As every year the XP Day Wave starts in Belgium.[1] The XP Conference in Mechelen is always worth to go, as a lot of very experience people will show up. The program [4] is really promising and I would love to go “Visual Management for Agile Teams”[5]. Unfortunately for me, it turned out far to late that I do have time this week :(

The second stop of the  XP Tour is in Germany, Karlsruhe [3]. The organizer from Andrena have put together an extremely nice conference program. All big names in the German agile business are there to show what the can. I thing the talk you must visit is “Scrum and Legacy” [6]. It looks very promising.

And later this year on 7 and 8 of December the mother of the XP Day runs in London [3]. Based on the program you can see that the new buzz word on the horizon is Kanban and Lean in the agile world. The XP day in London usually sets trends. So I we should not wonder if we do have much more Lean discussion ongoing next year.

[1] http://www.xpday.net/

[2] http://xpdays.de/2009/index.html

[3] http://www.xpday.org/

[4] http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2009/Program.html

[5] http://www.xpday.net/Xpday2009/sessions/Visual%20Management%20for%20Agile%20Teams.htm

[6] http://xpdays.de/2009/sessions/ScrumUndLegacy.html