Please find below the French invitation for Agile Open France, from 19
to 21 january 2011 in Itterswiller, Alsace, France.


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Bonjour à tous,

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   Agile Open France 2011

   Itterswiller, Alsace, France
   Du mercredi 19 janvier 2011, 14h30
   Au vendredi 21 janvier 2011, 14h00

   Préinscriptions : http://www.agileopen.net/fr/inscription_france
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Raphaël Pierquin, Bernard Notarianni et moi-même sont heureux de vous
annoncer la 4e édition de la conférence Agile Open France. Vous êtes
cordialement invités à participer.

Agile Open France est un cycle de conférences au format Forum Ouvert
(Open Space). Ces conférences sont organisées de manière à favoriser les
discussions en petits comités et à permettre aux participants d'échanger
leurs idées et expériences, compréhensions et spéculations, sur des
sujets en rapport avec les méthodes agiles.

Les conférences Agile Open n'ont pas de programme prédéfini. Nous
suivons les principes du Forum Ouvert : les participants déterminent
ensemble le programme au fur et à mesure de la conférence, et quiconque
participe peut proposer un sujet. L'approche Forum Ouvert est une
approche reconnue pour favoriser la participation, libérer la passion,
amplifier l'apprentissage.

Pour un aperçu de ce qu'on pu en dire les participants eux-mêmes :
-->  http://blog.agileopenfrance.com/post/2010/02/08/témoignages

Ou encore :
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    "Extraordinaire ! Voila mon sentiment général au retour de cette
    conférence"

    "Il s'agissait véritablement de LA conférence avancée sur les méthodes
    agiles en France: les discussions étaient approfondies, intéressantes,
    innovantes, parfois inattendues et pourtant indispensables."

    "J'attendais cette invitation [pour Agile Open France] comme mes
    enfants attendent le père Noel :-)"
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L'Agile Open France accueille aussi bien les curieux que les
passionnés. Nous aménageons un espace chaleureux et confortable, où
vous pourrez progresser rapidement au contact des praticiens de la
communauté francophone, et participer à l'exploration des idées qui
feront l'agilité de demain.

La conférence aura lieu à l'Hôtel Arnold, à Itterswiller
(http://www.hotel-arnold.com), un petit village alsacien sur la route
des vins, à une quarantaine de kilomètres de Strasbourg. L'endroit est
paisible, magnifique, et propice au travail comme aux randonnées.
Strasbourg est accessible par train (2 heures en TGV de Paris) et par
avion.

Que vous soyez francophone, francophile ou encore amateur de vins
d'Alsace, voici le bon endroit et le bon moment pour rencontrer ou
retrouver d'autres praticiens agiles, dans un cadre décontracté et
amical.




La conférence commencera le 19 janvier à 14h30, et se terminera le 21
janvier après le déjeuner, vers 14h00.

Le nombre de place pour la conférence est limité à 30 participants.




Tarifs

Inscription jusqu'au 25 décembre 2010 : 330 euros TTC
Inscription à partir du 26 décembre 2010 : 460 euros TTC

Les frais couvrent tous les repas pendant la conférence, une chambre
d'hôtel 3 étoiles pour les deux nuits, le voyage de Strasbourg à
Itterswiller en bus et la participation à tous les ateliers de l'Open
Space. Les frais ne couvrent pas les transports jusqu'à Strasbourg et le
déjeuner du 19 janvier.

Pour s'inscrire :
-->  http://www.agileopen.net/fr/inscription_france

Pour plus d'information :
-->  http://blog.agileopenfrance.com/
-->  staff@...


Pour le comité d'organisation,
-- Manu.

 

The second "Journée Agile" will take place on 14/04/2011 in Brussels. Send in your session proposals before 15/01/2011.

