Blog: Projects
Professional Scrum Master I
After a few lessons by a co-worker at blue-infinity and taking the online exam on scrum.org, I am now certified Professional Scrum Master I. Scrum is an agile project management framework, with a set of rules, tools and events for managing software development projects. It is an incremental (the project is built brick after brick, team focusing on sprints with a limited amount of functions to develop) and iterative (each sprint’s group of developed elements gathers feedbacks, then is improved.) The best way to get going is to get started: this method allows to build a project little by little, detailing it as needed, rather than having everything specified from the start.
→ All resources are available on Scrum.org, and an Open assessment is available on website as well.
iPhone First Aid app: 900 downloads
Quebec Amerique First Aid application for iPhone was the first mobile application I ever worked on. The application was released on the Apple Store a few months ago, and it is considered a success as it has been downloaded more than 900 times since then. This project was a good occasion to start thinking about mobile Usability and information architecture, and build wireframes, use cases, flowchart and scenario. Not bad, for a start, I’d say!
Le Devoir on Apple Homepage
Le Devoir website homepage has been granted a great place on Apple Canada website: it is featured as a page seen through an IPad (it is not a mobile version, but actually the website homepage). A good sign (and the feeling of a victory) for this not-easy to wireframe and 4-columns homepage.
FDLD: tourism industry and Internet
Fleur de Lys Dupuis is a Canadian travel agency based in Montreal, Quebec. Started in 1974 by its current owner, the agency has absorbed other companies, to offer today a complete travel catalog, from coach tours to unique genuine luxury tourism, luxury cruises around paradise islands or bicycling holidays in France. With a single page for 2 of its activities, the company needed a more seductive and efficient presence on Internet. It’s the occasion to talk (a little) about how new technologies changed tourism, through some key-points of the new website.
Workshop: coupdecoeur.qc.ca
Coup de Coeur Francophone is a music festival which takes place everywhere in Canada. As you could guess, all the concerts are French-speaking, and the festival is impulsed by local French-speaking communities all around the country. Coup de Coeur was created in 1987, and it has expanded its influence ever since, featuring and discovering unique talents. Its current website, coupdecoeur.qc.ca, has been created in 2008, for the event’s 22nd issue. The design was created by orangetango, a very creative communication agency in Montreal, who had also designed the festival’s ad campaigns for a few years. After one whole year of operation, It thought it could be interesting to browse the website for optimization recommendations. I suggest we do this with a SWOT (Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats), and see what happens (it’s the first workshop I do on this blog, and it may not be the last…)
iposte : le portail Intranet de La Poste
Extrême Sensio a été retenu par le groupe La Poste pour la refonte d’iposte, son portail Intranet. Après avoir conçu et rédigé les chartes Intranet du Groupe, l’agence était bien placée pour connaître les besoins d’iposte, qui rassemble plusieurs centaines de sites ! J’ai collaboré à la réponse d’Extrême Sensio à cette compétition, et ai contribué à cette victoire très plaisante en tant qu’experte éditoriale au sein de l’équipe. Merci pour votre confiance !