This year the international ICT Summit will take place in Chisinau 16-17 May 2012.

It is an international forum for ICT professionals to learn about current technology trends, and solutions from presentations by international and Moldovan IT professionals, and to network with colleagues and share information about the latest technologies, development platforms, and management techniques.

Pentalog will be presented on this events with the wide-range of presentations:

May 16 Wednesday

9:15 – 11:00 - Growing IT products over Building them, Cornel Fatulescu, CTO Pentalog Institute

May 17 Thursday

11:30 – 13:00 - The JEE empire strikes back - what’s new in JEE6, Catalin Mihalache, JEE Architect Pentalog Institute

14:00 – 15:30 - Kanban - an effective change management approach, Cornel Fatulescu, CTO Pentalog Institute

16:00 – 17:30 Document-Oriented Data for Web Developers (with Mongo DB), Mihai Burlac, Project Manger Pentalog

We’d like to wish the productive and interesting sessions days for this event with Pentalog presenters.

More information on Agenda, please find on link : http://moldovaictsummit.md/index.php/en/program

COP : http://www.cop.com/cop/node/126

JAVA Camp will be organized in CHI agency 19 May 2012. Catlain Mihalache (PI) will animate this event.

All interested person are welcome to participate.

Please for more information see related links:

http://www.cop.com/cop/node/123

http://www.p5.chi/java-camp-chi-19-mai/32

What is our Pepiniera Pentalog really all about?

This might be the first question that any of you might still have in mind. Collaborating inside Pentalog, it is certain that you have heard of us. Most of you associate Pepiniera with the program we offer towards students. You might even be someone who has joined Pentalog through this program, either recently or in the past.

The purpose of Pepiniera Pentalog addresses in fact 2 main directions:
1. Integrating new graduates (already described above);
2. Continuous training for all Pentalog employees.

As this information regards all our “pentaloghians”, I will first give you a quick pick of the second role we play.

The reason for organizing continuous training is clear: it is not sufficient to have an incipient formation and to be involved in your day-to-day activity in order to evolve as a top IT specialist. This is why theoretical trainings or shared knowledge activities are created and offered to you. You do have therefor the right to get informed about this and moreover, to bring ideas and get involved in constantly optimizing the learning process.

Our Pepiniera Pentalog activities in numbers
I’m sure you did not know, but during the T1 of this year, we realized so far 1439.15 days of trainings divided into:
• trainings with trainer (technical and non-technical): 194 days – 9.54% of the training plan for 2012;
• self-trainings: 766.45 days – 31.65% of the training plan for 2012;
• foreign languages courses (French, German, English): 478.7 days – 24.16% of the training plan for 2012.
As you can see, there will be also a lot more trainings to come until the end of this year. The courses held in T1 represent 22.36% of what is previewed for all the teams during 2012, so we will keep you up to date with our activity.

Our trainings cover a large geographical area as you can see in the graphic below. Here is a distribution of the training days in all our agencies:

Either through the specialists we have in every Pentalog agency, or thanks to the mobility of our experts, we try to offer the same opportunities to every one of you.

What are the most recent and appreciated trainings?
From the most recent ones, a series of presentations took place in Brasov, Iasi and Chisinau agencies on different topics, like for example:
• Design Patterns with Java
• How to give/receive a feedback
• Continuous integration- Machine presentation CI: Maven, Nexus, Jenkins and Sonar
• Automation Testing Framework

If you are interested in seeing the content of these presentations you can find them capitalized on Wiki Kpe: http://wiki.pentalog.fr/11zG60AaGlEoc7zN/index.php/Presentations_-_partage_de_connaisances

There are 2 indicators that show the value of a training: satisfaction rate and performance. Regarding the performance, it is clear that we are interested in how exactly these trainings impact your activities. As for the satisfaction rate, here are some concrete examples of internal trainings that speak for themselves:

It is only the limit of space in this article, that allows us to present you only a few examples.
However, we do thank every one of those who have the courage and ambition to prepare and sustain these trainings and presentations towards you!

We also encourage our speakers to stay updated and get trainings themselves. Therefore, we are proud to announce that this year, Vasile PUTINA became Certified SCRUM Master and Catalin MIHALACHE started the process of becoming Java EE 5 Enterprise Architect.

Some of our collaborators participated to different external trainings or conferences as well. It is important to keep a good “outside” contact with what others have to say regarding IT technical skills or soft skills. Our internal trainings evolve each year and we are able to offer you also new and interesting information.

Here are some external trainings that we enjoyed:
• HTML5/MVC3 in Cluj
• SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise: Administering Servers - Windows in Bucharest
• Software Metrics and Dashboards in Chisinau
• Risk-Based Software Testing Strategy in Chisinau
• Writing and Managing Software Requirements in Chisinau
• Agile Conference in Iasi

Being in the first half of T2, we can tell you that a lot more technical trainings take place during this period and also we are involved in more Technical Days events, where we participate as speakers or were also the P5 collaborators participate as guests.

What about the internship programs?
Our entire activity can be defined through the word “growth”. It is true, Pepiniera reflects an entire process rather than a static entity and this is easily noticeable when talking about the process that we developed for students. You might recognize this, if you had the chance to follow this path or to welcome youngsters in your teams:
• we carefully choose the good “seeds”. Every student who joins us, must have a high potential in gathering IT know-how and of course, a strong will to further develop it.
• our “padawans” are exposed to different types of formations that are meant to link the theoretical basis with real life IT practice.
• constant feedback and real job opportunities follow a 3 to 6 months learning season.

