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BNPPF 4the agile week – November 2022

November 21, 2022
Online The world

I’m part of the organizer’s team of the fourth internal agile week conference. I help out finding and contacting the speakers, doing some of the technical checkups for external speakers, delivering talks and helping out with dry runs from internal speakers. I also deliver workshops around liberating structures and story slicing.

Agile Tour Brussels: How to make hybrid meetings work?

October 28, 2022
Brussels Belgium

Session Pitch The current best answer to hybrid workshops is “don’t do them”. In this session I want to find a better solution to that question.   Session Details Around the time the agile manifesto was signed the best answer to remote work was don’t do it. The pandemic teached the world, it is possible. …

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Breaking the Silos: Hybrid & Remote Work

October 26, 2022
Ghent Belgium

We build a community of like-minded organisations, leaders, and people who want to break siloed thinking and approaches within Belgian tech companies and improve collaboration. Join us to learn how to make change happen in your company or teams and meet people sharing the same values. How have Belgian tech companies evolved to facilitate remote …

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SMOTU: Hybrid and Remote Facilitation Tips from the Trenches with Yves Hanoulle

September 12, 2022
Online The world

The pandemic moved to work remote. For some it worked, for others, not so much. What has the community learned from this period? What are acceptance criteria for successful remote work? Now that many offices are returning to work, most are offering a hybrid schedule. Hybrid work brings its own set of unique challenges. Being …

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XP Days Benelux 2022

September 8, 2022
Luxembourgh BENELUX

During this evening session, I facilitated a fishbowl discussion with people at the conference.I picked a few speakers from the program and I invited people from the audience and we added an extra chair and had a (guided) discussion about agileEveryone in the audience was free to join the discussion (as I’m using the fishbowl …

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agile Consortium Belgium: Reframing agile

June 14, 2022
Brussels Belgium

We have come to value Learning Organisations over Agile Transformations.   No two agile transformations are alike. We think that the ability to learn as an organisation makes the difference between success and failure. In this session, we will explore with you what it means to become a learning organisation. We will combine findings from …

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Scrummaster Summit 2022

May 16, 2022
Online The world

Track host of the Hybrid track From don’t do hybrid to hybrid work is the future Many say that the best way to organize Hybrid meetings, is not to do it In this track, we will publish experiments with hybrid meetings that helped you succeed as a Scrum Master / Agile Coach

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BNPPF agile week May 2022

May 2, 2022
Online Belgium

I’m part of the organizer’s team of third internal agile week conference. I help out finding and contacting the speakers, doing some of the technical checkups for external speakers, delivering talks and helping out with dry runs from internal speakers.

Lean Agile Global 2021

May 24, 2021
Online The world

Speaker: a selection of tips from the agile trenches. Sharing tips I collected for my book: Tips from the agile trenches

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Agile Ontario: friends from around the world

December 12, 2020
Ontario (Online) Canada

Speaker: PO as a service

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Devopsdays Ghent The 10th year Anniversary edition

October 28, 2019
Ghent Belgium

10 years ago , the very first devopsdays got organised in Ghent 10 years ago , nobody used the word devops This small event changed many lives It changed many organisations After 10 years it is time to come back to where we started the movement Time to come back to Ghent and reflect on …

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Mini Maker Faire Gent

May 5, 2019
Ghent Belgium

My daughter Geike delivered her Arduino workshop at maker faire Gent. Her book with the workshop material can be bought on amazon  

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CoachRetreat 34

March 30, 2019
Brussels Belgium

Together with Oana Juncu I invented the CoachRetreat format. Even if I don’t go to all CoachRetreats, I add them all to my calendar.

CoachRetreat 33

March 30, 2019
Paris France

Together with Oana Juncu I invented the CoachRetreat format. Even if I don’t go to all CoachRetreats, I add them all to my calendar.

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Agile India 2019

March 19, 2019
Bangalore India

I spoke together with Geike, my 11 year old daughter about Real Options. The video of the presentation can be found on youtube: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAxUwZzlMJE

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keynote speaker Agile Prague 2018

September 11, 2018
Prague czech republic

Yves was one of the keynote speakers at agile prague. The video of the keynote can be found on youtube

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Only speaker at #NoEstimates event (Agile Consortium Belgium)

September 17, 2015

I was asked to hold a workshop about No Estimates by the Agile consortium Belgium

ALE2015: Petcha kutcha talk about Presenting as Father and Son

August 26, 2015
Sofia Bukarest

I spoke with my 13 year old son Joppe about pair family speaking.  

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AgileEE 20015

March 28, 2015
KIev Ukraine

I did the closing keynote at AgileEE 2015. My son Joppe age 13 joined me on stage. Here you can find the video on youtube  

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Keynote at Failing Forward 2014

December 5, 2014
Hasselt Belgium

This talk was the first talk that Joppe joined me in English. The talk can be found on youtube

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Agile Tour Lille

November 18, 2014
Lille France

Playing the Scaling Ball game //leanpub.com/TheScalingBallGame

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Lean and Kanban

November 5, 2014
Paris France

The lean and Agile mindset Presentation in French together with Oana Juncu Video can be found at infoQ //www.infoq.com/fr/presentations/lean-agile-mindset/

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Devopsdays Belgium 2014

October 27, 2014
Ghent Belgium

Co-organizer Facilitator of the open space

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