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• Succeeding with Scrum – Interview with Ken Schwaber July 29, 2010
  Lors de son passage à Montéal le 14 juillet, KenSchwaber a accordé une entrevue à Vincent Tencé. Découvrez comment réussir avec Scrum, visionnez la vidéo! […]
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• Les contextes pouvant influencer la qualité July 28, 2010
  Les Agilistes de ce monde sont au fait de l’importance des tests automatisés pour assurer la pérennité d’un projet informatique. En fait, tout développeur qui a tenté la pratique du TDD et qui a réussi à inclure cette pratique dans son travail au quotidien découvre rapidement le sentiment de puissance qui en résulte. Ce sentiment […]
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• Keyboard Powered Web Search July 28, 2010
  For the past two weeks I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine. It’s a search engine built on open-source software. What made me switch is the capacity to navigate through search results with the keyboard using vi-like keys (hjkl). I didn’t know at the time but Google also allows you do something similar. You just […]
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• Installing the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Process Template July 27, 2010
  For those of you planning to start a new project with the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Process Template, Mickey Gousset just write a good paper in the Visual Studio Magazine. He introduces the new Microsoft Scrum 1.0 Process Template for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and steps through the installation process. http://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/2010/ […]
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• Pourquoi ASP.NET MVC est un choix Agile? July 26, 2010
  ASP.NET MVC est une plateforme qui a été introduite par Microsoft essentiellement pour augmenter la testabilité des applications Web. En ASP.NET traditionnel, il est relativement complexe de tester unitairement la logique à l’intérieur des contrôles. Toute la logique est séparée individuellement dans chacun des contrôles (fichiers .ascx et .aspx). Cette logi […]
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• Secret Revealed! Guaranteed Success for your Agile Transition July 26, 2010
  So you have initiated an Agile transition and have faced some resistance to change! Or maybe, you assessed your current level of Agile Maturity and are hoping to achieve the next level. Better yet, you and your team are planning to launch an Agile transition that is not driven by the wrong reasons. That’s great! [...] You might be interested in these related […]
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• Touch-Typing Training – Results July 24, 2010
  As I wrote a week ago, I trained touch-typing this week. My objective was to attain 85 wpm. Here’s a recap of my week: Monday : I decided to use Typeracer as my baseline. It’s an online game that allows you to race others. The fastest typist wins. I had not played in 6 months […]
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• How to warn users not to use an interface July 23, 2010
  Everybody knows no one reads documentation. Hamcrest found an original way to warn users to use the org.hamcrest.BaseMatcher class instead of the org.hamcrest.Matcher interface. Look at the interface yourself. They added a dummy deprecated method called _dont_implement_Matcher___instead_extend_BaseMatcher_ in the interface. I am still unsure whether I will e […]
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• Minyaa Suite turns 1 today July 22, 2010
  Minyaa Suite was born to replace Kaamelot plugin, a plugin created 5 years ago, where I tried to merge all enhancements brought to JIRA, in order to meet our needs. This first year was mainly spent: for dispatching features by theme in … Continue reading → […]
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• Self motivation – Alessia’s story July 22, 2010
  A few weeks ago I referred to Daniel Pink’s book (Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us) to show how autonomy, mastery, and purpose greatly impact people’s motivation and how we can use these dimensions to help in an Agile transition. Today’s post is about Alessia and her painting. Alessia is a happy 9 [...] You might be interested in these rel […]
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