XP Game Players LinkedIn group

Doing planning & estimation is never easy. When I started doing agile, doing agile planning & estimation looked even harder. That was until I played the XPGame. Vera Peeters & Pascal Van Cauwenberghe created the XP game years ago (the first use of the game I know was in 2001, but I know it was [...]

Improve your sex life using the perfection game…

I have written before about the perfection game and the Core protocols they come from.
During the core protocols session I gave last week in Paris, people asked me can I use this with people that don’t know about the core? IS knowing about the core enough, or should they have been to BootCamp (The 1 [...]

Win een huiskamer concert van THOU

Thou heeft het 4de gedeelte van hun ‘This is not a record’ serie op ITunes gezet. Hoewel ze alle vier als ep werden gereleased kan je ze nu ook samen als CD kopen. Om dit te vieren geven ze een exclusief living concert weg via hun MySpace.

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XP Days Benelux 2008 – Call for sessions

The call for sessions for this year’s XP Days Benelux is out.
For the fifth year in a row you have the option to participate in XPDays. My father and I have already 2 sessions in mind we want to present. Based on the feedback we got in Paris, we will make sure our sessions scales.
The [...]

25 may 1996

 
With this “romantic” movie 12 year ago our relation started. At about 23:05. Where? Room X in Decascoop Gent.
Stick Where and when started your (current or last ) relation ?Voor: Smetty, Ine, Lien

Octo Office has a nice terras…

Last Thursday I gave two sessions at Octo
Octo has a great office at the Champs Elysées. The inside is already fantastic, but the outside is even better:
 
Who would not want a terras like this one?
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Timebox your team with an hourglass…

 
During most of my workshops I am using hourglasses.
Last Monday during another successful GTD course, I got again the question about where I bought them.
I buy them online at Minerva Online. If you need them urgently, send me a mail I still have a lot of them at home.
 
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New KBC Online & Vista

I have posted a while ago my problems with the new KBC online way of working.
This post explains how to make KBC Online work on Vista. This article does not talk about the installation of the Smart Card readers.
When I tried to use it using the KBC Online activator everything seemed to work fine. [...]

Université du Système d’Information: Video 5

I kept the best for last. (At least the one that most talks about my way of working.)
David Gageot (Directeur technique de Valtech Technology) talks about Le facilitateur. Un rôle encore méconnu

 
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Getting Things Done Topless: course

Tomorrow we do another Getting Things Done Topless course. While preparing all my stuff I’m listening to another talk from David Allen.

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Université du Système d’Information: Video 4

This is not a BUG it’s an evolution of the program…
Yep been there, heard that, I hope I never see it again….
 

Actors principal: Pierre, Ludovic, Christophe
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Université du Système d’Information: Video 3

Video 3 in my serie about Université du Système d’Information
Octo is no doubt a great consultancy company in France. One way I recognise great people: they work with other great people.
Antoine Gourevich (Vice-Président Boston Consulting Group, Directeur de la practice IT)  talks about his session: La nouvelle organisation IT, Briser les 5 compromis.

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Université du Système d’Information: Video 2

After my video of yesterday about L’université du Système d’Information
It’s now up to another member of the Executive management team:
Ludovic Cinquin. He talks about the big Myths of Informatics.

 
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3 reason’s to wear a seatbelt…

Today I am helping my kids school to reward people for wearing a seatbelt. When my kids take their seatbelt of while driving, I pull over. These days they tell me when I forget to buckle them up. For their safety and mine.

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How are Maps made?

The EU has given green light for TomTom to buy TeleAtlas
TeleAtlas is on of the big companies that are using Agile techniques to develop their software. When I talk with people about their GPS system, they sometimes ask me how these cards are made. This is a nice movie that shows a little bit of [...]

Université du Système d’Information: Video 1

As I have written before Octo is launching a great conference with great speakers. Over the next few days I will post some of the publicity video’s they made. I’ll start with François Hisquin, Président OCTO Technology and a very smart guy.
 
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Het verschil tussen een harde schijf en het geheugen van je computer…

Op vraag van Els nog een stukje voor PC-leken.
Ikzelf heb mijn eerste stappen in de IT wereld gezet als help desk medewerker. Ik vind dat nog steeds de beste manier voor een ontwikkelaar, analyst of projetc coach om te begrijpen hoe een eindgebruiker denkt.
Een probleem dat telkens opnieuw opdook was het verschil tussen een harde [...]

Video BarCampGhent 2008

Also check out the BarCamGhent linkedin Group
This is the video from IBBT, I still did not finish mine.
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XP Days France 2008 – Paris, je t’aime…

On Monday 05 may & Tuesday 06 may my father and I were in Paris. Instead of visiting this beautifully city we enjoyed the people from the French Agile community.
Although the organization before was rather chaotic, XPDay.FR 2008 itself was splendid.
The first thing I noticed when we arrived was the Job Board. Hey [...]

Linkedin group BarCamp Gent

I created a linkedin group for people that where available @BarCamp in Gent
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/102516/6A0E7F5279BF
 

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