Category Archives: valtech

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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The Power of a Man vs. Manpower

Posted on March 31, 2006 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I have been involved in an offshore project for Manpower for more than 6 months. Well, we have recently learned that Craig Larman was going to coach it and lean more towards Agile methods. Craig is Chief Scientist with my … Continue reading →

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Back to Paris: a glance on the progress made in Bangalore

Posted on December 23, 2005 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I made it back from Bangalore yesterday. The journey back was not as bad as the journey in (where we were re-rerouted to Bombay, with a connecting flight to Bangalore), but we did have a 5-hour delay before taking off … Continue reading →

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Bangalore: take two

Posted on December 15, 2005 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Arrived in Bangalore this morning. I had done my best to take the direct flight from Paris, but we got overbooked, so we had to change to another flight going to Bombay. Let’s just say that it did NOT go … Continue reading →

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These salesguys will drive me crazy

Posted on October 18, 2005 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I don’t understand. This morning, I sent an unreviewed version of a document to one of the salesguys, specifying that I still needed a couple of hours to go over it again. As I explained in my email, I wanted … Continue reading →

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Back from Bangalore

Posted on September 29, 2005 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Just came back from visiting the development team in India. My employer now has more than 400 people working in the Bangalore office. Other views of the city.

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Explain complex concepts graphically

Posted on June 14, 2005 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I learned a valuable lesson today. 2 months ago, I tried explaining that a technical decision taken for the project I’m working on was bad. In fact, I clearly explained that there were security issues that could compromise the website, … Continue reading →

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