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I got this from Andrew McNeil, Cincom's man of many hats in Australia:

I am please to announce that Joseph Pelrine will be presenting at both the Sydney Smalltalk Users Group and ACS NSW OOSIG meetings in February.

• On Tuesday 15th February at the Sydney Smalltalk Users Group
• Cooking with SUnit - Recipes for Unit Testing in Smalltalk (a preview of Smalltalk Solutions 2005)

• On Thursday 17th February at the NSW ACS OOSIG meeting
• Extending XP With Scrum

Scrum, one of the agile processes, has been used to develop systems and products since 1995 on thousands of projects in hundreds of organizations. Scrum implements in several days and delivers increments of functionality within thirty days. Scrum wraps existing engineering practices. This session compares Scrum and XP contrasting their strengths. One of the interesting things about both XP and Scrum is that they're both explicit about the areas that the other process is vague in. Although the processes complement each other quite well, there is still quite a bit of fine-tuning that needs to be done to get them to mesh, and not mess, with each other.

Joseph Pelrine is C*O of MetaProg, a company devoted to increasing the quality of software and its development process, and is one of Europe's leading experts on eXtreme Programming as well as Europe's first certified ScrumMaster Practitioner and Trainer. He has had a successful career as software developer, project manager and consultant, and has spoken about it at such diverse places as IBM, OOPSLA and the Chaos Computer Club. A member of the International Association of Facilitators, he is strongly interested in properly applying soft skills such as communication techniques and retrospective facilitation to agile processes.

The venue and time for both talks will be:

ACS - NSW Branch Office
Level 4, 122 Castlereagh Street
Sydney
6:00PM - 7:00PM

The ACS doors close at 6:00PM so please try and arrive by 5:45PM. If you are late there will be a number to ring on the door, but being on time will be much appreciated.

From approx 7:30 we will adjourn for dinner/drinks

Sounds like fun - wish I could be there!