GetJ2ee -Java development

I was at the Agile Tour 2012 in Lausanne Friday 12th October. A good chance to meet up with former coworkers and take time to think about agility in a quiet place, far from my office in London.

There were around 60 attendee and 12 Speakers. The conference was in French but it was possible to talk to speakers in english. So far i have seen : 

- "How use agility in general project" by Jean-Pierre Rey (HEVS Sierre) . How to use agility in projects that are not in IT sector.

- "Scrum Master, snakes and crocodiles" by Jérôme Perakis (We Can Live on Mars). How the Vivarium of Lausanne uses scrum.

- Workshop "Agile Dice" by Alex Cuva (Altran). How to calculate velocity.

- "How convert to agility a manager used to cascad fall?" par Léonard Bouchet (RTS). Where and why Cascade fall or agility can fail or succes. With an interesting concept of Agile semi-fail : When agile is use only by dev team but not all the company.

I prefer see there a semi-success, because It's probably the most common work environement of current agile pratictionners in IT and even in this case the team is often more efficient and motivated that in a full cascade fall project.

Léonard Bouchet - Agile Tour Lausanne 2012

Silvana Wasitova made a short presentation of Wiki Speed : a car developed by methods of fast-moving company software. Very amazing project with already some very good result. For example this car has recently passed a 5 star crash test in all direction.

Links :

Agile tour Lausanne : http://at2012.agiletour.org/en/lausanne.html

Wikispeed : http://www.wikispeed.com

I attended on the Scrum Day 2012, the 27th March 2012 in Paris.

It happend in Espace CAP 15 close to the Seine river and the Eiffel Tower. At least 300 people attended to this conference about Scrum and Agility in France.

This conference was constitued of 4 tracks and 3 worksshops.

I participated in a Kanban workshop organized by Laurent Morisseau. The objective was to show how use kanban to realease a maximum of business value in a a fixed periode of time. 

I really appreciate the session of Thierry Montulé : Scrum aux frontières de la psychologie social (Scrum at the border of the social psychology).  It's a brillant (and funny) attempt to explain how Scrum works according to a sociological analysis.

But there was one thing in particular that impresses  me: During a session about Agile Management, Thierry Cos ask "If you have already read the Agile Manifesto could you put your hand up?" 50% of the attendees put their hand up! 

I was very surprised because the majority of them are managers not programmers. I think 2 years ago only developers would know what the Agile Manifesto is.

It seems that agility is part of the mainstream in France now and that all main companies use it or try to use it.

The official web site (in French) : www.scrumday.fr

The news letter of the French Scrum user group (In english and French) : http://paper.li/frenchsug

The program in English : http://agileinspearit.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/27th-march-inspearit-at-scrum-day-2012-in-paris

La prochaine présentation du GenevaJUG est consacrée à EE6 et GlassFish v3.

Cette présentation est faite par Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine.

50 places de plus sont disponible pour la soirée technologies google du Geneva JUG le 17 Mai 2010 par Didier Girard à L'uni-mail.

Le site du Geneva JUG : www.genevajug.ch