Tester la résilience d’une équipe
Voici une idée pour tester la résilience de votre système de développement logiciel (ça doit pouvoir se faire dans d'autres…
4 years ago
Constantin Guay
I used to be a developer. I worked with teams in Paris and in several European countries. Now, I help teams to self-organize to solve complex problems. #TeamFacilitator #ScrumMaster
Should you optimize the backlog with the ratio: value/effort? (No, you shouldn’t)
I’ve seen some coaches and Scrum Master advocating for optimization of the value delivered by the team by applying a…
4 years ago
École à la maison, attention aux pratiques des coachs agiles
Dans la communauté des coachs agiles, le confinement forcé des parents coachs avec enfants se traduit par un déluge de…
5 years ago
How to hire a Scrum Master
Often, I found myself in a middle of discussion about how to write a great job position to hire a…
6 years ago
5 reasons why your scrum project fails in 2020
Many scrum projects fail, despite the promise that scrum is agile. Scrum should be the Answer to all your problems…
6 years ago
BREAKING NEWS : Not all backlog items are user stories 😱
Do you even know that Scrum, for example, never mention the concept of user story?
6 years ago
What is your real iteration duration? (Not the official one, the real one?)
When do you iteration start? Is it when the development begins? When the design begins? And when does it end?…
6 years ago
User Story: is the “so that” part optional?
When I start with an existing team, I'm often surprised to see that what they call User Stories only express…
6 years ago
Cadrage agile : Règles de vie de l’équipe
Récemment j'ai lu sur LinkedIn qu'il fallait une phase de cadrage pour que l'équipe puisse écrire "ses règles de vie"…
6 years ago
Le Product Owner décide-t-il de tout ?
(Ou comment le ou la Product Owner devrait choisir les éléments à développer et autres choses ayant de la valeur)…
6 years ago
Incremental Design : Les créas me disent souvent qu’ils ont besoin d’avoir la “Big Picture” pour mieux travailler.
“En tant que graphiste, j’ai besoin de la big picture pour mieux travailler” Cette phrase ou ses variantes m’ont été…
6 years ago
Un produit à tout prix ?
(ou l'art de ne pas faire ce qui n’intéresse personne) “C’est difficile de trouver un bon moment dans les calendrier…
6 years ago
Product Owner et Scrum Master : une relation privilégiée mais souvent négligée
“Le Scrum Master ? Il s’occupe de l’équipe technique” Vous avez déjà entendu cette phrase ? Moi oui, très souvent.…
6 years ago
PO : Priorisez par la valeur grâce à l’impact produit
"Pourquoi on doit faire cette fonctionnalité ou faire telle ou telle modification ?""Qu’est-ce qu’on attend du sprint ?""Est-ce qu’on a…
6 years ago
Tips to write BETTER user stories
Often within a team, one focus on the immediate effect of a feature or a task: the famous User Story's…
6 years ago
Une astuce pour mieux écrire ses User Stories
Souvent dans une équipe, on se concentre sur l’effet immédiat d’une fonctionnalité ou d’une tâche : le fameux “afin de…”…
6 years ago
Do you need an agile coach if you have a Scrum Master?
Often, you can read articles about the difference between a Scrum Master and an Agile Coach. Sometimes, I enjoy participating…
6 years ago
Que se passe-t-il avec un PO qui n’est qu’un passe-plat ?
Scrum décrit un rôle de Product Owner (PO). Propriétaire du Produit, en français, le PO est censé représenter la voix…
6 years ago
How to do a better daily
If you have issues taking full advantage of your dailies, whatever your role is (dev, Scrum Master, PO…) you can…
6 years ago
Anecdote : pourquoi on fait le daily debout ?
Vous savez pourquoi on fait le daily debout ? Le Scrum Guide n’en parle pas, pourtant c’est quelque chose que…
6 years ago
Faire un sprint zéro, c’est du waterfall ?
Faites-vous des sprint zéro pour ? Par exemple pour construire la CI/CD, le poste de dev, ou encore l'architecture du…
7 years ago
Un expert n’est pas agile ! Éloignez les experts des équipes agiles !
