The next meeting of the
MarinJava Discussion Group will be this coming
Wednesday, January 26th, 2000 at 7:00pm at Royal Ground Coffee in downtown San
Rafael, Marin County, California, USA. (Marin County is on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.)
We'll be trying the
ExtremeHour ExtremeProgramming exercise. We'll attempt to spec, design and ship a hypothetical product within one hour of ideal engineering time, using all the
ExtremeProgramming practices.
To prepare for this exercise, please check out the
ExtremeHour page for general information, and the
MarinJavaExtremeHour page (this page) for information specific to our group. You may also want to review some of the
ExtremeProgramming resources listed on the
MarinJava website
http://www.jera.com/marinjava/
Definitely plan on showing up for this one. I'm still kicking myself for
missing the
SiliconValleyExtremeHour last December.
Feel free to post any questions or comments to the mailing list
mailto:[email protected], or edit them onto this page.
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JohnBrewer
So far, we have several candidate ideas for a product:
Automatic diaper changer (an
AmericanCulturalAssumption -- others might call it a "nappy changer"). Just the thing for yuppie scum: all the fun of a baby, but none of the mess or smell. When baby needs a change, just lower him/her into the automatic diaper changer and let the machine do the rest. Possible product liability issues mean a high quality process and extensive testing are essential.
A programmer beverage delivery system. At most software companies,
programmers get free soda. However, programmers waste valuable time
getting up from their computers and walking to the break room to get soda.
Management would like an automated system whereby programmers can request a
beverage from their desk and have said beverage delivered to them in a
timely fashion, thus allowing programmer to work uninterrupted.
We also toyed with doing a real (but
tiny) software product, but decided the infrastructure issues were too complex.
Any other suggestions?
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JohnBrewer