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-- Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
Nayima bvba
Tel: +32 476 997428
Fax: +32 2 7310152
---
http://blog.nayima.be
http://www.nayima.be
http://www.xpday.net
http://www.xp.be

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het vliegveld. Voor informatie en registratie kan je te terecht op
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De volgende trainingen zijn:
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14/15 september, Gent
23/24 november, Edegem

groet,
Michael Franken

Hi Vladimir,

At Allors we developed a webforms and winforms tester (.Net).

They are both open source and free to use.

It uses a different approach then the html scraping tools (like e.g. selenium)

and external GUI testers (like project white).

We call it immersive UI Testing, because the test code runs as part of the application

(in the same process/thread).

In winforms (GUI) you can intervene in every call made to the winforms framework and for webforms you can intervene at the server side during every page lifecycle event.

The advantage is much more control over the testing, which will result in less fragile test code (that’s why we abandoned nunitasp), direct access to domain objects and tests running a factor faster than html scraping test tools (which have to wait() all the time).

I’ll ask Pascal if we can host an XP.BE meeting where we will demonstrate the tools and then let you apply them to your own code.

If you have any other questions then do not hesitate to contact me.

With kind regards,
Koen 

--
Koen Van Exem | koen@... | http://twitter.com/KoenVanExem | +32 498 519999
inxin | www.inxin.com | Remerstraat 50 | BE-3128 Baal | +32 2335 2335

We see many teams starting to implement Scrum in one way or another but a lot of
them seem to forget that Agile is about delivering "VALUE"! You can also see
this in the certification track where focus is put on CSM training, not
necessarily by the CST's around but due to the business demand. This is a huge
pitty for Scrum as a whole since this might enforce the idea that Scrum is
something for the technical people and project managers and nothing for the
business.

If you want to be better equipped to meet the business and by doing so make your
implementation of Scrum a bit easier come to our upcoming CSPO course in Ghent,
Feb 21/22nd!

You'll learn some technique's on how to manage your PO work (personal kanban for
example) and how to maximize "value" for your customer and company, which will
support you better to change your whole organization instead of a single team.
We will give you some tools to support your customers better in optimizing their
needs (lean technique's for example) resulting in a more appropriate
solution/delivery at the end.

Subscribe here: http://www.scrumtraining.com/upcoming-events/
!!! Early bird pricing still open for 3 more days so be fast !!!

PS: also a more popular CSM is scheduled in Februari.

Grtz
/J

Koen, all,

thanks everyone for your replies. Koen, if you think you could do an event, we
could help organize it/host it (Brussels or Leuven).

Vladimir

--- In Agile-Belgium@yahoogroups.com, Koen Van Exem <koen@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Vladimir,
>
> At Allors we developed a webforms and winforms tester (.Net).
>
> They are both open source and free to use.
>
>
>  It uses a different approach then the html scraping tools (like e.g.
> selenium)
>
> and external GUI testers (like project white).
>
>
>  We call it immersive UI Testing, because the test code runs as part of the
> application
>
> (in the same process/thread).
>
>
>  In winforms (GUI) you can intervene in every call made to the winforms
> framework and for webforms you can intervene at the server side during every
> page lifecycle event.
>
>
>  The advantage is much more control over the testing, which will result in
> less fragile test code (that�s why we abandoned nunitasp), direct access to
> domain objects and tests running a factor faster than html scraping test
> tools (which have to wait() all the time).
>
>
>  I�ll ask Pascal if we can host an XP.BE meeting where we will demonstrate
> the tools and then let you apply them to your own code.
>
>
>  If you have any other questions then do not hesitate to contact me.
>
>
>  With kind regards,
> Koen
>
>
> --
> Koen Van Exem | koen@... | http://twitter.com/KoenVanExem | +32 498
> 519999
> inxin | www.inxin.com | Remerstraat 50 | BE-3128 Baal | +32 2335 2335
>
>
> 2011/1/28 Vladimir Blagojevic <vladimir.blagojevic@...>
>
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We got a couple of questions from a company about automated testing and
> > variability. Do you know someone who could help the company with these
> > challenges? Or some good resources to point them to? It's a relatively small
> > software development company making web applications in a B2B market. An
> > option would be organizing a workshop with couple of companies around these
> > topics.
> >
> > * How to test web applications in an automated way?
> >
> > * How to set up a continuous integration system in this context?
> >
> > * How to test different variants of a product (e.g. different
> > configurations, different platforms, different uses)? Just rerunning all the
> > tests for all options is too costly
> >
> > * How to determine the impact of a change on the different variants of a
> > product?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vladimir
> >
> >
>

