Laurent Bossavit - Position Statement
Laurent Bossavit, France, Consultant, URL: http://bossavit.com/thoughts/
I started programming in the eighties, made a living of it from the nineties on, and became interested in Extreme Programming in 2000. At present I’m a consultant, helping businesses and teams make sense of XP and Agile. I live in Paris, France.
It was the community’s support that helped me most when I started experimenting with XP. On mailing lists and at international conferences, I met many people who inspired me, some who became friends. Because I wanted more of that closer to home, I did what I could to grow the French Agile community: among those initiatives were a book, a local Practitioners’ Group, the Coding Dojo and XP Day France 2006 and 2007.
The Agile community is finding ways for software development efforts to deliver more value. Our guiding stars are feedback, transparency, small increments, high collaboration… Yet our efforts to structure the Alliance itself around those values have been limited: for instance our main conference is organized with phases and deadlines, and is still One Big Conference. My intent in joining the Board is to help the Agile Alliance become still more agile itself, while preserving a sense of community that I value very much.
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