So we now need a new book to read for the next meeting. I suggest we aim to decide by the end of Tuesday 13th June. Suggestions made last night included: Agile Software Development: Software Through People - Alistair Cockburn Agile Database Techniques - Scott W Ambler Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products - Jim Highsmith Agile...

Meeting once more in Far from the Madding Crowd, there were more of us in attendance than last time. In addition to Chris, Steven and myself from the first meeting, we were joined by John, Miguel, Jim and Stephen. We began with Chris pointing out how the book described another world of programming to that we [...]

Meeting once more in Far from the Madding Crowd, there were more of us in attendance than last time. In addition to Chris, Steven and myself from the first meeting, we were joined by John, Miguel, Jim and Stephen. We began with Chris pointing out how the book described another world of programming to that we [...]

Okay, we have decided on The Mythical Man Month by Frederick Brooks as the book we shall read for our next meeting (8pm Thursday 8 June at Far From The Madding Crowd). Please feel free to discuss what you think of the book as you go along under this post, or to join in the [...]

Okay, we have decided on The Mythical Man Month by Frederick Brooks as the book we shall read for our next meeting (8pm Thursday 8 June at Far From The Madding Crowd). Please feel free to discuss what you think of the book as you go along under this post, or to join in the [...]

Last night we discussed a few possibilities for the next book to read. First on the list was The Mythical Man Month, to see if Frederick Brooks’s essays on software development are still valid today. Also suggested was Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP, which takes a highly critical view of [...]

Last night we discussed a few possibilities for the next book to read. First on the list was The Mythical Man Month, to see if Frederick Brooks’s essays on software development are still valid today. Also suggested was Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP, which takes a highly critical view of [...]

We met in the “Far from the Madding Crowd” pub in Central Oxford. Since we weren’t quite sure who was who it took a few minutes for us to find our fellow Oxtremists. The copy of “Refactoring” lying on our table was the giveaway. We sat in the slightly quieter non-smoking section [...]

We met in the “Far from the Madding Crowd” pub in Central Oxford. Since we weren’t quite sure who was who it took a few minutes for us to find our fellow Oxtremists. The copy of “Refactoring” lying on our table was the giveaway. We sat in the slightly quieter non-smoking section [...]

The first meeting of The Oxtremists will be at 8pm on May 3rd, 2006 at the pub Far from the Madding Crowd, Oxford. If you don’t know it, it is down a footpath (marked on the google map as Victoria Court) that runs down the side of Borders Bookshop. For our first meeting, we shall be [...]

The first meeting of The Oxtremists will be at 8pm on May 3rd, 2006 at the pub Far from the Madding Crowd, Oxford. If you don’t know it, it is down a footpath (marked on the google map as Victoria Court) that runs down the side of Borders Bookshop. For our first meeting, we shall be [...]

The Oxtremists are a tech book group based in Oxford. We aim to get together about once a month to talk about a book on a topic related to Agile software development. Hopefully, our inaugural meeting will be in early May. Please join the Oxtremists Yahoo Group for more information in the first instance. We [...]

The Oxtremists are a tech book group based in Oxford. We aim to get together about once a month to talk about a book on a topic related to Agile software development. Hopefully, our inaugural meeting will be in early May. Please join the Oxtremists Yahoo Group for more information in the first instance. We [...]