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Session descriptions
| max 40 The Aha! of SlicingSharpen your requirement slicing knife (can also be used for cutting a cake)Ole Jepsen | |
Trip over the truth about the importance of slicing requirements the right way from the start – so that planning and execution throughout the levels of the organization are based on delivering real value. In this session, participants will experience for themselves how easy it is to accept the "wrong" way to slice, and learn how to make real slices to break down the work from large to small into customer-focused deliveries. (There might even be cake involved…) | |
| Goal of the session: | Learn how to slice right so deliveries at every level in the organization are based on real value. |
| Intended audience: | Marieke, Leo, Bram, Georges, Vincent, Joke, Ellen |
| Session Type: | 75 min experiential learning session |
| Materials: | Ole's presentation |
There are many wrong ways – and only one right way – to cut a layer cake. The right way is vertically from center and out in triangle pieces. The same goes for requirements. Just like we want X-functional (full stack) teams, and just like we want something from each layer in the cake in each piece, we also want our requirements to be sliced so they contain all the nessacary elements from each layer in the stack in order to make a potential release. In theory this is fairly easy to understand, but in real life our old habits gets in the way. We talk about epics and slices, but often our "slices" are not slices but layers or old-habit-waterfall activities. This can lead to disasters with development initiatives that are running for months and months (sometimes even years) without delivering, demoing or getting feedback on anything. In this session we will play with slicing, both real vertical slices and "slices" that are not really slices. There will be a contest and, of course, big prizes 🙂 | |
 Marieke  Leo  Bram  Georges  Vincent  Joke  Ellen | |
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| max 40 Scrum Events that activate your Brain!An interactive session connecting Brain Science to the Scrum EventsEvelien Acun-Roos | |
Inspired by the 6 trumps of Sharon Bowmans’ Training From the Back of The Room, there will be an exploration on how one can use Brain Science to keep Scrum Events live, active and worthwhile. To get the most out of the Scrum Events I tried a lot of things. I experimented with formats and setups. Did a Facilitator training and looked for interesting games and Sprint Retrospective formats. But I never looked further than that. Until I did the Training From the Back of The Room and was intrigued by how the brain works in a training and learning setting. In this session one will learn about neuroscience and how you can use it to activate your brain and make your Scrum Events alive and active. Bring your Brain! | |
| Goal of the session: | To understand the 6 trumps and how you can apply them in your Scrum Events |
| Intended audience: | Everybody involved in a Scrum Environment, a learning environment |
| Expected experience: | No |
| Session Type: | 75 min experiential learning session |
| Materials: | Presentation |
Inspired by the 6 trumps of Sharon Bowmans’ Training From the Back of The Room, there will be an exploration on how one can use Brain Science to keep Scrum Events live, active and worthwhile. To get the most out of the Scrum Events I tried a lot of things. I experimented with formats and setups. Did a Facilitator training and looked for interesting games and Sprint Retrospective formats. But I never looked further than that. Until I did the Training From the Back of The Room and was intrigued by how the brain works in a training and learning setting. Learning more about the human brain I figured out one could also use Brain Science to keep the Scrum Events alive and worthwhile. For example, research shows that our brain 'disconnects' after 10 minutes when nothing changes. In a training setting you would use this knowledge to change the setting regularly or to make short exercises or chunks of information. In a Scrum event you could use this knowledge also. | |
 Jan Marieke Leo Bram  Philippe Georges Vincent Joke  Hank Ellen | |
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| max 30 The Dark Side of AgileCome, have Fun, share the best Agile anti patterns, discover the main Agile flawlessPierre Hervouet | |
This is an interactive workshop on which the attendees will work on the anti-manifesto, generate the best set of anti patterns, and maybe discover some weaknesses in Agile…if it is possible. | |
| Goal of the session: | Have Fun, and throught sharing the main anti patterns, to disclose the main flawless of Agile |
| Intended audience: | Marieke Leo Bram Georges Vincent Helen Joke |
| Expected experience: | Mid to advances |
| Session Type: | 75 min experiential learning session |
This is an interactive workshop on which the attendees will work on the anti-manifesto, generate the best set of anti patterns, and maybe discover some weaknesses in Agile…if there are. Inspiration: The Situation Is Hopeless but Not Serious: The Pursuit of Unhappiness | |
Marieke Leo Bram Georges Vincent Joke | |
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| max 100  Let’s make something for real!Creating a working product in ONE day!Jan Salvador van der Ven & Willem Kleinenberg | |
Making something together is really cool and satisfying. This is a special all-day-long session where participants can make something. There is a central location where you can go to during the conference just to let your hands do some work. It does not matter what your knowledge and experience is, everyone can contribute. This will be relaxing and useful at the same time! We will arrange the basics: an explainer video with the vision of the product, a working start project, CI, hosting, and an initial backlog. Everyone can contribute on their own computer. During the day, we encourage participants to host small activities, like MOB-programming, review sessions, etc. One session on TDD is already planned. Regularly, we will demonstrate the working software. | |
| Expected experience: | Everyone can contribute |
| Session Type: | hands on coding/design/architecture session |
| Materials: | The code is available on GitLab, see url below |
Making something together is really cool and satisfying. This is a special all-day-long session where participants can make something. There is a central location where you can go to during the conference just to let your hands do some work. It does not matter what your knowledge and experience is, everyone can contribute. This will be relaxing and useful at the same time! We will arrange the basics: an explainer video with the vision of the product, a working start project, CI, hosting, and an initial backlog. Everyone can contribute on their own computer. During the day, we encourage participants to host small activities, like MOB-programming, review sessions, etc. One session on TDD is already planned. Regularly, we will demonstrate the working software. We have three goals with this session: At the start, we do not know yet what the result is going to be, but we do have some criteria: | |
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| max 30 Developing Workshops with Training from the Back of the Room (ALT 1)Agile Leadership Track – Part 1Wim Heemskerk | |
