• Les Patterns des Grands du Web – la bêta perpétuelle

  lundi 16 avril 2012, par Guillaume Plouin

  Description du pattern Avant d’introduire la bêta perpétuelle, il est nécessaire de revenir sur un pattern classique du monde Open Source : “Release early, release often”. Le principe de ce pattern consiste à mettre régulièrement le code à la disposition de la communauté afin de permettre aux développeurs, testeurs, utilisateurs de donner un feedback en continu sur le produit. Cette pratique a été décrite dans “La cathédrale et le bazar” d’Eric Steven Raymond. Elle rejoint le principe d’itération courte (...)

• Compte-rendu du petit-déjeuner organisé par OCTO et Strator « Retour d’expérience : l’agilité à grande échelle »

  mardi 3 avril 2012, par Céline Pageaux

  Introduction : Gartner a prédit que 80% des projets de développement logiciel se feront suivant des méthodes Agiles à l’issue de 2012. Les statistiques tendent à confirmer cette prédiction ; le recours à ces méthodes s’est banalisé pour les petits projets, et nombre de sociétés les expérimentent depuis plus de 2 ans. OCTO accompagne ses clients dans ce domaine depuis plus de 6 ans. Néanmoins, le passage à l’échelle de gros projets (5000 J.H et plus), est loin d’être trivial. Notre client, Strator, filiale (...)

• « eXtreme Quotation » : planning agile sous stéroïdes

  dimanche 18 mars 2012, par Guillaume Duquesnay

  93 histoires d’utilisateur ; 20 minutes ; l’équipe a évalué la complexité de la carte fonctionnelle complète. Nous avions supposé que cette nouvelle technique serait rapide, mais à ce point là, nous n’en revenons pas. Avec trois autres équipes, l’expérience a donné des résultats comparables. Nos planning agiles viennent de vivre une révolution, nous ne pouvons pas garder ça pour nous. Après la technique du planning poker, voici l’eXtreme Quotation : le planning agile «cartes sur table» Durée 1H max. (...)

• The balancing act of getting to process efficiency Nirvana

  dimanche 18 mars 2012, par Håkan Forss

  What is process efficiency Nirvana? When work flow from process step to process step without any disruption or waiting and people and resources are working at full utilization. Figure 1. Work is flowing without any waiting and people are busy. To get to process efficiency Nirvana you have to perfectly balance the process resource efficiency and it’s flow efficiency. You are at 100% resource efficiency and 100% flow efficiency. Figure 2. Process efficiency Nirvana. 100% (...)

• The balancing act of getting to process efficiency Nirvana

  dimanche 18 mars 2012, par Håkan Forss

  What is process efficiency Nirvana? When work flow from process step to process step without any disruption or waiting and people and resources are working at full utilization. Figure 1. Work is flowing without any waiting and people are busy. To get to process efficiency Nirvana you have to perfectly balance the process resource efficiency and it’s flow efficiency. You are at 100% resource efficiency and 100% flow efficiency. Figure 2. Process efficiency Nirvana. 100% (...)

• You do not want agile

  vendredi 16 mars 2012, par Daniel Burm

  No really….. you don’t. Well, maybe you do, but the boardroom certainly doesn’t. They have never heard about agile, let alone what it is all about. Is this something that will help us solve our problems or just a new IT buzzword? Upper level management doesn’t think in terms of agile, they think in terms of business outcome. For instance: “We need to improve our position in market-segment ”A” and we need to cut costs while doing so.” At this point, someone usually shouts: “We need to “be agile” (...)

• The Lean-Kanban University Accredited Kanban Training Program

  mercredi 22 février 2012, par Håkan Forss

  Yesterday Lean-Kanban University (LKU) announced the Lean-Kanban University Accredited Kanban Training Program. Today my employer Avega Group AB has also announced it’s Corporate Charter Membership and Advisory Board membership. I’m proud to represent Avega Group AB and will their first accredited Kanban Trainer. So what is this Accredited Kanban Training Program all about? The goal of the program is to provide high quality training of the Kanban Method world wide. Trainee’s (end users) (...)

• The Lean-Kanban University Accredited Kanban Training Program

  mercredi 22 février 2012, par Håkan Forss

  Yesterday Lean-Kanban University (LKU) announced the Lean-Kanban University Accredited Kanban Training Program. Today my employer Avega Group AB has also announced it’s Corporate Charter Membership and Advisory Board membership. I’m proud to represent Avega Group AB and will their first accredited Kanban Trainer. So what is this Accredited Kanban Training Program all about? The goal of the program is to provide high quality training of the Kanban Method world wide. Trainee’s (end users) (...)

• Why Application Release Automation needs a Release and an Operations view

  mercredi 1er février 2012, par Andrew Phillips

  As the interface between Development and Operations, Application Release Management1 handles information that is highly relevant to your Release and Operations teams. Selecting an Application Release Automation solution that provides insight and analytics from both perspectives is thus a key component of an effective DevOps strategy. Here, we explain how Deployit‘s Infrastructure and new Release Overview features help you achieve this goal. Continuous Delivery & the Release (...)

• Innovative Agile

  vendredi 23 décembre 2011, par Daniel Burm

  My motto regarding innovation is: being a first mover is a strategic choice, moving fast isn’t. Agile and scrum can help you move fast, so how can it accommodate innovation? Getting a view on innovation When a company fills in a portfolio tool like a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) matrix, it gets a view on its product market combination (PMC) portfolio. You can tell a lot about the company and its business from how a BCG matrix (*) develops over time. One of the most fun things in my eyes (...)

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