Monthly Archives: July 2008

A4 Reports as Iteration Reports

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Many people have asked me to talk about the A4 Reports that I have introduced on one of our projects. I’ve postponed this for a look time, but I finally got around to do it. The idea came from the … Continue reading →

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Agile 2008: My presentations are bigger than yours

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

With Agile 2008 just around the corner, superlatives abound: “largest Agile conference in the world“, “premier international conference in agile development“, “a production team of highly respected Agile experts“, “spans the whole spectrum of agile practice“. Participating companies are also … Continue reading →

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Sonar and Hudson

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I have only mentioned once Sonar in the past on this blog. I should do that more often, as it is truly a great tool. If you read French, please check out my report on a presentation that Freddy Mallet, … Continue reading →

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Architects in their ivory tower

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I have recently started a new assignment as a member of an architecture team, which had not happened to me in a while. In the past few years, I have been working as application developer and/or agile coach, occasionally fighting/collaborating … Continue reading →

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Continuous Integration at Agile 2008

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

You might have noticed that I am taking a great interest in the practice of Continuous Integration (especially in the tool Hudson, of course!). Agile 2008 is just around the corner, and I’m particularly eager to hear the latest about … Continue reading →

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Become a speaker at Agile Tour in France

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Agile Tour is a series of conferences taking place in several cities in France and Switzerland, in October 2008. It aims at spreading the gospel of Agile methods to places outside capitals that have not seen many conferences or user … Continue reading →

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“Creating Change One Tic-Tac At a Time” Presentation finally online

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I have refered a couple of times to the presentation by Jeffrey Fredrick and Alistair Cockburn. Jeffrey used it in a “How to introduce CI” session at CITCON London 2006. I also mentioned that a CI Game had been implemented … Continue reading →

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Agile 2008 – what’s in Breaking Acts?

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Only 3 weeks to go before Agile 2008, the main agile conference. I am very excited, as Laurent Bossavit has kindly invited me to join him in organizing the Breaking Acts (BA) track for the conference. Also, many colleagues of … Continue reading →

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Make clear to every team members that they are all in charge of all tasks

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Just from this morning, on the Lean Development mailing list. Mary Poppendieck: The problem with roles – ANY roles – is that they tend to become a laundry list of stuff a person is expected to do, instead of a … Continue reading →

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Planet Valtech France, a blog aggregator, is there

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I am proud to announce the availability of Planet Valtech, our syndication page for blogs written by my fellow consultants. This site aggregates mostly blogs from consultants at Valtech France. However, I have also added Dave Nicolette‘s (from Valtech US), … Continue reading →