Add your name, arrival place and time if you're looking for a driver.

Add your name in the driver section if you can bring someone to/from the conference.

Contact info if you need to get into contact with each other.

Arriving Thursday 25/04/2013, going to Elewijt Center

Who	From Where	When	Driver
name passenger			name driver
name passenger			name driver
name passenger			name driver
name passenger			name driver

Arriving Friday 26/04/2013, going to Elewijt Center

Who	From Where	When	Driver
name passenger			name driver
name passenger			name driver
name passenger			name driver
name passenger			name driver

Leaving Friday 26/04/2013 from Elewijt Center

Who	To Where	When	Driver
name passenger	Amersfoort, the Netherlands	end of day	Robert Wielinga
name passenger			name driver
name passenger			name driver
name passenger			name driver

There will be a board at the conference where participants can sign up to carpool or share a cab to leave after the conference.]]> 91.182.193.93 22 April 2012 17:17 GMT http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/PreConferenceDinner.html http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/PreConferenceDinner.html Mini XPDay 2012

On Sunday night April 22nd, you can join us at the preconference dinner at Kapellerput.

Dinner costs EUR 33,50 per person including drinks.

Dinner starts at 19.00h

Sign up below to join us (click the "Edit this page" link at the bottom right to edit):

1. Rob Westgeest
2. Dirk Devriendt
3. Vera Peeters
4. Willem van den Ende
5. Stephan Eggermont
6. Marc Evers
7. Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
8. Olivier Costa
9. Jan De Baere (will not be able to make it!!)

Travel instructions to Elewijt Center.

Add your name, arrival place and time if you're looking to share a cab.

Add your name in the driver section if you can bring someone to/from the conference.

Contact info if you need to get into contact with each other.

Arriving Wednesday 30/11/2011, going to Elewijt

Who	From Where	When
name passenger

Arriving Thursday 01/12/2011, going to Elewijt

Who	From Where	When
name passenger

Leaving Thursday 01/12/2010 from Elewijt

Who	To Where	When
Passenger name

Arriving Friday 02/12/2011, going to Elewijt

Who	From Where	When
name passenger

Leaving Friday 02/12/2010 from Elewijt

Who	To Where	When
Passenger name

There will be a board at the conference where participants can sign up to carpool or share a cab to leave after the conference.]]> 66.17.83.58 23 June 2011 20:37 GMT http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/SoftwareForXP.html http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/SoftwareForXP.html Unit testing

• QtUnit http://theleaf.be/projects/qtunit
• JUnit http://www.junit.org
• IntelliJ http://intellij.com Commercial IDE with great refactoring support
• PHPUnit http://phpunit.sourceforge.net/
• SimpleTest (for PHP) http://www.lastcraft.com/simple_test.php
• NUnit http://www.nunit.org/ xUnit for all .Net languages
• REBOLUnit http://rebol-unit.sourceforge.net/

• XPlanner for XP planning: http://www.xplanner.org
• OnTime for XP planning: http://www.axosoft.com/
• TargetProcess for XP planning: http://www.targetprocess.com
• Open source planning and tracking tool: http://ses-ppts.sourceforge.net

• FitNesse, a wiki to write and execute acceptance tests http://www.fitnesse.org

• All kinds of XP-related tools at http://www.xprogramming.com/software.htm

Games and activities

• En Actie! Improv' theater exercises by two members of New Shoes Today
• Tasty Cupcakes: a directory of games and activities
• Agile Cach tools: some more games and free resources

• Day one by Peter Dooms
• Day two by Peter Dooms

Travel instructions to IBBT Gent

Add your name, arrival place and time if you're looking for a driver.

Add your name in the driver section if you can bring someone to/from the conference.

Contact info if you need to get into contact with each other.

Arriving Friday 20/05/2011, going to IBBT

Who	From Where	When	Driver
name passenger	Brussels Area		Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
name passenger			name driver

Leaving Friday 20/05/2011 from IBBT

Who	To Where	When	Driver
Passenger name	Brussels area		Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
Ward Bergmans	Delft, Rotterdam of een station op die route	Na de vrijdag borrel	(Looking for a driver)
Passenger name			Driver name

There will be a board at the conference where participants can sign up to carpool or share a cab to leave after the conference.]]> 134.54.0.9 18 November 2010 09:33 GMT http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/YvesHanoulle.html http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/YvesHanoulle.html I first read about XP somewhere in 2001/2002. I strongly believe in he human tough of XP.

