Release 7: my schedule for 2nd half of 2005

I am currently planned to go and participate to 2 events between now and the end of the year. These are:

• XP2005, in sheffield, UK.

I will Co-animate and run an XP Game session along with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe, Ivan Moore and Vera Peeters on June 21st, 2005. If you have not participated to one of these yet, I strongly advise you to come along. You will probably want to run one yourself for your teams or customers as soon as you get back to work.

I have also offered to Pascal and Vera some thoughts about an XP Game Level 2 concept, which would demonstrate other aspects of XP to participants and which are not explained in the usual XP Game. We have agreed to spend some time define what this Level 2 should look like. Hopefully, this should lead to another type of session for XP practitioners and project managers, focusing even more on Value Release Planning.

• Agile Business Conference 2005, in London, UK.

I will spend a bit of time talking about eXtreme Analysis and how this concept can be used within large Programmes to allow the Business to take better decisions, faster, on which projects to start. This will be time devoted to Business Value and Programme Decision making process, as opposed to XP proper.

My objective through this session would be to convince at least one organisation to give eXtreme Analysis a try for their Programme. ;-) If you are already interested, give a shout!