Regarding our entire activities, we will give more and more transparency. So stay tuned for other similar articles!

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Hello,

This end of the week is a bit busy concerning the training sessions. Two trainings take place in our agencies:
CLU agency - Automated Web Application Testing with Selenium - animated by Binh VU THANH
HAN agency - People and Project Management - session 3 - animated by Arthur PELTIER

You can contact us at: projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr

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Hello,

Yesterday evening Daniel RADU animated an interesting presentation in BRA agency on feedback “management”.
He approached topics like:
*How do we give a feedback (what we should / shouldn’t do when giving a feedback)
*Receiving the feedback (what we should / shouldn’t do when receiving a feedback)
*Feedback: tools Feedback matrix, Losada Ratio (Positivity/negativity ratio)

Below you have some pictures:

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Hello,

On May 4th and 5th in BRA agency Bogdan MINCIU animated a Spring training for our colleagues.
Duration of the training: 1.5days

The training plan was:
Day 1:
- Maven general aspects
- Spring IoC container
- Spring beans
- Spring configuration
- Spring @MVC
- Exercises
- Spring data access
- Spring transactions
- Exercises

Day 2:
- Spring webservices
- Exercises

We are waiting for the participants to complete the feedback surveys that were sent this morning, but the trainer already received a positive feedback from them.

Bellow you can see the participants trying to solve Bogdan’s exercises

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Hello,

On 10/05/2012 and 11/05/2012 in BUC REU-02, Madalina GAVRILITA will animate a presentation having as subject - Managing your finances
Duration: 1.5 hours
Topics:

The notion of individual and legal person
Types of companies in Romania
Classification of active population, by Robert Kiyosaki
Structure of companies
DIVIDENDS-STOCKS - SOCIAL PARTY
The notion of investment
FEES, TAXES
A State Key Economic Indicators
GDP per capita
Macroeconomic indicators
The inflation rate 2000-2010
Managing your finances
Personal budget - a way to analyze and forecast

Taking into consideration the fact that the meeting rooms in BUC are small (max 6 pers.), we will organize 4 sessions during 2 days as follows:
10/05/2012: 9:30 - 11:00 and 11:30 - 13:00
11/05/2012: 13:00 - 14:00 - session dedicated to the persons working at the client site - and 15:00 - 16:30

Please let me know as soon as possible if you wish to participate and in which session.

You can contact us at: projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr

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Hello,

On April 20th and 21st 2012 in CLU agency a Design Patterns with PHP5 training took place being animated by Cristian NEGHINA and Florin AICOBOAIE.

An average of 20 design patterns that are used and applied in PHP have been discussed. They started with the most common ones like Singleton and Factory, and finished with the most rare ones like Visitor, Facade, Strategy. For each design pattern cod examples have been analysed and defined the situations in which certain design pattern could be a solution.

The participants’ feedback was a very positive one - the satisfaction rate was of 90% Congrats to the two trainers!!!

Below you have some pictures from the training.

You can contact us at: projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr

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Hello,

As I think you all know, People Centric has an on-line IT evaluation tests platform:
http://www.testeitonline.ro/toate_testele.html

As the IT field is a very dynamic one the tests on this platform need to be continuously updated and renewed.
This is an action where you can get involved and contribute by realizing new evaluation tests on different subjects: Java, .NET, Business Intelligence, Management/ SCRUM Management, Databases, Web Services, Infrastructure/ Networking.

These are the rules that you have to follow in order to make a good evaluation test:
Number of questions – 20
Language – English
Type of questions – multiple choice (this means that each question should have 4 possible answers, from which only one is the correct answer )
Also you have to indicate the level of difficulty for each test (beginner, intermediary, advanced) and the time estimated for solving the test, the technology and the version.
Do not forget to indicate the correct answers to us so that we can set the application for automatic check-up.
Ideal the test should have 50% - theoretical questions and 50% practical questions ( for example you can write a part of a code and ask about the outcome of it, giving 4 possibilities as possible answers).

The test will be send in Word/Writter format.

For this activity and implication the overtime spent will be payed 100% - the time will be reported on a certain Epole project and phase which PEP will indicate to you.

If you wish to get involved in this action please contact us at: projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr

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Hello,

On May 9th 2012 in BRA REU-01 starting with 17:30 o’clock (1h), a Feedback “management” presentation will be animated by Daniel RADU.

These are the topics that will be discussed:
*Introduction (why am I interested in this subject, context, the goal of the feedback etc)
*How do we give a feedback (what we should / shouldn’t do when giving a feedback)
*Receiving the feedback (what we should / shouldn’t do when receiving a feedback)
*Feedback: tools Feedback matrix, Losada Ratio (Positivity/negativity ratio)
*Discussion practical cases
*Conclusion
*Asking for feedback (ROTI)

If you wish to participate please let us know at: projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr

Do not forget that you can contact us at :
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Hello,

Java EE and SpringSource are the two faces of the same coin. None of the Java developer should ignore one of these two major frameworks. Especially now, when JEE6 gains momentum on the market.

What’s new in JEE6:
- Contextual Dependency Inject - any Spring developer will understand it in no time.
- JAX-RS - RESTful web services in Java
- Asynchronous servlets
- Singleton session bean - a new kind of EJB, that behaves exactly like a singleton Spring bean
- JSF evolution: Ajax support, full JSF lifecycle execution on initial request, navigation simplifications

All these will be presented on 28th of March 2012 in Iasi, REU01, from 17.00 until 19.00. The presentation will be animated by Catalin Mihalache; all these new JEE6 concepts will be analyzed directly on JEE6 examples.

