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• Are we coaches or do we offer coaching? September 6, 2010
  As I was heading back home, I wondered – is coaching something we do or the way we are? So once I got home, I looked up the definition for both words (coach & coaching) and came across Visual Thesaurus (image below). The reason I was wondering is that when I meet people who “do [...] You might be interested in these related posts:The world would be a bet […]
  martin proulx
• Partnership program: Access it September 3, 2010
  In July, Urban Turtle announced its brand new partnership program. The partners are a select group of consulting firms who mastered the ins and outs of Scrum and are friends of the “Turtle”. Today, I follow the series of blog posts about our partners with the firm Access it. Access it is a leading consulting firm with […]
  mario cardinal
• Le développement Agile selon Pyxis dans le magazine Programmez September 3, 2010
  Deux Pyxissiens sont publiés ce mois-ci dans le magazine Programmez, lisez-les! : Le développeur au centre de l’Agilité par Mathieu Szablowski Entre un contexte économique de plus en plus contraignant, imposant des délais plus courts avec toujours plus d’exigences , et une course à l’innovation introduisant de plus en plus vite de nouvelles technologies (mob […]
  anne-laure miquel
• Retro September 2, 2010
  In September 2009, I decided that for the next year, I would concentrate on three goals: Reading (12 books) Blogging (40 posts) Coding (4 projects) What did I learn about setting objectives? What do I need to improve? These questions will be answered in a few moments… and if you care you might even hear […]
  mathieu berube
• Definition of DONE of an Agile Transition. August 31, 2010
  Any questions? […]
  pyxis
• Start doing sprint reviews, not demos August 31, 2010
  There’s a misunderstanding I’ve noticed in quite a few Scrum projects. Teams use Scrum and at the end of their sprint they do what they call a “sprint demo”. It works out like this: They demonstrate their increment of the prod... […]
  pyxis
• I don’t believe in self-organized teams… August 31, 2010
  Imagine my surprise when a candidate for an agile organizational coach role within our organization shared with me his perspective on this topic. “Can you share with me your reasoning?”, I asked him intrigued. The candidate went on to explain that people need direction and that people cannot self-organized without clear objectives and direction. Indeed, [... […]
  martin proulx
• Ayez le Scrum Robuste! August 27, 2010
  Scrum n’imposant rien sur le plan technique, une dérive couramment constatée est un manque de rigueur par rapport aux pratiques d’ingénieries utilisées par les équipes de développement.  Par exemple, l’omission de tests automatisés lors de l’évolution de projets informatiques rend généralement de plus en plus difficile l’atteinte de l’objectif de […]
  gael luisier
• Unit Testing Your Views With Velocity August 27, 2010
  Written in collaboration with Carl Létourneau What’s the problem? Creating software without bugs is hard. Many developers are used to unit test their models. Controllers are also relatively simple to test in many frameworks. Tests often hurt when it comes to Views – many frameworks make it hard, or developers might think it is. Sometimes we just […]
  mathieu berube
• Are We Done, Really Done or Really Really Done ? August 27, 2010
  This week, the first dry-run of the Professional Scrum Developer for Java course was given at Pyxis. For this occasion, 6 Pyxissians were on-site for 5 training days. Here is a sample of the many things we have learned. One of the fundamental aspects that was covered was producing a proper “definition of done”(D.O.D). For most of […]
  nicholas lemay