Xp Meeting Topics

Looking for ideas for your next XP meeting? We are too!

Please add to this list of topics for Xp User Group events

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Simulations

• Do the ExtremeHour to get a real sense
• Try the BalloonGame -- you get to play Customer and Development
• Play the XpCardGame
• look at MonopolyUserStories and try something similar
• Try the Planning Game" as given by Ron Jeffries at Immersion training

Demos

• JUnit (or similar) demonstration
• Demonstrations of TestFirst, Refactoring, or evolutionary design
• Get people to bring their laptops and do a PairProgramming lab
• Refactoring Tools

Discussions

• Share experiences with XP Pitfalls! AlmostExtremeProgramming
• What is SystemMetaphor? What metaphors are in use by the people present?
• Compare Contrast Methodologies
• Speak about one of the ExtremeProgrammingImplementationIssues you've faced
• Free consulting: One person describes their XP problems; everyone else gives advice. It's tons of fun.
• Open Forum. Discuss whatever is on your mind.

Talks

• Overview of Xp
• Get an eXPert to speak
• Get XP "Customers" to speak
• How to adopt XP
• Where is XP not a fit? What are the Holes in XP?
• How to automate Acceptance Tests and Functional Testing
• QA from different angles
• Automated Builds/deployment (maybe demonstrate with Ant)
• Psychology of Pair-Programming
• Database and XP
• Design Patterns and XP
• Conference Reports - OOPSLA, XPUniverse
• XP for startup companies
• Selling XP
• XP for big-projects
• Other Agile methodologies: SCRUM, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• XP Products such as VersionOne's XP/SCRUM/Agile product
• XP and CMM

Gurus

• Try to contact an author and see if they will speak to your group

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What Agile-Atlanta has done: http://agileatlanta.org/wiki/moin.cgi And some other topics of interest we plan to cover eventually: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agile-atlanta/message/71

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