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Future showings:

• XP Days Benelux (20-21 November 2008)
• XP Days London (11-12 December 2008)

Real Options

Real Options is a decision-making process for managing uncertainty and risk. It's a simple and powerful approach that helps us make better informed decisions by understanding and responding to the psychological effects uncertainty has on our behaviour, both as individuals and in groups.

Real Options handout in English

Real Options handout en français

Nine Boxes

The Nine Boxes is an interview technique from the "Solution Selling" sales process. It helps us to discover what the real problem of the customer is, to find out who is affected by the problem and to co-create a vision of the future with all those affected by the problem. At the end of such interviews we have a deeper understanding of our customer and they are enthusiastic to participate in a project to solve their problems. We have everything we need to start writing user stories.

Nine Boxes handout in English

Les neuf cases en français

I'm not a Bottleneck! I'm a free man!

The Theory of Constraints offers a simple but effective process improvement process: the "5 focusing steps". The 5 steps consist of continuously

• making the goal of the system explicit
• finding the bottleneck where the system's constraint lies
• exploiting the constraint to get the most value
• subordinating every decision to the constraint
• elevating the bottleneck

The session introduces the theory with a playful simulation. After the simulation, participants apply the techniques to real-world cases in a workshop.

English Session handbook

English Job instruction sheets for the simulation

French Job instruction sheets for the simulation

English Handout

French Handout

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Who Are We?

Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

Pascal Van Cauwenberghe is a consultant based in Brussels who tries to solve more problems than he causes. To do this, he uses Agile, Lean, Theory of Constraints and Systems Thinking techniques.

He's one of the founders of the Belgian XP group and one of the organizers of XP Days Benelux. One day he and Vera Peeters invented the "XP Game", because they couldn't explain XP to their team and customers. They've learned that games are an ideal way to learn. Since then he tries to transform work into play...

Pascal Van Cauwenberghe essaie de résoudre plus de problèmes qu'il n'en crée. Pour cela il utilise des méthodes issues de l'agile, du Lean, de la théorie des contraintes, du Systems Thinking notamment.

Il est un des fondateurs du groupe XP en Belgique et un des organisateurs des XP Days Benelux. Un jour, Vera Peeters et lui ont inventé le "XP Game", parce qu'ils ne réussissaient pas à expliquer XP. Ils ont appris que le jeu est un moyen idéal pour apprendre. Depuis lors, il tente de transformer le travail en un jeu...

His blog: http://blog.nayima.be

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Portia Tung

Portia is a consultant based in London, specialising in software process improvement using principles and practices from Lean Software Development and Scrum. Portia typically works in a multi-disciplined and technical capacity, helping organisations become more agile through collaboration and coaching.

Portia est consultante à Londres. Elle est specialisée dans Scrum et les principes et pratiques de Lean Software Development. Portia a occupé des postes variés allant de développeur Java et chef d'équipe technique à chef de projet et puis consultante. Portia applique son expérience comme geek et puis boss pour aider les entreprises à devenir plus agiles grâce à la collaboration et le coaching.

Her blog: http://www.selfishprogramming.org

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