Travel instructions to Elewijt Center.

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 Sunday 22/11/2009, going to Elewijt

Who	From Where	When	Driver
Your name here
Matteo Vaccari	Brussels airport	18:45	Let's share a taxi?
Michael Podvinec	Mechelen train station	20:39	Anybody there by car? Also open for taxi sharing

Arriving Monday 23/11/2009, going to Elewijt

Who	From Where	When	Driver
Your name here

Leaving Monday 23/11/2009 from Elewijt

Who	To Where	When	Driver
Your name here

Arriving Tuesday 24/11/2009, going to Elewijt

Who	From Where	When	Driver
Your name here

Leaving Tuesday 24/11/2009 from Elewijt

Who	To Where	When	Driver
Matteo Vaccari	Brussels airport	17:45	Let's share a taxi?
Your name here

]]> pvc 09 November 2009 16:42 GMT http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/XpBeMeeting200901105.html http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/XpBeMeeting200901105.html User Group meeting

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]]> 80.201.175.170 29 September 2009 16:40 GMT http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/FrontPage.html http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/FrontPage.html ExtremeProgramming users group. WhatIsAWiki?

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

Users group meetings

Thursday, November 5th 2009 User group meeting, Kontich. Program: two sessions from the upcoming XP Days Benelux conference 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. Register on the session page

Conferences

• XpDayBenelux
• AgileOpen

Who does XP in Belgium ?

• CompaniesDoingXp
• PeopleDoingXp
• PeopleLookingForXp
• SoftwareForXP

You can edit any page on this site by clicking the 'Edit this page' link. See WikiWebUse for a short explanation. If you have any problems editing or viewing pages, contact admin and we'll try to find out and correct what goes wrong.]]> pascal 30 December 2008 13:07 GMT http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/XpBeMeeting18122008Outputs.html http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/XpBeMeeting18122008Outputs.html Presentations

PRINCE2 presentation by Jorgen Jacob

Agile Planning presentation by Peter Janssens

Fishbowl discussion

Strong points of both methods

PRINCE2	Agile
Agile can fit in	Individual responsibility
Book	No government agency
Closing, Initiation processes	People-oriented
Adaptability	Embraces change
Strong procedures	Retrospectives
Not document-driven	Not document-driven
Product based	Product based
Fail fast	Fail fast
Program management	Make only what you need
Focus on quality and risk analysis	Visibility
Lightweight	Lightweight
Tailorable	Adaptable
Involves upper management	Easy to adopt
	Visibility on business value added

Why would you combine PRINCE2 and Agile?

• To charge more
• To get management buy-in
• Compliance with internal and external regulators
• To add risk management, closing and initiation processes
• Formal steering
• As a trojan horse, a less scary way to introduce Agile
• To have a small paper trail
• To average out the extremes of both methods
• Give a (false) sense of control
• Large and/or critical projects need to be more formal
• Business can't cope with Agile (yet)
• Customer can't cope with uncertainty
• Stepping stone to more involvement

• Hide behind processes
• Can't explain - confusing
• Fake "the other" process
• Micro-management by project manager
• Huge amount of waste
• Need to master two sets of techniques, need to know two languages, need to go to two trainings.
• Project management task duplication
• Unclear role definitions
• Stop too early
• More focus on cost instead of value (change control board)
• Mismatch in expectations
• Fear to change the process
• Local optimisations (because everything must fit in the PRINCE framework)
• Culture fights
• C&C steering committee
• Blaming the "other side"

• Define one common language
• Either cloak Agile in PRINCE2 or add PRINCE2 practices to Agile
• Hide PRINCE2
• Introduce PRINCE2 techniques when needed
• Drop both terminologies
• Don't do it
• Start by mastering both
• Study existing experience
• Scale up slowly
• Lie
• Make only 'highlight' documentation
• Educate your customer
• Use SCRUM at the work package level
• Tailor PRINCE2 to only use the minimum needed

What went well	What didn't go well
Participation	Bonus for fish
No shouting	Not everyone participates
No side discussions	People talk to the note taker
Focus	Requires facilitator
Moving physically
Productive
Increased value of participation
Creative combination of mindmapping and discussion