You may contact Catalin Mihalache at cmihalache@pentalog.fr

This year, the budget for the trainings of Pentalog collaborators has been established at 0.5M€, beside a lot of other training and presentation events meant for the labor market and for the Universities. Globally, Pentalog will spend around 1M€ in 2012 in different training actions. This is to say that since the very beginning of the Pépinière department in 2007 (and even before) we understood that our growth needs to be sustained by an efficient training machine, which has become stronger every year with your help and participation.

As you all know, at the end of last year the organization changed and the Pèpinière department passed in the Operations Division of the group, a logical consequence if we keep in mind that the actors of this department are all Pentalog members, people who are eager to share their knowledge, good practices, methodologies, and their availability is managed by the operational part.

In terms of activities, Pépinière has the same three axes, but the responsibilities changed:
- the internship program - coordinated directly by the Delivery Center Managers
- the professional training program - coordinated by the Pépinière’s Training Manager
- the relation and partnerships with the Universities - run by the Delivery Center Managers with the help of the Pépinière’s Training Manager.

In the following paragraphs you will find the changes done for the 2012 training plan and the description of it. I am reminding you that in the beginning of each year the training plan is realized by the Pépinière and presented to the Board. The training plan is made starting from the training needs expressed by the Delivery Center Managers (based on individual interviews needs, projects needs), services responsibles and the Business Liners. Also the Pentalog strategy, the IT market tendencies and the continuous improvement needs of our collaborators are being taken into consideration.

Technologies are evolving and customer preferences changes as well. In these conditions, we need to be able to learn something new and to adapt fast to the new tendencies.

When establishing the objectives for 2012, we estimated that every Pentalog collaborator will benefit of at least 2.6 days of training / year.

For 2012 the training plan is estimated at around 6500 days. The plan includes:
- Technical trainings,
- Non-technical trainings,
- Foreign languages courses
- Internships.

The novelty is represented by the Enterprise trainings, which are meant to cover a large majority of the company collaborators and to ensure that everybody will grow with at least one level in their competencies (formal objective present in the quality policy of the group).
So this is how we divided the trainings categories:

A. Enterprise trainings, where we included the basic trainings identified with the help of the Delivery Center Managers; sessions of these trainings will be planned in each agency:
- Design Patterns (Java, PHP, .NET)
- Clean Code (Java, PHP, .NET)
- SCRUM Management - Agile
- People and Project Management
- Web Interfaces: HTML5/CSS3, jQuery
- Databases
- Business Intelligence
- Software Testing / Test Automation
- Foreign Languages

For these trainings we identified a group of Pentalog collaborators who will be initially trained by the persons who created the existing trainings and afterwards they will be able to deploy the trainings in their agencies - so there will be less constraints regarding the availability of a certain trainer.

B. Presentation sessions (1 hour, besides the working program) - who will want to share information on a certain topic with his/hers collaborators will have to prepare the presentation and Pépinière will help him/ her with the preparations and the marketing of the event.

C. Knowledge sharing sessions - more complex presentation sessions.

D. Project oriented trainings and self-trainings - answering to a specific need of a project.

The training plan for 2012 is available on Wiki KPE (via Intranet, “Common rules and Tools” section).

If you need a training which is not in the Training Plan, you can also refer to the Catalog of Trainings which is also available on the WIKI KPE (in the same document as the Training Plan). In this Catalog you will find all the possible trainings which can be animated in Pentalog.

In order for you to be well informed, on Wiki KPE we created these pages:

- What you need to know before participating to a training

- What you need to know if you want to prepare and animate a training
You will also find in this procedure the rewards offered by Pépinière for the different types of collaborations.

- What you need to know if you are going to be / if you are a coach

You can also access these pages directly from the Intranet.

If you have any questions regarding this organization, please do not hesitate to contact your Delivery Center Manager or the Pepinière Department.

And please don’t forget that the trainings proposed and organized by the Pépinière Department could not exist without your help, so the more you give, the more you get!

Hello!

On February 24th 2012 in CHI REU-02 starting with 17:15 o’clock (1h), a presentation will be animated by Bogdan MINCIU from BRA for the CHI team on continuous integration - how to configure a CI machine: Maven, Nexus, Jenkins and Sonar
We have prepared for you a template for further integration machine. This means that your project is a few clicks away from a repository - Maven, Nexus, Jenkins and Sonar

We invite you to a short presentation (30 minutes) on how to install it on your project, what value it brings, how can you get the most from it.
A presentation for those tired of theory, hands-on, based only on examples

If you wish to participate please let us know at: projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr

Do not forget that you can contact us at :
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From 27-Feb-12 to 02-Mar- 12 i’ll be in Nurenberg, Germany, attending the Embedded World Exhibition & Conference 2012.

Mission includes:
Identifying new technologies and technological trends.
Participating to several conferences:

Day 1 – Feb 28, 2012
14:00 - 18:00 Session 2
Managing Embedded System Development and Life Cycle

Chairman: Dr. Torsten Klie

Day 2 – Feb 29, 2012
09:00 - 12:30 Session 6

The Multicore Session I
Chairman: Dr. Ronald Veldema, Friedrich Schön

13:30 - 18:00 Session 6
The Multicore Session II
Chairman: Dr. Ronald Veldema, Friedrich Schön

Day 3 – Mar 01, 2012
09:00 - 12:30 Session 15
Embedded System Architectures and SoC I
Chairman: Dr. Alexander Borusan

13:30 - 17:00 Session 15
Embedded System Architectures and SoC II
Chairman: Dr. Alexander Borusan

JC

Hello!