Yves Hanoulle 
Phone 00 32 46 43 38 32

Mini XP Day 2011 will be held on Friday April 1st in Mechelen. The
program features a re-run of 12 of the most popular sessions of the XP
Days 2010 conference.

The preliminary program has been published at
http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2011/Mini%20XPDay/Program.html

Registration starts next Monday. Don't wait too long to register as we
limit the number of participants to 90.

See you there!

--
Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
Nayima bvba
Tel: +32 476 997428
Fax: +32 2 7310152
---
http://blog.nayima.be
http://www.nayima.be
http://www.xpday.net
http://www.xp.be

Hello everyone,

Most of you probably don't know about the AgileCampusTour, well, let me explain:

Two month ago, I attended the Agile Tour in Lille, it took place in a
university campus. And surprisingly, there were not much students
attending the lectures...

From what I've read and heard from some people in the Agile community
here in Belgium, one of the biggest problems while trying to adopt
Agile in a team is not really the tools and methods themselves, it's
the way people need to unlearn part of what they've been doing for
years... That's exactly how I felt when I started practicing Agile,
unlearning what I had learnt at uni or when I was working for my first
employer. And it was hard, even for someone with a short work
experience like mine, so I can barely imagine what a coach in a big
company has to accomplish to actually make people think differently.

Then I thought that one of the sources of that problem might simply be
that students need to be involved in this community as well. Why
weren't these students from Lille in the lecture rooms with us? Maybe
because, especially in Belgium and some parts of France, we don't
target them. So together with two co-workers, we decided to organize
an event for students, not even in Belgium, but wherever people want
us to talk about Agile.

And so the AgileCampusTour was born. It is a free event for computer
science students. We organize lectures and workshops in universities.
We want students to understand the values behind Agile and provide
them some basic tools they might want to use during their student
projects. We don't intend to make experts out of them (we're not even
experts ourselves) but just to open their minds to other ways of
managing a project, developing a clean-code culture, in other words
planting an Agile seed in their brains.

We've already done 3 sessions in french at the UCL in Louvain-la-Neuve
and got good feedback. Two lectures and one workshop. We still have 3
more sessions at the UCL in February. Then in March we'll do them
again but this time at the University of Mons, improving sessions with
the feedback we have from the UCL. We are discussing with other
interested universities as I speak.

As this event is completely free, and we work on this during our
personal time, we try to avoid having big expenses. But as you all
know, being "Agile" and doing that kind of event requires a lot of
"Agile Hardware". And universities don't always have funding for that
kind stuff.

So this big email is not only to talk about the AgileCampusTour but
also a call for help. If you can provide:

- Sticky notes, different shapes, sizes, colors
- Pens
- Big paper posters
- Planning Poker Cards
- Flip-charts (old ones from your offices ?)
- Whatever comes to your mind (books we could give to students for instance...)

It would be great! Please contact us at info@...

We are also looking for sponsors willing to help us with the catering
when we do evening sessions, to provide a few refreshments or food to
the students, but we are also looking for more global sponsors, that
could help us with the other related costs, such as advertising,
website hosting, sometimes travel costs, etc...

If you are interested in helping us or just willing to know more about
the AgileCampusTour, contact us at info@...

For the team,

Marc Lainez
marc@...
http://agilecampustour.org
http://be.linkedin.com/in/marclainez
+32 474 78 66 33

Hi

I am looking for providers of high-end subversion trainings. Do you guys know
any available?

Vladimir