WhatShallWeDoWithXpd

KeithBraithwaite ran an exercise during XtC06022001 where we voted for what we wanted the XtC to do over the next year or so.

These can be categorized roughly into:

Promotional

• XpDay
• tidy up web site
• academic links
• european XP events mailing list
• list of project experience

Growing

• sharing experience
• networking
• coding

We also realized afterwards that we had been too formal and had missed:

Social

• Beer

9 votes

• Become the obvious place to find Xpertise in Europe
• Improve our skill at introducing new people to XP

• Hold an XpDay
• Build a network for getting XP work
• Share knownledge of who's doing XP, who wants to, etc.
• XP networking, who to work for next

• Some ad-hoc consultancy
• Start a web-site with some papers on it
• To learn more about the application of XP
• To contribute to the growth of XP use (not for free)
• Find ways to adjust and improve XP
• Organise people to make presentations about XP and other ideas

• Learn more about XP implementation
• Share experiences in XP
• Promote XP in academia
• Develop mock objects

• Use XP Developer as a brand name
• "Adopting XP in an organisation"
• How to infiltrate XP in an intransigent organisation

• Get better at XP, become a better developer

• Book
• Practice pair programming
• Learn how to apply XP to languages other than Java

• Learn how to apply XP to legacy code
• Form a subgroup for people new to OO