More resources

• Comparison spreadsheet between PRINCE2 and SCRUM
• Different models of combining PRINCE2 and SCRUM

1. Jonas Van Poucke
2. Jörgen Jacob
3. Yves Vannieuwenhuyssen
4. Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
5. Vera Peeters
6. Peter Janssens

1. Pascal Mestdach : CONFIRMED
2. Gino Marckx: CONFIRMED
3. Mark Vandenmeerssche: CONFIRMED
4. Gert Baudoncq
5. Lieven De Cock : CONFIRMED
6. Xavier Quesada Allue : CONFIRMED
7. Katrien Vanderbeke: CONFIRMED
8. Brett Verlinden: CONFIRMED
9. Frank Turley : Decline :-(
10. Koen Van Exem : CONFIRMED
11. Geoffrey Vandiest
12. Charlie Viaene : CONFIRMED
13. Jan Delannoy : CONFIRMED
14. Paul Mestrum
15. Siemens Bastiaens
16. Michael Jack : declined
17. Stefaan Van Royen: Confirmed
18. Pieter Van Driessche: CONFIRMED (WILL MAYBE BE A LITTLE LATER)
19. Philip Almey
20. Johan Lybaert: CONFIRMED
21. Dries Decock : CONFIRMED
22. Peter ? (pjpublic@versatel.be)
23. Olivier Costa: CONFIRMED
24. Jef Cumps: CONFIRMED
25. Lien Dekijndt: CONFIRMED
26. Pieter Thoma : declined
27. Patrick Debois : declined, can it be recorded on video?
28. Kurt De Clercq : DECLINED
29. Corry Clybouw : DECLINED (zit in buitenland deze week)
30. Tony Van Heijst : declined
31. Bart Coelus : Can not come, off to Sweden that evening
32. Francis Martens : declined
33. Maarten Volders : Can not come, architect issues in the way

Where?

When?

It is possible to order drinks or food in the pub.
Standup Meeting at 19u00.

1. BramStieperaere Rewrite of a community portal in RoR
2. BernardVanderBeken - CANCELED

Tip: if you bring a laptop, extension power cables can be useful.

What?

• what is a PairProgrammingParty

Where?

Mechelen:

• Schaliënhof, Antwerpsesteenweg 239 - 2800 Mechelen
• http://www.schalienhof.be/
• no internet access.

• De rotonde, Kortrijksesteenweg 1 - 9000 Gent
• http://www.derotonde.com/
• internet access.
• free

Upcoming Parties

• PairProgrammingParty2008December8 (Gent)

• PairProgrammingParty2006December12
• PairProgrammingParty2006November14
• PairProgrammingParty2006Oktober10
• PairProgrammingParty2006September12
• PairProgrammingParty2006July11
• PairProgrammingParty2006June13
• PairProgrammingParty2006May9
• PairProgrammingParty2006April11
• PairProgrammingParty2006March14
• PairProgrammingParty2006February14
• PairProgrammingParty2006January10
• PairProgrammingParty2005December13
• PairProgrammingParty2005November08
• PairProgrammingParty2005October11
• PairProgrammingParty2005September13
• PairProgrammingParty2005August09
• PairProgrammingParty2005July12
• PairProgrammingParty2005June14
• PairProgrammingParty2005May10
• PairProgrammingParty2005April12
• PairProgrammingParty2005March08
• PairProgrammingParty2005February08
• PairProgrammingParty2005January11
• PairProgrammingParty2004December14 Special edition: we made reservations for a BOF at Javapolis
• PairProgrammingParty2004November09
• PairProgrammingParty2004October12
• PairProgrammingParty2004September14
• PairProgrammingParty2004August10
• PairProgrammingParty2004July13
• PairProgrammingParty2004June08
• PairProgrammingParty2004May11
• PairProgrammingParty2004April13
• PairProgrammingParty2004March09
• PairProgrammingParty2004Feb10

[KoenDeHondt] Koen is involved in the development of a plug-in for Jython development (see http://jydt.sourceforge.net) and he is happy to pair program on a story during a pair programming party. Actually, the Eclipse platform is a source of topics to work on.