In this session we will use the concepts in ‘Training from the Back of the Room’ (TBR) to design effective workshops. The output of this session can be used as an input to start designing your own workshops and as inspiration to create the 3 workshops in the Leadership track Goal of the session: Create template(s) that can be used to increase the learning experience in a workshop | |
| Goal of the session: | Create template(s) that can be used to increase the learning experience in a workshop |
| Expected experience: | None |
| Session Type: | 75 min experiential learning session |
In this session we will use the concepts in ‘Training from the Back of the Room’ (TBR) to design effective workshops. The output of this session can be used as an input to start designing your own workshops and as inspiration to create the 3 workshops in the Leadership track Goal of the session: Create template(s) that can be used to increase the learning experience in a workshop Expected Experience: None The output of this session: | |
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Rejuvenate your meetings with Liberating StructuresIntroduce tiny shifts in the way you meet, plan, decide and relate to one anotherFrederik Vannieuwenhuyse | |
Do your meetings suck? Are you attending either presentation-style meetings or free-format brainstorms? In this fully interactive session you’ll experience new ‘micro-structures’ to facilitate interactions, conversations, create shared understanding, … in small and large groups, in any kind of meeting or gathering. | |
| Goal of the session: | You will experience interactive techniques to engage and unleash a large group of people. |
| Expected experience: | none |
| Session Type: | 75 min experiential learning session |
We value “individuals & interactions”. The conventional structures you know to organise how people routinely work together hold back inclusion and engagement. Conventional structures are either too inhibiting (presentations, status reports and managed discussions) or too loose and disorganised (open discussions and brainstorms) to creatively engage people. In this fully interactive session you’ll experience new ‘micro-structures’ to facilitate interactions, conversations, create shared understanding, … in small and large groups, in any kind of meeting or gathering. This session will be successful when you know how to better facilitate interactions between individuals. | |
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| max 24 Help business prioritize the backlog.Lean-agile is about the effective creation of value. But how does business determine value?Chris Verlinden & Marie Jacqmin | |
IT should stop prioritizing. Help business and give them an easy way to prioritize features. Agile is all about generating value, so we had better get a good way to interact with business on how to determine that value and prioritize accordingly. | |
| Goal of the session: | Participants should get a better view on business value and on prioritization. |
| Intended audience: | Ellen, Vincent, Georges, Joke, Philippe |
| Expected experience: | No |
| Session Type: | 75 min experiential learning session |
| Materials: | Printable cards and explanation of SAFe City setup |
The SAFe City Workshop will help two groups of people to better understand how they can improve the way they work. Business people will experience how lean-agile prioritization is a simple approach to make a team agree on the work to be done first to bring more value sooner. Agile team members will understand the prioritization. They will also experience how a team of teams can plan the work together, in a face to face approach. The workshop brings to life how SAFe assists in better alignment or integration of business and IT. What is it The SAFe City Workshop is a workshop, highly interactive as well as fun. The participants experience core concepts in Lean-Agile and in the SAFe® model, instead of just learning about them. In the first part participants will learn to prioritize at high level; the selected initiatives are elaborated into prioritized features in the second round. As SAFe/agile want to focus on the creation of Value, the different backlogs continuously need to be prioritized, so that available capacity and budget is used to generate the most value at the most appropriate time. SAFe uses the concept Cost of Delay in prioritization, so the work that costs more if delayed longer gets treated first. The workshop is 'played' in groups of about 4 people, scoring cards and establishing priorities collaboratively. The workshop is engaging and has inspired a major customer to use the card-based approach in real life. | |
Philippe Georges < Vincent Joke Ellen | |
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| max 60 Surviving a legacy codebase: tactics and tools to keep the right pathLearn with us how good practices and effective tools can help you to improve your legacy codePietro Di Bello & Paolo D'Incau | |
How can you regain control of a legacy codebase that doesn't express well the domain of the problem we want to solve? Let's tackle the code the XP way, let's live refactor the code in pair programming! Let's see how the codebase changes! | |
| Goal of the session: | The goal of our session is to share with others the way we deal with legacy code. We expect that people coming to our session will go back to work and try to apply some of the refactoring techniques we will show in order to improve their codebases. We will show actionable techniques supported by simple and effective tools. Our final goal is to support developers to write clean code that represents better the domain they it is trying to solve. |
| Intended audience: | Bram, Jan, Marieke, Philippe, Vincent, Hank |
| Expected experience: | We think that people from basic technical knowledge to experienced developers can benefit from this talk, but best level is mid to high though. |
| Session Type: | 30 min hands on coding/design/architecture session |
We will show you how to regain control of a legacy codebase written in Java. This codebase shows some classic design problems but more than that, badly expresses the domain of the problem we want to solve. During the session we will tackle the code the XP way: it will be a live refactoring in pair programming; we will show how the quality and expressiveness of the code can be progressively improved if we apply some good development practices with the help of some effective tools. | |
Jan Marieke Bram Philippe Vincent Hank | |
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| max 32 Gamestorm your meetingTired of those life-sucking meetings with no solution in sight?dimitri bauwens | |
We have a problem… So the natural response is to place a meeting in the calenders… The only result of that meeting will probably be a date for a next meeting… Recognizable? Not anymore! With gamestorming techniques we won't allow this kinds of meetings anymore. | |
| Goal of the session: | explore Gamestorming and see it's benefits |
| Intended audience: | marieke, leo, bram, georges, vincent, joke, hank, ellen |
| Expected experience: | none |
| Session Type: | 75 min experiential learning session |
