April 30th  2008

Agenda:

11:30-11:45am
Networking

11:45- 12:00pm
XP discussion topic of the month: How do we, the XP User Group, provide value to the business and IT community?

12:00- 1:00pm Guest Presenter Tip House, OCLC

Tip will discuss the results of applying Extreme Programming and other agile practices to the projects he has been involved with at OCLC over the last 5 years.

Date and Time:

Next XP User Group meeting will be held 11:30 am to 1 pm, March 26th, 2008 at the OCLC Kilgour Building presentation room. Click here for directions.

Please note: This month networking will be for the first 15 minutes instead of 30 minutes. We will be starting the meeting at 11:45am.

About the Presenter:

Tip House a Chief Architect for the OCLC Online Computer Library

Center, author of the book Testing Extreme Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2002, with Lisa Crispin), and creator of the WebART test automation tool,  the DocMgr Document management system, and the Find search engine(for which he was a finalist in the 2006 TopCat Inventor of the year award).  Tip has presented papers and workshops at conferences throughout the United States and in Europe, including the Software Test, Analysis, and Review, the International Conference on Testing Computer Software, Quality Week, ACM SIGDOC, XP 2001, XP/Agile Universe, and the International Conference on Software Measurement. He has published in Informatik/Informatique and contributed a chapter to the book Extreme Programming Perspectives.