This year, the 8th edition of the XP Days Benelux takes place on November 25-26th 2010.  The location is Kapellerput in Heeze (The Netherlands).

Together with my colleague Peter Doomen, I'm selected as a speaker.  The session we are going to deliver is the Frog Factory. Read more about this session here and here.

All the info about the XpDays can be found here.

May we have your vote please? Together with 3 colleagues, I participate on the PMI Agile contest on YouTube. Have a look at our presentation Agile @ SD Worx YannicHelsen and give us your vote! How to? Sign in on YouTube, become a member of the PMIAgile group on http://lnkd.in/BpXYNP  , click on our video (“Agile @ SDWorx” YannicHelsen) and vote for use by clicking I love it! Tnx in advance!

This is the video:

Yep, the first problem I got with windows 7 64-bit, Office 2010 64-bit and Windows Mobile Device Center.

Using windows 7 64bit, you need to install the Windows Mobile Device Center 64-bit.  No problem when using Office 2007.
But after I installed Office 2010 64-bit, no synchronization is made with my HTC mobile phone.

So I reinstalled the Mobile center and then I got the message that he can't find outlook.  So what's the problem?

It seems that Windows Mobile center isn't up to date to use with the 64-bit version of Office 2010.

How to resolve?
Well you could de-install office 2010 64-bit and reinstall the 32-bit version.  But as I have a 64-bit processor this is stupid.
Another solution is to use google mail to sync with Outlook and then to sync with your mobile phone. 

None of them has my interest.  So I hope that MS will soon release a new version of their mobile center.  As this is so stupid for the moment.

Mattias Skarin aka Crisp posted a nice small article with a case study about a team that is transformed from Scrum to Kanban.  He also put a few things he learned from this process, but also mentioned that they still have a way to go.

So if you are interested in this, read it here: http://blog.crisp.se/mattiasskarin/2010/04/27/1272362964756.html

An old colleague of me, Gill Cleeren (Together with Kevin Dockx) wrote his first book.  It's a book about Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook.

Over 80 practical recipes for creating rich, data-driven business applications in Silverlight.

Find all the book info and how to order it here: http://www.snowball.be/2010/04/26/My+Book+Released+Silverlight+4+Data+And+Services+Cookbook.aspx

Gill, Congrats with your first book.

The April RTM version of the TFS2010 Power tools are released.  Find a detailed description here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2010/04/26/tfs-2010-power-tools-have-released.aspx

Yesterday evening, my work hosted an event for the Belgium Agile Usergroup.  The main stream of this is evening was "Using Kanban Beyond Software Development".  Together with 2 colleagues (Peter Doomen and Sofie) I was one of the presenters.

There were 3 presentations and one open space:

1. Kanban in a complex administrative world (Sofie)
2. Kanban for support of development teams (Sven)
3. Kitchen Kanban - Cooking 13 different plates for 1600 people with Kanban (Peter)
4. Kanban is better than Scrum because... (Open discussion)

Afterwards we had a small break out session with following topics:

1. Discuss the result of the Open Discussion
2. Presentation of the Kanban Game
3. Evaluation: What did we learn today?

In total, we had 4 time slots (of 20 minutes).  Each presentator has given his presentation twice in one of the timeslots, so he could follow one of the other sessions.

It was a no slide presentation, but we made one A0 poster for each presenter. Here's my poster

 

As promised in my previous post about the Kanban Experience, now all the info about the game with played.

You can find everything on the blog of colleague Peter Doomen. In this article he explained the game and offers everything as a free download (read the rules for downloading it). So go here and enjoy: http://www.aboriginemundi.com/index.php/2010/04/the-frog-factory-a-kanban-experience-game/.

If you have feedback to the game, you can always contact me or Peter.  So we hope you enjoy it and can give us some great feedback.

You want to know everything about compatibility with TFS2010and all the Team Explorer versions, well read this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/team_foundation/pages/compat-matrix-for-2010-rtm-team-foundation-server-to-team-explorer-2008-and-2005.aspx

Yep, finally it's there.  The new VS2010 and .Net 4.0.  Yesterday was the lauch event of it.  And if you're a MS subscriber, then you can download it now from your subscribtion.  So go there, login, download and install it and enjoy this great new release.

You can still see the launch event if you have missed it, just go here: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/watch-it-live.

For more info go to Scott Guthrie's blog and read this article: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/04/12/visual-studio-2010-and-net-4-released.aspx.

Also, txs to my friend Kris van der Mast, here's a link for e free eBook about VS2010: http://blog.krisvandermast.com/ct.ashx?id=9e36e215-e443-442d-8427-6140ba274408&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.microsoft.com%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fdisplaylang%3den%26FamilyID%3d12a6de81-c633-4f2c-a35f-cea6fe772712. 

The book is not a language primer, a language reference, or a single technology book. It's a book that will help professional developers move from previous versions of Visual Studio (starting with 2003 and on up). It will cover the features of Visual Studio 2010 through an application. It will go through a lot of the exciting new language features and new versions of the most popular technologies without putting the emphasis on the technologies themselves. It will instead put the emphasis on how you would get to those new tools and features from Visual Studio 2010.