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Oracle offers to buy BEA
Yep, it appears that Oracle has made an hostile bid for BEA, the last major independent pure player in application servers. It’s interesting because Oracle has had its own (mostly ignored) Oracle Application Server (OAS). I guess they were only … Continue reading
Signs from our internal OpenSpace Technology event
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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Sadek and Julien now attending JAOO
Two of my colleagues are attending the JAOO conference in Denmark. I know they will be posting their thoughts on their blogs, so check them out: Sadek Drobi Julien Delhomme
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Valtech in Agile Journal
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
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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(Somewhat) Agile, finally
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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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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A new technical blog at Valtech France
Here at Valtech France, we have had an internal technical newsletter for a couple of years. The articles are now available publicly online, just for you. Posts are in generally in French and address subjects such as Hudson, JSF, AgileOpen … 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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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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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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Sadek is at QCon
My colleague Sadek Drobi is currently attending the QCon conference in London. Check out his blog, starting from March 14th.
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Hiring Tips
Every once in a while, I stumble upon a new list of tips to hiring someone. Since I am actively involved in interviewing candidates technically, I always read them in detail. If you don’t know them already, here they are … Continue reading
Successful internal OpenSpace meeting yesterday
Yesterday, I hosted an OpenSpace conference in the Valtech office in Paris. The theme was ‘pet projects that we want to work on (though we already work fulltime)’. I was a bit apprehensive, as my previous experience had been in … Continue reading
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Visit by Jean Tabaka
This week, Jean Tabaka from Rally Dev came to teach Scrum to my colleagues from Valtech. In the evening, she gave a talk on her book, Collaboration Explained. I have been very impressed by Jean’s easy-going personality. As most people … Continue reading
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