Contents

1. Upcoming courses
2. New Year’s Resolutions
3. Certified Scrum Developer program
4. Configuration management for developers
5. Events

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1. Upcoming courses
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31 January – 2 February Agile Engineering (Utrecht/Amsterdam area)
14-16 March Agile Engineering (Utrecht/Amsterdam area)
11-13 April Agile Engineering (Utrecht/Amsterdam area)

We also deliver our workshops and courses at other locations and
in-house.

www.qwan.it
Brochure

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2. New Year’s Resolutions
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This year we will focus again on more success and joy in product
development. We will not only run our existing courses and workshops,
but also our new Agile Engineering course. In between projects and
courses, we’ll develop web-based products and smartphone apps, like
trip administration software for web and Android and an event
planning system for the Dutch Day of Dialogue
- www.nederlandindialoog.nl)

Summarizing, a year with more QWAN in products and teams.

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3. Certified Scrum Developer program
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We are now an official Scrum Registered Education Provider. This
means that we can offer training through which you can qualify for
Certified Scrum Developer (CSD). We offer the 3 day Agile Engineering
training course that qualifies for the three day technical skills
part of the Certified Scrum Developer program.

On completion of the Agile Engineering course and a Certified Scrum
Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner course, you can qualify for
Certified Scrum Developer.

We will be working closely together with our colleagues from
Zilverline to offer a complete CSD program consisting of a two day
Certified Scrum Master course and the three day in depth, hands on
Agile Engineering course. This program will provide developers with a
good foundation for high quality, sustainable agile software
development.

Would you like to know more? Do you want to improve development
quality with our CSD program? Don’t hesitate to contact us.

www.qwan.it/csd

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4. Configuration management for developers
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On February 6, Willem will present at the FOSDEM 2011 conference
together with Stephan Eggermont, on “configuration management for
developers”.

For developers laziness is a virtue. Therefore we want be DRY (don’t
repeat yourself) when we administer servers. We built a server for a
startup and considered each time we log in to the production server a
’systems administration smell’. Attend our case study to see how we
used a configuration managent system (Puppet), application specific
scripts, and collaboration practices to keep us sane. See how far we
have gotten towards our goal of DRYness and fast recovery, and learn
from our mistakes.

www.fosdem.org/2011 – no registration necessary

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5. Events
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5-6 February, FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium) – www.fosdem.org/2011

3 March, Scandinavian Agile Conference (Espoo, Finland) -
www.scan-agile.org

1 April, Mini XP Days Benelux (Mechelen, Belgium) – www.xpday.net

10-13 May, XP2011 (Madrid, Spain) – www.xp2011.org

12-15 June, SPA (London, UK) – www.spaconference.org
call for sessions deadline: 28 February

7-13 August, Agile 2011 (Salt Lake City, USA) – www.agile2011.org
call for sessions deadline: 14 February

1-2 December, XP Days Benelux (Mechelen, Belgium) – www.xpday.net