Xp Meeting Topics
Looking for ideas for your next XP meeting? We are too!
Please add to this list of topics for Xp User Group events
Simulations
- Do the ExtremeHour to get a real sense
- Try the BalloonGame -- you get to play Customer and Development
- Play the XpCardGame
- look at MonopolyUserStories and try something similar
- Try the Planning Game" as given by Ron Jeffries at Immersion training
Demos
- JUnit (or similar) demonstration
- Demonstrations of TestFirst, Refactoring, or evolutionary design
- Get people to bring their laptops and do a PairProgramming lab
- Refactoring Tools
Discussions
- Share experiences with XP Pitfalls! AlmostExtremeProgramming
- What is SystemMetaphor? What metaphors are in use by the people present?
- Compare Contrast Methodologies
- Speak about one of the ExtremeProgrammingImplementationIssues you've faced
- Free consulting: One person describes their XP problems; everyone else gives advice. It's tons of fun.
- Open Forum. Discuss whatever is on your mind.
Talks
- Overview of Xp
- Get an eXPert to speak
- Get XP "Customers" to speak
- How to adopt XP
- Where is XP not a fit? What are the Holes in XP?
- How to automate Acceptance Tests and Functional Testing
- QA from different angles
- Automated Builds/deployment (maybe demonstrate with Ant)
- Psychology of Pair-Programming
- Database and XP
- Design Patterns and XP
- Conference Reports - OOPSLA, XPUniverse
- XP for startup companies
- Selling XP
- XP for big-projects
- Other Agile methodologies: SCRUM, Crystal, FDD, etc.
- XP Products such as VersionOne's XP/SCRUM/Agile product
- XP and CMM
Gurus
- Try to contact an author and see if they will speak to your group
What Agile-Atlanta has done: http://agileatlanta.org/wiki/moin.cgi And some other topics of interest we plan to cover eventually: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agile-atlanta/message/71