Tout comme le personnage principal de sixième sens, j’ai un pouvoir. Le pouvoir de voir et d’entendre les gens morts…
7 years ago
The coveted role of Scrum-Clock-Master
There is multiple ways to be a good Scrum Master and multiple ways to be a … less good Scrum…
7 years ago
Punished by Kudos : a Management 3.0 bug?
I like most of Management 3.0 principles, but there is one thing I don’t agree with:Kudos. Indeed, Kudos, like every…
7 years ago
The agile principle that gave birth to the most profitable toy franchise in history
What can we learn about agility from a 70's US toy maker? Are we so incapable to evolute even when…
7 years ago
D-Rex, a quick and easy way to self-improve
Why do we encourage problems to be discussed once an iteration? Imagine you could transmit your experience to all your…
7 years ago
When the PO tells how to work
The Technical Product Owner usually is a former developer or project manager. In this case, it’s possible that this Technical…
7 years ago
What is not measured can not be improved
How can agile principles help frame and measure success or failure, while learning from it? Measurement, deviated principle and yet…
7 years ago
Should you do one week sprints?
Used to two-weeks sprints, like many, I recently could see the impact of a one-week sprint can have on the…
8 years ago
Counting technical debt in velocity or not?
This is a question that comes up very often in teams: should we estimate and count the technical debt in…
8 years ago
Scrum tips: Differences between epics, stories, themes and features
A complicated story ... Have you ever been confused by the use of terms like « epics » or «…
8 years ago
The Shadow-Velocity guide for Scrum Masters
There is a very bad behavior that is often present in teams that engage in a sprint with too many…
8 years ago
Scrum : The perfect day to start a sprint
Which day is the good one to start the sprint? What is the good time for the daily scrum? And…
8 years ago
Why “Agile” and especially Scrum are *not* terrible
Some weeks ago, Michael O. Church wrote about his "dislike" about Agile and, especially Scrum. Today, a colleague of mine…
10 years ago
MongoDB: fastest way to compare two large sets
I recently had to find in one of our big database if a large set a users did a specific…
10 years ago
Composer: save the output to a file
For a while now, at Silicon, we use a combination of Capistrano and Composer to deploy our websites and other…
10 years ago
Understand MongoDB’s aggregation framework
If you are a "regular" SQL or MySQL user, MongoDB's aggregation framework may be a little obscure. In this article,…
11 years ago
Monitoring MongoDB in Munin on Ubuntu (updated)
If you try now to install Munin monitoring for MongoDB database, you'll find in the Mongo's documentation, a link to…
11 years ago
Emailings: 2 tips to double your open rates
When we redesigned our newsletters, we came from far. I arrived in the company to find very bad emailing practices.…
11 years ago
How to retreive shares count from WordPress posts
This script will get number of shares of a post url from usual social networks and return the information as…
12 years ago
Php glob function
Maybe it's common use and everybody but me already knew it, but after ten years of php development, I've just…
12 years ago
Sublime Text: Background per language
In Sublime Text 3 (may work with ST2, never tried) you can edit your theme to specify a different background…
12 years ago
Respawn: Redesign of jeuxvideo.com: right and wrong
"Respawn" is a code name from a total redesign of French video games website jeuxvideo.com. The project was unveiled on…
12 years ago
Progressive Enhancement: Zed’s Dead, Baby by Tom Dale
http://tomdale.net/2013/09/progressive-enhancement-is-dead
12 years ago
WordPress plugin: Theme by IP
"Theme by Ip" is a very uncreative name for a Wordpress plugin supposed to serve a theme depending on client…
12 years ago
Thinkful | Javascript Best Practices Part 1
http://www.thinkful.com/learn/javascript-best-practices-1/
12 years ago
Sublime text snippet: HTML5 page
Here is the snippet I use in Sublime Text to start a fresh HTML5 blank page. (more…)
12 years ago
Sublime text snippet: php echo
I can be very lazy... So Sublime Text's snippets are one my best coding friends. Sublime text provide some who…
12 years ago
CSS tool: This is my Reset.css
Here is the current reset.css file I use to start a project. Do not forget to remove thing you are…
12 years ago
WordPress plugin : Force external links to blank
This is a WordPress plugin to add a small script to force external links to open in a new tab/window. https://github.com/const-g/go_to_blank
12 years ago