Eric Lefevre-Ardant on Java & Agile

December 23, 2005

Back to Paris: a glance on the progress made in Bangalore

Filed under: offshore, valtech — Eric Lefevre-Ardant @ 11:43 am

I made it back from Bangalore yesterday. The journey back was not as bad as the journey in (where we were re-rerouted to Bombay, with a connecting flight to Bangalore), but we did have a 5-hour delay before taking off because of bad weather.

I’m happy to report that the team in Bangalore has made a lot of progress and can be considered as experienced enough now. The project has now much better odds of succeeding.

I think spending quality time with individual developers, basically pair programming, was what made the difference. It allowed us to commit near-perfect code to CVS, which allowed to boost confidence for some developers. It is so rewarding to see someone who was struggling 3 months ago now spontaneously undertaking new tasks and refactoring other parts.

December 15, 2005

Bangalore: take two

Filed under: offshore, valtech — Eric Lefevre-Ardant @ 9:48 am

Arrived in Bangalore this morning.
I had done my best to take the direct flight from Paris, but we got overbooked, so we had to change to another flight going to Bombay. Let’s just say that it did NOT go very well. Eventually, we arrived around 8am in the hotel (as opposed to 2.30am, as planned before).

Just had a sip of the prepared tea in the cafeteria (mostly milk, little or not water, strong taste). Still as good as ever, though my fellow Indian developers insist that it is barely average.

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