Category Archives: conferences

I’ve been interviewed!

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

The folks at developpez.com (the de facto leading French website for developers) have interviewed me about the Open Space Technology conference that we are having at the Valtech Days on Wednesday.

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Signs from our internal OpenSpace Technology event

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

We did a rehearsal of our coming OpenSpace even at Valtech Days. The signs were “beta” versions of what we’ll get in two weeks. As a side note, we have also started displaying (and renewing) pictures of Valtech events on … Continue reading →

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CITCON Brussels Registrations are going nicely

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

We now have more than 80 registrants for CITCON Brussels, more than 2 weeks before the 19th. This year, I have volunteered to help organize registrations, so I get to see every single registration request. It’s interesting: sometimes, you don’t … Continue reading →

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Xavier at AjaxWorld

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I should have mentioned yesterday that my colleague Xavier Warzee is attending AjaxWorld. He has already started reporting from the sessions he has been to.

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Sadek and Julien now attending JAOO

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Two of my colleagues are attending the JAOO conference in Denmark. I know they will be posting their thoughts on their blogs, so check them out: Sadek Drobi Julien Delhomme

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Valtech in Agile Journal

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Quote from Agile Journal, in their Agile 2007 conference report: “The best leadership came from the large ISVs (e.g., Yahoo, Google, BMC Software) and the boutique consultants (e.g., Valtech) who make their living running worldwide software organizations and who have … Continue reading →

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Valtech Days 2007: October 23 & 24

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

The 3rd edition of the Valtech Days is taking place in Paris in October 23 & 24. It is going to be a great edition (hey, I’m helping to organize it! ;-) ); I had confirmation that Laurent Bossavit and … Continue reading →

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CITCON Brussels October 19-20

Posted on August 27, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

This year, I am going to attend the conference on Continuous Integration and Testing, in Brussels on October 19-20. The last edition I’ve been to, in London last year, was enormous fun, so I cannot wait to get there. Join … 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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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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