Dear , 

PairCoaching.net  kindly invites you to our last minute in agile Training.

Retrospectives for Agile teams
A retrospective is a meeting held at the end of a development iteration or project milestone to help the team identify ways to improve their team effectiveness. This training presents foundations of retrospective facilitation with implementation tips and practical exercises so you can try out the techniques yourself. The workshop covers how to plan a retrospective, how to run a retrospective and how to integrate retrospectives into agile development lifecycles. Read more 

Trainers: Rachel Davies[UK], Emmanuel Gaillot [FR]

Rachel specializes in coaching teams in agile software development. She has experience in managing teams, requirements analysis and programming in several languages. Rachel is a presenter at and organizer of industry conferences and chair of the Agile Alliance. 

Emmanuel Gaillot is a software engineer and an experienced designer for theatre and dance. He has adapted XP practices and principles to the theatrical production process, and he currently works on instilling theatre practices back into the field of software making. Emmanuel's areas of expertise and interests include self-organizing teams, software making and Extreme Programming. He is involved in the conduct of a Coder's Dojo Experiment in Paris, France, where he also works for Octo Technology as an IT consultant and XP coach.

Date: 11 June 2007  [English] 
Place: Regus Park Atrium (Brussels - Belgium)
Price: € 390
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BootCamp

Jim & Michele McCarthy have been leading teamwork laboratorial workshops for more than ten years.
BootCamp delivers the best practices of building a team into one week.
You can read their ideas in Software for your head, or listen to their PodCasts. Until now you had to travel to the States to follow their BootCamp (which Yves did). Now PairCoaching.net brings them to Europe. Read more 

Trainers: Jim McCarthy [USA], Michele McCarthy [USA]

Jim McCarthy led software development teams at Bell Labs, The Whitewater Group, and Microsoft Corporation. Since 1996, Jim has devoted himself to researching groups and how they create products and organizations. Jim uses a teamwork lab (McCarthy BootCamp, a product development simulation) and in situ research at corporations large and small, worldwide. Jim wrote “Dynamics of Software Development” in 1995, (about which Ron Jeffries, said: “Jim was extreme before extreme was cool.”) Microsoft has released the 2006 edition of Dynamics. 

Michele McCarthy, has created with Jim the Core Protocols, a collection of interpersonal protocols that support results-oriented behavior, the efficient aggregation of individual qualities into a greater whole, and the development and realization of shared visions. Together, they authored “Software for Your Head,” and host a podcast show on team and other business issues.

Dates: 04 November 2007 till 09 November 2007 [English] 
Place: Kappele-Op-Den-Bos (Mechelen) Belgium
Price: € 3900
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You can find more workshops and dates on our website.

We would like to offer you our one day workshops in a closed format at € 2.490 for 10 people. And € 99 for each extra person (maximum 20 people). If you wish, we could deliver this in 2 separate evenings. The price for one evening is €1.490 for 10 people and € 69 for each extra person (maximum 20 people). Please call Yves at +32 46 43 38 32 if you are interested in this offer.
Check our website for other dicounts.


, we hope to welcome you on one of our workshops in Belgium.

Your Sincerely,
The PairCoaching.net team

Rachel Davies [Blog]
Emmanuel Gaillot [Blog]
Ignace Hanoulle 
Yves Hanoulle [Blog]
Jim McCarthy [PodCasts]
Michele Mccarthy [PodCasts]
Johan Peeters [Blog]
Vera Peeters
Pascal Van Cauwenberghe [Blog]
Bernard Vander Beken

PS Xp.be launched the Call for Sessions for XP Day Benelux 2007.