Agile Open Holland 2010

Agile Open Holland is the conference by and for you! Organized by Agile Holland, it is an Open Space conference, where the program is made by the participants at the start of each conference day. You can propose discussions, workshops, simulations, games, coding dojos, whatever topics and formats you are passionate about and want to take responsibility for.

Since the conference is what you make it, you'll come back to work re-energized, filled with fresh ideas to make your work more fun, more productive and more profitable.

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Sessions will be held in Dutch or English - at past conferences, we hosted participants from all over Europe.

Topics that were covered at past conferences:

  • Ship of Fools
  • Kanban
  • Systems Thinking
  • Test Driven Development with Mock Objects
  • Retrospectives
  • Lean software development
  • Practical Tools for the Product Owner
  • Multi Paradigm / Polyglot programming (in a dojo)
  • Solution focused coaching
  • Automated end-to-end testing
  • The business of consulting

This year we are also particularly interested in:

  • Lean startups
  • Sustainable development practices for solo programmers
  • The business of software
  • Making sense of software development

...and of course anything you are interested in :-)

We welcome participants from all walks of life. Reflective practitioners who want to uncover better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. In the past we had people who worked as programmers, coaches, testers, business analysts, CEOs, and even a corporate jester. You will get the most from Agile Open if you have some background in agile methods and processes.

So head on over to the registration page and join us for two days of fun exploration and learning.

Practical details What: A two day Open Space event discussing the how & why of agile principles & practices.
Where: the conference is hosted by VxCompany in Baarn, the address is: Baarnsche Dijk 8, 3741 LR Baarn, The Netherlands (route (PDF)
When: Thursday June 10, 10:00-21:00 (including dinner) & Friday June 11, 10:00-17:00
Cost: 65 euro (+ 30 euro Agile Holland membership) 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)

See also the conference wiki for ideas and outputs.

Main sponsor:
VxCompany

Drinks sponsor: Inxin

Sponsors

Zilverline eBuddy
QWAN - Quality without a Name Profict
XP Days Benelux Agile Consortium Benelux
Xebia B.V.

Media sponsors:

Agile Alliance