Category Archives: process

Back from CITCON Brussels 2007

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I came back from Brussels this Sunday evening, after some visiting of the city. The conference has been a blast, especially networking with other participants. It has been great seeing again people that were there last year in London… and … Continue reading →

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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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Huckster

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Today, I played a bit with Huckster, a presentation tool designed by James Gosling. It’s intriguing: counter-intuitively, it does not have any kind of unique features (as you would expect from an outsider in the world of presentation tools). Its … Continue reading →

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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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Unitils: a better Gienah?

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

On my current project, I am using Gienah as a way to integrate JUnit tests with Spring. I am rather pleased with the result, keeping my unit tests quite clean. I just heard today about Unitils, a more ambitious tool. … 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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‘Matrix’ project building with Hudson

Posted on July 29, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

The crazy (8 releases in the past 30 days!) Hudson dev team has just introduced a new feature. They call it a ‘matrix project’. The idea is that a configuration would often be common to many builds. Say, one for … Continue reading →

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Survey suggests high adoption rate of Agile

Posted on July 27, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Scott Ambler has put together a survey that shows surprisingly positive data regarding application of Agile in companies. Apparently, more than two thirds of respondents were already adopting Agile practices, and among them close to half were already on their … Continue reading →

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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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