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The Parisian avant-garde art movement attracted young talent from within France (Paul Cézanne, Georges Braque, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas) and far beyond it (Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Piet Mondriaan, Wassily Kandinsky). Foreigners like the Dutchman Mondriaan and the Russian Kandinsky would eventually bring back ideas to their homeland to unleash artistic revolutions there, establishing _De Stijl_ and _Bauhaus_.
Fast forward another century, until the early to mid noughties. This time, we are in London, more specifically inside its plethora of business hubs. These centers took turns hosting the [Extreme Tuesday Club](https://theitriskmanager.com/2019/05/25/the-london-agile-software-camerata/). The Club acted as a platform for software developers at the early beginnings of the agile and extreme programming movement, where ideas were proposed and critically evaluated on a weekly basis.
Fast forward another century, until the early to mid noughties. This time, we are in London, more specifically inside its plethora of business hubs. These centers took turns hosting the [Extreme Tuesday Club](https://theitriskmanager.com/2019/05/25/the-london-agile-software-camerata/). The Club acted as a platform for software developers at the early beginnings of the agile and extreme programming movement, where ideas were proposed and critically evaluated on a weekly basis. Several well-respected software developers would make a guest entry in The Club: Jez Humble, Dan North, Chris Read, Chris Matts. It even proved to be an effective way to recruit competent programmers into ThoughtWorks---another well-known consulting firm.
The Extreme Tuesday Club was a unique and fertile testbed that managed to successfully breed Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Kanban and Technical Debt concepts, special mocking techniques, ...---the list is, again, endless. Other like-minded people mirrored The Club elsewhere, resulting in The Sillicon Valley Patterns Group, The Portland Patterns Group, The Salt Lake City Round Table, and so forth.
The Extreme Tuesday Club was a unique and fertile testbed that managed to successfully breed Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Kanban and Technical Debt concepts, microservices, mocking techniques, ...---the list is, again, endless. Other like-minded people mirrored The Club elsewhere, resulting in The Sillicon Valley Patterns Group, The Portland Patterns Group, The Salt Lake City Round Table, and so forth. The spirit of The Club lives on in innumerable Software Craftsmanship and Testing meetups around the globe.
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