Antoine ContalCertify Antoine Contal

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Certifications Received

Christophe Thibaut certifies that Antoine Contal is, at a minimum, qualified to help others in the use of the skill eXtreme Programming methodology, based on this evidence:

I have been in contact for several years with Antoine and continually heard of, and seen for myself, what results he can get with a team, starting at any given level of initial effectiveness. In several occasions, Antoine managed to bring his team members, to a greater efficiency level with the help of the XP practices. His analysis skills and his integrity can help a team to overcome the many internal and external obstacles that a deriving or seemingly failing project can have. For at least the five past years, his work has been to transform such projects into successes.

Certifications Given

Antoine Contal certifies that Laurent Bossavit is, at a minimum, qualified to use the skill facilitating project retrospectives, based on this evidence:

Laurent skillfully facilitated a 2-day project retrospective for my team in June 2007. After this event, the team gelled and decided to become accountable for its success. These two days were a turning point for my team. Laurent used both tools described in Norm Kerth's book and also some other insightful thinking tools.

Antoine Contal certifies that Laurent Bossavit is, at a minimum, qualified to help others in the use of the skill essential system analysis, based on this evidence:

Laurent helped my team analyze in a fresh and thought-provoking way a daunting architectural change. The team was then able to reduce its software system to a set of essential flows, enabling it to think through this change without being swamped in technical details.

Antoine Contal certifies that Christophe Thibaut is, at a minimum, qualified to help others in the use of the skill automated acceptance testing, based on this evidence:

In winter-spring 2007, Christophe helped my team in setting up a FitNesse infrastructure for testing a complex clustered J2EE telecom application. He worked both with the developers to design and implement the test fixtures, and with the domain experts to grow a meaningful shared vocabulary. He helped us on test organization, test expressiveness and the use of powerful metaphors. After one year of systematic automated acceptance testing, the team has become very mature in this field. Yet, everything Christophe taught us is still as relevant as it was on the first day.