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Feb

Agile Open Belgium 2010

Discuss all things Agile

This year’s Agile Open Belgium will again be held in beautiful Gent, on May 21st and 22nd.

The Open Space format lets participants determine what’s on the program, how sessions are run and what they want out of the session. The conference location at IBBT provides several rooms, so that each session can run undisturbed by others while allowing participants to move easily from one session to another.

See you there!

Feb

XP Day Swiss 2010

XP Day Suisse 2010, March 29th in Geneva

I’m looking forward to return to Geneva to take part in the second Swiss XP Day. Last year’s event was a lot of fun.

This year, I’ll co-present “Agile Project Management in practice” with Portia Tung and I’ll help Portia run the “Coaching with the Wizard of Oz” Agile Fairytale.

La gestion de projet agile en pratique

Est-ce qu’il y a des chefs de projet dans un projet agile ? Qu’est-ce qu’ils font ? Quelle est la différence avec un Scrum Master ? Quelle est la différence entre la gestion de projet « agile » et la gestion de projet « normale » ? A travers des présentations, jeux et exercices nous vous proposons un ensemble d’outils et techniques que vous pourrez appliquer dès demain pour améliorer le déroulement et les résultats de vos projets.

Apprenez les techniques de coaching avec le magicien d’Oz

Pour pouvoir aider les autres (et soi-même) avec du coaching il faut mettre en pratique quatre activités :

Poser les bonnes questions
Écouter ce qui est vraiment dit
Observer ce qui se passe vraiment
Donner le bon feedback au bon moment

Le coaching est simple, mais pas facile. Quelque soit votre rôle dans l’équipe, ces techniques seront utiles pour améliorer chaque jour. Apprenez quelques techniques de coaching et mettez-les en pratique. Les personnages du Magicien d’Oz vous aideront sur la longue route de brique jaune vers la cité d’Émeraude.

A bientôt les amis Suisses et Français!

Feb

Mini XP Day 2010

They’re back!

Couldn’t come to XP Days Benelux 2009? You missed a lot of great sessions.

Even if you did go to XP Days Benelux 2009, you missed several great sessions, because the program committee stupidly scheduled great sessions at the same time in each of the five parallel tracks.

Or maybe you want to send your colleagues to those great sessions you attended.

Well now you can, because 8 of your favourite sessions are being presented again at Mini XP Day Benelux on April 26th, 2010.

What’s in it for me?

You could learn more about

finding the right question to ask to intervene on an individual or a team with Pierluigi Pugliese
writing executable acceptance tests for real-world applications using Fitnesse with Pascal Mestdach & Michel Grootjans
creating and improving an Agile office with Ralph van Roosmalen
managing your backlog with Peter Janssens
becoming a peer-coach and finding new insights for old problems with Portia Tung and the cast of The Wizard of Oz
organizing and refactoring code with Matteo Vaccari & Antonio Carpentieri
using Lean and Kanban techniques to increase teamwork and delivery speed with Machiel Groeneveld
becoming a more effective Product Owner with Serge Beaumont

Mini XP Days Benelux remains the place to exchange ideas and share experiences about Agile in an open and relaxed atmosphere.

Don’t wait too long

See you on April 26th in Kappelerput, just to the south of Eindhoven, near the Dutch-Belgian border (which might have an effect on the availability of beers…)

Feb

El Juego del Valor de Negocio

The Business Value Game translated into Spanish

Juan Gutiérrez Plaza has contributed a Spanish translation of the Business Value Game. Thanks also to Leo Antolí and Thomas Wallet for reviewing this translation. Muchas Gracias!

You can download the Business Value Game in English, French and Spanish from the Belgian XP site.

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