I'll be out of the office on vacation until Wednesday, July 12th and will not have access to email. Mik Sander will be monitoring my Email in my absence and...
Don Lewis
don.lewis@...
Jul 2, 2006 3:38 pm
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Yes, I believe so, but I haven't yet received confirmation. I've signed up to present on "Integrating QA into XP". I've sent an email to Jim Huntzicker with a...
Hi, On behalf of XPDX, I've received two review copies of "Agile and Discipline Made Easy: Practices from OpenUP and RUP" by Per Kroll and Bruce MacIsaac;...
Eleven Wireless will be sponsoring a presentation tomorrow night on integrating QA into the XP development methodology. Here's the blurb: "Most books on the...
Greetings, I'm looking for a Sr. Software QA Engineer (XP) for an Agile software engineering team using C# & NUnit. Please e-mail me your resume to ...
Hi, Here's an opportunity for some visibility and presentation experience at Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference in October. Please read the...
Hello, my company Rally Software, along with Rally's Partner SolutionsIQ, is offering a two-day Certified ScrumMaster Training course in the Bellevue area on...
(Please forgive this non-XP content, but I figure there'd be a bunch of Ruby fans here who'd be interested...) PDX.rb presents... FOSCON II: The Ruby Rodeo! We...
I'm very proud to announce a fully-accredited XP course at Portland State University. I've created it with Dr. Andrew Black, Professor of Computer Science at...
Or postponed till next month? (Last Tuesday) Stay tuned. We didn't quite get a quorum for this months meeting. For those of you going to Agile 2006... have...
Not surprisingly, with the fabulous, big Code Camp <http://pdx.techevents.info/codecamp/2/default.aspx> event last month, there wasn't a place for having a...
Hi, everyone, There are just two weeks left before our XP course at Portland State University. This course is open to INDUSTRY as well as students and if ...
Hi, all, This is your last chance to register for the four-week course on XP that Andrew Black and I are teaching at PSU. The course is filling up and our...
Hello, this is just a friendly reminder that my company Rally Software, along with Rally's Partner SolutionsIQ, is offering a two- day Certified ScrumMaster...
Hello, Please excuse the cross-posting. If you're not from in or around Portland, Oregon, you can stop reading now and go on to the next message. If you are,...
There's a nip of fall in the air. Even on these warm days, it cools down plenty in the evening. How about spending a nice warm evening with a bunch of warm...
Hello, my company Rally Software is offering a two-day Certified Scrum Master course in Santa Clara, CA on Tuesday, October 10th and Wednesday, October 11th,...
Greetings, Fans of Agile teams -- Once again, December 5-7, 2006, Esther Derby and I present "Secrets of Agile Teamwork: Beyond Technical Skills," a workshop...
Hello, my company Rally Software, along with Rally's Partner SolutionsIQ, is offering a two-day Certified ScrumMaster Training course in the Bellevue area on...
If you have a chance please join us for the APLN PDX meeting tommorrow night at the Widmer Gasthaus. Details below... ... Hi All, The Portland meeting of...
Interesting rant by a Google Developer talking about Good and Bad Agile. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile_27.html (Warning: This...
Hi Mike, ... And there have been long, long discussion threads about it on extremeprogramming@yahoogroups (and elsewhere) if you want to join the fun.;-) Diana...
Yes, our movement is diluted by "one book" experts. I don't believe this is possible to avoid for long though the scary name "Extreme" worked for a while. I...
Ward Cunningham
ward@...
Oct 2, 2006 7:43 pm
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I suppose there are "Good" and "Bad" ways to look at Google's approach: a) "1 in 10 projects make us a boat load of money, so let's give our Engineers max R&D...
I have never seen a situation where it did not come down to the people on the team. XP, CMMI, yaddayaddayadda -- the bottom line I've seen has always been...
... And on the internal Agile mailing list at my company... it seems that this rant touched a few nerves. Apparently the author claims he wanted to "wake up"...
Steve Willoughby
steve@...
Oct 3, 2006 12:38 am
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Yes, and...I think there are practices that are more good or less good within a given context. To be sure, the people involved must be dedicated to success,...