XpDay

- Last edited December 26, 2001

We (the ExtremeTuesdayClub) will be running a one day conference on XP on Sat. 15th of December under the auspices of the BritishComputerSociety OOPS group (see: xpday.xpdeveloper.com). This event will be similar to previous events on Patterns and XML.

This event is now fully booked. If the event is a success we may run XpDay2

We have a room for BOF (Birds of a feather) sessions, see XpDayBOFs

See Comments and Memories of the event at XpDay2001Discussion

History of how we got there below:

(IvanM would like to point out :-) XtC05092000)

Any chance of this being moved to a weekday? May prove hard to convinve my team to give up their Saturday, XP or not... JuddMuir

Sorry, we're too committed now. This is the latest in a series of OOPS meetings on Saturdays. You might point out that ImperialCollege is close to Harrods and Harvey Nicks if they want to catch up on their xmas shopping ;-) --SteveF

Sign up on XpDayInvolvement

There's also a mailing list at: groups.yahoo.com/group/xp-day-london-organisers

There is an XpDaySteeringCommittee

Important dates

2001/08/01 BritishComputerSociety committee meeting. We need to have something concrete to present if we're to make a date this year.
2001/08/23 Copy date for advert in Computing for BritishComputerSociety
2001/10/14 - 2001/10/18 OopslA2001?
2001/10/24 - 2001/10/26 SIGS plans an Integration Solutions conference in London. I'll probably be up speaking there. JosephP This SIGS conference has been cancelled.

Details

== Date ==

December 15th.

MartinFowler is available on Dec 15th. ThoughtWorks say that they will cover his costs (ta very much).

SteveEdwards (BritishComputerSociety) suggests a charge of around Ł120-Ł150.

== Event Name (what is the day about?) ==

How about something along the lines: "Put Your Process on a Diet" (www.sdmagazine.com/articles/2000/0012/0012a/0012a.htm) or alternatively "Agile Software Development" see: www.agilealliance.org/ - SteveEdwards

Perhaps the Event Name needs to sound good to managers who sign off request for developers to attend?

what's wrong with XP Day?

PaulS thinks the name of the day may need some thought - concentration on practical work, and maybe not just XP -what about something combining the essence of "agile" and "practical".

== Venue ==

Department of Computing, ImperialCollege, South Kensington (www.ic.ac.uk/). The IC Deptartment of Computing will be officially involved in the event, which will reduce costs.

We will use the Systems Engineering Studios (www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/studio/index.html), as well as a lecture theatre and tutorial room.

How to get there: www.doc.ic.ac.uk/getting.html

Other venues that were considered but ruled out include:

InstituteOfElectricalEngineers? -- more expensive, despite BCS involvement
UniversityCollege -- not on Saturday
LondonSchoolOfEconomics? -- only have a lecture theatre, all smaller rooms have been booked on every Saturday morning.
Sun in King William Street (North end of London Bridge) -- only do events during the week

== Target audience ==

It looks like we should support at least 2 streams. One for people who haven't really tried it and want to learn more, these sessions would be tutorials and exercises, and one for people who have already started, these would be deeper tutorials and workshops.

At XtC20010724 SteveF proposed 4 streams: games, managing XP projects, technical stuff, and a stream for experienced XP practitioners.

The BCS have sent us a template for an advert in Computing groups.yahoo.com/group/xp-day-london-organisers/files/AdTemplate.doc. The copy date is 23 Aug.

Programme

We can get MartinFowler as a keynote speaker.

Sessions

See draft programme on groups.yahoo.com/group/xp-day-london-organisers/files/xpday_programme.htm which includes:

IntroductionToXP
ExtremeLego, about 20 people per 2 hour session
ExtremeHour, about 20 people per 1.5 hour session
TestFirstTutorial, about 30 people per 1 hour session
Large-scale XP (anyone from ThoughtWorks care to offer?)

Sessions which haven't made it into the programme:

TracerBullets
KoyaanisqatsiWorkshop - "life in balance". - submitted to OT2002
User Stories probably adequately covered by ExtremeLego / ExtremeHour
Being an XP customer
Managing an XP business
Selling XP
ReFactoring? ? Would MartinFowler be covering this? Probably not but covered in
FishBowlPairProgramming
AgileModelling
XpGame This is very similar to an ExtremeHour (at least the XtC version of it)

Is the suggestion to extreme? We could have a core programme which is supplemented on the day by using the ExtremePresentation technique, to allow the participants to select which additional workshops we do on the day. We plan to have a GardenersQuestionTime? session along these lines.

How about making it like in school, where you have a bunch of 1-hour sessions that people can go to to learn hands-on about different things. I'd like to get a 1-hour MockObjects hands-on "tutlet", could present my TestResource? and ExtensibleTestCase? stuff, and I think that there are quite a number of other topics that could be handled well in intensive hourly hands-on segments. OK, maybe 1.5 hours... JosephP

I like the sounds of the above joseph - I think we should go for lots of practical sessions where people will learn concrete things. This seemed to be the message we were getting from feedback at OT2001 - people had a good time but wanted more concrete sessions that directly related to the work they do. TimM

Help match practices to sessions (and think up sessions) on XpDayPracticesAndSessions

- Last edited December 26, 2001