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Lean Startup: Interesting conference by Eric Ries

I went to my first Agile Conference!  I guess I’m always a bit uneasy when I’m surrounded by people who more or less think the same way I do. On the other hand, it feels great! It’s a stark contrast from what I’m used to – you know, being surrounded by Architects, DBAs, PMOs and […]

Pour fêter notre 10ème anniversaire, nous préparons des capsules pour parler d’Agile et … de nous. Le scénario a été écrit par Alexandre Champagne (créateur, entre autres, de contratdegars.com) et la réalisatrice est Catherine Therrien. Les acteurs : des pyxissiens que vous connaissez peut-être déjà. Les bureaux sont en effervescence, …

Our knowledge acquisition strategy for ACS Cloudphone is starting to pay off. After only 3 days of MusyMix on the market, we already gathered good information about ACS: No one has installed the ACS CloudPhone after installing MusyMix. Most probably, the relationship between the advanced transcoding feature and the ACS …

My colleague François Perron launched a very interesting discussion on our private wiki – “As a coach, what to do when executives and upper management force the project team to do over time in order to meet deadlines?”. As you can probably guess, this initiated very interesting discussions and an obvious reaction to such an […]

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I had to read the content of a file for a ruby project. This is how I did it: def read_file_content(filename) File.read(filename) end Simple enough, right? Then for some reason I thought about how I would have to the same in Java: public String readFileContent(String filename) { try { BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename)); […]

For this posts series, I will talk about our strategy for Android Cloud Services, our mobile-cloud platform that seamlessly extends any Android phones running version 2.1 or more. ACS is a complex platform and is more of a horizontal capacity than a specific product solving a specific problem. This is …

See Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people.

“I used to write the code, own the domain names, run the mailing list(s), run the servers, evangelize, talk to the press and so on. I’ve successively and successfully given up those rights to very capable individuals. However this has led to a power […]

Some members of the Urban Turtle team (Francois, Dominic and Mario) are at the Agile 2010 conference this week.  If you attend the conference, please come see us Wednesday or Thursday at booth 128 in the exhibit area.  We will be more than happy to discuss and to demonstrate the latest cool features of Urban Turtle such […]

I attended Israel Gat‘s presentation at Agile 2010 yesterday called “How We Do Things Around Here In Order to Succeed”. The path an Agile roll-out should follow depends on the core culture of the corporation: control, competence, collaboration or cultivation. Irrespective of the specific culture, the Agile roll-out invariably tests cultural integration, wholeness and balance. […]

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