The conference starts

The evening before. Drinking away our nerves...

What happened next?

The conference starts! Who's dropped the ball? session ImprovisationSession Lunch and coffee breaks Be Empowered Session Pair Drawing Session Agile Resistance session Project Mapping session More pictures The timeline provides input for a mini-retrospective The end. Back to the bar

]]> pascal 13 February 2005 22:13 GMT http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2004/PairDrawingPictures.html Xpday2004/PairDrawingPictures Vera Peeters and Peter Schrier's "Pair Draw" session

]]> pascal 13 February 2005 22:12 GMT http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2004/ProjectMappingPictures.html Xpday2004/ProjectMappingPictures Rachel Davies' Project mapping session

]]> pascal 13 February 2005 22:04 GMT http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2004/BeEmpoweredPictures.html Xpday2004/BeEmpoweredPictures Pictures from Laurent Bossavit's "Be Empowered. That's an order!" session

]]> pascal 13 February 2005 22:01 GMT http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2004/ImprovisationSession.html Xpday2004/ImprovisationSession Arjen Uittenboogaard's Improvisation session

]]> pascal 01 January 2005 14:53 GMT http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2004/MoreConferencePictures.html Xpday2004/MoreConferencePictures More conference pictures

The output from the The Drawing Carrousel, a Pair Programming experience session. Hmmm... Lots of interesting books on display. See the list of books if you're interested in any of them.

A rapt audience at the Xtreme Databases session. Lots of great ideas and techniques to work in an agile way with relational databases. Can't wait for monday to apply this stuff!

And then to the conference closing and the reception]]> pascal 01 January 2005 14:50 GMT http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2004/TimelinePictures.html Xpday2004/TimelinePictures The conference timeline and outputs

Peter Schrier review the timeline, which provides input for a mini-retrospective

Reviewing what happened today. Everybody seems to have enjoyed themselves and learned something new and interesting.

Ducky the Chicken played a crucial role in both the Who's dropped the ball? Understanding team dynamics and the {LightningChicken Talks@LightningTalks} sessions. Everyone gets a mug and a Smiley anti-stress ball, for those difficult moments when the rest of the world isn't as agile as we'd like it to be.

And then off to the bar for the closing reception]]> pascal 01 January 2005 14:49 GMT http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2004/Program.html Xpday2004/Program Conference program

8:45	Coffee etc. (pictures)
9:30	Plenary opening
10:00	The extreme power of short releases Koen De Wel & Vera Peeters	Who's dropped the ball? Understanding team dynamics Marc Evers & Willem van den Ende (pictures)	Improvisation - An unorthodox approach to teambuilding Arjen Uittenbogaard	Refactoring, keeping software malleable Duncan Pierce & Ivan Moore
11:00	15 min Break
11:15	Muda in the Software Process - Does Every Activity Add Value? Kevin Rutherford & Andy Lawrence	Who's dropped the ball? Understanding team dynamics Continued	Improvisation - An unorthodox approach to teambuilding Continued	Refactoring, keeping software malleable Continued
12:15	Lunch (pictures)
13:15	Refactoring thumbnails Sven Gorts (presentation)	How to defeat agile resistance Rob Westgeest (pictures)	NLP for Software Development Coaches Marco Jansen & Dan North	Getting your Story Straight Rachel Davies & Andy Pols
14:15	15 min Break
14:30	XP Day Lightning Talks Bernard Vander Beken
14:45		30 min Break
15:15		The Drawing Carrousel, a Pair Programming experience Vera Peeters & Peter Schrier	Be empowered... or else! Laurent Bossavit & Willem van den Ende	Project Mapping Rachel Davies & Nynke Fokma
15:30	15 min Break
15:45	Xtreme Databases Pramod Sadalage & Nick Ashley
16:45	Plenary closing (pictures)
17:15 18:30	Reception/drinks (pictures)

Legend
Interactive Presentation
Tutorial with exercises, simulation
Think tank, workshop

Registration has closed]]> pascal 01 January 2005 14:36 GMT http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2004/AgileResistancePictures.html Xpday2004/AgileResistancePictures Pictures of the How to defeat agile resistance session

Rob Westgeest's session on "How to defeat Agile Resistance".

Analyzing and discussing in small groups. The sessions at the conference have a whole range of formats, from interactive presentations to workshops like this one, where participants work on a problem presented by the session organizer.

And there's more!]]> pascal 01 January 2005 14:28 GMT http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2004/TeamDynamicsPictures.html Xpday2004/TeamDynamicsPictures Who's dropped the Ball? Understanding team dynamics

Keeping as many balls as possible in the air. Not as easy as it sounds...

Discussing and drawing "diagrams of effect" to analyze what happened.

And another round of throwing, to see if our improvements work. Don't drop the chicken!

What did the observers see this round? Presenting our results to the rest of the group.

And then there's lunch!]]> pascal 01 January 2005 14:09 GMT http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2004/ReceptionPictures.html Xpday2004/ReceptionPictures Closing reception in the bar

The conference ends with a reception. More discussion and chat in the bar.]]> pascal 01 January 2005 14:05 GMT http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2004/BreaksPictures.html Xpday2004/BreaksPictures Lunch and coffee breaks

Soup, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. And discussions with other conference attendees.

Getting to know other other people who are interested in Agile and XP. Exchanging ideas and experiences.

Lots of people meeting in the open space. Meanwhile, the room is being prepared for the next session.]]> pascal 29 December 2004 21:59 GMT http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2004/ConferencePicturesStart.html Xpday2004/ConferencePicturesStart The conference starts! People streaming in. Lots of people

Registration. And then coffee and breakfast. And chatting with the other participants.

Waiting for the conference opening

Pictures from Who's dropped the Ball?]]> pascal 05 December 2004 16:57 GMT http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2004/RefactoringThumbnails.html Xpday2004/RefactoringThumbnails back to Program

Refactoring Thumbnails

Expressing the Evolution of Object Oriented Designs

• organiser: SvenGorts
• session duration: 60 min
• session type: Interactive Presentation
• intended audience: journeyman developers that are familiar with design patterns and that have a solid experience in refactoring
• presentation language: English/Dutch

When our refactorings grow larger, the strategical choices underneath them tend to get more important. Especially during the evolution of the higher layers of the design it is crucial that each member of the team shares a common vision of where the design is heading. To accomplish this, developers need to be able to communicate their refactoring ideas.

Refactoring thumbnails are informal design sketches, intended to aid developers in expressing their refactoring ideas. Precisely this focus on communication makes thumbnails different from refactorings: Refactoring thumbnails communicate the target for a large refactoring whereas individual refactorings document how to move towards that target by means of a safe mechanics. Combined these refactoring thumbnails form the basis for a visual refactoring language we can use to document our knowledge of large refactorings.

During the course of this exploration session participants are invited to actively take part by asking questions, making suggestions or sharing ideas.

More at http://www.refactoring.be

Download the presentation at http://www.refactoring.be/thumbnails/refactoring-thumbnails.pdf

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