XTC-Boston - June 4, 2009 at Kinsale's

Discussion is as always open and we'll likely discuss whatever comes up, but I'd like to talk about the process of forming an agile team. How can we effectively aim for agility from the start?

Agile Bazaar - March 26

Effective Agile Sales:
A Good Suit and a Great Pitch Just Doesn't Cut it Anymore

• Mar 26 - Mar 26 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
• Pizzeria Uno - Newton

The agile community has tried for a decade to sell the agile approach reliably with mixed results. They seem to have been learning the hard way that agile is a complex sale—one which requires unanimous agreement from many buyers with differing goals. To maximize the probability of unanimous buy-in, you need to think strategy.

In this presentation, Niraj Khanna and J.B. Rainsberger will help us with strategy for selling the Agile approach.

For more details and directions to the event, see the Agile Bazaar meeting announcement.

XTC-Boston - April 9, 2009 at Kinsale's

The next meeting will be:

• Thursday, April 9, from 6:00pm
• The Kinsale Irish Pub and Restaurant, 2 Center Plaza, Boston, MA 02108

A group member has commented:

I'd like to offer up a discussion point, if I may. "How Agile are you?". I'd be interested to hear peoples' thoughts and reasonings.

The discussion can of course wander off in many directions, but this sounds like an excellent starting point.

XTC-Boston - March 5, 2009 at Kinsale's

The next meeting will be:

* Thursday, March 5, from 6:30pm
* The Kinsale Irish Pub and Restaurant, 2 Center Plaza, Boston, MA 02108

We've taken a break during the winter months, but we're starting up again now.

Meetings were very lightly attended most of last summer and fall, and I'm hoping we can find a way to make the meetings work better in 2009.

XTC-Boston - October 2, 2008 at Kinsale's

The next meeting will be:

* Thursday, October 2, from 6:30pm
* The Kinsale Irish Pub and Restaurant, 2 Center Plaza, Boston, MA 02108

In this meeting, we'll discuss "Transitioning to Agile".

How quickly can a transition be made? Whar changes are best to start with? How do you measure success?

We'll also discuss XTC itself - see "How can we improve eXtreme Thursday".

How can we improve eXtreme Thursday?

It's approximately a year since we started XTC. In that year, we've had some very good meetings, but also some that were tiny and one that was just me enjoying a drink by myself...

Some thoughts on changes that might help:

Settle on a location

Kinsale's seems appropriate based on our experiences.

Select a main topic for each meeting

I'll propose a topic for the October meeting.

Schedule more frequent meetings

Might have an interesting counter-intuitive effect.

Note who's attending

We're getting a bit of this from meetup. Can it be improved? London does this by a wiki.

I'd love to hear other ideas. What would make this group more useful to you?

XTC-Boston - September 4, 2008 at Kinsale's

The September meeting will be:

* Thursday, September 4 from 6:30pm
* The Kinsale Irish Pub and Restaurant, 2 Center Plaza, Boston, MA 02108