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BayXP

BayXP is the San Francisco bay area extreme programming users group. We meet on the 3rd Wednesday of every month to discuss various issues surrounding XP. Meetings are free, and open to anyone interested in XP. We also welcome people interested in other agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Crystal, DSDM, and FDD.

Next meeting Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

Topic: A Tour of an XP Team

Speakers: Jim Kingdon, William Pietri, Justin Sampson, Brian Slesinsky

Time: Doors open at 7:00 pm. Presentation starts at 7:30 pm.

Location:

ThoughtWorks
410 Townsend Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94107
t: 415 869 3000
f: 415 869 3001
e: info-us@thoughtworks.com

Map and driving directions:
http://www.thoughtworks.com/us/contactUs.html

This location is walking distance from Caltrain.

Thanks to Paul Zabelin of ThoughtWorks for arranging for the room.

Note: The speakers are not affiliated with ThoughtWorks.

Abstract:

We worked together on a 9-month greenfield project, totally XP from the start. Since this seems to be a rare experience even among regular BayXP attendees, we hope to give the group a sense of what a real XP team feels like. The first hour will be structured as a photographic tour of our Team Room, touching on the fundamentals of XP such as the Planning Game and other team processes and dynamics. For the second hour we have a list of digression topics for the group to choose from; we tried several things that we had only heard of in XP theory, such as putting off persistence and performance as mere stories in the planning game, which have often come up as questions in BayXP meetings.