Goals

Agile Open is:

• for experienced practitioners
• to exchange radical ideas, cement friendships, and spark new insights into agile software development
• so that we have the energy, enthusiasm and tools to create more of the work we enjoy doing, and to sustain us through the inevitable ups and downs of actually doing it

I'd like more time to explore topics that come up during xp days and regular conferences in depth, and have a place where people from around Europe (and possibly elsewhere), and experiment with new ideas and session types. More about my goals on my wiki page: WillemVanDenEnde .

Nynke Etk Fokma :

When the invention of book print happened in more places than one some centuries ago, the idea for it wasn't stolen from "the other". It was time for it. And now it seems to be time for a European Agile Open conference, where we can freely weave and bubble with other types of human agiles in open space. It is one thing to dream your self, it is another to be dreamt by your self.

I believe we have to stop looking at our navels -- though I fully agree they are a beautiful and entertaining Universe to track dynamics of -- and that we need to bring in other resources, and I am hoping that we attract many people to our Agile Open Conference that are bold enough to creatively build and market agile products. And "agile products" can come from any industry. Open space indeed! More about my goals in my weblog.

Duncan Pierce:

I would like to see an event in which there is much more time available for idea/knowledge building than with conferences. Through discussion and other formats I think we can move the state of knowledge forward. I don't feel this happens well through traditional conference mechanisms. More on my wiki page: Duncan Pierce

MarkoVanDerPuil:

Actually, everywhere I look, people I meet, things I find on the internet and in my mailbox are all about the same thing. What I am saying is that a revolutionary idea is sparked by one person . Evolutionary ideas however, like AgileValues spring up inside a lot of different people at the same time, over a very widespread region. I concur with Duncan, I hope this confereance will give us the ability to finally offer a stage to the ideas we all share in our minds about the future of Agile Management and Software development in particular, and AgileValues in general.