On March 21, 22nd 2012 in BUC REU-05 from 14:00 - 18:00 each day, Guy LASNIER will animate a training of Communication and client relation.
The training will be in French.
The training plan can be found here:
http://wiki.pentalog.fr/11zG60AaGlEoc7zN/index.php/Formation:FF968_FR

If you wish to participate please let us know at: projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr

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Hello!

On February 23rd 2012 in BRA REU-01 starting with 18:00 o’clock (1h), a presentation will be animated by Bogdan MINCIU on continuous integration - how to configure a CI machine: Maven, Nexus, Jenkins and Sonar
We have prepared for you a template for further integration machine. This means that your project is a few clicks away from a repository - Maven, Nexus, Jenkins and Sonar

We invite you to a short presentation (30 minutes) on how to install it on your project, what value it brings, how can you get the most from it.
A presentation for those tired of theory, hands-on, based only on examples

If you wish to participate please let us know at: projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr

Do not forget that you can contact us at :
Wiki KPE:
http://wiki.pentalog.fr/11zG60AaGlEoc7zN/index.php/Accueil
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Hello!

On February 28th 2012 in BRA REU-01 starting with 18:00 o’clock (1h), an Automation Testing Framework presentation will be animated by Vasilica POPESCU.
The presentation will include:
Brief about automation testing
Pro and cons
Automation testing framework
* Types of framework
* Models of framework

If you wish to participate please let us know at: projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr

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Hello,

Yesterday successfully took place in BRA agency the knowledge sharing session on Design Patterns with Java animated by Ovidiu S.
A significant number of people were interested in participating and we also gave the opportunity to three students from Transilvania University to join us and learn new things directly from the experts.

Here are some pics from yesterday evening:

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Salut,

On a fait quelques changement sur les projets Epole PEP, je vous rappelle les projets et leurs but:
P5 - PEP - Internal self training - le temps passe sur les auto-formations + auto-formations integration projet
P5 - PEP - Training Preparation - le temps pour preparer un support de formation
P5 - PEP - Training animation - le temps passe animer une formation (interne ou externe)
P5 - PEP - Training - Labs Preparation - le temps passe pour preparer des laboratoires
P5 - PEP - Training with external trainer - le temps en formation avec un formateur extern
P5 - PEP - Training with internal trainer - le temps en formation avec un formateur intern
P5 - PEP - Recruter & suivre les stagiaires PROD - le temps passe par les coach sur recrutement et coaching des stagiaires
P5 - PEP - ECI - OnLineTests - le temps passe pour realiser des questionnaires d’evaluation
P5 - PEP - ETH/ Article Wiki - le temps passe pour realiser des ETH/ article pour le Wiki Kpe
P5 - PEP - Camps and Workshops - le temps passe dans un workshop ou un PM Camp par exemple

Pour aucune probleme/ demande en concernant l’Epole pour les formations/ auto-formations n’hesitez pas me contacter:
bstanescu@pentalog.fr

N’oubliez pas que vous pouvez nous contacter a :
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Hello,

We did some changes on the PEP Epole reports, so I am reminding you the projects and their purpose:
P5 - PEP - Internal self training - time spent in self-training / integration project self-training
P5 - PEP - Training Preparation - time spent in order to prepare a training
P5 - PEP - Training animation - time spent animating a training (internal or external)
P5 - PEP - Training - Labs Preparation - time spent preparing laboratories
P5 - PEP - Training with external trainer - time spent participating to an external training
P5 - PEP - Training with internal trainer - time spent participating to an internal training
P5 - PEP - Recruter & suivre les stagiaires PROD - time spent recruiting and coaching an intern
P5 - PEP - ECI - OnLineTests - time spent realizing evaluation tests
P5 - PEP - ETH/ Article Wiki - time spent registering an ETH or writing a technical article
P5 - PEP - Camps and Workshops - time spent in an workshop or in a PM Camp for example

If you have any question / problem concerning the Epole for trainings/ self-trainings do not hesitate to contact me:
bstanescu@pentalog.fr

Do not forget that you can contact us at :
projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr

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Hello !

On January 12th 2012 in BRA REU-01 starting with 18:00 o’clock (1h), a Design Patterns presentation will be animated by Ovidiu STANCIU.
The presentation will include a brief overview of design patterns and then some “interactive exercises” based on Java.

If you wish to participate please let us know at: projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr

Do not forget that you can contact us at :
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Pepiniera va doreste Craciun Fericit si un An Nou cat mai bun!

La Pepiniere vous souhaite Joyeux Noel et Bonne Annee!

Pepiniere department wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May all your dreams come true!

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Salut,

Jeudi et vendredi (22, 23/12/2011) je serai en conges.
S’il vous plait de nous contacter sur projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr
Les demandes s’il vous plait de les enregistrer sur SDT:http://79.141.1.254/PEP/

Je vous souhaite a tous Joyeux Noel!

Hello,

On Thursday and Friday (22, 23/12/2011) I will be on holiday.
Please contact us onprojet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr .
Also, please register your requests on SDT:http://79.141.1.254/PEP/

Merry Christmas to you all!

