What I learned from burning down my house

 
This is the presentation I created together with Robin Dymond and gave at XPDays benelux

PairProgramming is like SEX

 
This week I got a phone call from a local school. They had an international ICT Day, and one of their speakers cancelled. They wanted to know if I could take over a talk on PairProgramming. With a little tweeking in my agenda, that was no problem.
I have been talking a lot about PairProgramming, [...]

How to make your retrospective the heart of your agile process

This are the slides from my presentation at AgileTourToronto.
My intention with this talk was to remember my fellow agilists about a lot of the different ways todo retrospectives. Most of the examples come from one of the books on retrospectives. My slides are done presentation zen style, which means they don’t contain a lot of [...]

The Storming phase of the (agile) IT world

I noticed something strange the last months (year?).
Last year there were lot’s of discussions on agile mailing list about agile vs Agile. We also had discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of certifications.
David wanted to write a new manifesto.
We had discussion if Lean was agile. [...]

I finished reading the Agile coaching book

Agile Coaching is the book I wish I had read when I started coaching my first team. While agile is spreading fast, a lot of people take on coaching roles, these people finally have a book to find the answer for their questions. The book Rachel & Liz wrote is not only good for people [...]

Rally Chalk Talk: The daily meeting

My three questions:
1 What have I finished yesterday.
2 What do I commit to finish today
3 Where do I need help?
==>So these are a little bit different as the ones from Jean.
I don’t make the link between what I promised yesterday and what I have done yesterday. Because it might be that [...]

Redesigning Agility

 
I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project coach and you can mail me: blog at my training company  .net

Fit on YouTube

Cyberella

The word of today is cyberella: IT women. I never heard of the word, but I like it.
Yves

Happy X-mas

I love this song, I love this band, I’m still looking for the DasPop all star band version. Anyway Happy X-mas to you

Slides of our Team Compensation Session @ Xp Day London

 
During this workshop I told the story of me killing the intrinsic motivation of my 5 year old son by offering him a reward for swimming.

 
I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project Coach and you can reach me @ Yves at my agile training company .net

XP Day London in Retrospect

As I wrote earlier this week I was looking forward to go to London.XPDay London was in my knowledge the first XPDay in Europe and I had good memories about it.This year was a special year as they tried out a new format. A lot more open space and only a few programmed sessions. I [...]

XP Days Benelux 2008

Already five years XPDays Benelux is my favorite event of the year.
Content over Commerce People over processsmall over biglocal over internationalfirst time presenters over famous people

This year was the best edition ever.
Dave already explained that the organizers walk their talk [Although I'm on the organisers list, I say they as I did not contribute that [...]

Conference month

As predicted in august, since my new job as Agile project manager at the Belgium post I hardly have time to write blog post.
This month is conference month:
Tomorrow I will present the PairCoaching.net Agile game at XP Day Benelux. It’s a game that wants to learn people some basics about how working in a agile [...]

MBA in one day

Last year I went to MBA in one day. I was not so sure what to think about it before, but I really love it.
It was an event like it should be. OK it was lot’s of marketing, it was a big show, but also lot’s on interesting info.
This year Kursaal Oostende organizes it [...]

Opendeurdag Koningsteen met programma voor bedrijven: de manager van NU

Volgende zondag 21 september is er in het trainingscentrum Koningsteen een opendeurdag.Koningsteen is de plaats waar onze Open Europese BootCamps doorgaan. Het is de mooiste opleidings omgeving die ik ken.
Dit jaar is er tijdens naast de opendeurdag voor privé personen met 17 workshops, ook een luik voor bedrijven.
Dit is het programma voor bedrijven:

9:30u [...]

I also have a Vista Black screen

On the last day of my TDD course at Europlus, my laptop started to behave strangely. Windows Live OneCare would not start anymore. My Network icon said I had no network and still I could surf on the net.
On top of that some windows support tools did not work any longer.
I suspected a virus, [...]

Interesting books for Agile teams

Regular readers already know I read tons of books. So every once in a while I get the question what books do you recommend for  this or that.
Usually I point people to my librarything collection.
This week I’m delivering a TDD course in Slovenia, therefore I created a slideshow to show some of the books [...]

XPDays Benelux 2009

While I’m prepping for a TDD course in Slovenia, the conference comittee has announced the sessions that are accepted for XP Days Benelux.
Our session the PairCoaching.net agile game was accepted. Wahoo.
The fishbowl I proposed with Vera about Agile Team compensation was not. Bummer I was really looking into a lively discussion.
The last years the conference [...]

The Business Value Game published

Have you ever wondered where those “Business Value” numbers in the XP Game came from? Have you ever wondered what salespeople, product managers and onsite customers do? Then Vera & Pascal have a new game for you.
The Business Value Game
In the game you play the roles of salespeople, developers and accountants to try [...]