I have created multiple games, the most know one is the Leadership Game that was played around the world.

Founder of http://www.PairCoaching.net

Founder of http://www.AgileGames.Org Mailing list about Agile Games.

Founder of http://www.twitter.com/Retroflection

Creator of Agile Conferences Calendar http://www.hanoulle.be/2010/11/agile-conferences-calendar/

I'm busy co-writing a book about Agile Games, contact me if you are interested in helping out.

In january 2010 I offer 1/2 days of free coaching to new clients http://www.hanoulle.be/2010/11/12-day-of-free-coaching/

My personal website http://www.hanoulle.be

My LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=593409]]> pascal 04 November 2010 21:17 GMT http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/XpBeMeeting20101026.html http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/XpBeMeeting20101026.html

Tuesday, October 26th 2010 User group meeting

"Agreeing on Business Value by Systems Thinking" by Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

Abstract:

We talk a lot about "maximizing business value". We ask business people and product managers to prioritise by estimating the business value of user stories. But what exactly do we mean by business value?

Over the past few years we've worked with many teams to define their "Business Value Model", a clear definition of the value a project will bring to the organisation. The exercise hasn't always been easy but it has always brought significant benefits:

• Measurable business value in units that impact the organisation (such as revenue €€€, customer satisfaction, staff retention)
• Everybody involved was more motivated because there was a clear reason for the project and they finally understood what it was
• The whole team was aligned around one vision because we had clear criteria to define success
• We came up with more innovative solutions because everybody on the team, not only "the business" or "product managers/owners" could take product-related decisions based on the model
• We could deliver a lot faster than anybody expected because the Business Value Model allowed us to easily distinguish between value-adding and non-value-adding features
• We spent a lot less time writing and prioritising user stories because we were able to derive the user stories from the value definitions
• The Business Value Model guided us to explore new product ideas: the business value model was a hypothesis that we could test and refine each time we released or performed user testing.

Feedback of the participants on Pascal's blog

Gallery of created models on Pascal's blog

Agenda:

• 18:00 - 19:00 - Welcome with snacks and drinks
• 19:00 - 21:00 - Session

Register here (click on 'Edit this page' at the bottom of the menu on the right)

1. Pascal Van Cauwenberghe, Nayima
2. Martine Van Nuffel, Capgemini
3. Inge Van Damme, Capgemini
4. Alexander Nowak, Capgemini
5. Vera Peeters, Tryx
6. Sébastien Barbieri, RTBF
7. Dirk Devriendt, 3E
8. Thanos Kyriazis, 3E
9. Koen Breemersch, Itineris
10. Kris Marlein, Itineris
11. Bertrand Larsy, Expansive Passion
12. Stephan Huez, Steria
13. Benny Schaeken - Prodata Mobility Systems
14. Franky Jonckheere - Prodata Mobility Systems
15. Jurgen Vanoverschelde - Prodata Mobility Systems
16. Daniel Peeters - Prodata Mobility Systems
17. Michiel Hofkens - Prodata Mobility Systems
18. Jose Juan Luengo - Prodata Mobility Systems
19. Julien Biezemans, JBpro's Interactive
20. Marc Lainez
21. Simon Schoeters
22. Philippe De Bruycker
23. Koen Bonte, IHC
24. Johan Peeters, Johan Peeters BVBA
25. Sam Peeters
26. Erik Uittenhove, Capgemini
27. Jetro Wils - Prodata Mobility Systems
28. Johan Pelckmans - Dover Product ID Group
29. Peter Speleers, Capgemini
30. Sven Clarysse, Cronos

There's also the main XP users group site and an XpBeMailingList.

Users group meetings

	Tuesday, October 5th 2010 User group meeting, Oostkamp near Bruges. Two parallel sessions: A journey into database change management To be decided Register here for this free meeting
	Tuesday, October 26th 2010 User group meeting, Diegem near Brussels. Topic: Agreeing on Business Value by Systems Thinking Register here for this free meeting

Conferences

• XpDayBenelux
• AgileOpen

Who does XP in Belgium ?

