XP Toronto - February 2010 - Quadrants of Effectiveness

Mon, 2010-02-08 15:07 — Lawrence Ludlow

Playing the Quadrants of Effectiveness board game is a fun way to learn and practice The Eisenhower Method (used in time management and in Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People) to become more effective. So join us and experience how play equals work! Fun guaranteed!

Format and length: 90 mins game, tutorial

Intended audience and prerequisites:
Anybody who wants to learn about how to effectively deal with a lot of tasks: developers, project managers, coaches, testers, ...

Presenter: Gino Marckx

Date: February 16, 2010 - 7 to 9 PM

Location: Ryerson University, Vari Engineering Bldg.

More Information: http://www.xptoronto.com

Pair Programming Party - February 11

Fri, 2010-02-05 11:01 — Gino Marckx

The Pair Programming Party in January was a success, lots of people showed up, did some programming, had some great discussions and finally left with a happy face.

So there is no reason why we wouldn't do it again this month! Please check out the event page for more information and free registration.

Hope to see you all in the Imperial Pub on February 11!

XP Toronto - January 2010

Tue, 2010-01-12 17:11 — Lawrence Ludlow

The first meeting of 2010 is planned for Tuesday, January 19th at 7 PM at Ryerson University, Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church St.

The meeting will feature several interesting topics:

* Virtualization Experience Report - Sergiu Ivasenco
* Design Driven Design - Jim Rootham

Also, two other discussion topics have been proposed:

* Deploying in an enterprise system that's not purely software development
* Should a Scrum Master be a developer on the Scrum team

Upcoming events

Thu, 2009-12-31 12:24 — Gino Marckx

To easily keep track of the events supported by the Toronto Agile Software Development Community (TAC), or other events related to Agile, we created a calendar page containing all agile events we're aware off.

Pair Programming Party
One of those events is our first ever Pair Programming Party on January 14th, 2010 at 7 PM at the Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas St. East., Toronto.

Pair Programming Parties are a fun and collaborative way of learning and practicing agile and other programming techniques. People basically just come together with their laptops and the rest is pretty self-organizing. There is no charge to attend, you only pay for whatever you order from the menu.

If you're interested in attending, please visit the event page for more information and for registering.

Bottleneck Game @ XPToronto Meeting - Tuesday, December 15th

Tue, 2009-12-08 09:47 — Lawrence Ludlow

For the December 2009 meeting Peter Yu and Syrous Delavari will be running the Bottleneck Game, a simulation of a small company which focuses on process improvement, the Theory of Constraints and Lean practices. Each of the elements of the Theory of Constraints and the 5 focusing steps for process improvement will be introduced and applied in the simulation. This is a fun way to experience the techniques behind the Theory of Constraints first hand. We're hoping with enough participants to be able to run two teams and compare the impacts of making different improvements.

The meeting will be on December 15th, 7:00 PM at our usual Ryerson location. More details are available at www.xptoronto.com.

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