BCS SPA Specialist Group (formerly OOPS)
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EXTREME PROGRAMMING
SPA-184: The XP Game
Duncan Pierce, Rachel Davies, Brian Swan, all of the Extreme Tuesday Club
(http://www.xpdeveloper.com/xpdwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=XtC)
18:00 - 20:30, Wednesday 3rd November 2004
*Note early start! We need two and a half hours to run this game properly*
LogicaCMG, 51-53 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7JT
Sandwiches, nibbles and refreshments will be provided in the break
PLEASE NOTE. LogicaCMG has been obliged to tighten up security arrangements.
Therefore we cannot guarantee admittance to BCS events held on LogicaCMG
premises to those who have not pre-registered in good time.
Pre-registration, meeting details and location map:
http://bcs-spa.org/cgi-bin/view/SPA/TheXPGame
Synopsis
The XP Game is a playful way to familiarize the players with some of the
more difficult concepts of the XP Planning Game, like velocity, story
estimation, yesterday's weather and the XP lifecycle. Anyone can
participate. The goal is to make development and business people work
together, they both play both roles. It is especially useful when a company
starts adopting XP. This session was created by the XP Belgium group and
more info can be found at http://www.xp.be/xpgame/
The XP Game is also due to be presented at the fourth XP Day conference in
London (25th - 26th November 2004). See http://www.xpday.org/ for details.
Speaker Biographies
Duncan Pierce (Amarinda - http://www.amarinda.com/) has been helping
companies and teams improve their software development using agile
techniques for the last 3 years. He first heard about XP in 1998 and began
doing it for real in 2000 when he joined Connextra. Since then he has helped
companies including Egg and British Telecom become more agile.
Duncan is a long-standing member of the Extreme Tuesday Club (XTC), and has
previously acted as treasurer and conference chair for the XpDay
conferences. Along with Paul Simmons, he developed the Xbots workshop - a
chance to try the XP process while creating mayhem in a simulated robot
arena.
Rachel Davies works as an independent agile coach in UK. She has worked in
software development since 1987, mostly working on real-time systems in
communications and robotics, using Ada, C, and C++. In 2000, Rachel joined
the XP team at Connextra where she had the opportunity to pair program daily
in Java using Test Driven Development with Mock Objects with some great
people. Rachel specialises in XP and Scrum flavours of agile and advocates
the use of frequent retrospectives to help teams adapt their process to
their context. She feels it is important to share success stories, lessons
learned and connect with others using agile techniques. For this reason
Rachel puts much of her spare time into the organization of agile events and
work for the Agile Alliance. You may contact her at Rachel(at)agilexp.com .
Brian Swan (Exoftware - http://www.exoftware.com/) is an experienced
technical team lead and analyst. His primary sector experience has been in
the financial services and telecoms sector, where he has led Java and VB
teams. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and brings hands-on technical
experience. He has extensive experience in XML, HTML and Websphere.
Brian is an avid speaker at industry events and also about Agile methods
regularly. His previous experience also includes lecturing at Napier
University in software development and human and computer interaction.
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BCS SPA Home Page - http://bcs-spa.org/
Meetings Schedule - http://bcs-spa.org/cgi-bin/view/SPA/PreRegistrations
Presentation materials from previous talks are now available from the BCS
SPA resources site: http://bcs-spa.org/resources.html
A synopsis of previous meetings is also available.
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SPA Meetings Programme Committee -
Brian Saxby, Kingston University [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Immo Hüneke, Zühlke Engineering Ltd. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Next meeting: SPA-185 on 1st December - Peter Black of Digital Steps on the
role of Architecture in Agile Development. Watch
http://bcs-spa.org/cgi-bin/view/SPA/PreRegistrations for announcements
Please note: Architectures Day has been postponed to 22nd January - see
http://bcs-spa.org/cgi-bin/view/SPA/ModelDrivenServiceOrientedArchitecture
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