Category Archives: agile

Scrum, XP, Lean Software Development

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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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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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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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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Signs for OpenSpace Technology event

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Check out this site. You don’t need professional-looking signs. Hand-made ones will do just fine!

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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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Oracle Buys Agile

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Yep… if you want Agle, you can just go and buy it. Just kidding of course. As it happens, there actually is a company called Agile Software (imagine the false-positives when doing a Google search for Agile methodologies. I had … Continue reading →

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