Due to the latest changes in Pentalog, the technical department will evolve into Pentalog Institute. However, despite the fact that the priorities management will be completely different and the average time spent on activities will change, our missions and expectations will remain the same as grouped bellow:

• Pursue Technology Evolutions
• Technical department services alignment with market needs
• Presales support
• Consultancy and projects assistance
• Production tools and methods warranty
• Knowledge sharing animation

Regrouped in Pentalog Institute as:

• Start Me Up
• Consultancy and project support
• Trainings & knowledge sharing sessions

The newly created Pentalog Institute was designed together with Sophie and the Business Liners and was strongly supported by the board. The first communication on this subject was made to the Project Directors on 23rd of November in Orleans during my last visit and ended with an average ROTI of 4 for 7 attendees.
Today I’ve just made a second deployment to my team. Also several people from production attended and we achieved an average ROTI of ~4.2 for 9 attendees.
The next step is to present these changes to Manu followed by the deployment for all other managers into the 4th step => all this should happen in the beginning of January.

Idea and initiative are described in more details here En Fr
You will get more insights regarding the “why” and more precisely “how” and “what” during the future deployment meetings and communications over the news that I’m going to make till the end of January.

This Saturday 10122011 the Master Class on “Scrum methodology – IT project organization” was conducted in Technical University Moldova FIF CHI.

Master class was animated by Vasile Putina. The well-structured presentation was accompanied with the real practical examples. It was the 2 second time for this year – of Master Class event in UTM.

The participants were 4 year of faculty – total 16 persons.

The presented subject attract much interest of participants that tended to open discussion and questions/answer session.

The interested point was concluded after this presentation : “The SCRUM methodology seems as an efficient method of organization and management – it might be applied not only in IT and also probably in Education system with main point on : focus on objectives and demonstrative expected output in short-period “.

Thanks Vasile for willing and enthusiasm to present this Master Class.

The Master Class for UTM (Technical University) FIF Chisinau will be conducted tomorrow (10122011) Saturday.

The Subject is : IT Project Organisation Scrum methodology

Vasile Putina will present this session.

As a number of confirmed participants – we’ve got 23 students.

Looking forward to this meeting

The Clean Code presentation was conducted by Daniel Horlescu (IASI) as a cross-agency meeting with participants from Chisinau yesterday ( 24 November 2011).

This meeting joined 20 participants from CHI agency.

The presentation comprises a lot of statements, recommendations on practice to write qualitative code.

Daniel shared with recommendable books to be reviewed to acquired more knowledge on this subject.

Certainly, the started subject is important and it’ll be appreciated to be followed up.

Thank you Daniel for this presentation and your time

The capitalized information is placed on dedicated WIKI page : wiki.pentalog.fr/11zG60AaGlEoc7zN/index.php/Partaje_des_conaissances_Clean_Code

Today, 21st November 2011, I’ve made a short presentation on Kanban method which seemed to be pretty interesting to the 5 attendees (average ROTI 3.8 – 1 hour meeting).
For those who didn’t yet hear about Kanban, it is the less prescriptive agile tool:




Kanban applied(from experiences outside Pentalog):

• decreases the cycle time by 92%
• increases the throughput by more than 3 times
• approaches a very acceptable predictability rate of 98%

Sustained by these strong arguments and combined with VSM (Value Stream Map), we decided to use it as the main organizational tool for our department (DT).

If you want to have more details on Kanban, just let me a comment on this post, and you will benefit from a real/live demo on kanban implementation.
Here is the presentation plan I’ve made:

• About Kanban
• Kanban VS Scrum
• Kanban & DT
• QA?

Bonjour,

Suivi l’ intérêt exprimé par les participants agence CHI: nous organisons une présentation Clean Code animée par Daniel HORLESCU (IASI)

Jeudi – 24/11/2011, 17:30 en CHI REU-02 - duree 1h.

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Hello,

Following the expressed interest of the participants CHI agency : we organise a Clean Code presentation animated by Daniel HORLESCU (IASI)

Thursday – 24/11/2011, 17:30 - in CHI REU-02 - duration 1h.

Any interested person are welcome

New tradition have been started this year in Pentalog.

Pentalog “Open the Door” for the young motivated and interested students in IT !

We started to welcome the students in April 2011 and now in November we can proudly confirm the success of this intention. Finally 88 students and pupils (XI, XII form) participated on these events !

The last Open Days was conducted yesterday (10112011) for the Technical University students (III year).

All of them remain absolutely exciting of the opportunity to visit IT company and find answers on all their questions.

Evidently, each of us can remember the time when we were students and the future professional life and career were barely visible and imaginable.

Now, the greatness of Open days idea is proved, having the sincere impressions of the participants. We share with you with just some of them:

-> “I am impressed of this idea, to visit real IT company, to see real specialists working here who openly share with us their competences, experience and recommendations. I’ve become familiar with working environment by my eyes ….“

→ “ Now, It is clear for me what knowledge I should acquire, what I shall to achieve, what skills and ability I have to have to become professional and what steps I shall undertake after graduation”

→ “I become more motivated to study more; the career opportunity is clear for me now “

The valuable appreciation for us :

(!) Impressed with the great Energy shared with us, quit, positive and enthusiastic atmosphere of your company.(!) Looking at all presenters, I feel trust, pleasure and satisfaction of their work here – I’d like to feel the same when I’ll be engaged on real job.

(!) Your atmosphere prove and demonstrate that in general - Pentalog is a great team. Through this event your company prove the tendency of open collaboration with students.

(!) Now I know in what company I’d like to work – in company with the same value and approach as Pentalog demonstrates today.

Indeed, starting from these events we build the long-term Partnership with the motivated, dynamic Students Community.

Our efforts and contribution today, will bring the fruitful results in a short-term, at that moment when in 1 or 2 years the present students will become our real prospective colleagues and join our professional team Pentalog !

