http://agilehongkong.com Introducing Agile to Hong Kong Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:47:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A mailing list has been created over at Yahoo Groups. You can use this for anything Agile/Extreme Programming/Lean Software Development related. Feel free to post questions, thoughts, comments or whatever may be on your mind. Meeting announcements will continue to be posted in the usual places (this blog and Facebook) ... http://agilehongkong.com/2009/11/20/anouncing-the-agile-hong-kong-mailing-list/ For those who are unaware, Agile China is once again coming up. This two day event being held in Beijing in early September promises a strong cast of Agile leaders including Kent Beck and Dave Thomas. The agenda promises a nice lineup of presentations covering a number of topics: Agile ... http://agilehongkong.com/2009/09/02/agile-china-2009/ Earlier this month Steven Mak gave this presentation at the QCon conference in Beijing and having used that as a warm-up he is now ready to present Acceptance Test Driven Development to Agile Hong Kong: Testing has always been the core part in software development but now it is no ... http://agilehongkong.com/2009/04/19/next-meetup-presentation-fresh-from-qcon-beijing/ In the last meeting we had an interesting presentation/discussion on the Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code led by Julian Harley.As expected, some of the ideas were accepted by all, but a surprising number were contentious and threw up some good debates: (Apologies if my memory don't match your recollection of the evening, ... http://agilehongkong.com/2009/02/01/two-screens-are-bad/ How good is your code? Think it's good? Could it be better? Possibly? How do you know? In the first Agile Hong Kong meeting for 2009, regular attendee Julian Harley will help provide light on this by leading a discussion through The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code. In ... http://agilehongkong.com/2009/01/13/the-joel-test-for-software-does-it-apply-to-agile/ Are you wondering what other IT groups exist in Hong Kong, aside from Agile Hong Kong? Rex Chung a Ruby guru recently posted a list of of such groups that regularly meet in Hong Kong. Check it out on his blog! Rex also created a Google calendar containing these events. ... http://agilehongkong.com/2009/01/13/hong-kong-web-tech-meetup-index/ The final meeting for 2008 saw us rap up with the presentation and announcement of winners from the coding competition. The aim of the competition was to encourage competitors to think about and implement their programs using Agile and XP practices. While it was difficult for entrants to practice Agile ... http://agilehongkong.com/2009/01/12/98/ In the next session we'll go through the Wine Bar solutions developed by competitors signed up to the Competition Jam. We'll take a look at what worked well and identify areas that could perhaps be improved. The floor will be open for discussion to allow people to offer suggestions and ... http://agilehongkong.com/2008/12/05/competitors-get-ready/ On Wednesday evening Jenny Wong did a fantastic job of leading a practical session demonstrating how to build things in an iterative, Agile fashion using Lego. The aim for the evening was to introduce participants to building a Lego product in small, incremental stages using a number of Agile concepts ... http://agilehongkong.com/2008/11/27/iteration-1-2-3-lego-animal/ It is with great pleasure that I introduce Pinpoint Asia as a new sponsor of Agile Hong Kong. A specialist IT recruitment firm, Pinpoint Asia recruits talented, experienced technologists for permanent and contract roles across the Financial Services, Technology, Legal, Logistics, Commerce and Government business sectors. Pinpoint Asia's reach covers ... http://agilehongkong.com/2008/11/23/pinpoint-asia-new-sponsor/