Conference Program

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**Thursday 15 November**
8:45	Registration and coffee
9:30	Plenary opening
		Room 1	Room 16	Room 17	Room 18
10:00		Whatchoo talkin 'bout: Communication Game Yves Hanoulle and Ignace Hanoulle (max 20 participants, session in Dutch)	From zero to Agile with Scrum and XP in ... Xavier Quesada Allue	People vs Process - Cultural Patterns of Software Organisations Marc Evers & Willem van den Ende SLIDES	TDD Randori and fishbowl Dave Nicolette & Rod Coffin CODE
11:00	15 min break
11:15		CONTINUED	Offshore, fixed price and agile Marco Jansen	XP Loops. An introduction to Extreme Programming and other agile methods Vera Peeters & Pascal Van Cauwenberghe	CONTINUED
12:30	Lunch
13:30	OPEN SPACE	The Pomodoro Technique Matteo Vaccari & Federico Gobbo Article, Slides and DEMO	Beware of Agility: dangers of blind adoption Sven Gorts & Olivier Costa SLIDES	Retrospective patterns and anti-patterns Ilse Dierickx & Jan Van Reusel	The Centera Approach to Testing a Complex Distributed Storage System Koen De Hondt & Wouter Soubry
14:30	15 min break
14:45	OPEN SPACE	Frictions/Creations. What's at stake with Incremental Design Emmanuel Gaillot & Bernard Notarianni	SCRUMMING the Software Process -- Bottom-up Improvement with a Top-down Vision? Patrick Steyaert, Nico Marien & Boris Gloger	Choosing the content of Sprint and Product Backlogs Olivier Biot, Tom Tourwe & Vladimir Blagojevic	Reading Code Without Psychic Powers Lasse Koskela & Markus Hjort
15:45	15 min break
16:00	OPEN SPACE	CONTINUED	CONTINUED	CONTINUED	CONTINUED
17:00	Plenary closing
17:15	Drinks
18:00 20:00	Dinner

**Friday 16 November**
9:00	Registration and coffee
9:30	Plenary opening
	Room 1	Room 16	Room 17	Room 18
10:00	The Product Owner in a Corporate Environment Koen De Hondt & Bart De Gruyter SLIDES Notes	Agile in Non-Software and Multidisciplinary Environments Hans Keppens, Wim Codenie, Tom Tourwe, Stijn Rameloo & Vladimir Blagojevic	Agile Requirements Exploration Dave Nicolette & Brett Schuchert	Security Architecture Johan Peeters, Andre Marien, Maarten Van Horenbeeck
11:00	15 min break
11:15	CONTINUED	CONTINUED	CONTINUED	CONTINUED
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Agile as Lifestyle Laurent Bossavit	Committing to a date in a product release environment Bart De Gruyter, Toon Nevelsteen & Evert Arckens Session Notes	Where does it hurt? Interviewing techniques to really understand your customer Pascal Van Cauwenberghe & Bernard Vander Beken Session summary by Dave Nicolette	Sustainable TestDriven Development Nat Pryce & Steve Freeman
15:00	15 min break
15:15	Dimensional Planning Koen Van Exem & Walter Hesius	Talking the Senior Management language Georges Ataya	Keep improving with retrospectives Nicole Belilos	CONTINUED
16:45	Plenary closing
17:15 18:00	Closing drinks

Legend
Technology and technique
Team and individual
Process and improvement
Customer and planning