Thanks all who participated on these events :

Mihai Burlac, Oleg Danu, Veronica Malai, Vasile Putina, Alexandru Stefanica, Vitalie Tapcov

The full list of appreciations /expression please find on WIKI page:

http://wiki.pentalog.fr/11zG60AaGlEoc7zN/index.php/Partnership_with_Technical_University_Moldova_%28UTM%29

Students Group

Development process Team work !

Greatly passed the Open Day for newly invited pupils in CHI agency !

Pentalog CHI welcomed the youngest participants from Lyceum (XI, XII forms) - 8 November 2011.

The meeting was focused on professional orientation, discovering the advantages and opportunity opened in IT industry for the present and upcoming time.

All presentations were designed as a Best Trends and Success Story, which were confirmed by the Pentalog reporters based on our own experience examples.

The meeting content helps to clearly understand :

* What is IT (Now and Future)

* Why IT is the prospective domain (Opportunity and Advantages)

* How to work in IT company (Principles and Role/Responsibilities )

* Who works in IT (Required competence and abilities)

This time the most joyful part was Interactive Game ! The fruitful idea of this game come to me from my son who is the best “developer” in LEGO constructor.

The Game was successfully implemented by all participants, they was able to play “on practice “ for : How to organize IT project, distribute tasks, organize team, develop the product (initial requested by client) and how to anticipate client satisfaction

All participants made splendid presentations – they all have a great opportunity in IT (in a future ) !

It is a admirable pleasure to welcome new interested young persons and feel that you contribute to their thinking on professional life construction in a nearest future.

Indeed the Future is being built starting from Today !

All participants

The “Working process”

“FINAL Product Delivery ”

Whether you are testing a new microcontroller an ASIC or a SoC a post-silicon validation of the design is a must. Here’s a look at diagnostic tests and techniques.

Writing software to verify the design of a silicon device is quite different from other types of embedded software development. I’m triyng here to introduce the subject of post-silicon validation to clarify this subject for people interested in dealing with it at any functional level.It provides techniques for the software developer to successfully plan, develop, and execute software used to verify the design of a new silicon device. The techniques presented here apply to any type of device with interfaces controlled by software.Silicon devices are increasingly complex, so it’s important to plan and execute good design tests throughout the development cycle. There are two main categories of design testing: Pre-silicon verification and Post-silicon validation. In Pre-silicon verification, design analysis tools are used to simulate the design and the test environment before an actual silicon device is created. Since the environment is simulated, there is flexibility in setting up test cases at the block and gate level. Inputs can be injected and outputs probed and logged from virtually anywhere in the design. A powerful, low-level test and debug environment is the result. This is equivalent to white-box unit testing in the software world.Most modern chip designs are developed in a hardware description language such as Verilog or VHDL. The language used for the design in most cases is also used to create the pre-silicon test cases. A problem with design simulation and pre-silicon testing is that they take a long time to execute when compared to actual silicon. What takes seconds in silicon could take hours or days in a simulated environment. This limits the amount of testing that can be performed. Pre-silicon verification testing is usually performed either by the digital designers themselves or by a separate verification team whose members have chip design backgrounds and skills. The subject of pre-silicon design verification is extensive, and much information is available about its methodologies and tools.We will focus on the second stage of design testing. Post-silicon validation is a less documented area of testing and is usually performed by skilled embedded software developers with little or no experience in chip design. Post-silicon validation is testing performed on the silicon device once it arrives from the fab. The tests use programming languages such as C and assembly and are run on a reference or validation board containing the target silicon. Testing can be done at speed and now involves interaction with other hardware and peripherals.One difficulty is that visibility inside the chip is limited; internal signals cannot be probed as they can in a simulation environment. Test and debug is a challenge at this stage. The work is done at the device’s register interfaces using software and at its external signals using tools such as logic analyzers and oscilloscopes.

Validation goals
Consider the following scenario: The first silicon finally arrives for a new system on chip (SoC) design and everyone is anxious to see how well the design works. The silicon validation team plugs the new chip into a reference board that has never been tested with the chip. Revision 1 of the bootstrap and diagnostic code is loaded into FLASH, and the board is powered up for the first time. Chances are good that it will crash almost immediately. The problem might be with the reference board, the new silicon, the diagnostic software, the boot code, a misunderstanding of how the chip is supposed to work, or some combination of these. Unfortunately, an early failure like this usually prevents the rest of the tests from running correctly, which is not good either. Obviously, nothing can be said yet about the quality of the chip.Post-silicon diagnostic tests should be developed early in the chip development process, and the validation team should be organized and ready for the delivery of the chip. It is a good idea to anticipate various failure types and have plans for dealing with each. While for many embedded projects, the programmers have the luxury of developing and iterating software using the target hardware, this is not the case when validating new silicon. Diagnostic code must be written and tested without hardware.There are two main goals of validation testing: first, to thoroughly test the functionality of the chip; second, to structure the code and plan the test environment to quickly and efficiently debug, isolate, and report problems and issues that come up in the lab while testing. This means putting together an organized system of debug statements, logic analyzer triggers, event logging, and so on. Rarely can the diagnostic software print a nice statement describing the exact silicon problem. Many times, the test will fail due to some side effect such as improper register settings or initialization by software, a software logic error, a silicon problem unrelated to what the test was testing at the time, or lock up in the middle of the test. The software must be designed to report all available clues !

