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• Forrester Reports “Agile Development: Mainstream Adoption Has Changed Agility” February 8, 2010
  In their recently released study “Agile Development: Mainstream Adoption Has Changed Agility“, Forrester reports that “35% of respondents stated that Agile most closely reflects their development process”. The report is based on Forrester’s/Dr. Dobbs Global Developer Technographics Survey, Q3, 2009, which surveyed 1298 application development professionals. […]
  martin proulx
• 360 evaluations : is it really the best way to actually become better ? February 6, 2010
  After taking a look at the results of a collegue’s 360 evaluation, I wonder whether it is an actual way to have  people become better (and thus, make a better company). By continually getting feedback and improving pointed weaknesses, the end result is that you get better over the time Simple, isn’t it ? So simple that [...] […]
  sami dalouche
• Google Click-to-call: a smart way to increase ad revenues ! February 6, 2010
  Simple article on the new click-to-call [french] mobile ad strategy that google is pushing. Hum! interesting… […]
  sami dalouche
• Green is good! February 5, 2010
  Éric Laramée, a colleague at Pyxis the other day was recalling the Greed is good scene from the movie Wall Street The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in [...] […]
  françois beauregard
• Put your specifications in the freezer February 5, 2010
  Some developers are asking me : How do I tag my specification when I do a release or close a development branch while GreenPepper does not provide full SCM capabilities in the wiki. I explained in Why we did not implement a full SCM for specifications why we did not think it was a good idea [...] […]
  françois beauregard
• Why we did not implement a full SCM for specifications February 5, 2010
  In the Executable Specification and Build Integration post, I explain how GreenPepper supports the full development cycles. Some people sometimes ask me why we do not have full SCM features with branches, tags and merge in the wiki integrations that we have. GreenPepper promotes a very inclusive approach and we thought that customers and users involved [...] […]
  françois beauregard
• Executable Specification and build integration February 5, 2010
  It is usually not long after adopting the Executable Specification practice (aka Example Driven Development, Acceptance Test Driven Development – ATDD, Story Test Driven Development – STDD) that good software teams want to integrate GreenPepper in their build process. This is an area where we think GreenPepper shines. GreenPepper allows for a smooth process […]
  françois beauregard
• Do you have a good quarterback? February 5, 2010
  On this last friday before the Super Bowl, I just read an article about Payton Manning and the way he manages a football game. I can’t help myself but to make a parallel with agile software development teams and the kind of leadership that we would like to see emerging in them. […]
  jgrenon
• Rebuilding Companies as Communities February 4, 2010
  In a post on our internal wiki, Eric suggested we have a look at a recent HBR article by Henry Mintzberg – Rebuilding Companies as Communities. Using a non-traditional organizational structure within our company, Eric knew that the article would be of interest to those of us who believe in the community structure as well [...] You might be interested in thes […]
  martin proulx
• Pyxis Technologies aux Microsoft TechDays February 4, 2010
  Venez nombreux aux Microsoft TechDays à Paris la semaine prochaine. Eric participera à une table ronde le lundi 8 février de 16h à 17h. Celle-ci sera suivie d’une démonstration de Urban Turtle par Mathieu. L’occasion de voir en action dans Team Fondation Server l’outil fait par des Agilistes pour toutes les équipes de développement logiciel. Tous les détails […]
  mathieu szablowski