http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/2228/ Events feed for the AgileEvents Group on Upcoming. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:25:13 -0700 Upcoming 60 en-us http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xp-be/?yguid=346283339), I am pleased to invite you to the second 'Agile in Belgium' user group meeting on the 13th of August @ Capgemini Belgium (http://www.be.capgemini.com/). Please subscribe before the 11th of August by means of a mail to jurgen.desmet@agfa.com.

Topic: Business Value Game

Presenters: Vera Peeters & Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
Both are independent consultants. Vera runs her own company Tryx (http://wiki2go.tryx.be/FrontPage.html), for Pascal this is Nayima (http://www.nayima.be/). Both have a significant amount of years experience in developing software systems, development in all kinds of high-technological environments applying agile ways of working in different flavors and environments. Both have presented workshops at several conferences, invented the XP Game as well as they founded XP.be community.

Objectives: Learn how to assign business value to projects and stories, prioritize and make plans that bring value.

Contents:
Agile teams want to deliver maximum business value. That's easy if the Onsite Customer assigns business value to each story. But how does the Customer do that? How can you estimate business value?

How do you decide between stories? How do you decide between projects? How do you decide between clients?

This session gives you some simple business value estimation techniques that are "good enough" for everyday use.

The session is run as a game, where teams of 'businesspeople' have to make plans for their development team. The goal of the game is to deliver the highest possible business value, like in the XP Game. This game is a complement to the XP Game: how do these 'business value points" on the XP Game story cards get chosen?

Each businessperson in the team represents one (or more) clients who will buy the team's product IF their feature(s) is in the product. The team is going to have to make some tough decisions; the team is going to have to disappoint some clients, because the development team has a finite capacity.

Pascal & Vera provide the clients and their wishes + they suggest the techniques to estimate business value. The rest is up to us.
Agenda:
18.30h Welcome
19.00h Start of the session
20.30h Round up
> be on time!

A big thanks to Bart Reyserhove for the location this time!
Also many thanks to Vera & Pascal for this unique opportunity, much appreciated!
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At a recent gathering of over 70 security professionals, the subject of cloud computing and the issues that it raises regarding the security of our networks was discussed. The forum interactively identified numerous issues that must be addressed within the enterprise to ensure that proprietary, personal and private information is protected when using cloud computing technology. The talk described different types of cloud computing solutions and how they allow information to leak from the enterprise. Other cloud computing issues covered were data ownership, legal liability, verification and validation, virtualization, and e-discovery implications. This talk will describe the results of that collaboration and will provide insight into how security professionals are addressing cloud computing in the enterprise. For example, if your organization is using cloud computing services is your present security model going to have to change?

Speaker: Mark S. Kadrich - CISSP - The Security Consortium, Inc

For the past 20 year Mark Kadrich has been a contributing member of the security community. His strengths are in systems level design, policy generation, end point security, and risk management. His book Endpoint Security (Addison Wesley) is available now. Mr. Kadrich is presently President and CEO of The Security Consortium, whose mission is to provide security testing, research, counsel, and leadership to their customers. Prior to TSC, Mr. Kadrich was Senior Manager of Network and Endpoint Security for Symantec. His role was to ensure that the Symantec business units correctly interpreted security policy during their pursuit of innovative technology solutions. Mr. Kadrich was senior scientist with Sygate Technologies prior to the Symantec acquisition. Mr. Kadrich joined Sygate through the acquisition of a start-up company where he was a founding member.

Dinner, wine, cold drinks are included!

$20.
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Speakers include:

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At our inaugural San Francisco conference we saw more than 400 attendees and 78 speakers.

On November 17–18 a number of tutorials are being organized, please check back on our website for more information.

Register by July 31 and save up to $400, pay just $1,695 for a 3 -day conference pass.
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Delivered by SolutionsIQ Agile thought leaders, this course shares time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more!

On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs.
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This two-day ScrumMaster certification course provides everything you need to get started with Scrum and Agile. One of the largest and fastest-growing agile project management methodologies, Scrum is a simple software management technique that has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, in not overly prescriptive and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost immediately.

Delivered by SolutionsIQ Agile thought leaders, this course shares time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more!

On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs.
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