General talk about software patterns

[Joseph Bergin <berginf AT pace.edu>]

Please pass the following to anyone you think 
would benefit. Thanks.  I hope you forgive me 
that this is only peripherally related to this 
group.
Joe
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At OOPSLA 2004 you have an opportunity to 
experience Extreme Programming in a day without 
programming. Instead, we will construct an 
artifact in an extreme way, using most of the 
practices of Extreme Programming.

This exercise is open and would be beneficial to 
many different sorts of people: XP wannabees, 
potential customers, educators, in fact, anyone 
interested in how the practices fit together. If 
you are a manager, for example, who wants to see 
and experience XP, but are not a programmer this 
will give you an opportunity to see and evaluate 
how it might work.

This exercise has also been used successfully to 
train willing, but inexperienced teams, including 
customers and managers.

Each participant will take a role in the 
exercise: Constructor, Customer, or Tracker. All 
participate in the planning game in which the 
customers decide what is wanted and express 
requirements in the form of stories on cards. The 
Constructors estimate the time required to 
fulfill the requirement and then an iteration 
begins in which the constructors build the 
features for the current set of stories. The 
trackers try to keep everyone faithful to the 
practices.

A retrospective of the day's activities will also be done.

To learn more, visit
http://www.oopsla.org/2004/ShowEvent.do?id=212

The OOPSLA home page is

http://www.oopsla.org/2004/ShowPage.do?id=Home

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Joseph Bergin, Professor
Pace University, Computer Science, One Pace Plaza, NY NY 10038
EMAIL 
berginf AT pace.edu
HOMEPAGE http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/
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"In theory, theory is the same as practice, but not in practice ."
- Fnord Bjørnberger