Agile Fun

I’m happy to announce I’ll be presenting a main stage session at Agile Eastern Europe this year! This together with Robin Dymond from Innovel.net who’s been a great help all the way. The presentation is depending on our work in progress and will be adjusted throughout the year representing product owner and backlog scaling related [...]

Innovel.net and iLean are happy to announce their cooperation on a Scrum Certification Course Track for 2009!
Currently we have the following dates and locations set, even though locations & trainers might change during the year:

8th & 9th of June – Certified Scrum Product Owner in Antwerp by Robin Dymond & Jürgen De Smet
11th & 12th [...]

The 4th of June we had an interesting Agile Belgium session, a hands-on session of Fitnesse by

Michel Grootjans, iLean, http://www.linkedin.com/in/michelgrootjans
Pascal Mestdach, Ihc Group, http://www.linkedin.com/in/pascalmestdach

See http://agilefun.com/?p=244 for more details on the content.
I liked the session because of…

the fun way the use case was presented (see pic)
the well thought scenario used in the exercise
the way developers were [...]

Location: Sirris, Extensa Building, Kolonel Bourgstraat 153, 1140 Evere
Sponsored by Sirris
When? 7th of May
Welcome @ 18.30h
Starting @ 19.00h
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Sessions hosted by Vladimir Blagojević and Tom Tourwé

1. Beyond Agile: Development Goes Social
How far can you stretch agile? Can you apply it to build other products than software products? Can you assess up front if [...]

Lean and Agile: an integrated approach to improving software development and knowledge work
As usual I’ll try to provide some feedback about a course given for the first time… CSPO still to come after this one
Adopting Scrum and Agile has led to many improvements in the delivery of software products and the efficiency of [...]

Ok… the post is a bit late but better late than never
During a business trip visiting our offshoring project in Bucharest, I had the opportunity to join in on a fun Agile Romania user group meeting and wanted to share this with the world! People out there… also in Romania Agile is FUN.
But [...]

Oooh, being disruptive brings a bad smell to the topic isn’t it? Well don’t worry and continue reading, you might be surprised on how disruptive can be good
When you start with Scrum/XP it is most probably going to be a bottom-up approach since it are indeed the specialists that know how things should [...]

Agile Belgium ‘Free’ UG Event – TDD by Willen Van Den Ende & Marc Evers

Location: Ultragenda
Sponsored by Ultragenda

When? 12 March 2009
Welcome @ 18.30h
Starting @ 19.00h
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Content:
Responsibility Driven Design with Mock Objects Object oriented design is the art of assigning the right responsibilities to the right objects and [...]

Lean and Agile: an integrated approach to improving software development and knowledge work
When: February 16 – 17 9 am – 5 PM
Cost: 950 Euros ($1250 USD)
Location: Ghent, Belgium
Instructors: Robin Dymond, CST, Jurgen DeSmet, CSP
Register at: http://www.scrumtraining.com/upcoming-events/

Adopting Scrum and Agile has led to many improvements in the delivery of software products. However as Scrum and Agile [...]

Many of the Agile minded people out there are convinced that an Agile environment requires a different leadership and in many articles people are talking about ‘servant leadership’ as suitable for our organizations but I am wondering why. Let us start with a quote from ‘the way of leading people’ to go a bit deeper [...]