I wrote this article a few months ago for the Cutter Consortium. I thought it might be interesting to those in this group who are looking to synthesize the...
Sorry, guys. I'm still on the west coast for another week or so, so I'm not going to be around for a meeting this month. Let's try again for March. Brad and I...
XP Agile Universe 2004 Call for Panels Proposals Calgary, Alberta, Canada August 15-18, 2004 www.agileuniverse.com www.xpuniverse.com Panel sessions provide a...
Hello, I am a professor of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Our department is hosting a half-day Symposium on March 26 with a theme of...
A quick reminder that February 29th is the XPAU 2004 submission deadline for all papers (including education symposium papers) and all proposals except ...
Announcing the March, 2004 meeting of the Extreme Programming Users Group in St. Louis. This month's meeting will feature Brad Grant of Maritz, a certified...
... Check out the brain on Brad! /me ducks :=) BTW, how does one become a "certified" Scrum Master, what are the levels of "Scrum Mastery" that can be...
... $600 plus travel, lodging, etc. See: http://www.scrumalliance.org/certification.php This is something that has always bothered me about Scrum: You can't ...
As I understand it, and I could certainly be wrong, Scrum is not owned by Ken and Jeff, but there are some tools and products that are. If you want those...
Anyone can do Scrum. There's no licensing required and no commercial product to buy. Ken Schwaber is the "godfather of Scrum" and he came up with the idea of...
The "tools" consist of one really bad Excel plug-in. Don't plan on going to CSM training just to get the plug-in. And even if you do, don't plan on using it....
Just visited the group first time today, and saw the "Brad Grant" postings. My google search results list has quadrupled! Don't worry about feeding my head, I...
I'll be there. Kari ... From: Brian Button [mailto:bbutton@...] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:01 PM To: xpstl@yahoogroups.com Subject: [xpstl]...
Brad Grant of Maritz will be discussing Scrum this evening. Brad is a certified Scrum Master, so he should have some very interesting comments. This month we...
Brian, Is this the book that you mentioned at the meeting last night? Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software Eric Evans ...
From: "dhhols" <holsclaw@...> ... I'm not Brian, but that is the book he mentioned. It is very good, especially along the core ideas that the book is...
I published the ppt I did last night as a pdf on my personal site if anyone is interested in it for future reference. http://xpstl.org/wiki.cgi?March2004 ...
Very good book. I picked it up last year and read it over Christmas. I fear that I may not have learned much from it, as I seemed to be agreeing with almost...
... That's interesting, Jeff, as that's one of the big things I pulled out of the book, too. I intend to have my operations on objects be as closed as possible...
Getting the word about about XP and Agile software development: The Organizing Committee of XPAU 2004 would like to hear your opinions/experiences regarding...
I got the book already. I can't say anything yet, but this value object restriction thing surprises me. In data visualization, one of the basic properties of a...
... I think what it was saying is that methods that do some sort of complicated operation should return a new value object of the same type with the results...
The book says that Value Objects with partial CLOSURE are an improvement, even if full CLOSURE can't be reached. Also, he says, "When the extra type is a...