Agile Fun

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 [...]

Let me start this post with some shouting: “XP DAYS BENELUX 2008 (and probably all others) IS IN ONE SINGLE WORD: GREAT!” To me personally this is the first XP Days I’ve attended and I was positively surprised about the format, it really encourages people to be active all the way and even cancelled sessions [...]

Prince2 vs Agile planning Date – 18 December 2008, welcome at 18.30h and starting at 19h Location – Kasteel van Zwijnaarde Joachim Schayckstraat 6 9052   Zwijnaarde, Belgium Provided/Sponsored by I am proud to announce our 5th user group event! On the agenda is a brief introduction of Prince2 (+/-30min) followed by a brief introduction of [...]

Date – 5th of November Location – Hotel Nazareth E17 Kortrijk-Gent, Belgium I actually didn’t really know what to expect from this one day course and went there with an open mind hoping to learn something new, interesting and useful for better Agile implementations. The course was very well balanced and guided us attendees throughout [...]

Organized for “Agile in Belgium” Session – “We suck less! Is not enough.” by Robin Dymond Date – 6th of November Location – Ultragenda Destelbergen, Belgium Robin Dymond discussed about companies which try to adopt Agile, but don’t go all the way, resulting in failure and rejection of it, and predictability having a negative impact [...]

During my quest to bring Scrum/XP into our huge enterprise I’m always searching for educational materials that could help. I have noticed that game/role playing is the better approach to convince people that one should be open for change and that things might even work better in a different way. Since this helped me a [...]

Hi,May I point out that we have some interesting courses coming to Belgium, make sure you’re there and improve your Agile skills Subscribe to both courses at once and save some money! This is going to be my first time cooperating for a CSM course and affect people with my enthusiasm about Scrum. 2-day Certified [...]

Working with legacy systems sounds like something bad since legacy is usually used to identify old code (by definition bad written) and thus maintenance. It also identifies the burden of technical depth within a solution and/or product. But there are ways to get out of the misery: evolutionary & revolutionary approaches, depending on your situation [...]

As founder of the “Agile in Belgium” user group I’m happy to announce that as from today the group is acknowledged by the Scrum Alliance and added to their user group list as well as they have provided an extra logo for the group: For the people that do not know the group, it has [...]

Good news came to my attention: Apparently Version One’s survey showed some impressive results, above 90% of agile projects being successful, 93% admitted to being more prepared for change. The 2008 survey was based on 2139 completed surveys, compared to the 1700 in 2007 we already notice that there is more interest out there. You [...]