Category Archives: conferences

AgileOpen – Back from AO Europe 2007

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Just came back from Hilversum, Netherlands, where AgileOpen Europe 2007 took place. See all the pictures I took on Flickr. Many other photos here.

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AgileOpen Europe

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

This year, I am going to attend the AgileOpen Europe conference. It is a 2-day event based using OpenSpace Technology, on 11th and 12th of June. It will be the second OpenSpace event I attend that I don’t facilitate myself. … Continue reading →

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XP Day Paris

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I attended XP Day Paris earlier this month. A very good conference, sorely needed considering the lack of debate on such topics in France (there has been one XP Day Paris in 2006, but I hadn’t heard about it then). … Continue reading →

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Agile seminar with Valtech on April, 26th

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

My employer is hosting a half-day seminar on Agile methodologies. Speakers include David Gageot and Greg Hutchings, so it’s bound to be an interesting morning. We will also hear people from Odyssey, reporting on their experience with an offshore environment. … Continue reading →

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Sadek is at QCon

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

My colleague Sadek Drobi is currently attending the QCon conference in London. Check out his blog, starting from March 14th.

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CITCON Dallas/Fort Worth April 27-28

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Paul Julius and Jeffrey Fredricks have announced CITCON D/FW 2007. It is the third in a series where CITCON London 2006 was number 2. Considering how enjoyable CITCON London was, it is totally worth going to CITCON D/FW if you’re … Continue reading →

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A BarCamp in Paris this WE

Posted on January 19, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

A BarCamp is taking place in Issy-Les-Moulineaux, near Paris, this WE. The topics include Web 2.0 (of course), as well as social networks and other things. As always, attendance is free, though participants are expected to contribute by coding, throwing … Continue reading →

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Free Agile Seminar at Valtech Paris

Posted on November 8, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

My employer is organizing an Agile Seminar on the morning of December 5th, in Paris. Entrance is free. Keynotes will be given by a couple of VT guys I know and will be worth it. Note that most of the … Continue reading →

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Taking notes visibly to everyone

Posted on October 16, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Something to keep in mind for the future: during CITCON, Joe used a projector to display his computer while he was taking notes on the same computer. In this way, anyone who shows up would have an idea of the … Continue reading →

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CITCON: The Culture of CI: Before Installing CruiseControl & Beyond Installing It

Posted on October 13, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I had suggested a topic covering “Beyond Installing CruiseControl – CI Culture with Management and Developers”. It actually got merged with “Social Impact of CI”, suggested by Michael, and “How to introduce CI”, from Jeffrey. Jeffrey had, in fact, a … Continue reading →

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CITCON and random figures

Posted on October 11, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Mike from Atlassian was quite a vocal participant to CITCON. During the talk on CI Culture, he explained that the developers in his team were among the top 5%, but that they wanted to reach the top 1%. Someone then … Continue reading →

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CITCON and technical excellence

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I was generally impressed by what people seems to have put in place for Continuous Integration. Here is a list, from the top of my head: load testing; Douglas Squirrel from youDevise told how they were using CruiseControl to trigger … Continue reading →

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CITCON: CI and offshore

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

At CITCON, I was quite happy to see one person suggest the topic “CI and offshore”, as I am involved on an offshore project myself. Unfortunately, this person didn’t show up, and just we were just 3 in the session. … Continue reading →

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CITCON: Remote (Cruise)Control: Amazon EC2

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Someone at CITCON (I’m pretty sure it was Mike) had a really good idea: use the service offered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to run CruiseControl. Basically, Amazon EC2 offers virtual machines where anything can be uploaded. No … Continue reading →

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CITCON: Open Space Technology

Posted on October 9, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

At CITCON, there were no pre-arranged sessions with star presenters. To be sure, some participants to the conference were more renowned than others; some of them had even brought papers and presentations they had written that they thought might be … Continue reading →

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