usability professionals’ association

Last night’s meeting went off without a hitch!  Well, except for the fact that we packed room B-157 at Sabre Holdings to levels that reminded us of a standing room only rock concert.  Martin Fowler was an exceptional speaker who covered a range of topics including user centered design, economics of modularized software development, and the importance of team communication.  The format of the presentation, which was broken into three separate segments, kept the massive crowd in an engaged state for the entire evening.  If you have an interest in Martin Fowler, agile programming, or Scrum methodologies; a number of resources are available to you:

http://martinfowler.com/

http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html

http://www.thoughtworks.com/

http://agilemanifesto.org/

http://dfwscrum.wordpress.com/

As we move forward throughout the year, DFW UPA will be populating its Picasa and YouTube sites for those of you who are unable to make it to the meetings.

http://picasaweb.google.com/dfwupa

http://www.youtube.com/user/dfwupa

If you have media that you would like to share, please email dfwupa [at] gmail [dot] com.