linkedIn - Agile in Belgium

http://agile-be.collectivex.com/main/summary

http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/105958/69D8A07C325F

in cooperation with http://www.xp.be

User Group meeting 26th of June 2008

Introduction

Due to the success of the 'Agile in Belgium' linkedIn group we decided to organize some kind of user group meeting where people can exchange experiences being Agile. For the first meeting we kept it to an introduction into Scrum by means of real life experience within Agfa Healthcare focussing on 2 scrum teams that are in place. Going from there other topics could be discussed in more details.

Attendees

  • Bart Penninger Project Manager transics Scrum
  • Bart Reyserhove Consultant
  • Eva Lemaire Documentation Author Agfa Healthcare
  • Filip Matthys Project Manager/Scrum Coach AgileTeam? Scrum
  • Francis De Brabandere Developer Freelance
  • Francis Martens Engineering Q-Layer Scrum
  • Frederik Maertens Developer Avanade Scrum/RUP/ACM
  • Geoffrey Vandiest Team Lead Belgacom Skynet
  • Ike Casteleyn Developer Compufit
  • Ilse Dierickx Developer/Coach Cegeka Scrum/XP
  • Jan Van Reusel Program Manager Cegeka Scrum/XP
  • Jan Van Ryswyck Developer SDWorx Scrum/XP
  • Jessie Dedecker Developer Sirris Scrum
  • Johan Lybaert Sector Manager Cegeka Scrum/XP
  • Johan Platteau Coach AgileTeam? Scrum/Architecture
  • Jonas Van Poucke Team Lead/Scrum Master Ebit Scrum/XP
  • Jürgen De Smet Production Manger/Scrum Coach Agfa Healthcare Scrum/XP
  • Koen Van Exem Zaakvoerder Inxin FDD/Scrum/XP/Dimensional planning
  • Kurt De Clercq Project Manager Agfa Healthcare
  • Marco Busschots Project Lead/Scrum Master Agfa Healthcare Scrum/XP
  • Mark Jennes Developer SDWorx Scrum
  • Nick Van Eeckhout CTO IHC Infohos Scrum/XP
  • Olivier Costa Aegisoft Scrum/XP
  • Pascal Mestdach Developer IHC Infohost Scrum/XP
  • Pascal Van Cauwenberghe Nayima
  • Peter Eysermans Developer SDWorx Scrum/XP
  • Steven Mignauw Technical Team Lead Agfa Healthcare Scrum/XP
  • Sven Erkens Functional Analyst SDWorx Scrum
  • Yves Hanoulle Agile Coach PairCoaching?.NET

Meeting artifacts

Powerpoint can be retrieved at the mailing list

Pictures can be retrieved at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Agile-Belgium/photos/browse/8ece?c=

Topics that were posted on the white board for future sessions

  • Managing & visualizing business value on micro level. How do we know that we develop the right things?
  • Decomposition how far do we go?
  • Free writing & other information gathering techniques
  • Agile supportive tools (Java, .NET...)
  • Where does end user documentation fit within an Agile environment?
  • Is Agile fit for a non IT environment?
  • Acceptance and integration testing? FIT, Fitness...
  • Agile and ISO/FDA regulations
  • Requirements gathering for product owners, how to get to good stories?
  • Ways to screw up Scrum/XP?

Greetings

Thanks to all for joining it was fun and I hope we can continue with some more activities soon.

Please let us know if you want to facilitate a next 'get together' and what topics you want to see addressed either by yourself or by somebody else as well as how you want the event to be. If you don't have a clue how, by who... don't worry we'll find somebody to address the topic of your choice.