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Monthly Archives: July 2007
‘Matrix’ project building with Hudson
The crazy (8 releases in the past 30 days!) Hudson dev team has just introduced a new feature. They call it a ‘matrix project’. The idea is that a configuration would often be common to many builds. Say, one for … Continue reading
Survey suggests high adoption rate of Agile
Scott Ambler has put together a survey that shows surprisingly positive data regarding application of Agile in companies. Apparently, more than two thirds of respondents were already adopting Agile practices, and among them close to half were already on their … Continue reading
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Agile Estimating and Planning
I finally completed reading Agile Estimating and Planning, the definitive book by Mike Cohn. Though longer than many books in the Agile domain, it covers so much that it should be a mandatory reading for anyone interested in Agile. Every … Continue reading
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(Somewhat) Agile, finally
Well, it took 5 long months, but I can finally honestly say that we are doing (some) Scrum things on my current project. I joined the project in February this year. My first idea was to convince the project lead … Continue reading
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CNN considers Agile the 18th Most Transforming Thing in Business
I hope I am not the last to report this… CNN has listed Agile has one of the most influential “people, product, trend, or idea that is transforming the world of business”. In fact, it was ranked 18th out of … Continue reading
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Subversive likely to become the official Subversion plugin for Eclipse
In a previous post, I mentioned the competition between Subclipse and Subversive, two Eclipse plugins that provide integration with Subversion, a Source Code Management system, to become the official Subversion plugin under Eclipse. I’m a bit late on this, but … Continue reading
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Wideband Delphi
During the last Scrum training that I gave, I put to the test Wideband Delphi, a technique for reaching a consensus on estimations. One common exercise that I propose is to estimate my own weight. Another, not based on Wideband … Continue reading
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More on our internal OpenSpace Technology events
David Gageot has posted a round-up (in French) of the OST conference that I facilitated at Valtech recently, with pictures. My post on the subject is here.
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