November 2007

June 2007

I started working in 1987. Waterfall never made much sense to me. In the nineties I was struggling to have my "incremental development" process accepted. I was very happy when the Agile Manifesto was created in 2002 and I was quick to sign it. Now, 5 years later, "Agile" is a buzz word!

I remember making a presentation to the CTO of Transpac in the very early nineties I think (Transpac was the French Public data network). The guy listened to me nicely and was kind enough to have a book sent to me. A book whose title was "Du bricolage à l'industrialisation : la qualité des logiciels". Something like "From crap to engineering: Software quality". Amazon. It was very clear to me that on his mind I was on the crap side and he was helping me get to the quality side. Now, 15 years (& Internet) later, Transpac is dead or so, and it is more then ok to say that Quality is not conformance to specifications anymore. Incremental Development, and other Agile methods, are right to assume that it is impossible to get the specifications right upfront, they say that you discover the specifications as you progress. That's humility I think.

I moved on. Nowadays I promote "person centered software".

March 2002

Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 02:57:05 -0800 (PST)

From: "Jean-Hugues Robert"
Subject: Re: Agile Manifesto Confirmation #387913264583183042
To: signers@AgileManifesto.org

--- signers@AgileManifesto.org wrote:

You (or someone pretending to be you) recently
signed the
Manifesto for Agile Software Development (described
on the site
http://www.AgileManifesto.org. You wrote:

Name: Jean-Hugues ROBERT
E-mail: jean_hugues_robert@yahoo.com (ok to
use on site)
Comment:

We're sending this e-mail to confirm that you'd like
your signature added to our public signatories page.
If so,
simply reply to this message without changing the
subject line.

Resulted in this: http://www.agilemanifesto.org/sign/display.cgi?ms=000000004

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