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The next meeting will be Friday April 18th at 6pm. Please see here for location details.

Our speaker will be Chris Mountford from Atlassian and his topic will be “Agile Software Development Methods”.

There is no cost for the meeting, but please RSVP to Andrew Zahra by Wednesday 16th of April for catering purposes as Pizza will be provided.

This month we will be giving away the book “Filthy Rich Clients” as well as an IntelliJ Idea personal licence and other goodies too!

Read on for an abstract of Chris’ talk.

While there is a growing understanding of Agile methods amongst software developers, there is often a gap between theory and practice. This talk outlines a warts-and-all real-world agile process as adopted by development teams at Atlassian - Australia’s “fastest growing software company” (according to BRW’s Fast 100).

With a growing international reputation as a high-quality Australian Java development shop, Atlassian has a very open-company policy and an innovation-focused engineering-centric culture, notably commencing a recent trial of a Google-style 20% time system. Some Atlassian products you may know include JIRA, Confluence, Clover, Bamboo and Fisheye.

Covering each of the official XP practices in turn, the talk examines the customisations and choices developers have made in seeking a realistic lightweight development process. In addition, some practices not part of XP which are considered critical to the Atlassian agile process are described and the motivation behind their introduction is explored.

Specific notable points covered include:

• Java-based tools and frameworks employed
• Refactoring
• Unit test coverage tracking and continuous integration
• What we still suck at and how we are trying to fix it
• TDD / XP / Scrum
• The role of flat food in agile processes