XP Day Switzerland, Geneva, March 29 2010

Published February 24th, 2010 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Registration is now open for the second edition of the XP Day in Geneva. Building on the success of the first edition, the organizers have scheduled a program that should satisfy both people that want to discover what Agile is and practitioners that want to improve their agile practices. For the second year, the conference will host the Agile magicians duo composed of Portia Tung and Pascal Van Cauvenberghe that will present the “Coaching with the Wizard of Oz” Agile Fairytale.

This year the conference will also mix French- and English-speaking sessions, an improvement that should please people working for the multinational corporations and international organizations in the Lake of Geneva area.

Attendance is limited to 100 people, so be quick to register on http://www.xpday.ch/

Scrum Meet-up with Jeff Sutherland, 25 January, Zurich

Published January 14th, 2010 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Jeff Sutherland visits Switzerland on 25 January 2010. At the meetup, he will give a talk on a state of the art Scrum topic and you will have the opportunity to ask questions and mingle with other Scrum users. Please find the details of the event below.

Language: English
Place: Technopark Zürich, Seminarraum Fortran
Date: 25 January 2010 at 7.30 pm
Price: Free
Max seats: 60 (First come – first served) sandwiches aand drinks will be served

Please note that due to limited seats, registration is required and could be made via sec @ trifork [dot] com.

Report on the Agile Tour in Geneva

Published November 4th, 2009 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

I participated on October 12 to the Geneva stage of the Agile Tour which was a great success. There were more than 100 participants announced to this free event. Here is a small feedback for three interesting presentations that I attended. Read more

Linkopedia October 2009

Published October 14th, 2009 Under Links | Leave a Comment

Top 10 reasons why teams fail with Acceptance Testing

Software quality metrics and model

Comparing Open Source Agile Project Management Tools

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Refractor – Diagrammer for .Net Assemblies, also support for Javascript.

KanbanFX – A JavaFX implementation of a Kanban board

Article: The Clojure programming language

Article: Scrum in old fashioned software environments?

Video: The Myth of the Genius Programmer

Video: What are the Roles In Scrum

Video: Top 10 Things in Ruby that Every .NET Developer Needs to Know

Find more interesting links on the software development links directory, the software development tools directory, the software development articles directory, the software development blogs aggregator or the software development videos directory.

1500 Tools to Assist Software Developers

Published October 12th, 2009 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment

Created in 2007, the Software Development Tools Directory has now more than 1500 references. It is one of the rare web sites where you can see on the same location both commercial and open source software development tools. Tools are categorized by programming language, license, operating system or software development function (software testing, project management, database, IDE, user interface,  etc.).  The Open Source category is the most important one with 770 tools.

The five most popular open source tools in the directory are:
* IceScrum – agile project management
* ERmodeller – a CASE tool for data modeling
* ArgoUML – UML modeling with Java code generation
* StarUML – UML modeling tool
* Arbiter – requirements gathering and acceptance testing tool

keep looking »