Do you know the law of Demeter?
Some of you probably know the Law of Demeter, but a reminder doesn’t harm anybody:
You will say: “Theory is nice but in practice how is it expressed?”
Here is an example:
Some of you probably know the Law of Demeter, but a reminder doesn’t harm anybody:
You will say: “Theory is nice but in practice how is it expressed?”
Here is an example:
Agile Montréal and Pyxis are pleased to welcome Jurgen Appelo for his first visit to Canada. He will be with us on May 30th to present Change Management 3.0. This conference supper will allow you to better manage challenges and obstacles that may arise from changes brought to your organization.
It is with great pleasure that we are having Mr. Appelo for this event that will reunite Agile leaders, managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and developers.
We are pleased to work in collaboration with Agile Montréal to make this event unique.
Visit our site for more details on the event ant to register.
Those who know me know that I love innovation and unusual gadgets.
Just ask my friend Marc Laroche, who gave me as a gift a toilet paper dispenser… that is also a radio.
When I saw a lot of cynicism towards Google’s Project Glass, I was a little disappointed.
As a developer, I am often in contact with a strange species we call ergonomist. But I never really understood the impact they can have not only on the user experience, but also on the developer’s work.
In my current project, the user interface is created as we go. The first versions of it had not been thought ergonomically. We therefore developed the code without this mindset. In doing so, we had nine concepts of buttons included in the software application.
Le printemps est à nos portes le soleil est chaud, la neige fond et les routes sont pleines de nids-de-poule. Un nid-de-poule est une expression du Québec pour désigner les trous sur la route, formés par le gel qui disperse les matériaux de remblais sous la chaussée. Au printemps, la conduite devient difficile, car nous devons éviter ces nombreux trous, sans quoi on risque d’endommager la suspension de sa voiture.
Cela me fait penser aux embuches que nous rencontrons lors de nos voyages de transition avec la mise en place de l’Agilité. Voici donc mon palmarès des 11 nids-de-poule à éviter lors de votre aventure de la transition Agile.
1- Ne pas profiter de l’expérience des autres
L’agilité est de plus en plus répandue et il est possible de profiter de l’expérience des autres pour éviter les pièges fréquents d’une transition agile:
2- Ne pas définir de mesure de succès
3- Ne pas s’entourer
4- Ne pas planifier la transition
5- Sous-estimés votre capacité interne.
6- Ne pas être à l’écoute.
7- Sous-estimés l’importance des outils
8- Vouloir aller trop vite.
9- Bof! la formation pas le temps, pas les moyens.
10- Négliger les membres de la direction
11- Ne pas avoir de sponsor
I will be presenting the conference ‘My top 5 best ways to improve your code’ at the Ottawa .NET Community on April 5th.
You have to be there. You will discover five effective low-cost refactoring practices that will help improve the clarity of your .NET code.
I am expecting you!
Pyxis has formed an association with Jurgen Appelo and is adding the Management 3.0 course to its Agile training catalogue.
François Beauregard will give this new course on April 18th-19th in Québec City, on April 25-26 in Geneva, and on April 30th and May 1st in Montréal. François is the first certified trainer to give Management 3.0 in Canada.
Why Management 3.0?
Laval, March 26, 2012—Pyxis is very proud to announce the nomination of François Beauregard as President. Founder of Pyxis, François has always been motivated by the passion to make of Pyxis an organization that is unique in its market and by the quality of its client interventions.
“This nomination is coherent with our past, our present, and mainly our future. François’ passion, involvement, and leadership are no longer to be proven, and we are convinced that he will carry out this mandate with brio while being supported by the management team currently in place.” indicate Jean-René Rousseau and Mathieu Boisvert, shareholders of Pyxis.
François’ intent is to act in the same direction as his predecessor and to respect the company’s innovating culture.
A couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to participate in the two-day Management 3.0 course conducted internally by François and Yves. One of the practices that struck a chord for me was delegation poker. This practice is suggested in the empowered team perspective of the Management 3.0 model.
During the delegation poker game, I discovered an easy-to-use tool allowing teams to identify the different decision levels. I also discovered that sometimes there are several decision levels for a same theme; thus, that themes must sometimes be broken down. I really liked playing delegation poker. Continue reading »
We were curious to know why our colleagues chose Pyxis…
We also asked Erik, technological coach at Pyxis since 2008.