We have a problem… So the natural response is to place a meeting in the calenders… The only result of that meeting will probably be a date for a next meeting… A lot of us are already everyday in such meetings. Meetings just for the sake of having meetings, no more! We'll use multiple gamestorming techniques combined in one session (opening – exploring – closing) to reach a possible solution to a real life problem. The problem at hand is known already by me but will be a surprise until the conference. Come on in and be surprised about the power of Gamestorming. Perhaps it changes your view on the way a meeting can be held. | |
Marieke Leo Bram Georges Vincent Joke Hank Ellen | |
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Developing Workshops with Liberating Structures (ALT 1)Agile Leadership Track – Part 1Barry Overeem & Christiaan Verwijs | |
Description: In this session we will use the concepts in ‘Liberating Structures’ (LS) to design effective workshops. You will learn how to match 'Liberating Structures' to create an effective workshop. Goal of the session: Explore a number of typical Liberating Structures that can help you increase the learning experience in a workshop The output of this session can be used as an input to start designing your own workshops and as inspiration to create the 3 workshops in the Leadership track | |
| Session Type: | 75 min experiential learning session |
Description: In this session we will use the concepts in ‘Liberating Structures’ (LS) to design effective workshops. You will learn how to match 'Liberating Structures' to create an effective workshop. Goal of the session: Explore a number of typical Liberating Structures that can help you increase the learning experience in a workshop Expected Experience: None The output of this session can be used as an input to start designing your own workshops and as inspiration to create the 3 workshops in the Leadership track More details: | |
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| max 24 Problem? What problem?Getting rid of impediments quickly and effectivelyBen Linders | |
If your organization wants to become agile and lean, your teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. In this game, you will practice how to recognize and analyze impediments, understand how they can hinder your team, and decide what can be done and who can take appropriate action by deploying agile and lean principles and good practices. | |
| Goal of the session: | Become more effective: Recognize impediments early and get rid of them before they become a major issue |
| Intended audience: | Marieke, Leo, Bram, Philippe, Georges, Vincent, Ellen, |
| Expected experience: | medium |
| Session Type: | 75 min experiential learning session |
| Materials: | Impression of Problem? What Problem? – Playing the Agile Impediment Game at XP Days 2018 |
An agile way of working doesn’t guarantee that there will be no problems. Most probably there will be; working agile will make them surface. Agile teams need skills to deal with impediments to be effective and be able to deliver and satisfy the needs of their customers and stakeholders. Agile teams are self-organized, nobody will solve their problems for them. They can decide how they want to do their work. Having the authority to decide comes with a responsibility: you have to solve problems that the team is facing. You cannot rely on management to solve them for you. That may sound like a disadvantage, but it actually is an advantage since you are allowed to solve them in a way that is most suitable and effective for you. The impediment game that we will play in this session will teach you the five steps for handling impediments effectively: The steps suggest that they have to be done after each other, which is often preferred in most situations. But this is not a waterfall process. Usually, the steps take little time, you can go through all steps within an hour (for instance by doing a retrospective) or in less time (e.g. doing the steps during your daily stand-up). If you are stuck in one step you can decide to proceed to the next one, but then be prepared to go back and repeat the steps once you have more information. Benefits for attendees: • recognize impediments and understand how they can hinder the team Come play the impediment game! | |
Marieke Leo Bram Philippe Georges Vincent Ellen | |
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| max 25 Strategy Mapping Hands-onExplore strategy mapping using Wardley MapsMarc Evers & Willem van den Ende | |
Not sure where you or your company is going? Come and make some strategy maps to find direction! We will do a hands-on exploration of strategy mapping (as introduced by Simon Wardley), where you will have the opportunity to learn more about your strategy and directions to take. | |
| Goal of the session: | Learn how to make better informed strategic decisions |
| Intended audience: | Vincent, Joke, Leo, Georges |
| Expected experience: | Any |
| Session Type: | 150 min experiential learning session |
Are you CTO wondering where your software product should go? Are you an independent consultant looking for a bit of strategic direction instead of just going with whatever comes by? Do you have an interesting side project you'd like to turn into a profitable product, but you don't know how? Join us to explore your terrain, feel the climate and get some new strategic insights you can start executing on the next day. We have started exploring strategy maps as promoted by Simon Wardley – https://medium.com/wardleymaps . Strategy mapping is an activity that provides insight and direction to where you and your company are and what moves you can make. This enables you to make a pre-informed choice of where (not) to venture. An important contribution of Wardley's strategy mapping is recognizing that everything is always evolving: every technology or solution starts out as a wild idea, a solution looking for a problem. Over time it moves to a custom built solution, then becomes a product, until it becomes a commodity. Each phase has different dynamics and means different decisions and different ways of making those decisions. You can't do anything about it, but you can take advantage of it. The basics of strategy mapping look simple, but you only learn it by getting your hands dirty. We'll give you a brief introduction and then move on to applying the technique on topics you bring in! | |
Leo Georges Vincent Joke | |
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| max 30 Tame the technical debt beast and enjoy sustainable productivity with 3XHow to avoid stress by managing technical debt through the product life cyclePhilippe Bourgau | |
Ward Cunningham explained that bad code is like (technical) debt : we get a boost at the moment we write it, we pay interests to workaround it, and we'll need to pay it back some day. Technical debt is also unforgiving : deal with it the wrong way and it will make you crawl under stress ! With 3X, Kent Beck explains that we should adapt our practices to the product lifecycle. How can we benefit from this new insight to manage technical debt in the long term and reach sustainable productivity ? By the end of the session, we should have a better understanding of what is technical debt as well as concrete practices to manage technical debt. | |
| Goal of the session: | ideas and practices as how to deal with technical debt |
