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This year, the XP Day Benelux conference will take place on 17 & 18 November 2005, in Rotterdam, The NetherlandsXP Day Benelux is a two day international conference about agile software development, intended for software development and business people from all walks of life. It provides a good opportunity for exchanging ideas and sharing experiences and is suited for both experienced participants and novices. The focus of this conference is on practical knowledge and real-world experience.

Organizing a session is the best way to learn from a conference. It provides an opportunity to share your experiences, to get feedback on your ideas, and to try new session formats. We value interaction and audience participation over presentations and papers. Tutorials, workshops, simulations, and games have been successful at several earlier XP Days.

See also the detailed call for sessions. The closing date for session proposals is July 11th, 2005

On April 20th, we organized the second Dutch Agile Seminar in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. The theme was Agile Management. There were two presentations: Hans Freriks talked about the DSDM perspective on Agile Management; Erik Bos explained how working agile makes it easy to get a CMM level 2 certification with just a little additional work. Both talks generated a lot of discussion.

Reception and dinner

Introduction by Peter Schrier

Hans Freriks addressing the participants

Erik Bos talking about agile and CMM

Drinks and discussion afterwards

Last weekend we organized the Agile Open conference. I found it a wonderful experience organizing it and being there. There were about 23 participants, which was alright for a conference like this. I think we can scale it up somewhat to a maximum of 45 participants.

I’ve put pictures of the conference on the wiki. Willem and Rachel have also blogged about their experiences.

Pictures and written stories can only partially capture the experience - if you really want to know and feel what it’s like, join us for the next Agile Open! Someone remarked that he would like to see many more conference being like this one. If you have any ideas for the next one and/or like to help organizing it, please contact me