Tryout of Agreeing on Business Value

Pascal will present a tryout of the “Agreeing on Business Value using Systems Thinking” session for XP Days Benelux at the Agile/XP Belgium usergroup meeting organised by Cap Gemini.

We talk a lot about “maximizing business value”. We ask business people and product managers to prioritise by estimating the business value of user stories. […]

The Emperor's New Clothes

Portia will co-present a new Agile Fairytale, “The Emperor’s New Clothes – Meaningful Interactions in Stressful situations” with Jenni Jepsen on 25-26 November at the XP Days Benelux 2010 conference in Heeze, near Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

The Emperor is parading in his new clothes! See him in all his glory! Which role will you […]

Agreeing on Business Value

Portia and Pascal will present “Agreeing on Business Value using Systems Thinking” at the XP Days Benelux 2010 conference on 25-26 November 2010 in Heeze, near Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

We talk a lot about “maximizing business value”. We ask business people and product managers to prioritise by estimating the business value of user stories. […]

Solve Conflicts without compromise at Mini SPA 2010

Portia and Pascal presented a tutorial on how to use the “Conflict Resolution Diagram” systems thinking tool at the Mini SPA conference in London on September 10th 2010.

The slides of the presentation and summaries of the systems thinking tools are available on this site.

Let us know if these tools gave you ideas to resolve some […]

Lean out your Backlog at Lean & Kanban Belgium 2010

Pascal will present “Lean out your product backlog with lean product development and business analysis techniques” at the Lean & Kanban Europe 2010 conference.

The session will show how using business analysis and kanban techniques we can create a flow from business goals to implementable user stories with acceptance test, focus on […]

Resolving Conflicts without Compromise at Mini SPA 2010

Portia and Pascal will present “Resolve conflicts without Compromise” at the Mini SPA 2010 conference on September 10th 2010 in London. This session is a shorter tutorial version of the workshop that was run earlier this year at the SPA conference. In the session,we go through several applications of the Conflict Resolution Diagram with session […]

Yellow Brick Road at Mini XP Day Benelux

Portia presents “The Yellow Brick Road: Agile adoption through peer coaching” on April 26th 2010 at Mini XP Day Benelux in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

The Wizard of Oz at XP Day Suisse

Portia Tung and Pascal Van Cauwenberghe will co-present the “Coaching with the Wizard of Oz” Agile Fairytale at the Swiss XP Day in Geneva on March 29th.

Apprenez les techniques de coaching avec le magicien d’Oz

Pour pouvoir aider les autres (et soi-même) avec du coaching il faut mettre en pratique quatre activités :

Poser les bonnes questions
Écouter […]

Agile Project Management at XP Day Suisse

Portia Tung and Pascal Van Cauwenberghe will co-present a tutorial on Agile Project Management at the Swiss XP Day in Geneva on March 29th.

La gestion de projet agile en pratique

Est-ce qu’il y a des chefs de projet dans un projet agile ? Qu’est-ce qu’ils font ? Quelle est la différence avec un Scrum Master ? […]

Pinocchio at Turku Agile Day

Pinocchio: On Becoming a Lean Leader

Portia Tung and Pascal Van Cauwenberghe will co-present the opening keynote “Pinocchio: On Becoming a Lean Leader” at the Agile Turku Day 2010 in Turku, Finland on March 17th 2010.

Come and play with us to sharpen your leadership skills!

Pinocchio by Enrico Mazzanti (1852-1910) – the first illustrator (1883) of Le […]