| Intended audience: | Jan, Leo, Georges, Bram, Vincent, Joke, Hank, Ellen |
| Expected experience: | 3y+ |
| Session Type: | 75 min discovery session |
| Materials: | Google slides of the presentation |
Ward Cunningham explained that bad code is like (technical) debt : we get a boost at the moment we write it, we pay interests to workaround it, and we'll need to pay it back some day. Technical debt is also unforgiving : deal with it the wrong way and it will make you crawl under stress ! In early stage startups, taking technical debt is often the only way to get things out fast enough ! Later down the road, there’s a real danger that it becomes a curse as it aggregates into a big ball of legacy code. It can also be a surprise, when a new joiner brings in a revolutionary way of doing things, and renders all existing code obsolete. It can even be an opportunity when developers and their domain experts unearth a domain refactoring breakthrough ! There is no one-size fits all to deal with all these situations. That’s exactly what Kent Beck, the father of eXtreme Programming, discovered when he joined Facebook. He went out with 3X, to make us think of where we are in the product life cycle, and explains that we should adapt our practices and principles accordingly. How can we benefit from this new insight to manage technical debt in the long term and reach sustainable productivity ? By the end of the session, we should have a better understanding of what is technical debt as well as concrete practices to manage technical debt. | |
Jan Leo Bram Georges Vincent Joke < Hank Ellen | |
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| max 40 Don't walk in my shu(s)!Discover a common pattern of large scale agile failure, and what are the key drivers to overcome it.Xavier Rene-Corail | |
You want to adopt agility in a large scale setup? You might ask someone who already succeeded, and just walk in his/her shoes. Just repeat the successful experience. WRONG. You will certainly experience some improvements at first, then fail in the long run. | |
| Goal of the session: | A step back from the agile frameworks to the core principles of agility; a very quick overview of the Complex systems theory; a return on experience on large scale Agile deployment, from the presenter but also from the audience; some practices to overcome the announced failures, from the group work. |
| Intended audience: | Marieke, Leo, Bram, Philippe, Georges, Vincent, Joke, Hank, Ellen |
| Session Type: | 75 min discovery session |
| Materials: | Presentation |
When big companies try to implement large scale agile frameworks, they often follow blindly Agile frameworks and recipes, and miserably fail at being sustainably agile. Let's try to explain why it fails, and imagine how to do differently! From my return on experience of applying SAFe in a big company, but also from the audience ones, we will visit exemple of failures when one just tries to copy / paste a recipe, a "best practice", and hope it will magically work. In martial arts, the "Shu" is the phase where the learner practices and repeats the traditional movements and techniques. This is a necessary phase, but you must not stay forever someone else's "shu(s)". What are the main drivers that will help a company to overcome this fatality? How wan we in practice use these drivers to avoid these failures? I will share my ideas, then we'll collectively, using Liberating Structures, find 10 more ideas. | |
Marieke < Leo Bram Philippe Georges Vincent Joke Hank Ellen | |
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| max 8 Organizational design with Sociocracy 3.0 (ALT2)Agile Leadership Track – Part 2Jef Cumps | |
This session is intended to create a Leadership workshop on organizational design, using Sociocracy 3.0 (S3) patterns and practices (S3) to develop an Agile Culture. Participating in this workshop means that you will help in creating an actual workshop. The target group for this workshop is anyone with a Leadership role (SM’s, PO’s, but especially middle management), responsible for creating an Agile culture in his organization. Goal: Create a minimal viable workshop | |
| Expected experience: | Practical application of Sociocracy 3.0 practices and\or patterns or similar practices |
| Session Type: | experiential learning session |
| Materials: | Workshop material |
This session is intended to create a Leadership workshop on organizational design, using Sociocracy 3.0 (S3) patterns and practices (S3) to develop an Agile Culture. Participating in this workshop means that you will help in creating an actual workshop. The target group for this workshop is anyone with a Leadership role (SM’s, PO’s, but especially middle management), responsible for creating an Agile culture in his organization. Goal: Create a minimal viable workshop | |
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| max 40 Thought sketching for Agile practitioners and beyondVisualize your thoughts and make impactKoen De keersmaecker & Desirée Van Dijk | |
During this session – let's start thinking with our pen. No matter how convoluted a problem may feel in your head – simply pick up a pen and make the first stroke – the rest usually takes care of itself. I bet you will like it! | |
| Goal of the session: | Experience the power of thought sketching and got interested to learn more about it |
| Intended audience: | Vincent, Ellen, Hank, Joke, Georges, Philippe, Bram, Leo, Marieke, Jan |
| Expected experience: | from novel to experienced |
| Session Type: | 75 min discovery session |
Visualisation and visual facilitation is a (new) method to make content and process visible in realtime. Be it in presentations, workshops, coaching sessions, trainings and meetings – whenever people engage in dialogue, are working together and want to learn from each other in an impactful way. Bikablo is the brand that opens the door to the world of visual thinking and dialogue. If you are (still) convinced that you are not at all talented and still would like to learn how to visualize, you have little experience with visualization so far and are looking for an easy way to improve your flip charts and make them more clear, attractive, and lively or you want to take your first steps into the world of visual facilitation and storytelling this session is definitely something you will never forget. — Get an intro about how to Present, Document and Explore Visually — This session will be very interactive and aims at people with all different backgrounds and experience levels (after all visualization is useful for everybody). Got you intrigued? Click on the link and look what you will be up to after the session … Click the link: https://www.bizzuals.com/xpdays18 | |
Jan Marieke Leo Bram Philippe Georges Vincent Joke Hank Ellen | |
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Introduction to Structural thinkingWhy change efforts fail or succeed over timeJohan Decoster | |
Structural Thinking is a discipline in which underlying structure is explored, evaluated from the standpoint of effectiveness, and changed to support desired end results. Often, small changes in a structure cause major changes in a person's life and organization. These changes, in turn, create a rapid and permanent shift from ineffective behavior to highly effective behavior. The outcome is an enhanced ability to create ther desired end result. This is a method of consulting that gets to the true reality of a situation. | |