• CompaniesDoingXp
• PeopleDoingXp
• PeopleLookingForXp
• SoftwareForXP

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Session 1: "A journey into Database Change Management" by Jochen Jonckheere and Pascal Mestdach

Abstract:

We will bring you the story of our journey into database change management. We share our experiences with concrete examples/common situations and explain the different parts of Database Change Management along the way. During our journey we encountered several problems. We let participants reflect on how they would solve these problems, before we show the solution we picked. This is an interactive technical session where you will see 2 developers working together, writing some small sql scripts, breaking and fixing automated builds and even in the end a tool for handling Database Change Management in an automated way in the .NET environment.

--> I (Olivier) would like to make a mind map live during your presentation. I'd like to practice the OMP for our MindMap session. Plan is to see how feasable it is to make mindmaps for each OMP (without disturbing the presentations) that a whole audience can read and use as an alternative for the session abstracts on the programwall of the Xp Days.

Session 2: If there are enough participants, there will also be a parallel session with a choice of topics: estimation, lean/agile business analysis or conflict resolution.

Agenda:

• 18:00 - 19:00 - Welcome with snacks and drinks
• 19:00 - 21:00 - Parallel Sessions

Register here (click on 'Edit this page' at the bottom of the menu on the right)

1. Pascal Van Cauwenberghe, Nayima
2. Vera Peeters, Tryx
3. Olivier Costa, AEGISoft
4. Nik De Clercq, ADAM Software
5. Stijn Guillemyn, Ihc
6. Nick Van Eeckhout, Ihc
7. Nick Kimpe, Ihc
8. Dirk Devriendt, 3E
9. Nick Casier, Ihc
10. Jonne Deprez, 3E
11. Geert Van Den Haute Volvo IT
12. Philippe De Bruycker
13. Marjolein Hubrecht, Ihc
14. ...

• Tryx http://www.tryx.com

• ROOTS Software http://www.roots.be

• Shift@ http://www.shiftat.com

• Beta Nine http://www.beta9.be

• the Leaf http://theleaf.be

• @lantis http://www.@lantis.be

• Projekto http://www.projekto.com

• Thomson - Compu-Mark http://www.compu-mark.com

• Nayima - http://www.nayima.be

• AW Technical Center Europe - http://www.awtce.net

• Cronos http://www.cronos.be

• MediaGeniX NG http://www.mediagenix.tv

• Vox Teneo http://www.voxteneo.com

• EMC2 BDG - http://www.emc.com

• EURICOM - http://www.euri.com

Companies in the Netherlands doing XP:

• CQ2 Software Studio http://www.cq2.nl

• NIWI http://www.niwi.knaw.nl

• ZeelandNet http://www.zeelandnet.nl

• Living Software http://www.willemvandenende.com

• TriCAT Agileon http://www.peterschrier.nl en http://www.tricat.nl

Companies in the US/UK/Australia/India/Canada doing XP:

• ThoughtWorks http://www.thoughtworks.com

Topic: Foster continuous improvement through retrospectives

Abstract: We all make mistakes, learning from them is what makes us stronger. When a company can stimulate a mindset of improvement, small steps can lead to a big win. In agile teams, this is done in the form of retrospectives. At the end of every iteration, the entire team uses their differences in knowledge, characters and beliefs to improve the way they work together.

During this session, you will learn about the similarities with continuous improvement in Lean organizations where on-the-spot kaizen events are the heart of organizational improvement.

We will talk about retrospectives gone wrong: raw, overcooked, or fatty and bad for your health. You will learn about the structure of a retrospective and the crucial role of the facilitator.

Then we’ll whip out a cookbook and serve up a recipe for wholesome retrospectives that take up just the right amount of time and allow you to start serving up delicious process improvements in no time! Using the base recipe and seven techniques to create variations on that recipe, you'll be able to fix and/of fire up your retrospectives when you get back to work on Monday.

Finally we will try out various exercises which can help a group to tackle the most challenging issues.

Speakers: Nick Oostvogels & Laurens Bonnema

Agenda:

• 18:00 - 19:00 - Welcome with snacks and drinks
• 19:00 - 21:00 - Session(s)

See the driving instruction on Ultragenda's site.

