Nouveau podcast VoxAgile sur Scrum pour développeurs (en)
À l’occasion du lancement du nouveau cours “Scrum pour développeurs” en partenariat avec l’organisation Scrum.org, VoxAgile a eu la bonne idée de réunir deux formateurs, Ernst Perpignand et Vincent Tencé avec Christian Lapointe. Ils échangent sur ce nouveau cours de formation et abordent, entre autres, les sujets suivants : Qui …
Code Anthem’s Law (en)
Code Anthem’s Law :
The less the median developer on a software project team is paid, the more the project will cost to complete.
Scrum.org developer training (en)
In the last VoxAgile episode, Christian Lapointe, Ernst Perpignand and Vincent Tence are having a discussion concerning the latest Scrum.org developer training.
Is that the solution to all the problems we are facing in the software industry ? Is a full week training going to change anything to the current situation ? The answer is clearly […]
Entrepreneur (en)
Je souhaite partager avec vous le discours que j’ai prononcé la semaine dernière à titre de président d’honneur lors du gala de remise des prix du Concours québécois en entrepreneuriat, région Laval. Bonsoir Mesdames et Messieurs, J’aimerais dans un premier temps demander à toutes les personnes présentes qui travaillent à …
Dojo AJAX file uploader with progress bar (en)
I am proud to announce the availability of MFU (Multiple File Uploader) v0.1 . This is a small project that we developed with Florent Valdelievre.
If you are using the dojo toolkit and are looking for a clean, customizable file uploader, that works pretty much the same way as gmail file attachment mechanism (demo here), then […]
8 types of software consulting firms (en)
Pretty good post from A. Skorkin.
BOZO Consulting
BOZO is a place with well-intentioned people who really want to please their clients. The only downside to BOZO is it doesn’t have the slightest clue about how to achieve that goal. BOZO says yes to everything: “Yes, of course we will cut the estimate.” “Yes, […]
Finally a Scrum Course for Developers! (en)
The need for a course for Scrum developers : If you’ve been following my series of recent blog posts entitled Agile Lessons Learned you might of seen some repetitive patterns emerge, mostly about the need for proper engineering practices. In my mind, engineering practices compose the first pillar underneath the …
Lessons learnt from start-ups (en)
I came across a few very interesting set of “lessons learnt from my start-up” articles. (thanks Mathieu, Joel for the references) :
Lessons learnt from Devver.net
Startup lessons learnt from Warren Buffer
My co-founder took my company and my girlfriend
There are many benefits to having a distributed team, but two stood out in our experience. […]
Scrum.org la révolution des développeurs (en)
Si vous ne connaissez pas encore Scrum.org et que vous travaillez actuellement dans un contexte agile, je vous conseille fortement de faire une petite visite sur le site. Il s’agit d’une nouvelle initiative visant à promouvoir Scrum et …
Why Mark Suster is wrong about not hiring job hoppers (en)
Why Mark Suster is wrong about not hiring job hoppers
So who in the hell should you hire? Hire the best. Hire people that can leave your startup at any minute if they wanted to because they’re so kick ass that they’re constantly getting contacted by interested parties. Then it becomes your […]