Self-organization game "Farmer's Challenge" and Scrum in Practice!

Agenda:

18.00-18.50 Food & drinks

18.50-19.00 Opening Agile Holland and pitch of our sponsor Textkernel

19.00-20.00 The Farmer's Challenge

20.00-20.15 Short Break

20.15-21.00 Scrum in Practice!

21.00-21.30 Drinks

Farmers Challenge.

Today’s first topic is Farming. What really? What has that to do with anything Agile? Well, I have a challenge for you. A challenge to solve a complex puzzle with some farmers. I've let many managers and teams play this serious game in order to find out what kind of leadership there is in the group. We’ll play the game and will dissect what happened during this session. But on top of that I'll have some of you be on the facilitators side. So that you can experience what it is to facilitate this session for your own. Come and learn a new tool how to engage teams and managers in to change in just 45 minutes.

The presenter is Eddy Bruin. For many years Eddy has have been using serious games and learning metaphors to help teams and organizations forward. He is an Agile and Test Coach with the mission to help teams and management deliver software people actually want to use while having as much fun as possible.

The second topic is Scrum in Practice!

Scrum is hard. The scrum guide is clear and simple, but the application of the rules described in it is not clear-cut and many of us end up frustrated with rules that seem to create more problems than they solve.
In this talk I will talk about the philosophy underlying scrum and how when properly understood, scrum ceases to be a rigid framework for the development process, becoming instead a set of guidelines to be interpreted in the context of the individuals involved and their interactions.

Speaker is Erik de Bos:
I started life as a biologist specializing in animal behavior, but finding better employment opportunities as a webdeveloper ended up as a programmer… one wondering why project management never seems to work. Until I discovered scrum.
I am senior developer and scrum master at Way2Web, where I have been managing the scrum transition for the past two years, during which we have grown from one team to four highly professional, self-organizing scrum teams.