Agile Fun

Date – 3rd & 4th of November Location – Hotel Nazareth E17 Kortrijk-Gent, Belgium Unfortunally we didn’t had as many participants as hoped for, 15 subscribed within the last month (late notice class organized, anounced 7th Oct) but only 9 turned up Only having 9 persons in the class was some luck for myself since [...]

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 [...]

The day after the Scrum Alliance Fall Gathering I facilitated 2 days training to our end-user documentation writers. Yes, in case you are wondering we are still busy sub-optimizing our organization , meaning that we optimize component teams (Scrum/XP) and hopefully in the mean time present the benefits to the rest of the organization so [...]

Back from the Scrum Alliance Fall Gathering in Stockholm and had another good Agile experience and made some good contacts, there are excellent and very knowledgeable people out there willing to support you and share their experiences! There were some remarks to optimize the gathering but overall good quality of the sessions, well organized and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today somebody asked me how it comes we do not use hour estimations for our tasks, he found them to be a good vehicle for designing the story implementation and a help in avoiding unhappy surprises. So I explained what our experience is with adding a quantifier to tasks and this is how it went [...]