XPColumbus

September 27, 2006

Meeting Info: Extreme Exploring

The meeting will be held on Sept. 29th at OCLC in the Smith Private Dining Room from 11:30am to 1pm. Please mark this date on your calendars. You can bring your lunch or purchase lunch in the OCLC cafeteria. To register for this meeting, send email to lfarrenkopf@earthlink.net.

Directions to OCLC

Topic Summary:

Two hundred years ago this month, the Lewis & Clark Expedition returned to St. Louis, Missouri, after 2 years, 4 months, and 10 days covering more than 8000 miles. What relevance does America's most extremeexploration project have to XP practices today?

In addition to its unique historical significance, the Lewis and Clark Expedition provides great parallels with the principles of XP and agile practices. We will see how the co-leaders and team planned a journey with unknown and unknowable requirements; allocated the scant resources Congress authorized; anticipated and acquired multi-cultural resources throughout the project; documented their findings; anticipated risks andresponded to circumstances they never could have foreseen. Does any of this seem similar to your development projects? Come and learn how you can apply the lessons from this expedition to your job.

About the Speaker:

Terry Wiegmann, Senior Business Process Manager at Sterling Commerce, is a direct descendant of one of the sergeants and longest-surviving member of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Terry has more than 20 years of experience in high tech companies in Central Ohio, is an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer, Senior member of ASQ, an Advanced Toastmaster, and co-founder of the COQAA Requirements SIG.