2003 Meetings
James Newkirk, November 10, 2003
James is the author of Extreme Programming in Practice and the upcoming Test-Driven Development in Microsoft® .NET. He has worked with agile industry leaders including Object Mentor and ThoughtWorks, and the NUnit unit-testing framework for all .Net languages. Earlier this year, James joined Microsoft to work on their patterns and practices initiatives. More...
Curtis Cooley, October 27, 2003
Curtis will talk about his experiences with eXtreme Programming and other agile methods at RADSoft and at client sites. He especially enjoys the challenges of playing the role of "XP seed" at companies wanting to try XP. Initially that may simply be to sit down day-to-day with the client's team and teach them how to do XP by example. Writing test first code, refactoring, pair programing, and doing all the things the client companies might have had doubts about. As the client's confidence grows, Curtis can take on a more formal role as XP Coach or move on to another assignment. More...
Ken Schwaber, September 22, 2003
Ken Schwaber is one of the developers of Scrum, co-author of "Agile Software Development with Scrum", a signatory of the Agile Manifesto, and a director of the AgileAlliance (www.agilealliance.org). He will give a talk that provides an overview of how agile processes and Scrum are structured, their origins, their skeleton, their heart and their flow. Ken will then provide a more detailed description of Scrum practices, both in theory and how they were used to build a middleware business object server at a large financial insititution. More...
Zach Nies, August 25, 2003
Zach and three colleagues founded a startup in 2000 that sold its IP to Creo, leading to the formation of a Denver product development group later that year. They grew this into a distributed team with additional members in Vancouver and Halifax to develop a new software product called Six Degrees. Creo's Six Degrees team has been successfully using eXtreme Programming for 38 iterations with an average team size of 13 engineers. Six Degrees manages projects by linking e-mail messages, word processing documents, and contact information. It won a Macworld Best of Show award in 2002 More...
Al-Noor Ramji, July 21, 2003
Al-Noor Ramji is responsible for all information technology for Qwest including the creation of market-focused IT teams who quickly develop new products and services. Prior to joining Qwest, Al-Noor was global chief information officer for the investment banking firm Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. Prior to that, he was chief operating officer and managing director at Swiss Bank Corporation and head of operations at Credit Suisse First Boston. Al-Noor has 25 years of executive experience in information technology for the banking, finance and communications industries. Earlier he held several technology assignments at British Telecommunications. More...
Mary Poppendieck, June 23, 2003
Mary will talk about Lean Software Development, which identifies fundamental "lean" principles, adapts them to the world of software development, and shows how they can serve as the foundation for agile development approaches that work. A toolkit of "thinking tools" helps turn these principles into the right agile practices for any environment. More...
Jef Knutson and Phillip Hilgert, May 19, 2003
Jef Knutson and Phillip Hilgert from Qwest IT's Agile Test Workshop Group will present XP Software Test Estimation and Planning. More...
Mike Cohn, April 28, 2003
The technique of capturing requirements as user stories is one of the most broadly applicable techniques introduced by Extreme Programming. User Stories are an effective approach on all time constrained projects, not just those using XP. Additionally, shifting to user stories from heavier weight techniques is a great first step in moving an organization toward an agile process. More...
Lowell Lindstrom, March 24, 2003
In this talk we'll examine the nature of XP and how it is leveraged by businesses to align their software efforts to their goals. We'll look at how requirements are understood, tracked, and communicated. We'll talk about linkage between product strategy and XP Planning. You learn how the on-site customer practice has been adapted to the The Customer Team and examine the practices that extend XP to all of the stakeholders of a project. More...
Steve Konieczka, February 24, 2003
Steve's presentation will define SCM in practical terms and examine the principles of an effective agile SCM solution. He will explore the reasons why traditional SCM doesn't meet the needs of XP projects and discuss the key functionality necessary to support XP projects. Steve will also review references available today to help you ask the right questions and make the right decisions. The presentation targets the questions and concerns of agile software developers and managers, while containing timely insights for SCM and QA professionals. More...
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