Announcing the next BayXP / Silicon Valley Agile combined-group meeting:

Date: 15 July 2009
Time: 6:30 meet/greet/eat, 7-8:30 presentation, w/ raffle at 8:30ish

Address: Building 14, Sun Microsystems, 14 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA
94025
Room: Sequoia conference room, 14-1579
To get in: Instructions will be posted on the door of the Building 14
lobby.

Max attendees: 30
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/silicon-valley-agile/calendar/10743720/

Title: The Value of Refactoring on an Agile Team
Presenter: Me

Target audiences: Developers, managers, executives, people who like pizza,
and people who like discussing the merits of Agile techniques.

Description:

Refactoring is often viewed as a technique to clean up existing messy code.
If that were always true, then Agile projects would require up-front design,
because teams rarely get around to those "big refactorings," and rarely will
a Scrum PO or XP Customer buy (prioritize) a "refactoring story." In truth,
Agile processes require design to emerge. Rob will describe what it means to
refactor clean, well-tested code. He will also demonstrate the actual
business value of refactoring, and suggest ways to make sure refactoring and
Emergent Design are given the necessary time to flourish.

Besides the talk, I'll be providing the following:

Food: Probably pizza, with plenty of vegetarian pizza available.
Beverages: The usual suspects.

Raffle:

Two prizes. First prize winner gets to choose, 2nd gets the remaining
prize:

1. One copy of _The Art of Agile_ - Shore and Warden
2. A library of 6 books on Ruby/Rails programming from O'Reilly:
Advanced Rails - Ediger
Learning Ruby - Fitzgerald
Ruby Cookbook - Carlson and Richardson
Ruby on Rails - Tate and Hibbs
Ruby Pocket Reference - Fitzgerald
The Ruby Programming Language - Flanagan and Matsumoto

Raffle logistics: We may try a tournament of "Rock, Paper, Scissors,
Lizard, Spock"
You can prepare for the tournament using these visual aids:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rock_Paper_Scissors_Lizard_Spock_en.svg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iapcKVn7DdY&feature=player_embedded


I hope to see you there!

Rob

Rob Myers
Agile Institute
email: Rob.Myers@...
blog: http://PowersOfTwo.agileInstitute.com/
twitter: agilecoach



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