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		<title>Agile Open Holland 2009 &#8211; what can I say?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I still don&#8217;t know what to say exactly about Agile Open Holland 2009, even though it was a couple of weeks ago already. I&#8217;ll let the photos taken by Sander, Lucia, see also the video she made) and by Laurens at the event speak for themselves. Starting with some photos by Sander:

Group photo



Lucia presents her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://me.andering.com/2009/10/13/agile-open-holland-2009-what-can-i-say/</link>
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		<title>Fall Conference Appearances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I planned to write individual posts about new and upcoming workshops, but the rate at which we get invited and accepted to conferences this fall outstrips my ability to post new entries   I have to post now, before the conferences themselves are over&#8230; I hope you&#8217;ll join us for at least one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://me.andering.com/2009/10/09/fall-conference-appearances/</link>
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		<title>Retrospective Hero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Retrospective Hero is a new simulation / role playing workshop I'm developing with Nicole Belilos. The goal is to let facilitators experience several situations that can happen in real life, and let them try out some techniques for facilitating retrospectives in a safe context. This is a report of the trial run we held at Agile Open Holland 2009,  with an explanation on how the workshop works.]]></description>
		<link>http://me.andering.com/2009/09/21/retrospective-hero/</link>
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		<title>Mastering Unit Testing Course in Antwerp, Belgium September 24 and 25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are partnering with local companies to provide our training curriculum  in other countries. We started the Mastering Unit Testing course after we found many teams have started writing unit tests, but very few have experienced the benefits of hard-core test-driven development.

&#8220;You have some experience writing unit tests, but wonder how you could get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://me.andering.com/2009/09/09/mastering-unit-testing-course-in-antwerp-belgium-september-24-and-25/</link>
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		<title>An Interview with Barry Evans, author of &#8220;The Trousers Of Reality, volume 1&#8243;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barry Evans works as an independent consultant and writer, and is based in France and the UK. I met Barry a few years ago at Agile Open in Belgium, when he was working as a senior coach in BT&#8217;s large-scale Agile introduction. Now we&#8217;ve done an interview to find out more about his new book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://me.andering.com/2009/09/04/an-interview-with-barry-evans-author-of-the-trousers-of-reality-volume-1/</link>
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		<title>Agile Politics &#8211; (re)discover the politician in you at XP Days Benelux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you believe corporate politics is something for &#8216;those dirty managers&#8217; think again. Everybody behaves in a political way when a limited amount of resources has to be divided over groups of people. Come play our game and experience firsthand how dirty a politician you are!
It has behooved the XP Days Benelux conference to allow playing of devious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://me.andering.com/2009/09/03/agile-politics-rediscover-the-politician-in-you-at-xp-days-benelux/</link>
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		<title>Your need for speed, sponsored by TDD and pairing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The causal loop diagrams in this post have been heavily inspired by GeePawHill (also known as American Mike Hill) &#8217;s  How TDD and Pairing increase production. These diagrams were meant to follow mikes&#8217; story. After they were done, another order presented itself. I recommend you read Mike&#8217;s post for some background and an interesting comment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://me.andering.com/2009/09/01/your-need-for-speed-sponsored-by-tdd-and-pairing/</link>
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		<title>Until cooler heads prevail &#8211; some things that let me calm down when reading online discussions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was getting really frustrated about some online discussion today. It seemed other people were getting even more upset than I was (and even that is just one of many possible interpretations. I know from experience that the more frustrated I am, the less reliable my interpretations are). Instead of blowing off steam by firing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://me.andering.com/2009/08/30/until-cooler-heads-prevail-some-things-that-let-me-calm-down-when-reading-online-discussions/</link>
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		<title>The best way to rob a bank is to own it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope I got your attention with this title   It&#8217;s taken from this video : the Great American Bank Robbery: , taken at the Hammer Museum at the university of California in Los Angeles (hence the many references to california in the presentation and Q&#38;A. it&#8217;s message applies to the rest of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://me.andering.com/2009/08/29/the-best-way-to-rob-a-bank-is-to-own-it/</link>
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		<title>You don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;ve got until you get it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I was on holiday, Marc started creating a new product from scratch. He&#8217;d been walking around with a problem he wanted to solve and couldn&#8217;t find anything that he liked. Marc also wanted to try out the Scala programming language, to see if it would be worth using, and thought nothing helps you focus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://me.andering.com/2009/08/25/you-dont-know-what-youve-got-until-you-get-it/</link>
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