Montreal Xp Meeting One
Quasi-minutes for the first meeting: (Wednesday May 30th 19h00-21h30)
People (Please add your names):
- IainLowe
- JeanMarcHeneman
- MathieuGervais
- JeanPhilippeGariepy
- KeithPaton
- StephaneLussier
- JeanPhilippeBelanger
- Eric Desbiens
This meeting was mostly about seeing who was interested in XP in Montreal and who would show up. The turn out was encouraging and we just did some basic "get-to-know-people" stuff like describing who we are, where we work and what we want to get out of XP. We were 9 around the table.
The meeting was unstructured (intentionally) and so we took a lot of time to cover fairly little ground (but we had fun isn't it?). Some of the things we came away with were:
- An interest in AgileMethodologies in general (in specific how they measure up to XP and whether or not they are viable alternatives). See AgileAlliance.
- A desire to have some topic or theme to future meetings.
- A proposal for somebody to write up a presentation or guide a discussion of a specific topic which would be posted here and discussed a bit prior to the meeting to make sure that it covers relevant issues.
- Some interesting ideas about PairProgramming and the role of software aided development (specifically involving KeithPaton's Code Auditing software Code Check).
- We agreed to communicate using the mailing list (see above) and this wiki for the time being - IainLowe proposed that he start another wiki if we get to be too much for this one (or too off-topic).