Code structure
The diagnostic software should be well structured and easy to understand and maintain. There are many reasons for this. Because of the complexity of embedded software diagnostics, it is easy to raise a false alarm to the chip’s designers when reporting a test failure. This should be minimized, although sometimes it can’t be avoided. When you strongly suspect that a problem is in the silicon, a designer will want to see everything that the software is doing. If the code is overly complex or messy, it adds more difficulty to finding the location of the problem. While you usually have adequate time before the first silicon arrives to design and write the software, development often moves more quickly than you think and pressure mounts once the chip is in the lab. If the code is not well structured upfront, it can rapidly become unreadable and unreliable due to rushed code changes in the lab. The test can lose its credibility and waste a lot of people’s time on misreported problems. Good clean code helps testing go smoothly and provides the validation and design engineers more confidence in working through potential problems.

Directed diagnostics
There are three types of validation tests: directed diagnostic tests, stress tests, and real-world tests. Although there is some duplication in the functionality tested, these types represent different test dimensions that are all needed to ensure the quality of the silicon device. Directed diagnostic tests are designed to exercise every feature of the chip. There should be a test for every field in each register. All functions of the device must be exhaustively checked one by one. For starters, you want to set all possible programmable values of each writable register or field (or a reasonable sampling of values if the range is large) and verify that all readable registers can be read back after being written and that all status bits are set correctly for all stated conditions. For registers with large value ranges, you should check boundary conditions as well as values sprinkled throughout the range. Being thorough is important. Directed diagnostics are very important, as they check that all the basic functionality of the chip is there. They form a solid basis for the other tests. A problem encountered here can be isolated quickly—unlike failures uncovered by the other types of tests.

The Quality Assurance Camp was successfully conducted last Friday and Saturday (28, 29 October 2011).

The Technical Department organized this Camp for Professional Community : Quality Assurance Engineer and Testers for the First time. Actually, this year, it was organized : 6 PM Camps and 1 QA Test Camps.

This Camp joined the 13 participants from Brasov and Chisinau Agency.  This time the participants shared with best practice on the company level.

This professional event was animated by me and Binh.

The major focus of this QA CAMP was : «Efficient Quality Assurance Engineer/ Tester – the Pledge of the quality of IT project»

 The Automation Testing tools presentations were presented by DT expert – Thanh Binh Vu. The topics on Career (Veronica Malai ) and Agile (Oxana Baimastruc)

We followed particular points during this event :

- What automation testing tool can facilitate/help to be efficient – (technical points)

- What are the prospective of QAE/Tester to become Efficient – International Competence Certification,Carrier Opportunity.

- What are the particularities to be competent in (IT Project organization Role of Tester ; Particularities for Agile methodology)

Totally we unrolled 7 important presentations , had interactive time and practical exercises.

Within this meeting we discovered a lot of new information and best practices confirmed by real practical examples, as well we identified the opportunities for future.

This event actually created and built common professional spirit, followed with interesting discussion and exchange of competence. Each participant was a value and uniquely contributed with own professional knowledge and experience.

It was pleased and joyful time to spent together in working, as well serious atmosphere !

Looking forward to next meeting

Please see all presentations, participants and nice photos which are uploaded on KPE WIKI page : « Sharing Knowledge domain » link :

http://wiki.pentalog.fr/11zG60AaGlEoc7zN/index.php/Partaje_des_conaissances_QA_Test_CAMP

We would like to appreciate very much the help/assistance from another specialists from the departments :

SAF RO : Ioana Bontu ;  SI RO : Adrian Brabanta, Catalin Cojocar; Voyage : Olga Sajin, Olesea Lomaca

Thanks for well organized work

Automation Tools _Presentation Binh

Interactive part

All participants 

Hello,

As you all know on October 14, 15th 2011 in Bucharest agency an Embedded Systems and Telecom Knowledge Sharing Camp took place.
Subjects discusses:
1. Cortex A9 MPcore Architecture
2. BlueTooth (802.15.1) Principle & Applications
3. TI OMAP4 Architecture
4. ZigBee (802.15.4) Protocol stack and Tools
5. Digital Signal Processing for Communications systems: CTC decoder for WiMAX and LTE
6. LTE – FDMA and SC FDMA

All the presentations are available on Wiki KPE in the knowledge sharing section:
http://wiki.pentalog.fr/11zG60AaGlEoc7zN/index.php/Partaje_des_conaissances
more exactly here:
http://wiki.pentalog.fr/11zG60AaGlEoc7zN/index.php/Partaje_des_conaissances_Embedded_systems_and_Telecom

Do not forget that you can contact us at :
projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr
Wiki KPE:
http://wiki.pentalog.fr/11zG60AaGlEoc7zN/index.php/Accueil
You can also follow us on:
FaceBook
LinkedIn

Salut,

Demain - vendredi - 14/10/2011- depuis 18:00 en BRA REU-01 nous organisons une presentation Clean Code animee par Daniel Horlescu - duree 1h.

N’oubliez pas que vous pouvez nous contacter à:
projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr
Wiki KPE:
http://wiki.pentalog.fr/11zG60AaGlEoc7zN/index.php/Accueil
Vous pouvez également nous suivre sur:
FaceBook
LinkedIn

Hello,

Tomorrow - Friday - 14/10/2011 - in BRA REU-01 starting at 18:00 we are oganising a Clean Code presentation animated by Daniel Horlescu - duration 1h.

Do not forget that you can contact us at :
projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr
Wiki KPE:
http://wiki.pentalog.fr/11zG60AaGlEoc7zN/index.php/Accueil
You can also follow us on:
FaceBook
LinkedIn

Salut,

Cette semaine BRA -14/10/2011 -15/10/2011 - BRA REU-01
La formation est animée par Gabi Deliu; la durée - 2 jours (8h/jour).

