BayXP meeting again
I had mentioned that the BayXP group was getting ready to meet again, and last night it finally happened. Jorge Borbolla from ATC not only was nice enough to host the meeting at his company, he even threw in pizza and beer. Very cool.
The meeting didn’t have a specific agenda, other than getting the ball rolling again. Roughly 12 XP and Agile enthusiasts showed up and started chatting. We covered topics such as remote-location, build breakage and how to prevent it, continuous integration and its limits, pair programming and how to “sell” it to a team who is willing to be agile but not to pair - and is pairing really that important that it needs to be forced? - and the original 12 practices vs the now “20-or-something”.
Though I did enjoy all the conversations, I particularly enjoyed having even just a glimpse of what the build process looks like at Google and also Slava’s discussion on the Five O’clock Check-in Pattern.
The agenda for next time (3rd Wednesday of the month?) has not been discussed, though the group seemed motivated to meet again. That’s good news.