Register here (Max 21p) (click on 'Edit this page' at the bottom of the menu on the right)

1. Marc Vermeulen, COO - UltraGenda
2. Joachim Meganck, UltraGenda
3. Christophe Thelen, UltraGenda
4. Erik Talboom, Androits
5. Vera Peeters, Tryx
6. Pascal Van Cauwenberghe, Nayima
7. Stijn Guillemyn, Ihc
8. Pascal Mestdach, Ihc
9. Diederik Tuypens, QLD
10. Dries Van Hansewijck, QLD
11. Xavier Quesada Allue Agilar
12. Marc Goovaerts dZine
13. Dirk De Becker dZine
14. Bart Van den Abbeel Impact Software
15. Philippe De Bruycker
16. Bernard Vander Beken, Itineris
17. Ghislain Audenaerde, Itineris
18. Dirk Devriendt 3E
19. Your name here

1. Your name here

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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.]]> Pascal 04 July 2010 16:23 GMT http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/AgileInBelgium200808.html http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/AgileInBelgium200808.html XP.be yahoo group, I am pleased to invite you to the second 'Agile in Belgium' user group meeting on the 13th of August at Capgemini Belgium. Please subscribe before the 11th of August by means of a mail to jurgen.desmet .

Topic: Business Value Game

Presenters: Vera Peeters & Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

Both are independent consultants. Vera runs her own company Tryx, for Pascal this is Nayima.Both have a significant amount of years experience in developing software systems, development in all kinds of high-technological environments applying agile ways of working in different flavors and environments. Both have presented workshops at several conferences, invented the XP Game as well as they founded XP.be community.

Objectives: Learn how to assign business value to projects and stories, prioritize and make plans that bring value.

Contents:

Agile teams want to deliver maximum business value. That's easy if the Onsite Customer assigns business value to each story. But how does the Customer do that? How can you estimate business value?

How do you decide between stories? How do you decide between projects? How do you decide between clients?

This session gives you some simple business value estimation techniques that are "good enough" for everyday use.

The session is run as a game, where teams of 'businesspeople' have to make plans for their development team. The goal of the game is to deliver the highest possible business value, like in the XP Game. This game is a complement to the XP Game: how do these 'business value points" on the XP Game story cards get chosen?

Each businessperson in the team represents one (or more) clients who will buy the team's product IF their feature(s) is in the product. The team is going to have to make some tough decisions; the team is going to have to disappoint some clients, because the development team has a finite capacity.

Pascal & Vera provide the clients and their wishes + they suggest the techniques to estimate business value. The rest is up to us.

Organised with:

and

Practical:

• Where: iLean, Kontich - Business Park King Square, Veldkant 33A, 2550 Kontich
• When: 05/05/2010
• Drinks and snacks offered by iLean: 18:00
• Sessions: 19:00-21:00
• Cost: free

What can Business Analysis and Agile mean for each other? Presenting the Agile extension to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge

The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) has created the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABoK) to capture the experience of business analysts worldwide on a wide set of projects. According to the BABoK, "Business analysis is the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals."

Meanwhile, Agile methods, with their own methods of understanding needs and proposing solutions, have been sweeping through many companies.

Is there room for business analysis on Agile projects? Can agile teams learn from business analysts? What happens when business analysts work in Agile teams?

The IIBA has started up a workgroup to create an "Agile extension" to the BABoK. This extension will provide practical guidance to do business analysis in Agile projects, based on experience. We'll present this effort so that both communities can review and contribute to this project.

If you want to participate in the discussion, join the Agile BA Yahoo group.

