In June 2002, I started at Philips Research (look on
http://www.research.philips.com at Technologies). I've worked on a prototype device using a rollable screen (see
http://www.readius.com)
The first time I heard of XP was in September 1999, when
KentBeck gave a lecture about it at Philips Research in Eindhoven (The Netherlands). I knew him from
CrcCards, but at that time he talked about
ExtremeProgramming and
RefactorMercilessly (never heard of at that time) and referenced the book of
MartinFowler. I bought the book instantly of course! I like especially the articles in the book. The Refactoring itself is more like a dictionary. A Refactor browser for C++ (as discussed in the book and as shown for Smalltalk at the XP2000 conference) would be really handy but will probably never materialize because of the complexity of the language :-(.
After the lecture, I found out that the XP2000 was organized in Sardinia, Italy. Met two of
TheThreeExtremos there. I also visited XP2002 and XP Agile United 2004.
In February 2001, I gave my XP presentation (
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xp-nl/files) at the Philips Software Conference and organized the XPGame (
http://www.xp.be) of VeraPeeters
? and PascalVanCauwenberghe
?.
I wrote a paper for the XP/Agile 2004 conference in Calgary
ISBN 3-540-22839-X , "An Agile CMM", describing how we managed to become CMM level 2 certified, while retaining our Agile way of working.
Mail me at erik@erikbos.net or have a look on
http://www.erikbos.net.
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