Robert C. Martin, aka Uncle Bob, will be giving a talk Tuesday night (20-10-2009) at AgileHolland.
Now since this is very short notice we are unable to setup proper registration, please tweet me (@larsvonk) if you want to come. Entrance is free, but space is limited. We can only host 20 people at maximum. First come, first serve!

Keep an eye on my twitter updates for last minute details.

The location is:

Molukkenstraat 200, E4
1098TW Amsterdam

Start is at approx. 18.30, dinner is included.

See contact page for more details. Hopefully see you tomorrow!

On 23 and 24 November the XP Days Benelux conference will take place in Mechelen, Belgium. XP Days Benelux is the leading agile conference in the Benelux.

The program has more than 35 sessions on all aspects of software development: experience reports, hands-on development workshops, sessions about scrum, testing, lean, coaching, retrospectives, politics... You'll come back from the conference with techniques you can apply immediately and ideas that will change the way you work.

Woensdag 23 september organiseert AgileHolland met Zilverline een 'Agile Games' avond. Je kunt zelf een game inbrengen of een van de games meespelen die Michael Franken en Tobias Mayer inbrengen.

Spellen lenen zich heel goed om je agile en lean principes te laten ervaren. We stellen de avond zelf een programma op en we zullen in  groepen verschillende spellen spelen. The ball game, penny game, business value game, XP Game (als je die niet al x keer hebt gedaan) en vele anderen zijn mogelijke kandidaten.

De avond begint om 18:00 bij Zilverline op Molukkenstraat 200 in Amsterdam, er is ruim voldoende (gratis) parkeerplaats, en we zullen voor catering zorgen.

(om in te schrijven moet je ingelogd zijn)

Some have called this agile system administration others devops or devmin.

So if you are a developer with a interest for system administration. Or a sysadmin interested in development. Join us on the first conference that focuses on bringing the best of both worlds together,

Devopsdays '09 , 30 & 31 October, Ghent, Belgium http://www.devopsdays.org/

two days of fun and interesting talks. http://www.devopsdays.org/programme

Speakers include:
Rachel Davies, Lindsay Holmwood, Matthias Skarin, Chris Read, Teyo Tyree, Matt Rechenburg
http://www.devopsdays.org/speakers

OutSystems®, provider of the industry-leading Agile Platform, today announced the immediate availability of the free Agile Platform Community Edition, providing developers with an easy way to create web business applications and explore Agile techniques without any vendor lock-in.

Check it out at http://tiny.cc/BSxYh

Atos(tm) Application Development and Integration. Op deze plek geven Atos Originals hun blik op Applicatieontwikkeling en -integratie Read more at Atos Origin »

http://tinyurl.com/lxvgwd

New article on Agile Development best practices that discusses the importance of involving the real users of your new application – senior management participation is important but not enough…http://tinyurl.com/n39s3s

Agile Holland proudly presents the next Agile Open conference on September 10 & 11, in Baarn (The Netherlands).

Agile Open is a two day not for profit conference, meant for anyone with some degree of experience with an agile way of working. It is designed to allow agile practitioners to meet in self-organizing groups where they can share their latest ideas and challenges, hopes and wishes, experiences and experiments.

We follow an Open Space format to foster collaboration and allow the conference to take its direction from the participants themselves - it's a peer to peer conference where you co-create the conference while it happens.

The conference theme is: My method is bigger than yours...or is it?

Word cloud of agile, Scrum, Kanban & XP created with Wordle.

I posted a new weblog on our company website about cultural dimensions and adoption of Agile methods.
You can find it here:
http://www.approach-alliance.nl/index.php?option=com_jd-wp&Itemid=52

When you like to read it in Dutch go to:
http://www.abc-thinkbig.com/weblog/#post57

I would like you to comment on this or share any other thoughts you have about the content.

Next up at NextStep - Marteijn Mout who is the project managers of the 'New meter market model' at E.ON Benelux. E.ON is one of Europe's largest Energy providers with over 30 million customers in 30 countries. E.ON Benelux has around 270,000 customers and they have been a customer of OutSystems since 2004.