Josh and Chris met up at Manuel's to talk about some future direction for the group. Here are their notes:
EditTopics
- Project management methodologies
- Iterative and Incremental (Agile, Scrum)
- Sequential (Waterfall)
- Others
- Planning and Estimation
- Mike Cohn's Agile Estimation and Planning
- Object Relational Mapping and Data Access
- NHibernate, others
- Custom
- Serialized Objects in DB and parallel reporting DB (idea from D. Laribee)
- Open spaces
- Hands on discussions + learning labs
- Tools for productivity
- Coding dojos
- Software Craftsmanship
- Camtasia tutorials
- Resources for learning, self-education
- Focused, Round-Table Discussions
- Record on MP3 for podcasting and sharing with community
- Communicating w/Business People / Product Owners
- Focus on Value Delivery
- Focus on ROI
- Focus on Time-to-Market
- Focus on Customer Value and Quality
- Helping Younger People
- Opportunities for work, contracts
- Educational goals
- UI Tools and AJAX
- jQuery (soon to be in Visual Studio and DotNetNuke 5.0)
- Dojo
- EXT
- Prototype
- Scriptaculous
- Design Patterns and Principles
- Gang of Four
- Invesion of Control
- SOLID Principles (Uncle Bob)
- Antipatterns
- Testing
- Performance and load tools and practices
- Mock frameworks
- Conferences and Training, Speakers
- Development topics
- Scrum
- Kaizen
- Agile and Scrum
- Non-functional requirements on agile projects
- Third Party Tools
- Microsoft on ALT.NET and Open Source
- Alternative languages
- Alternative Platforms
- Mono
- Silverlight and Moonlight
- Training
- Grass-roots training
- Developer focused
- Business focused
- Management focused