| Goal of the session: | – Understand what structure is and how this plays out in our life and organizations. – Learn the difference between a reactive orientation and a creative orientation in life.- Learn what structural conflict is.- Understand the problem of problem solving- Learn to create a structural tension chart- Discuss how S3 can help you build structures for sustainable agility at scale. |
| Intended audience: | Leo, Bram, Philippe, Georges, Vincent, Joke, Hank, Ellen |
| Expected experience: | no |
| Session Type: | 75 min experiential learning session |
| Materials: | Slide deck |
Are you involved in adopting an Agile way of working into an organisation? It's simple, without a change of underlying structure, any change effort will eventually fail, and the organization will revert back to its previous behavior. In this session we will introduce you to structural thinking and how this plays out in our organizations, especially in adopting Agile. | |
Leo Bram Philippe Georges Vincent Joke Hank Ellen | |
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Serious role-playingImprove your trainings with role-playing done right!Nicole Belilos | |
Have you ever tried to do some role-playing in your training or coaching? Come and learn how to do role-playing well! | |
| Goal of the session: | After this session trainers and coaches will know how to use role-playing in an effective way. |
| Intended audience: | Ellen, Bram and anyone else wanting to improve the way they give trainings |
| Expected experience: | No specific knowledge needed. Willingness to act / play is necessary. |
| Session Type: | 75 min experiential learning session |
Have you ever tried to do some role-playing in your training or coaching? Role-playing can a great tool for trainers. However, often it is not done well. Just saying ‘Hey, you play the bossy Product Owner, and you play the shy Team Member’, is not enough. It might just make things worse. Role playing in trainings is not about being a comedian. Good role playing is a combination of acting, training and coaching. It’s about understanding the other person, empathy, giving feedback, and allowing the other to grow. In this session you will get an introduction to the training actor's toolbox. How to prepare for the role, how to get into the role, common mistakes to be aware of while playing, and different ways to give feedback to the participant. Part of the session will be theory, and in the other part you will get to try it out yourself. Come and learn how to do role-playing well and to add it to your training / coaching toolkit. | |
Jan Marieke Leo Bram Philippe Georges Vincent Joke Hank Ellen | |
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| max 20 Automated tests and TDDHow TDD can help us structure our work and how can we apply it?Thomas Thiry | |
We will start with a presentation which will cover: After this explanation, we will apply what we have seen to the ongoing developments of the day in order to see in a very practical way how we can leverage our new techniques to focus our work and increase the quality from the start! | |
| Goal of the session: | You'll learn how to make useful automated tests and use TDD to improve the quality of your work. |
| Intended audience: | Jan, Leo, Philippe, Hank |
| Session Type: | 30 min hands on coding/design/architecture session |
Nowadays, automated tests are a necessary part of every development process. So the question we ask ourselves is: how do we make sure we have maximized the return on investment of our tests? We'll cover: | |
Jan Leo Philippe Hank | |
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| max 20 How to make the best hamburgersWith component or feature teamsSandra Warmolts & Jan-Willem Zijlstra | |
We will bake hamburgers with four teams; first round with 4 component teams, second round 4 feature teams. What happens to the delivery rate of the hamburgers to the customers when using component teams or feature teams. And how does the delivery rate and customer and employee satisfaction be affected when management decides to give priority to only one of the four products (either McDonalds, or Burger King or Wendy's or Five Guy's). Find out yourself by baking delicious hamburgers in our XP-days-kitchen. | |
| Goal of the session: | Experiencing how prioritizing of one product above others affect delivery rate, when using component teams and feature teams respectively |
| Intended audience: | Jan, Marieke, Bram, Georges, Vincent, Joke, Hank, Ellen |
| Session Type: | 75 min experiential learning session |
| Materials: | Some pictures of our session, if you want to know more, just send us an e-mail. |
McDonalds, Wendy's, Burger King and Five Guy's sell you the best hamburgers at XP-days. They all use one and the same kitchen. And you will be working in that kitchen baking burgers, baking bread, garnishing burgers or making containers. Or you can be one of the store managers and distribute the orders taken from people at XP-days to your team(s). Who doesn't want to wear the funny McDonalds crew hat? This is your change. In the kitchen we will work in component and in feature teams. But of course, when everything is running smoothly, executive management comes rushing in, demanding change in priority, without asking us. But we will stand and deliver the best hamburgers ever anyway! What will each situation do to the order delivery rate? And to the store manager's satisfaction? And the employee satisfaction? Find out by yourself and step into our kitchen. Let's bake ! | |
Jan Marieke Bram Georges Vincent Joke Hank Ellen | |
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Presenters
Ole Jepsen
Ole is the founder of goAgile and a highly esteemed Agile facilitator and mentor for organizations looking to lead change. Using his expertise in Agile methodologies, Ole shows how gaining varying perspectives and sharing experiences brings about the best ideas that can be used throughout the organization.
Ole is a founder of the Agile Leadership Network (ALN), having started the “Learning and Recognition” Committee—working on defining and implementing a three-level certification program for great Agile Project Leaders. Ole is the founder and leader of the Danish Agile User Group – and he is active in the international agile community, speaking at conferences and consulting worldwide. Ole is also a Certified StrategicPlay® Facilitator with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™.
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Evelien Acun-Roos
Website: http://www.evelienroos.nl
Twitter: @evelienroos2
Evelien Acun-Roos is an experienced Agile Coach at Xebia and a Professional Scrum Trainer at Scrum.org. She has helped many teams at different organizations to become more Agile (ING, Rabobank, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, APG, Philips, Vodafone/Ziggo). She likes to focus on the Scrum Teams and the people the team consists of. Evelien loves starting up new teams and to support teams to become high performing.
Evelien loves to give training for beginning as well as experienced Scrummers. Her training courses are filled with brain based learning activities. In her classes she lets the learner learn instead of the teacher teach.
