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Speaking @ Agile Eastern Europe 2009

12 June, 2009 (00:22) | Agile, Conferences, Lean, Scrum | By: Jurgen

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 [...]

Agile Acceptance Testing with Fit/Fitnesse – Retrospective

7 June, 2009 (13:44) | Agile, Conferences | By: Jurgen

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 [...]

Agile Belgium “Free” Event – Double Session for our community, by our community!

9 April, 2009 (23:01) | Agile, Conferences | By: Jurgen

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 [...]

Agile Romania UG Meeting Bucharest – 26 Feb 2009

27 March, 2009 (00:21) | Agile, Conferences, Scrum | By: Jurgen

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 [...]

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

29 January, 2009 (23:06) | Agile, Conferences, Scrum | By: Jurgen

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 [...]

XP Days Benelux – Dimensional planning, self-organizing, lean, waste … and more!

6 January, 2009 (22:33) | Agile, Conferences, Lean, Scrum, XP | By: Jurgen

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 were [...]

Agile in Belgium UG Event – 18 Dec: Prince2 vs Agile planning

12 November, 2008 (21:40) | Agile, Conferences | By: Jurgen

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 Agile planning (+/-30min) followed by an [...]

Agile In BE – “We Suck Less! Is not Enough” by Robin Dymond

10 November, 2008 (16:24) | Agile, Conferences, Scrum | By: Jurgen

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 [...]

Agile in Belgium UG Events in October & November

28 September, 2008 (11:37) | Conferences | By: Jurgen

I’m proud to announce the first upcoming “Agile in Belgium” user group events. The events are limited to +/-35 persons and free of charge, to subscribe you just send a mail to jurgen@… +
pvc@… ASAP, mentioning the event title(s) in the mail subject/header.

Session – “Is your team within the comfort zone of Scrum?” by Vladimir
Blagojevic
[...]

XP Days Benelux 2008 – Session accepted

8 September, 2008 (21:27) | Conferences | By: Jurgen

I’m proud to announce that my session proposal concerning “requirements decomposition” has been accepted for the first upcoming XP Days Benelux!
The session should lead to a better understanding of decomposing requirements and how this influences its environment. By understanding the effects of decomposition one can better estimate to what level of decomposition he/she really wants [...]