[RingoDeSmet] Ringo is now involved in the development of EIMP (http://eimp.sourceforge.net ), a multi-protocol chat client integrated into Eclipse. It's not so much for the chat itself, but for the opportunities that lie beneath the surface. http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ for example is a programmer's editor that can be shared over the network. Ringo would like to get the same for any Eclipse editor using the chat client as the communication mechanism.

[RingoDeSmet] There exists a SourceForge project for writing Eclipse plugins XP style. It's a bunch of guys from Gent! Shouldn't we contact these guys and ask them to join in? http://bigsplash.sourceforge.net

[PascalVanCauwenberghe] Dave 'Pragmatic Programmer' Thomas has a series of excercizes (or Kata's) on his weblog http://www.pragprog.com/pragdave/ He provides the unit tests, additional requirements, refactoring tips... You provide the implementation.

[BernardVanderBeken] NakedObjects ( http://www.nakedobjects.org ) are an interesting way of implementing a system. A pair could explore this Java/.NET framework in order to learn about the benefits.]]> Bram 21 November 2008 21:40 GMT http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/PairProgrammingParty.html http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/PairProgrammingParty.html What

A pair programming party is an evening devoted to PairProgramming. The objective of the evening is to have fun and to learn from each other.

All participants pair up and work on a small topics during the evening. A story or two is ideal to work on.

Preparation is key. In order to avoid time-consuming discussions on a pair programming party, participants should discuss the topic and the stories upfront, for instance via e-mail or via the wiki.

[Vera] Another possibility is to join in with somebody who has prepared a topic. This means you commit not to question the topic, or the scope of the story concerned.

Participants bring laptops and any other material needed to implement the stories.

Simple rules

• The cost of the room is split between the participants
• If you want to participate, put your name on the wiki, so that we know how many people will attend.
• You pay for any drinks and food you order in the pub.

It might seem tempting to let all participants work on the same topic or project, but Koen's and Vera's experience in other circumstances showed that finding a shared topic or project is very difficult. It appears that it is better to let programming pairs choose their own topics, based on a shared interest.

Maybe we can post topics on the wiki and let people register their pair programming interest?]]> 193.191.180.232 19 November 2008 16:34 GMT http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/RobrechtDAVID.html http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/RobrechtDAVID.html MediaGeniX I came into contact with XP and other Agile methodologies. I remain fascinated with the role of the super hero the customer. Does he need or deserve some support? Can a business analyst or functional architect step in as proxy-customer?

robrecht.david]]> 80.200.76.168 05 November 2008 19:52 GMT http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/XpBeMeeting06112008.html http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/XpBeMeeting06112008.html Thursday, November 6th 2008 XP.BE and Agile in Belgium User group meeting at Ultragenda NV, Destelbergen.

Session - "We suck less! Is not enough." by Robin Dymond

Participants

1. JurgenDeSmet, Agfa
2. Bart De Keersmaeker
3. Sandra Peeters, Agfa
4. Marco Busschots, Agfa
5. Jonas Van Poucke
6. Patricia Sierens, Agfa
7. Nancy Mazur, Agfa
8. Bart Janssens, Porthus
9. Peter Jamée
10. Katrien Van Den Driessche, iLean
11. VeraPeeters, Tryx
12. Jérôme Malherbe,
13. Bart Penninger
14. Christoph Tielen
15. Francis De Brabandere
16. Geoffrey Vandiest
17. Jerry Hamal
18. Joachim Meganck, Ultragenda
19. Jona Appelboom
20. Maarten Smolders
21. Maarten Volders
22. Marc Vermeulen, Ultragenda
23. Nassère Besseghir, Ultragenda
24. Nick Oostvogels
25. Nico Van Den Winckel, Ultragenda
26. Pascal Mestdach
27. Patrik Debois
28. Peter Cosemans
29. Peter Notebaert
30. Philip Almey, Ultragenda
31. Pieter Thoma
32. Yves Hanoulle
33. Yves Reynhout, Ultragenda
34. Brett Verlinden, Mediamine
35. Filip Mechant
36. Sophie Didaskalou
37. Tom Mervillie
38. Raphaël Coucke
39. Peter Verplanken
40. Your Name Here

