Hi, all, For those of you who do not know me, I'm Brian Button. As far as I know, as of right now, I am the only experienced Extreme Programming coach in St. ...
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xpstl@yahoogroups.com
Jul 18, 2001 1:28 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the xpstl group. File : /Introduction.txt...
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 18, 2001 1:45 pm
Hi, all, I am Brian Button, and I am the owner of the group. I have been developing software since 1987, beginning with C, and changing to C++ and OO in 1991...
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Andrew Finkenstadt
andyf@...
Jul 19, 2001 6:46 pm
Greetings, My name is Andy Finkenstadt and I'm interested in XP. I'm a general computer guru out in Saint Charles. :) Andy...
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 20, 2001 3:13 pm
OK, so this is a controversial statement, but what do people on this list think about it. My contention is that, for small to medium size projects, with team ...
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Mike Shoemaker
shoemaker_m@...
Jul 20, 2001 3:41 pm
No doubt that substantial up front design leads to analysis paralysis, but I fear that no up front design is problematic as well. Depending on how skilled...
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Heather DeBernardi
justajavagirl@...
Jul 20, 2001 6:26 pm
I don't think XP is about functionality without infrastructure. I don't think you can write software that way (at least not successfully). It seems to me ...
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 20, 2001 6:38 pm
Heather, How large have they been? Is it the size of the team or the size of the project that matters? bab ... Brian Button bbutton@... ...
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 21, 2001 9:08 pm
Hi, everyone, Welcome to all the new members. We are up to 13 members in only 4 days or so, which is great. Please continue to pass around the word about this...
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Matthew.Kolker@...
Jul 24, 2001 2:13 pm
Hello. I have read alot about XP and plan on using it for my next project....
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Kevin Stanley
stanley@...
Jul 25, 2001 1:21 pm
Hello, My name is Kevin Stanley and I have been a developer using OO concepts since 1986. I started in a research group that was doing development of a...
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Kevin Stanley
stanley@...
Jul 25, 2001 1:24 pm
I am interested in discussing how to write user stories. I would like to gain further understanding in how to apply the XP planning process through example....
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 26, 2001 11:59 am
As you may have expected, I think this was a great conference. Xp, or at least the people at this conference, have moved past the "What is Xp? How do we do the...
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 26, 2001 12:12 pm
I created this group to get a sense of XP usage in St. Louis, and also to encourage those of you who are interested in XP to have a forum in which to ask...
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 26, 2001 12:19 pm
... Kevin> I am interested in discussing how to write user stories. I Kevin> would like to gain further understanding in how to apply Kevin> the XP planning...
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Kevin Stanley
stanley@...
Jul 26, 2001 2:05 pm
... content ... Not suprising that my stories would sound like use cases. Why is it important for the business value to be embedded in the story? Is this so...
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Kevin Stanley
stanley@...
Jul 26, 2001 2:09 pm
Thanks for the report! ... or ... the ... Kent ... Bob ... So how was attendance? How many people and from what industries, organizations, etc.? What is the...
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Kyle Cordes
kyle@...
Jul 26, 2001 2:17 pm
Much talk is on the way, from this direction :-) ... I just have to catch up on hundreds of messages first. (I was at XP Universe also, in fact I am not...
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 26, 2001 2:19 pm
... Brian Button bbutton@... Senior Consultant Object Mentor, Inc. St. Louis, MO http://www.objectmentor.com ... The entire reason for...
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 26, 2001 2:24 pm
... Brian Button bbutton@... Senior Consultant Object Mentor, Inc. St. Louis, MO http://www.objectmentor.com ... There were about 250...
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 26, 2001 2:26 pm
In fact, Kyle and I met as I stepped one foot into Lambert :) BaB ... Brian Button bbutton@... Senior Consultant Object Mentor, Inc. St....
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Kyle Cordes
kyle@...
Jul 26, 2001 2:33 pm
... by ... the ... you do ... out. ... some ... Beck's talk addressed this, from a different direction. His thinking on the meaning of the 12 practices...
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 26, 2001 2:38 pm
I hadn't mentioned that, but yes. Ron and Kent have been talking about that for a while. There are a couple of stages to adoption of Xp. The first stage is to...
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 26, 2001 4:00 pm
I'd like to gauge the level of interest in a free XP overview class. If there is any interest in this, I'd like to teach one early next month. It would be 1...
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Kyle Cordes
kyle@...
Jul 26, 2001 4:33 pm
... The XP Planning process is focussed on business value, and driven directly by the customer's priorities. There are places to capture the details, of...
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Kyle Cordes
kyle@...
Jul 26, 2001 4:33 pm
The conference closed up with a great talk by Ward Cunningham, who is the originator of so many things you all do all the time that I couldn't begin to mention...
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 26, 2001 4:44 pm
For those of you who do not know, there are tons of XP resources on the internet. http://www.extremeprogramming.org - Don Wells great intro site ...
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Heather DeBernardi
justajavagirl@...
Jul 26, 2001 7:25 pm
I'm interested. Heather ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo!...
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 26, 2001 7:58 pm
I apologize to both groups. I should have asked both groups to have people respond directly to me. Please don't clutter up these groups with replies directly...
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Brian Button
bbutton01@...
Jul 27, 2001 9:04 pm
I have had more than enough interest to let me offer this course. The tentative date for it is August 7th, and you can find out more at ...
