#xpman 100 – Monthly Meetup
We made it! 100 sessions of XPManchester, 100 months of last minute organisation par excellence.
Taking the averages per session, 100 monthly meetups roughly translates to…
- 50 announcements made the week before
- 50 announcements made the week of (like this one)
- 200 uses of the word ‘Connascence’ by Kevin
- 500 pints of post meetup cider drunk by Mark
- 12 hours arguing whether you should write a test or not
- 48 consecutive hours arguing about ‘the right way’ to write a test
- 10 hours convincing people to use Cucumber
- 30 hours convincing people not to use Cucumber
- 300 unique anecdotes of how scrum sucks
- 10,000 lines of kata code written by you lot
Join us this month this month for a look back at our lifetime as a user group, a celebratory drink or two to mark the occasion, a light-hearted kata exercise and hopefully a good catch up with some old faces.
We’re at Plant NOMA, from 6:30 for a 7:00 Start.
Grab a ticket
#xpman 99 – A Distributed Kata
This month we’ll be working in small gorups on a distributed kata where the application is split into multiple processes. Groups will be required to coordinate to solve the problem and think about how this affects their approach to developing a solution.
Bring along a laptop. Doors open at half 6 and we’ll get started at 7.
Tickets available here.
#xpman98 – Wardely Mapping by @MrsDHW
This month’s session is on Wardley Mapping, an incredibly useful tool and will be presented by Danielle Haugedal-Wilson from the co-op.
Wardley Mapping is a tool to enable you to understand your business landscape and the context it operates in.
Wardley Mapping helps you answer questions like ‘should I buy or build this?’ ‘How should we organise ourselves’? and ‘What is really duplicated?’
This session will provide an introduction to the technique and then have a practical exercise to practise.
We are hosted by Madlab at Plant NOMA
9th Auguest 2018, 6:30 for a 7pm start.
#xpman 97 – Lightning Talks
Our annual Lightning talks session is here again. We have six confirmed speakers.
- Gemma Cameron – DDD Europe Round up
- Clare Sudbery (presenting remotely from London) – How Pairing Saved My Code Base
Synopsis – Clare has been working on an iOS app for eighteen months now. It’s a personal project, and the key source of motivation is that the app itself is a game which she enjoys playing. This is both a blessing and a curse. She has been the developer, the QA, the BA, the project manager, the product owner, the major stakeholder and the end user. She is a demanding user: she wants new features and she wants them NOW. She has no sympathy for herself as a developer and frequently puts pressure on herself to prioritise delivery over code quality. When she stopped writing tests, she knew something had to change. So she brought Sal Freudenberg on board as equal partner, and now she’s behaving herself again. This is a description of the journey she and Sal are on. - Mashooq Badar – Material Focus
Synopsis – Every craft has a relevant set of materials. A deep understanding of those materials is absolutely necessary to their work. What are the relevant materials to our craft and how do we use Material Focus to guide our work? - Dr Eleanor Mollett – Estimation for people who hate estimating
Synopsis – I’ve never been a fan of estimating and have avoided it as much as I can. I now have a need to use estimates, here is how I do it in the quickest and least painful way possible” I think I can get it down to 10 minutes if you are pushed for time, but I’m still putting it together so can fit it to whatever your limit is - John Nicholas – Leeroy Driven Development
Synopsis – Automating all the way to production in a cool, measured and calm manner that actually looks like a giant shit show. - Andy Lowry – Why can’t we just build websites?
Synopsis – So you think testing web development is hard? Yeah, so did I! Little did I know how good we had it. I’ll give a whistle stop tour of some of the fun of beinga developer in an IoT Startup
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As usual, we are open from 6:30 for a 7pm start, but we’re not at our old Madlab home, we’re now at PLANT NOMA
#xpman 96 – XP Misfortunes
As it’s our birthday we thought we’d try and have some fun this month. Players will be going head to head in a Family Fortunes XP Misfortunes game show where we consider common mispractices of XP/agile.
Doors open at half 6 to start at 7 at Code Computerlove’s office.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/xpman-96-xp-misfortunes-tickets-46820203489
#xpman95 – #NoEstimates Goldfish Bowl Discussion
We’re revisiting a topic we have debated at #xpman before, but way back in November 2014, #NoEstimates.
This session isn’t a formal debate as such, but a group-wide discussion in the tried and tested goldfish bowl format.
Bring your questions and bring your devil’s advocates.
Please note, as per the announcement from Madlab last month, we will no longer be meeting at Edge Street, but Plant NOMA.
6:30 for a 7pm Start – 10/05/2018
#xpman 94 – Introduction to Design Thinking
Come along and try out our workshop exploring the process of Design Thinking and Human-Centered design with Colin Preston (@colinpreston).
The session will be fast-paced and split up into several tasks. You will be working in small groups in a fun lively environment so be prepared to get stuck in.
During the session, we will explore divergent and convergent thinking, a fundamental concept of design thinking.
Doors open at 6.30 to start at 7.
Tickets available here.
