BrisbaneXtc6

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13/01/2004 at the IceBar, Caxton St, Brisbane, 6.30pm, call BenHogan if you get lost 0408 408 129

Topics for discussion

• AgileDevelopmentConference2004? - possible peer to peer session proposal
• Reporting tools for opensource: JasperReports?, DataVision?, JFreeChart?
• Fitnesse: Not a productivity benifit but provides confidence to non technical people who might not trust junit
• How to avoid users re-testing by hand stuff that has automated tests: try instrumenting the tests to provide verbose output, perhaps even stepping through (next button on a gui?)
• Fantastic book: LeadingSelfDirectedWorkTeams? by Kimball Fisher * many 'agile' ideas are in here - all been tried before and many have failed
• Book suggestion: Hi Fidelity
• PairProgramming - personality types, eneagram, motivations
• Difficult team members - establishing respect, environment of helping, ask for opinion
• Job of a coach: acting as relationship match-maker between geeks (who would do this!)

Who's going to be there

• BenHogan
• DougSouth
• GregLuck
• BradShatz?
• JulianBoot
• DarrenCotterill
• Jason
• ChrisBarham

Who can't make it

• BenWalding