Agile Belgium

Category: Events

  • Agile Belgium Drinkup March 2012

    Hi everyone,

    As usual, it’s time to gather again for our traditional monthly Agile Belgium Drinkup.

    This one will take place at “La Becasse” behind the Bourse/Beurs (rue de Tabora 11, 1000 Bruxelles)

    Some suggested that it would be nice to have a place where we could play games or even do a small presentation, and “La Becasse” has a room we can use upstairs for that.

    Talking about games, we had a discussion about games that could help teams understand the importance of tests or how taking shortcuts can be a bad idea. I’ll bring a copy of “Hard Choices” with me so we can try it out. If you have other games in mind, please tell us!

    We will start at 7:30 pm, a bit later, because that’s when people usually arrive.

    As usual, you can register here:
    http://abdup.fikket.com

    Hope to see some of you there,

    Marc

  • Agile Drinkup February 2012

    Hi Everyone,

    As usual, it’s time for our next Drinkup. It will take place on February 15th at 7 p.m. This time I’ll make sure I’m working from Brussels so I don’t get there late… Sorry again for those who had to wait last time.

    It will still take place at the Estaminet du Kelderke on the Grand Place itself number 15.

    Here’s a link to the website of the place.

    If you want to join, please register here so we can book a suitable table.

    See you there,

  • Agile Belgium Drinkup January 2012

    Hi everyone,

    Now that the holidays are over, it’s time to get back to the good old habits isn’t it?

    Last december, we had a retrospective of the 7 previous drinkups, you can find more about it in my last post.

    This time, it’s going to be at the “Estaminet du Kelderke” on the Grand Place itself. It should be quieter, we can also eat some belgian cuisine there but the drawback is that beers are going to be more expensive than at the Delirium, I guess we’ll talk more and drink a little less 😉

    Here’s a link to the website of the place.

    Wednesday 18 at 7pm, next drinkup, and as usual you can already register here.

    We’ll pick a few activities in the list we gathered during the retrospective and see how we can make the other initiatives for the community to move forward.

    See you on Wednesday!

  • Agile Belgium Drinkup – December 2011

    Topic:

    This is an informal meetup of the Belgian Agile and Lean community. Come after work and meet people you usually only meet at conferences. Anyone interested in Agile or Lean can join.

    Date:

    December 14, 2011 from 19:00 until
 you decide to go home.

    You can find us at the back of the ground floor, the tap bar. When you are in the bar go as far as you can go at the back, you’ll find us there. It’s quieter there.

    The next one is a bit special as it’s the last one of 2011. It might be a good idea to retrospect on the previous editions and take decisions for 2012. So if you want to participate to the retrospective or if you just want to have a beer and talk Agile with some peers then join us!

    Add your name to the list to attend.

    Location:

    Delirium Café
    Impasse de la Fidélité 4A
    1000 Bruxelles

    Near Brussels Central station and the Grand’ Place.

    See you there!

  • XP Days Benelux 2011 – Sold out

    XP Day Benelux is an international conference about Agile methods, intended for people from all walks of life who are involved with IT. It provides a good opportunity for exchanging ideas and sharing experiences and is suited for both experienced participants and beginners in Agile methods. The focus of this conference is on practical knowledge, real-world experience, and active participation of everyone.

    The conference is now completely sold out. Hope to see you at the next “Mini XP Day”.

    Would you like to get an impression of the conference? Watch the video from XP Days Benelux 2010.

  • Agile Belgium Drinkup – November 2011

    Topic:

    This is an informal meetup of the Belgian Agile and Lean community. Come after work and meet people you usually only meet at conferences. Anyone interested in Agile or Lean can join.

    Date:

    November 9, 2011 from 19:00 until
 you decide to go home.

    You can find us at the back of the ground floor, the tap bar. When you are in the bar go as far as you can go at the back, you’ll find us there. It’s quieter there.

    Add your name to the list to attend.

    Location:

    Delirium Café
    Impasse de la Fidélité 4A
    1000 Bruxelles

    Near Brussels Central station and the Grand’ Place.

    See you there!

  • Agile Belgium Drinkup – October 2011

    Topic:

    This is an informal meetup of the Belgian Agile and Lean community. Come after work and meet people you usually only meet at conferences. Anyone interested in Agile or Lean can join.

    Date: October 12th, 2011 from 19:00 until… you decide to go home.

    You can find us at the back of the ground floor, the tap bar.

    Add your name to the list to attend.

    Location:

    Delirium Café
    Impasse de la Fidélité 4A
    1000 Bruxelles

    Near Brussels Central station and the Grand’ Place.

    See you there!

  • First Agile Belgium Drinkup

    Last week we had the first Agile Belgium Drinkup. An attempt to gather the belgian Agile community outside of the conferences ecosystem. Last wednesday, from the 17 people that registered online, 12 showed up.

    Thanks to that drinkup, we had the opportunity to discover new faces, people we hadn’t seen before, either at conferences or other user group meetings. It didn’t take so many beers for Xavier to put post-its on the bar and facilitate a small improvised retrospective about this first drinkup.
    Here are the insights and actions we have generated:

    Every participant commits to try bringing someone who wasn’t at the first drinkup

    For those who were there, don’t forget to convince a fellow agilist to come with you next time!

    Merge the belgian community website domains

    It has already been taken care of by Pascal. If you go to http://agilebelgium.org you will be redirected to http://xp.be, which will now be the one and only Agile Belgium community website.

    Write a blogpost about the last drinkup

    I think this is also being covered…

    Find a venue with cheaper beers

    The foodsquare was a nice place but the beers were a little expensive. A venue with cheaper beers and still close to major train stations would be appreciated.

    Keep doing it in Brussels

    Brussels is approximatively 1h or less by train from every major Belgian city, it seems like a good choice for a drinkup.

    Organize next drinkup

    Well, let’s take care of that right now! We decided to do these drinkups every second Wednesday of the month, it means the next one will be on the 13th of July. We will do it in the back room of the Delirium cafĂ© near the Grand Place. Again, there is a fikket page so that we get an idea of the number of people that might show up:

    http://abdup.fikket.com/

    This is where all the drinkup events will be announced from now on.

    As you can see we didn’t only drink beers. Following everything that emerged from this first edition of the Agile Belgium drinkup we can consider it to be a success. Next time, we hope you’ll join us!

  • Agile Belgium Drinkup June 2011

    Topic:

    This is an informal meetup of the Belgian Agile and Lean community. Come after work and meet people you usually only meet at conferences. Anyone interested in Agile or Lean can join.

    Add your name to the list to attend.

    Location:

    Foodsquare
    Rue du Marché aux Herbes 120
    1000 Bruxelles

    Between Brussels Central station and the Grand’ Place.

    See you there!