#xpman 123 – Deadlines and Estimates – for good or evil?
This month we’ll be hosting one of our annual debates or a goldfish bowl style discussion on the subject of estimates and deadlines.
On Thursday 10th September we’ll be meeting via zoom from 6:30 for a natter and pre-amble before properly kicking off at 7pm.
If you’re brave enough to volunteer to help kick off the initial discussion, please email markkirschstein at g mail dot com.
#xpman 122 – August Lightning Talks
We have an eclectic selection of lightning talks for you all this month
- Async meetings – Iain Mitchell
- Is perfection a reasonable goal – Clare Sudbery
- Inclusive language – Caroline Hetwell
- Happy Developers – Matt Hunt
- Team Topologies – Neil Vass
When? August 13th from 18:30
Where? Online via ZoomÂ
To attend, grab a free ticket and we’ll email you a link to the Zoom before the event starts
#xpman 121 – liberating structures
This month we’ll be introducing Liberating Structure: a set of exercises you can use to help with collaboration.
We’ll be meeting via Zoom, the link will be activated at half 6 ready to start at 7.
Tickets available here
#xpman 120 – Intro to Event Modelling and little bit of event sourcing
This month we have a session from John Nicholas and Bob Scott introducing to Event Modelling and touching on event sourcing.
The zoom meeting will start at 6.30 ready to start at 7. A link and password will be sent out on the day.
Tickets available here.
#xpman 119 – mob goldfish bowl
This month we’ll be watching a mob working on a kata and discussing their progress.
We’ll be doing this remotely and will send out a link to join on the day.
Tickets available here.
#xpman 118 – Remote TDD Kata
We’ve never missed a month of XP Manchester and we don’t intend to let a little thing like a pandemic stop us now. We can work remotely, this means we can practise remotely as well.
This month we’ll be doing a TDD Kata and wanting to pair old hands with novices – so this session is suitable for all levels of experience.
We’ll be using Discord for voice communication and screen sharing, so please make sure you have downloaded the client ahead of time (the browser based version has some issues detecting microphones).
You can join our Discord server by using this invite link: https://discord.gg/9GGJCx2
Along with Discord, please have a development environment set up ready to go that you can run unit tests in.
We’ll be meeting at the usual time of 18:30 for a 19:00 start, on the 9th of April but virtually over discord.
Grab a free ticket so we have a rough idea of numbers attending
#xpman 117 – Why did software practices get forgotten about?
12/03/20
This month we have a session from Martin Tierney.
So much of agile discussion and practices focus on processes, reporting and meetings. Why don’t software practices play a larger part in agile development? By using the 5 whys discussion method, we’ll look at the reasons why software principles can be forgotten about and how we can address that.
Doors open at half 6 to start at 7. Tickets available here
XP Man 116 – Event storming and service maps
This month’s session on 13/2/2020 introduces EventStorming and Service Mapping showing where they overlap and how to use EventStorming as a low fidelity introduction to building a service map.
Doors at 18.30 to be ready to start at 19.00.
Tickets available here
#xpman 115 – Delivery Practice: How and Where to Slice
Time, Quality, Scope – AKA The Iron Triangle.
You have an ambitious deadline and you have no hope of getting everything the client wants done in time. How do you proceed? What do you cut? Why do you cut? In this practical exercise we look at feature slicing for maximum impact on a team’s delivery.
Doors open at 18.30 to start at 19.00
Tickets available here.
#xpman 114 – Christmas/Election refactoring
Given the festive time of year and the fact that this month’s event falls on election night we thought, why not combine the two. We’ll being flexing our refactoring skills in this month’s Christmas/Election themed exercise.
Thanks to this month’s hosts Code Computerlove. Doors open at 6.30 ready to start at 7. It’s a practical exercise so you’ll need a laptop between two.
Tickets available here.
Don’t forget to vote!
