Portland Xp Users Group Agenda

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Notes from the January 11 meeting of the PortlandXpUsersGroup. Goal was to make an agenda for 2005.

Interesting Topics Adopted

• Geographically distributed teams.
• Failures
• Scaling
• Hands-on activities
• Sprint

Other Interesting Topics Delayed

• The difference between measurement, test, and validation
• Using aspects of agility in non-agile processes
• Getting started
• "The customer problem"
• Refactoring
• Volunteer activities
• How and where is agility taught
• Web packet: intro to agile
• Making agile tools
• What is agile project management
• How to fit agility into a static org
• How does agility fit into PMP
• What are good metaphors for software
• Partnerships with other interesting groups (Linux, Python, etc.)
• Agile approaches other than XP (Scrum, Crystal, etc.)
• "Beer Night" (Not just after the meeting)
• Host an agile conference in Portland (Agile 2006?)
• Work with other conferences to feature agile (e.g. PNSQC)
• The edgy new parts of KentBeck's second edition of ExtremeProgrammingExplained

Use AgileAlliance to bring speakers to Portland

• Consider associated engagements, e.g. at PSU, SPIN, etc.

Speaker List Under Active Consideration (If you're on this list, look for an email or phone call. 8^)

• EricEvans
• KentBeck
• MikeCohn

Other potential speakers

• JuttaEckstein
• JoshKerievsky

Other decisions

• Stay at OGI location
• Wayne, Arlo, Patrick, and Mike will help organize
• Scope is definitely not just XP
• Won't change the name from XPDX though

Thanks to AndrewBlack for writing these notes initially. The good news is this is a wiki so Andrew and others can correct my mistakes. Only one or two handwriting recognition problems. -Patrick