More Information     Class Room Training Object Mentor Inc. offers a 5 day class featuring Kent Beck, Ron Jeffries, and Robert Martin in Vernon Hills, IL. Industrial Logic teaches an Extreme Programming Workshop and a Testing and Refactoring Workshop. Advanced Technologies Integration offers a three day class in Edina, MN.   Group Discussion ObjectMentor Inc. has set up an XP mailing list for us at yahoo.com.   There is now a usenet news group comp. software. extreme-programming   Web Sites The Portland Pattern Repository hosted by Ward Cunningham. A lively free wheeling discussion group. Ask questions and get answers. All points of view are well represented here. Information and experiences using XP from several projects. XProgramming.com hosted by Ron Jeffries. Articles by Ron and others. Lessons learned from the C3 project, Q&A and more. XP Developer a wiki style discussion group. The discussions are about how to actually do XP. Find out about the Extreme Tuesday Club which meets in London. Laurie Williams is researching pair programming at the University of Utah. She has conducted a survey of professional programmers who have experience working in pairs. Willam Wake has written many good articles targeted at understanding specific XP topics. Martin Fowler has created a web site for information about refactoring including updates to his book. Jim Highsmith talks about XP in an article at e-business application delivery. RoleModel Software has an eXtreme Programming Software Studio(tm) and an apprenticeship program. Yonat Sharon has a general OO site with some information about XP.   Conferences   The Fifth International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering June 6-10, 2004, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany   The XP Agile Universe conference will be held in  Calgary Canada August 15-18, 2004..   Books Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Kent Beck explains the concepts and philosophy behind extreme programming. This book teaches what and why but not how. Refactoring Improving the Design of Existing Code. Martin Fowler writes the first authoritative volume on refactoring. Presented as patterns. There are plenty of examples in Java. This book teaches you how to refactor and why. Extreme Programming Installed. By Ron Jeffries, Chet Hendrickson, and Ann Anderson. This book covers specific XP practices in finer detail than Expreme Programming Explained. This book teaches how to program XP style. Planning Extreme Programming by Kent Beck, and Martin Fowler. This book presents the latest thoughts on how to plan software in a rapid delivery environment. This book teaches how to run an XP project. Extreme Programming Examined by Giancarlo Succi and Michele Marchesi. Papers presented at XP2000. A well rounded set of papers covers most topics. Extreme Programming in Practice by Robert C. Martin, James W. Newkirk. A real project which used XP is described in gory detail. Extreme Programming Explored by William C. Wake. Based on the popular XPlorations website. Specific subjects are explored in detail. Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win by Ken Auer and Roy Miller. Experinces from pioneers in appling XP. To be published in September.   People An excellent source of information are the people who have already been learning about XP.   There is the Michigan eXtreme Programming Enthusiasts.   There is XP Denver for the Colorado Front Range.   There is a Hamburg XP user's group.   XP user group Stuttgart (XPUGS).   The eXtreme Tuesday Club meets in London (UK).   There is an XP User's Group starting in Phoenix, Arizona ExtremeProgramming.org home | Where can I find XP people? | Exclusive of cover art and logos as noted, Copyright 1999 by Don Wells. Pattern logo Copyright 1997 Cunningham and Cunningham Inc. Red XP logo Copyright 1998 Ronald E. Jeffries. XPDeveloper logo Copyright 1999 XPDeveloper.com. Role Model logo copyright 1998 Rolemodel Software. eXtreme Programming Software Studio is a trade mark of Rolemodel Software. U of Utah logo copyright by the University of Utah. Refactoring graphic Copyright 1999 Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. Amazon.com pays a small fee for the sale of books through this website, all other companies do not pay for advertising and are listed here because I belive they have a good product. Please report any negative experiences to the webmaster.