RachelDavies

An XtC regular, works as a developer in an XP team at ConneXtra. Some more info can be found at www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?RachelDavies

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Thoughts:

If you are IntroducingXp into an organisation you might find IntroducingPatterns useful.

• Apr, 03 - OT2003? Retrospectives tutorial
• Nov, 02 - XpDay2 conference chair and presented "Management Perspective on Agile Development" with Dave Putman see www.xpday.org/ManagersPerspective5.ppt
• Oct, 02 - "Introduction to XP" at University of Birmingham in Commercial Programming lecture series see www.cs.bham.ac.uk/resources/courses/comm-prog/schedule.php
• Oct, 02 - DSDM-XP? task group
• Aug, 02 - acted as faciltator for the first retrospective held by SteveF's team
• May, 02 - presented a practioners report at Xp2002 on "Exposed Tracking" see www.xp2002.org/atti/RachelDavies--ExposedTracking.pdf
• Apr, 02 - stood in for TomAyerst to present a workshop with KeithBraithwaite on "First-order Project Managment" at OT2002 see www.ot2002.org/scripts/wiki/?FirstOrderProjectManagement.
• Dec, 01 - helped with the organization of XpDay, where Rachel and TimMackinnon presented on TuningXp. Also ran AgileModellingBoF.
• Oct, 01 - was going to present the workshop TracerBullets at SIGS with TomAyerst but the conference was cancelled.
• Sep, 01 - PaulSimmons and Rachel submitted a workshop proposal to OT2002, OT2002SubmissionKoyannisaqatsi, but it was rejected, :-(
• May, 01 - presented a poster at XP2001 on "The Power of Stories" (www.xp2001.org/xp2001/conference/papers/Chapter11-Davies.pdf) on the differences between UseCases? and UserStories.
• Apr, 01 - went to the first and only meeting of the XpMidlands group in Birmingham.
• Nov, 00 - started work with the XP team at ConneXtra.
• Oct, 00 - Rachel's very first XtC (XtC03102000).
• Apr, 00 - attended course "Introduction to XP" given by MichaelFeathers.