Posted by Christophe on July 7, 2009
Rallydev is running a new weekly agile live show every tuesday morning called Rally Cafe.
In each show, they give tips on a different coffee type, find something relevant in the news and get a guest to answer a few questions (including from viewers).
With the tour de France going on, they thought of me as a guest for their third show. It is now available on ustream.
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Posted by Christophe on June 23, 2009
Today, distributed teams are stuck between 3 bad choices:
-use a limited online collaboration tool, and miss human interaction
-use local white boards, and miss real time information sharing
18 month ago, I wrote about Quickies -technology supported sticky notes- to bridge the white board and it’s online counterpart.
Minority Report offered a pure digital version of the white board.
According to Schematic, this is maybe not that far away…
Forget the number of LoC (lines of code) metric, here comes the DoG (distance of gesture) productivity metric.
You gotta love progress.
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Posted by Christophe on June 1, 2009
GM’s recently appointed CEO said this morning at the GM’s bankruptcy press confernce that the new GM will be leaner and moving faster.
Did he just see mary’s video “competiting on the basis of speed” ?
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Posted by Christophe on May 31, 2009
Gorilla Nation is hosting another ScrumClub event on 6/24/09:
Scrum and User Experience Design: Bringing Great Design into the Agile Process
Event summary:
Scrum provides us with a great framework for building our Scrum team, implementing the core agile practices and getting the inspect and adapt process started. But Scrum doesn’t provide much for the specific disciplines like programming, testing and User Experience. That’s where our coaches Paul Hodgetts and Patrick Neeman come in.
Join us as we explore how User Experience Design integrates with the Scrum process. We’ll see first hand how each type of activity fits into the Scrum cycles, and how our User Experience researchers, designers and artists integrate into a Scrum team.
Get your ticket with a special discount for RunningAgile readers.
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Posted by Christophe on May 17, 2009
First, let me say this is not a technical post.
RAIDs are a fancy way to take several small hard drives, and make them look like a big one – with or without fault tolerance.
Has anyone ever tried to explain to you the subitility of RAID selection?
Wikipedia does it in 15 screens. Precise, rich, informative… but tedious, and out of reach for most people.
Now, here’s another way to explain RAID:
Requirements, story conditions of satisfactions, Documentation…
Are you using the right communication tools?
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Posted by Christophe on May 13, 2009
I don’t have the habit of ripping another blogpost content, but found this post by Kelly Waters just too good not to pass on.
Enjoy.
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Posted by Christophe on May 1, 2009
“Be thankful for your problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.”
-Unknown
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Posted by Christophe on April 21, 2009
Financial crisis. Cost cutting measures. Cheaper vendors. Saving money.
Does that sound familiar? Effective?
Think again.
Here are a few counter examples:
and on and and on
Should companies cut unecessary cost in the downtime. Definitively.
Yet, doing it without a deep understanding of the impact on the whole value chain, and hidden consequences can turn disastrous.
The mistake is to confuse rate and cost.
Rather than spending a lot of time on cutting rates, kill your low value / resource intense projects, and focus on your top products: increase quality, accelerate your delivery cycle and wow your customers.
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Posted by Christophe on April 19, 2009
New videos from Agile 2008 are still coming out. In this one, Robin Dymond gives an overview of Lean, how it can help take Agile to the ‘next level’ and why organizations that fail to change will not have successful Agile teams. Robin describes an organizational mismatch between traditional hierarchies and team structures. He believes that organizations will need to reorganize around teams to get the most out of Agile.
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Posted by Christophe on March 30, 2009
In this Qcon 2008 presentation, David Anderson presents a brief history of the kanban system through case study reports from teams at Microsoft and Corbis. Kanban acts to limit work-in-progress and focus the team on achieving a continuous flow of value to the customer and innovates on accepted agile management practices by providing an iteration-less process with a regular release cadence.
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