Agile Open Holland 2009, September 10 & 11

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Agile Open Holland 2009, September 10 & 11

Agile Holland proudly presents the next Agile Open in The Netherlands, on 10 and 11 September 2009, in Baarn. Agile Open is a two day not for profit conference, meant for anyone with some degree of experience with an agile way of working. It is designed to allow agile practitioners to meet in self-organizing groups where they can share their latest ideas and challenges, hopes and wishes, experiences and experiments. We follow an Open Space format to foster collaboration and allow the conference to take its direction from the participants themselves - it's a peer to peer conference where you co-create the conference while it happens.

The conference theme is: My method is bigger than yours...or is it?

Word cloud of agile, Scrum, Kanban & XP created with Wordle.

A development method is nothing more than a named cloud - a set of practices, principles and values labeled under a common name. Whether you realize it or not, each of these named clouds have fuzzy boundaries and overlaps with others. Examples of named clouds you may be familiar with include Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Test Driven Development, DSDM, Lean, Refactoring and more recently Kanban, User Story Mapping, and Dimensional Planning.

Previous Agile Opens have taken place all around the world, in Holland, Belgium, France, USA, Argentina. Some of the topics covered at previous conferences are:

Balancing Act, Simple Tools for Feedback, Communication and Courage
Adapting the Planning Game to build secure systems
Community of Trust
Presentation Zen
Agile Tooling
Transitioning Organizations To Agile Methodologies
The Future of Unit Testing
Helping The Product Owner
Co-learning spaces
Political Games
Kanban
Exploring Contract Models
Scrum without a product backlog

The topics for this conference are again up to you!

What: An Open Space event discussing agile practices and techniques.
Where: the conference is hosted by VxCompany in Baarn, the address is: Baarnsche Dijk 8, 3741 LR Baarn, The Netherlands (route (PDF)
When: September 10 & 11, 2009
Who: Anyone with some degree of experience in agile methods and processes. Although this conference will be held in The Netherlands, we welcome an international audience. Previous Agile Opens had participants from around the world and sessions were held in English when needed.
Cost: 80 euro for two days of conference, including lunches, coffee, drinks, dinner on Thursday evening, and lots of fun & learning
Hosts: this Agile Open is organized by Agile Holland. It will be hosted by Marc Evers (Agile Holland) and Willem van den Ende (QWAN)