Topics

1. Presenting the IIBA, the BABoK and business analysis (Stefan Bossuwé)
2. Presenting Agile (Jef Cumps, Kris Philippaerts)
3. Presenting the Agile addendum to the BABoK and call for participation (Pascal Van Cauwenberghe)

Register here

1. Pascal Van Cauwenberghe, Nayima
2. Patsy Wouters, HPES
3. Vera Peeters, Tryx
4. Sven Koolbrant, Capgemini
5. Kris Philippaerts, iLean
6. Stefan Bossuwé
7. Christel Boogaerts, Capgemini
8. Bart Deleye, Geo Solutions
9. Maarten Volders | AGILEMinds
10. Koen Van Exem , inxin
11. Jef Cumps, iLean
12. Joke Vandemaele, Agilar
13. Philippe De Bruycker, FPSFA
14. Mark Willems, BizzQuIT
15. Jose Costa Teixeira, Agfa Healthcare
16. Your name here

Photos

Practical:

• Where: SD Worx, Antwerp - Bedrijfsrestaurant 1st floor, meeting room "Languit"
• When: 21/04/2010
• Drinks and snacks offered by SD Worx: 18:00
• Sessions: 19:00-21:00
• Cost: free

"Using Kanban beyond software development". A set of lightning talks to see how teams have applied Kanban to activities other than software development.

If you want to do a 10 mins presentation on the topic, add your session title and your name to the Topic list below. Click 'Edit this page' at the bottom of the menu to make changes.

Format of the presentations

There will be several 10-minute presentations without pc or powerpoint. Every participant can choose which topics to follow. Presenters will have some free slots so they can attend other presentations as well. Presenters are expected to prepare a poster (on paper). Ideas: photos, your actual Kanban board, schemas, post-its... make it alive and kicking!

Topics

1. Kanban in a complex administrative world (Sofie Meul)
2. Kanban for support of development teams (Sven Cipido)
3. Kitchen Kanban (Peter Doomen) - cooking 13 different plates for 1600 people with Kanban
4. Kanban is better than scrum because... (open discussion)
5. your topic here

1. Presentation of the Kanban Game, a fun and interactive way to teach the principles of Kanban
2. Group discussion: Kanban, hype or here to stay?
3. Evaluation: what did we learn today?

Useful links:

• Xavier Quesada's Visual Management Blog
• Patrick Debois' Visu-Wall collection of visualisation methods

Register here

1. Pascal Van Cauwenberghe, Nayima
2. Xavier Quesada Allue
3. Joachim Maes, Cronos
4. Maarten Smolders, iChoosr
5. Marc Bastiaansen, JanXL
6. Peter Doomen, SD Worx
7. Serge Van Kampen, SD Worx
8. Sofie Meul, SD Worx
9. Annemie Somers, SD Worx
10. Sven Cipido, SD Worx
11. Nadine Ramaekers, SD Worx
12. Herman Vanhove, SD Worx
13. Gunther Buelens, SD Worx
14. Bart Sterken, SD Worx
15. Sabine Meys, SD Worx
16. Herman Vanhove, SD Worx
17. Tom Vereenooghe, SD Worx
18. Pieter Michels, Proximity BBDO
19. Bart Muskala, Proximity BBDO
20. Michaël Willemot, SD Worx

Practical:

• Where: iLean (Cronos),Business Park King Square,Veldkant 33A & 35D - 2550 Kontich
• When: 05/11/2009
• Drinks and snacks: 18:00
• Sessions: 19:00-21:00
• Cost: free

• Revving Up by Johan Peeters & Guy Thijs: In this presentation, we teach the basic concepts of performance engineering.
• Solve Conflicts without Compromise by Jef Cumps & Pascal Van Cauwenberghe: use Systems Thinking tools to analyse conflicts and come up with innovative solutions, so that you don't have to compromise.

• Jef Cumps, iLean
• Pascal Van Cauwenberghe, Nayima
• Peter Janssens, iLean
• Vladimir Blagojevic, Sirris
• Bart Biernaux, eXsertus
• Koen Van Exem, inxin
• Vincent Greslebin, 3E
• Dirk Devriendt, kipu
• Maarten Smolders, iChoosr
• Peter Notenbaert Euricom
• Bart Deleye, GEO Solutions
• Pascal Mestdach, Ihc
• Philippe De Bruycker, FOD BZ
• Nathalie Tang, Xplore
• Joachim Maes, Cronos
• Francis De Brabandere, AGFA Healthcare
• Pieter Thoma, Pronota
• Johan Peeters, independent
• Guy Thijs, KBC
• Jonne Deprez, 3E
• Yves Hanoulle, PairCoaching

More information (including the handout) on the Agile Coach site]]>