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More on our internal OpenSpace Technology events
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Check out this site. You don’t need professional-looking signs. Hand-made ones will do just fine!
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AgileOpen Europe
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
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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XP Day Paris
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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My small contribution to propagating Agile (and how it did not go so well)
Some time ago, I was involved (along with much more respected people) in a thread on the XP mailing list where an editor for CIO.com asked about communication tools in the context of an Agile project. I thought my answer … Continue reading
Agile seminar with Valtech on April, 26th
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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Limitations when using DbUnit in multi-schema environment
DbUnit has a useful feature when using multiple schemas. After setting a property called http://www.dbunit.org/features/qualifiedTableNames, DbUnit will always refer to a fully qualified table name, using the schema in prefix, as expected. However, it has the side-effect that the schema … Continue reading
