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Monthly Archives: June 2006
As a user, always choose the English language
I always make a point of using an application or a website in English. This helps getting the “real” experience, as the developers intended it, and avoid crappy translations. I don’t go as far as changing the local settings of … Continue reading
We’ve sunk to a new low
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
First Retrospective Meeting
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
Team Morale Matters for Evaluating How Projects Are Doing
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
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
free.fr offers 10 GB Personal Websites
My webhost, who is also my ISP, now offers free upgrades to 10 GB for all (free) personal websites! No idea what I will do with that, considering that I have yet to reach the 1 GB threshold, which was … Continue reading
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First Sprint Review
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
The Ten Day MBA, by Steven Silbiger
Here is another in a series of well-established books lent to me by my friend Thomas Chuzeville. This one is supposed to teach you all the things learned in an MBA (surprised?). Sounds like one more of those ‘do it … Continue reading
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List of Certified ScrumMasters
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
Agile Project Management with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber
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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ScrumMaster?
I’ve just attended a training session on the Scrum method, provided by aforementioned Craig. The objective of the session was to get a Certification as a ScrumMaster. Not being on of the most senior consultants, I had to trade 2 … Continue reading