She is also the Scrum Master of the Scrum Master Cluster within Xebia, helping other Scrum Masters to become better Scrum Masters.
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Pierre Hervouet
Website: https://www.facebook.com/agilelebanon
Twitter: @agilelebanon
Pierre Hervouet is the founder of Agile Lebanon and has been an active promoter of agile methodologies since 2009.
He has over 25 years of professional experience, where he addressed all dimensions of the software industry; from business analysis to development, implementation and project management, as well as, sales and marketing.
He worked in Paris, and then moved to Lebanon 2001, where he worked at Khatib & Alami, one of the major Lebanese engineering company. He held the post of manager of the Business Performance & Business Development departments until July 2012.
It is after the XP days 2009 in Paris, that he started his journey in Agile.
Since then, he has implemented Agile methodologies with his 2 teams at K&A, and later, as a consultant in different Lebanese companies.
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Jan Salvador van der Ven
Website: http://jansalvador.nl
Twitter: @salvadorven
Jan works as a trainer and coach for teams developing software. With a software engineering education, he has a thorough understanding of the whole development process of software. Next to his businesses, he also teaches at the university of Groningen on software startups and works on his PhD on software architecture. He is cofounder of Groningen Programmeert, a non-profit organisation that helps primary schools to teach programming.
In his free time he likes to run, hike, 3d-print, drink a beer or play with his two daughters.
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Willem Kleinenberg
Website: http://www.duo.nl
Willem works as a Product Owner at Dienst Uitvoering Onderwijs (DUO), the Education Executive Agency of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. He has experience as a tester and Scrum Master in software development teams.
In his leasure time he likes gardening, playing games and drinking beers.
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Wim Heemskerk
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wimheemskerk/
Twitter: @WimHeemskerk
I believe in us, humans, and the great things we can accomplish. Therefore I help organisations multiply the value they create by embracing the full power of the people in and around them. I do this through facilitation, coaching, training, and mentoring.
I help management & development teams to be agile in their practices. Two areas get special attention in my coaching and facilitation, as I have found them in need:
– the opportunities for management and leadership to be a driving force towards agility
– the opportunities to include and unleash everyone in an organisation
You can do much better than hoping management will simply step aside and the chaos will be temporary!
As a hands-on change agent, I work to create lasting change, the kind people say they created and wanted themselves. I connect the dots to translate models and principles to day to day actions. I inspire and encourage learning. I lead by example. I run and develop workshops and training. I love to pair up with others to crack tough nuts together. I hold a degree in management and have a background as a test-infected developer. You'll find me honest, transparent, passionate, and always ready to try a fresh angle.
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Frederik Vannieuwenhuyse
Website: http://value-first.be
Twitter: vfrederik
I'm on a personal mission to transform organizations and the workplace and bring them into the 21th century, using modern-day (new) ways of working and leadership. Honestly, I am on a continuous discovery & exploration how to create a happy, productive, creative workplace where everybody feels good!
If you want to know more about my background, studies, certifications, experiences, interests … connect with me on http://linkedin.com/in/frederikvannieuwenhuyse/
Happy to listen to you and reflect! How can I help you, today?
Frederik is also XP Days Benelux co-organizer and event organizer at the Agile Belgium meetup. Frederik also likes to facilitate open space events and advice organizations on Lean Startup.
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Chris Verlinden
Website: http://www.adjugo.com
Chris has a long career in IT, with a particular interest in software development, process improvement and business and IT alignment.
As one of the pioneers of agile software development in Belgium, I am very interested in the recent trend of agile-lean.
I am certified Scaled Agile Program Consultant.
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Marie Jacqmin
Website: http://www.adjugo.com
Hello, my name is Marie,
I had been working for a while in agility and using scrum without naming it… when I was introduced to the movement by Chris and Karen @ Adjugo.
Got totally taken by the virus and had the chance to follow various amazing trainings, now looking forward to sharing visions and experiences on the matter. For me it’s about having fun and finding the right flow in your work, make ‘priority’ sound funky, getting things done the right way, everybody feeling at the right place.
On the side, I’m also taking care of the drawings for our sessions, that’s fun!
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Pietro Di Bello
Website: https://about.me/pietrodibello
Twitter: @pierodibello
I am a passionate coder, I like to build products that can change the life of people.
I am a coach and a trainer, I feel proud when I can help my teammates to become greater every day at their job.
I am an agile developer, I try to embody the agile and lean principles in my professional life.
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Paolo D'Incau
Website: http://xpeppers.com
Twitter: @pdincau
I am an Italian agile software developer who loves coding and solving difficult problems in a simple way.
I discovered the Agile Manifesto in 2013 and since then I have tried to do my job (or my passion) following its values and principles. During the latest years I have learned that collaboration between people involved in a project is the best way to build great products and make every member of the team proud of the result achieved.
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dimitri bauwens
Twitter: @dimitribauwens
Dimitri has more then 7 years of experience in the software world. First as a software craftman specialized in the java ecosystem and than evolving into a scrummaster.
As a scrummaster he brings the agile mindset into companies such as Infrabel with the boots in the mud. but also he is getting the Agile bug across the whole organization.
As an organizer of XP days benelux he returns the favor he gets from the community (through various meetups and other conferences) and helps to organize the most awesome xp conference in the benelux
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Barry Overeem
Website: https://theliberators.com
Twitter: @barryovereem
As co-founder of The Liberators, I liberate organisations from outdated modes of working and learning. Bringing in fresh energy and creativity, I create space for everyone to be involved in shaping the future and make a positive impact.
As a Scrum.org trainer & steward and Liberating Structures facilitator I share my insights and knowledge by providing training, facilitating workshops, speaking at conferences and writing blog posts.
