Category Archives: process

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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CITCON London 2006

Posted on October 8, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Here are my own pictures from the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, London 2006. Official website here. More pictures there, there and there.

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Team split into feature teams, after all

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

You might remember from a previous post that I was regretting the fact that the development team had not wished to split into feature teams. I even suggested that it should not have been an option to them. Well, be … Continue reading →

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Luke, I’m your ScrumMaster

Posted on August 28, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I am now a Certified ScrumMaster.

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How To Show Sub-Iterations in the Iteration Backlog

Posted on July 13, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Once issue that we have with our customer is the definition of iterations. They want us to work with 6-week iterations, and release a previously-agreed scope at the end of the 6-weeks. The reasons for this according to them is … Continue reading →

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Team Did Not Split In Feature Teams

Posted on July 13, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

On our project, there is a total of 21 tech people (plus managers and translators). 3 of us are onshore. 18 offshore. You would expect this to lead to a natural split into 4 teams, right? 1 onshore, 3 teams … Continue reading →

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Buildix

Posted on July 6, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Those fine people at ThoughtWorks have just blessed the world with Buildix, a bootable CDROM that integrates CruiseControl, Trac and Subversion. With this, you get an immediately available development platform. I cannot wait to test it.

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Reshape to your will, or play with strengths?

Posted on July 5, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Last week, I attended a 3-hour session on wine. It wasn’t just wine tasting; the guy (only gave his first name, Alexis) also gave plenty of details on how wine is produced, etc. He also explained the differences between wine-making … Continue reading →

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We’ve sunk to a new low

Posted on June 28, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

As I write this post, I am still under the shock. In French, we have sayings that go like this (I’m sure they translate well in English): “we had reached to bottom of the pool… and we have started digging”, … Continue reading →

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First Retrospective Meeting

Posted on June 28, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Last Monday, we held the first retrospective meeting on our project. I had pushed for it to take place, and I thought it would go better than the Sprint Review. As it happened, it did not. First, I contacted people … Continue reading →

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Team Morale Matters for Evaluating How Projects Are Doing

Posted on June 27, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Yesterday evening, I attended a internal presentation on Project Metrics (if you’re interested, the promoted process was QGM). As a technical guy, I took note of an important thing. We were in the middle of a part describing the goals … Continue reading →

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Offshore Team Start Working on Saturdays

Posted on June 27, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

As part of the actions for this iteration, the offshore managers (the ones based in Bangalore, not the ones based in Paris) have announced that the development Team will work on Saturdays from now on. My colleagues and I, in … Continue reading →

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First Sprint Review

Posted on June 20, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Today, I organized the first Sprint Review for our project. This was not something that we had planned in advance. I did mention it a couple of weeks ago to the people in Valtech, but I did not take the … Continue reading →

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List of Certified ScrumMasters

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

This gives the list of the 5627 known certified ScrumMasters. I see about 35 SMs in France (none from my training session yet). Meaning that, if things go as planned, once we at Valtech are included, we would eventually represent … Continue reading →

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Agile Project Management with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

As per Craig Larman’s recommendation, I read Agile Project Management with Scrum before attending Craig’s ScrumMaster certification course. Overall, I am slightly disappointed. This book does not really help getting the basics of Scrum. Instead, it focuses on providing real-life … Continue reading →

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