer on agile methods. Clarke has an MBA specialising in Technology management and is an independent consultant specialising in the use of Agile and Theory of Constraints in software development. He is currently writing a "business novel" - see www.RollingRocksDownhill.com - which shows how Lean, Quality and Constraints Management thinking SHOULD be applied to software and product development organisations.

Check your dates!

Just a quick post to remind you that this month's Yorkshire XP club will be held on the second Thursday of the month, the 12th of April. Please don't turn up this week, we won't be there!

Don't forget we'll be doing the Extreme Hour, we hope to have plenty of people to particpate. There's more information here.

An Extreme Hour

The next meeting of the Extreme Programming Club (April 12) will feature an ‘Extreme Hour’. This is basically an audience-participation exercise in which the audience must completely develop a product using XP principles, like pair programming.

The group takes on different roles (such as ‘developers’ or ‘stakeholders’) and there are certain rules in place to mimic what it’s like to work on an XP project.

It’s something that’s used by XP consultants to explain the methodology. Hopefully it'll be interesting and quite fun.

See you there.

Meeting - 8 March 2007

We had the second meeting of the Yorkshire XP club in the Victoria Hotel.

Richard did a very interesting talk about the Scrum methodology, after which there was some lively debate about the merits of various areas of agile/ and less agile computing.

We had a good turn out, but of course we would love to see more new faces next time.

Next meeting (12 April 2007) will include a demostration of the end to end design and implementation using extreme / agile methods. This will be an extreme hour (audience participation involved).