Anyway, back to the agile world ... there we take up the role as Product Owner for 3 scrum teams as well as fulfilling the role of Scrum Coach within a 4 headed scrum coaching or rather scrum help desk team. As I see things I have been working Agile since ... always but only started to tune it to a real proven implementation (Scrum) since beginning 2007. During this process we are trying to lower the typical waterfall pyramids in the organization as well as educate people outside the R&D organization like sales for example, a tough but rewarding quest.

Even though I was not intending to follow a certification course I did it anyway for the reasons that it was extended with a cooking event and it was given by Jeff Sutherland. I probably learned more during the cooking event than the course itself, especially from Jeff since he has a lot of experience within the Healthcare domain.

So now you know my main interests: Agile & Healthcare IT for more info I invite you to http://www.linkedin.com/in/jurgendesmet and/or my bog http://www.agilefun.com]]> Pascal 06 September 2008 14:24 GMT http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/XpDayBenelux.html http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/XpDayBenelux.html http://www.xpday.net. Register until November, 13th... or until places run out.

The Program has been published.

The conference is organized by the Belgian and Dutch XP groups together with Agile Systems vzw

The London XP Days, will be held on 12 and 12 December 2008: http://www.xpday.org

The German XP Day will be held on November 28 2008: http://www.xpday.de

More info: http://www.xpday.net/

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.

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 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xp-be/files/200806%20Agile%20in%20Belgium/

Pictures can be retrieved at http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/xp-be/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.]]> 87.64.80.21 26 June 2008 23:51 GMT http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/CompaniesDoingXp.html http://wiki.xp.be/Xpbe/CompaniesDoingXp.html

• 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

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

by David Anderson

Monday, December 10th 2007

Where?

Food & Drinks at 19:00, session at 20:00

What ?

Building a high trust culture in your software engineering organisation by David Anderson

If the essence of agile development is rooted in high levels of trust, how do you set about creating a high trust culture? When so much of what you and your team may have experienced in their career is based in an assumption of low levels of trust - contract negotiation, audit, finger pointing and blame, how do you set about reversing that and building a high trust culture?

What is trust? How do you build trust between individuals and is it possible to build trust between teams and across organizations? What are the benefits of high levels of trust? And why it is essential if your agile and Lean organization is to be "built to last"?

David Anderson will present for the first time, his extensive research on trust and collaboration and map his learning with his own experience as a manager of software engineering departments using agile and Lean techniques over the last 8 years.

A summary of the session is on Pascal's blog

Who?

Participants:

1. PascalVanCauwenberghe, Nayima
2. YvesHanoulle, www.PairCoaching.net
3. ErikBos, Philips Research, couldn't make it
4. PeterSels, Philips Research, couldn't make it
5. Patrick Debois, SOS
6. VeraPeeters, Tryx
7. Philippe De Bruycker, FOD BZ
8. JohanPeeters, independent
9. KoenVanExem, InxIn
10. JanVanReusel, Cegeka
11. TimPijpops, Cegeka
12. Ilse Dierickx, Cegeka
13. RobWestgeest, Westgeest Consultancy
14. Patrick Steyaert, Prosource
15. Enter here your name

When I worked at MediaGeniX, I got introduced to an agile way of working. Since then, unit testing, test-first development and pair programming are the basis of my software development activities.

For the XP.be Pair Programming Parties, I have a long term goal in trying to get the same functionality as SubEthaEdit [1] provides into any Eclipse editor. The current work is to get the Eclipse Instant Messenger Protocol in place, decoupled from it's user interface. After that, the idea is to make any Eclipse editor shareable amongst your chat buddies. I still have to split all the work in stories. This means that the first PPP will probably be a bit chaotic from my side.

I also have a personal website at Scarlet [2], but there is not much to see there yet. You can reach me at Ringo DOT DeSmet AT atriso.be.

[1: http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/]

[2: http://www.atriso.be]]]>