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Christiaan Verwijs
Website: https://theliberators.com
Twitter: @chrisverwijs
I enjoy igniting positive change in teams and organisations. It is my strong belief that people should be empowered to drive change themselves, rather than being told by management or consultants how to change.
My personal mission is to liberate the world from dehumanizing and demotivating workplaces by helping organizations find better ways to tap into the creativity, the intelligence and the wisdom of people. I feel that this is the best way forward in this world of complex work.
Based on my personal experience and my background in software engineering and organisational psychology, I have found both the Scrum Framework and Liberating Structures to be powerful ingredients here.
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Ben Linders
Website: https://www.benlinders.com
Twitter: @BenLinders
Ben Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile, Lean, Quality and Continuous Improvement, based in The Netherlands. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives, What Drives Quality and Continuous Improvement. Creator of the Agile Self-assessment Game.
As an adviser, coach, and trainer he helps organizations by deploying effective software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement, collaboration and communication, and professional development, to deliver business value to customers.
Ben is an active member of networks on Agile, Lean and Quality, and a frequent speaker and writer. He shares his experience in a bilingual blog (Dutch and English), as an editor for Culture and Methods at InfoQ and as an expert in communities like Computable, Quora, DZone, and TechTarget. Follow him on Twitter: @BenLinders.
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Marc Evers
Website: http://www.qwan.eu
Twitter: @marcevers
Marc works as an independent coach, trainer and consultant in the field of (agile) software development and software processes. Marc develops true learning organizations that focus on continuous reflection and improvement: apply, inspect, adapt.
Marc organizes workshops and conferences on agile and lean software development, extreme programming, systems thinking, theory of constraints, and effective communication. Marc is co-founder of the Agile Open and XP Days Benelux conferences.
He knows how to combine his real-world experience with knowledge that is out there to create novel solutions. He likes to add games to highly-rated workshops, so participants have fun and learn from experience.
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Willem van den Ende
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Philippe Bourgau
Website: http://philippe.bourgau.net
Twitter: @pbourgau
Sustainable productivity coach and developer.
I help development teams to attain sustainable productivity by adapting eXtreme Programming to their context and special difficulties.
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Xavier Rene-Corail
Website: http://lgtm.com
Twitter: @XCorail
Software developer for more than 20 years. I lived several lives, as developer, manager, large scale agile coach, architect of a complete offshore software factory, agile transformation agent …
I am now working at Semmle, the company behind http://lgtm.com, discovering new ways of doing agile development thanks to code analysis.
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Jef Cumps
Website: http://www.ilean.be
Twitter: @jcumps
Jef Cumps is a very experienced coach and trainer supporting multiple large organisations in their transition towards more agility. He is and has been leading enterprise changes covering all levels (individual, teams, management, organization).
As a trainer, Jef has gained a lot of experience in training various topics: Scrum, Lean, Agile, Kanban, S3, 'Teal', visual facilitation, communication, people management and coaching skills. Next to his knowledge and experience, his major asset is his coaching attitude getting the most out of people and organizations.
Jef is Certified Kanban Practitioner, Certified Scrum Trainer and Certified Scrum coach. Jef presented several sessions on XP Days and other conferences in the past.
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Koen De keersmaecker
Website: http://www.bizzuals.com
Twitter: @KDekeersmaecker
Koen De keersmaecker is a visual facilitator, visual trainer and visual coach. He is founder of Bizzuals, a visual incubator that empowers people and organisations to think with the pen. His main observation is “People think they understand each other, but in reality they don’t.”
As bikablo® certified global trainer, he trains and coaches people and teams in the bikablo® visualization technique — a technique which improves learning, knowledge transfer, dialogue and collaboration.
Over the last 10 years , he has been working as a pragmatic “Enterprise Lean-Agile Coach”, supporting companies big and small in their improvement journeys in immer changing markets, be it adoption Agile mindset or thriving as a start -up.
Today his passion is exploring new techniques and methods for inspiring people and how to make their messages stick.
He lives with his wife and 2 sons in Antwerp.
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Desirée Van Dijk
When this Dutch-Surinamese neuropsychologist and facilitator (Kommunikationslotsen-trained) is involved with training sessions or change processes, cultural and linguistic barriers often simply fall away. Here, an engaging manner and the ability to truly listen and understand is just as important as the skilled use of visual language.
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Johan Decoster
Website: http://www.ilean.be
Twitter: @johan_decoster
Johan is a consultant, coach and trainer and is always learning and exploring the realm of personal and organisational development. He supports organisations and teams creating better results with participatory leadership approaches, collaborative practices and creative processes.
As a structural thinker he helps to unlock everyone’s unique potential and create the structures that allow people and organisations to make clear choices and create the outcomes they really want.
He is a practitioner of the next organisational paradigms that have self-organisation and wholeness at their center.
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Nicole Belilos
Website: http://www.nicolebelilos.com
Twitter: @nicolebelilos
I am an independent Agile coach and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), with over 13 years experience in the Agile world. I help organizations, teams and individuals on their journey to Agility.
With an education in Mathematics and Computer Science, I started my career as a programmer in the waterfall world. In 2004 I was introduced to Scrum and the Agile mindset. From then on, I have been an enthusiastic adept of Agile.
I strongly believe in (continuous) learning. I like to teach and share knowledge, and I frequently speak at international conferences. I am also strongly involved as a volunteer in the Agile community.
My hobbies are singing and acting. In my training and coaching work, I frequently add improvisation and role-playing aspects.
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Thomas Thiry
I am a developer / scrum master at Ingenico (Brussels) with 10 years of experience.
I also teach agile methodologies once a week at Ephec (Louvain-La-Neuve).
I co-organize the Agile Tour Brussels and meetups for the Agile Belgium community.
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Sandra Warmolts
Website: http://www.warmolts-ict.nl
Twitter: @sannygr
Sandra works as an independent agile coach, trainer and scrum master with companies with large software and product development. Mainly in the Northern part of Holland.
