[xpportland] Jan meeting Here's the link for the January XP Users Group meeting: http://cpd.ogi.edu/class.asp?n=05-xpdx-0111 Please use the sign-up system to...
This is a quick reminder that there is an XPDX meeting at OGI tonight. See http://www.cpd.ogi.edu/R/s1.asp?reg=36831 for details or to register and for FREE...
I wonder whether anyone has any comments on my experience. Once again, I find myself in a large corporation, trying to reconcile what Kent Beck says with what...
Rod McLaughlin
unasoft@...
Jan 18, 2005 4:58 am
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I don't know if this is specifically an XP or non-XP issue, but it's an interesting question in any case, and here's my 2c. What seems to be happening here is...
1. It seems at least two people read the spec: you and the author. Can you have a conversation with the author? 2. If the "spec" is specific why does it say...
For a bit of comedic relief, I'm going to take a position different from the other responders. What is your company in the business of -- writing specs,...
Bill Trost
trost-xpdx@...
Jan 18, 2005 3:21 pm
692
I think you mis-read the spec. It says the the variable MUST be set to either X or Y, and if it's not, please inform the user immediately. If you do what you...
Interesting to see this question posed on both the XPDX and the Padnug email lists. From the XP perspective I would suggest the original problem is not...
Hmm, I suppose that's a good answer, but remember to check the environment variable when the application starts, not the first time you need it. Otherwise, you...
I'd like a show of hands... who thinks the original question describes a technical problem? 0.5 smiley. -Patrick ________________________________ From: Steve...
Maybe there's an opportunity to work with SPIN and XPDX on something like this. The topic kind of made it on the interest list for XPDX (see the wiki for...
XP, Scrum, or any Agile method's productivity comes from self-organizing teams, and teams don't become and stay teams by magic, but instead by hard work on the...
Thanks for all the comments, both from Xpdx and Padnug. The 'environment variable X' example is just one I chose because it is so simple. This one example...
Rod McLaughlin
unasoft@...
Jan 22, 2005 10:04 pm
699
This is the CFP for the merged Agile Development Conference (ADC) and XP Agile Universe (XPAU) conference: Call for Participation - Agile 2005 July 24-29,...
February's XPDX meeting will be Tues Feb 8 TOPIC: Pushing & Pulling Teams - An Exercise in How Things Get Done The next Portland XP Users Group meeting...
Arrrrgg I would really have loved to have gone to this one. But I've got a new baby at home and really need about 3 weeks worth of notice to be able to get "a...
Thanks, that was the information I was looking for. Just now I was able to find the scedule on xpdx.org, is there any chance that "XPDX is the 2nd Tuesday of...
Good idea. I should be able to add it. -Patrick ________________________________ From: Malcolm Anderson [mailto:malcolm9999@...] Sent: Tuesday, February...
I found out last night my son has a concert on March 8. So I won't be able to present at the March meeting. There were a couple other contributers from our...
XPDX will be hosting a code sprint on April 9-10, 2005 in downtown Portland, Oregon. A code sprint is a gathering of a bunch of programmers to complete a...
And at the evening meeting on April 12, we will have a retrospective on the whole project. ;-) (don't leave home without one) Diana ... Diana Larsen ...
XP/Agile productivity comes from self-organizing teams and teams don't become and stay teams by magic, but instead by hard work on the part of the project...
... Perhaps this could be worded a little better. I'm having trouble figuring out how, when it requires hard work from managers and coaches to create and...
Ward Cunningham
ward@...
Feb 27, 2005 10:06 pm
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... It probably could. I wish I were a better writer. One of my learning edges. ... Thanks for the feedback, Ward. And for the invitation to dialogue. Here are...
I think perhaps, the problem is with the term self-organized. There is a principle in biology called self-orgainization that refers to the ability for a bunch...
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