Author Archives: Eric Lefevre-Ardant

About Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Independent technical consultant.

Agile Estimating and Planning

Posted on July 25, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

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

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

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

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

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

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

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

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

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

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

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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Telelogic to be acquired by IBM

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I’ve just learned that Telelogic, one of my former employers, is to be acquired by IBM. From 1998 till early 2000, I used to work for Verilog, a French software company (I was based in the Dallas office) that was … Continue reading →

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A new technical blog at Valtech France

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Here at Valtech France, we have had an internal technical newsletter for a couple of years. The articles are now available publicly online, just for you. Posts are in generally in French and address subjects such as Hudson, JSF, AgileOpen … Continue reading →

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More annoying issues with WebServices

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

It seems that everyday, I find another reason to bash WebServices. A few weeks ago, we were trying desperately to generate proper Java stubs out of an WDSL descriptor that was using return data described in XSD files. We eventually … Continue reading →

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AgileOpen – Measuring Agile

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

To my question “how can we demonstrate the validity of Agile using figures” the disappointing conclusion was that it was not actually possible (thank you Jamie and your “when you know, you know” ;-) ). For more on this, I’d … Continue reading →

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XP Day Paris 2007: presentations now available online

Posted on June 20, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Some of the presentations we saw at XP Day Paris 2007 are now available online (in French). Some of those that I had commented on before include: Explaining Agile to CIOs, by Pierre Pezziardi Pair Programming, by Jacques Couvreur and … Continue reading →

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AgileOpen – Continuous Integration with Hudson

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

After a session on Agile Tooling, I suggested a demo of Hudson. I thought that went rather well. For me, Hudson is definitely the best CI tool today. It is still a bit young but it is so easy to … Continue reading →

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AgileOpen – Agile Conference in French; Valtech Days

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

There were 4 French people at AgileOpen, so inevitably the subject of holding the equivalent of AgileOpen in France came up. It appeared that the people at Octo are using OpenSpace internally. They are also starting to apply it with … Continue reading →

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AgileOpen – Games for Agile teams

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

In the evening, there was a session called ‘games’. That was interesting (and fun). A number of games were named.

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AgileOpen – Agile Retrospectives

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I have to thank Diana Larsen for bringing the subject of Retrospectives up. I am very interested in them, but have little experience outside the usual Scrum retrospectives so I was very happy that someone of the caliber of Diana … Continue reading →

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