After work she loves to play tennis, go out for dinner and spend time with her kids (15 and 14).
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Jan-Willem Zijlstra
Jan-Willem Zijlstra has been an Agile enthousiast for ten years. Starting as a project leader using RUP and transferring to an Agile coach helping teams to become a team and combining work pleasure with productivity. Jan-Willem converts his knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, LeSS and SAFe into practical use for teams and the organisation.
In private life Jan-Willem loves to travel, every holiday is to another destination (it used to be every holiday to a new country, but that's a thing of the past), in the weekends Jan-Willem enjoys riding his mountainbike in the Dutch woods, the more mud the better.
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Participants
Jan | Jan has been working as a programmer for 5 years now. Jan loves to program. He knows a lot of languages, and a lot of tools. At work, he he is not always happy because the circumstances often force him to deliver the quality he knows he can reach. Jan explores new technologies and trends on the internet and in books and magazines. At night Jan contributes to an open source project together with 10 other guys, from all over the world. That's where he heard about agile methodologies. In the open source group, he is used to work with unit tests, but he hopes to get some real in-depth tips and tricks from experts at the XP Days conference. He is also interested to learn about the latest trends for continuous intergration tools and test automation. Meet Jan at the following sessions
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Marieke | Marieke is part of a team that delivers product software on a regular basis. Several months ago, her team had an introductory training on extreme programming and scrum. Some of the ideas she learned about seemed interesting enough, but she is not sure if this methodology is applicable in their particular situation. After the course, some of her colleagues started to write unit tests, but there still are only a few, and they are not run very often, as far as Marieke can see. They also started to do a daily standup meeting, because according to the trainers that is a tool to enhance communication within the team. But these meetings are rather boring, and they tend to take 1/2 hour, every day. Team members are grumbling about wasting their time. Marieke started to think all this agile stuff is only an unusable hype. But then she heard about XP Days, and she thought "well, let's give it another chance, if 150 people go to this conference, for 11 years in a row now, maybe there is more to it". She hopes she can hear from real people in real teams how they have applied these techniques, which problems occurred in their situation, and what kind of consequences that had for them. Meet Marieke at the following sessions
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Leo | Leo has been around forever. He has seen everything, done everything. Over the years, Leo has been working as a developer, as a project lead, as a tester, as an analyst, as a manager, and as a consultant. He knows from experience that everything comes back, if you only wait a few years. He has learned that the same problems and the same solutions have been invented and re-invented a hundred times in computer science. He has lived through the rise and fall of uncountable new technologies and methodogies. All of them brand new, all of them the one and only forever best way to make software. Leo wants to go to XP Days because he thinks it's an excellent opportunity to meet with a lot of young, smart and enthusiastic people. Meet Leo at the following sessions
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Philippe | Philippe comes to XP Days because his boss told him to go. He has never heard about this agile stuff. He doesn't know what it is, or what it can be used for. He guesses it is something his boss wants to buy. He doesn't really care, because going to this conference means that he will be away from the hectic chaos in the office for 2 days. mmm I think maybe it is not very useful for Philippe to come to the XP Days? -Vera Why not? Let Philippe come, let him relax and have a beer and dinner with agile people. He might even attend some presentations. And, once he's relaxed, who knows what could happen? –Pascal Meet Philippe at the following sessions
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Georges | Georges is a project manager. His life is filled with stress, deadlines, difficult programmers, unhappy customers and demanding bosses. Sometimes he wonders if he's chosen the right career. Lately, Georges has been hearing more and more about agile methods. Some of his ex-colleagues have converted from project management to agile coaching. They tell him tales of vibrant, exciting, fun projects where customers and developers live in perfect harmony. That can't be true. They must be exaggerating. Or are they….? Meet Georges at the following sessions
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Vincent | Vincent is the IT manager of a large company. His teams don't do too badly. Some projects are allright; some don't fully satisfy their users. The CEO has asked him to propose a plan to increase the efficiency of his department by 10% in the next two years. So, Vincent looks around for solutions that might help him to create and implement the plan. He has looked at a lot of things: processes, tools, consultants… He's heard that some other companies (even some reputable companies) have had success with "agile" methods, so he comes to the XP Days to get a taste of what "agile" can offer him. He doesn't know what to expect. Hippy surfer dudes? 18 year old wizz kids with piercings? Greybearded hackers? Oh well… What does he have to lose? Meet Vincent at the following sessions
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Joke | Joke is a product manager for a succesful product company. Joke understands her customers needs, she has lots of ideas for new features that would enhance the product. She knows that this product really enhances its user's lives. That's one of the reasons her company is so succesful. But they have trouble keeping up with customer demand. Joke finds it hard to talk to the development team, to make them understand what she needs in the product. If only she and the development team could work together more efficiently, they could make this product make more of a difference. Maybe this "agile" stuff can help? How does product management work in agile projects? Joke hopes to meet some developers and other product managers who can help her and give her some tips. Meet Joke at the following sessions
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Hank | Hank is a motivated and experienced software engineer cum system architect who spends his days knee deep in the quagmires of enterprise automation. Appalled and bemused by the shocking waste of time, money, and people, he does his best to bring the joy back in the life of those around him by introducing agile methodologies wherever he sees the opportunity. Hank comes to the XP Days to share with and learn from like-minded colleagues. Meet Hank at the following sessions
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Ellen | Ellen is an agile coach. She's been using agile methods for a few years now. XP, SCRUM, Lean… it doesn't matter much to her. She's more interested in doing things that matter to deliver value for her customers. She wants to work with a happy team, doing meaningful work. Ellen wants to learn new ideas and share experience of techniques that work. She comes to XP Days because of its friendly and collaborative atmosphere. Meet Ellen at the following sessions
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