Sujets qui serons discuté pendant la formation:
- De nouvelles étiquettes et de la sémantique dans HTML5
- Support pour les pages dynamiques
- CSS 3.0 (practique et theorie)
- Web Messaging
- Local Storage
- Threading
- WebGL

Si vous êtes intéressé à participer à cette formation s’il vous plait de nous annoncer à:
projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr

S’il vous plait avant de confirmer vos participation a une formation, valider avec vos CP/DP.

Hello,

This week BRA -14/10/2011 -15/10/2011 - BRA REU-01.
The training is animated by Gabi DELIU; duration - 2 days (8h/day).

Subject which will be discussed during the training:
- New tags and semantics in HTML5
- Dynamic pages support
- CSS 3.0 (practice and theory)
- Web Messaging
- Local Storage
- Threading
- WebGL

If you are interested in participating to this training contact us at:
projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr

Please before confirming you participation confirm with you PM or PD.

Salut,

A la fin du mois d’août nous avons atteint un total de 4912.3j/h des formations, réparties naturellement entre les auto-formations (Java, Embedded, PHP les plus communs) et des formations avec des formateurs (Formation Chef de projet animée par Pierre de Thelin, Norme ISO animée par Pierre de Thelin, HTML5/CSS3 animée par Gabi Deliu).

De l’agence de Bucarest deux collaborateurs P5 ont participé à la JAVA / FAD organise par Oracle Roumanie.

Cette semaine à Brasov:
11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19/10/2011 - DBA animé par Sébastien Louchart
14, 15/10/2011 - HTML5/CSS3 animée par Gabi Deliu

La semaine prochaine, à Chisinau:
18, 19/10/2011 - Communication et relation client - animée par Guy Lasnier
20, 21/10/2011 - Management et Communication - animée par Guy Lasnier

Fin du mois en agence de Iasi:
25, 26/10/2011 - Formation Chef de projet session 3 animé par Anca COPARIU

Formations à venir en novembre 2011 - Test automatisé des applications Web avec Sélénium animé par Vu Binh Thanh et Patterns Desing avec Java animés par Catalin Mihalache.

N’oubliez pas que vous pouvez nous contacter à:
projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr
Wiki KPE:
http://wiki.pentalog.fr/11zG60AaGlEoc7zN/index.php/Accueil
Vous pouvez également nous suivre sur:
FaceBook
LinkedIn

Hello,

At the end of August we reached a total of 4912.3day/pers. of trainings, divided of course between self-trainings (Java, Embedded, PHP the mos commun ones) and trainings with trainer (People and Project Management animated by Pierre de Thelin, Norme ISO animated by Pierre de Thelin, HTML5/CSS3 animated by Gabi DELIU).

From Bucharest agency two P5 collaborators participated at the JAVA/ADF offered by ORACLE Romania.

This week in Brasov agency:
11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19/10/2011 - DBA animated by Sebastien LOUCHART
14, 15/10/2011 - HTML5/CSS3 animated by Gabi DELIU

Next week in Chisinau agency:
18, 19/10/2011 - Communication and Client relation - animated by Guy LASNIER
20, 21/10/2011 - Management and Communication - animated by Guy LASNIER

End of the month in Iasi agency:
25, 26/10/2011 - People and Project Management session 3 animated by Anca COPARIU

Upcoming trainings in November 2011 - Automated Web Application Testing with Selenium animated by Binh VU THANH and Desing Patterns with Java animated by Catalin MIHALACHE.

Do not forget that you can contact us at :
projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr
Wiki KPE:
http://wiki.pentalog.fr/11zG60AaGlEoc7zN/index.php/Accueil
You can also follow us on:
FaceBook
LinkedIn

Salut,

Sur 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19/10/2011 en BRA REU-01 en debut de 9h du matin une formation DBA animee par Sebastien LOUCHART est organisee, animee en FR.
Voici le plan de cours:
http://wiki.pentalog.fr/11zG60AaGlEoc7zN/index.php/Formation:FF502_Fr

N’oubliez pas que vous pouvez nous contacter sur:
projet-pepiniere@pentalog.fr

The OPEN DAYs for students of Technical University (FFI) will take place at 12 October 2011 in Chisinau agency.

This event induce the big interest from students : in total we have got 40 confirmations from persons willing to participate in.

For 12 October Pentalog Chi will “open the door” for 1 st group – 20 participants.

Such activities facilitate to familiarize the students with real professional environment and requirements. During this interactive meeting, the participants has a great opportunity to receive the answers for any questions they have.

The students will be provided with large spectrum of information which will help them to make professional orientation and be prepared at the moment of career start for short/long-term prospective.

The last Open days was conducted in April 2011 in CHI agency. This event successfully passed, we received many appreciation and positive remarks.http://news.pentalog.fr/newsint/pepiniere/open-day-for-university-students-in-p5-chisinau/

We endeavor to keep these meeting as a valuable tradition, which will contribute to attract potential new, young, motivated, dynamic interns and specialists in a nearest future.

Pentalog is Open Welcome to Open Days !

Technical Department will organize the Embedded Systems & Telecom Camp in Bucharest for 14 -15-Oct-2011

This event is a part of set of Knowledge Sharing Camps - Communities of Practices conducted by DT for professionals in different areas of expertise.

The Embedded event attracts 24 participants Pentalog specialists to share the best practices and technical prospective.

Radu OPREAN expert is invited from SIBIU agency.

The prior organizer and animator of this event : is John Cristian (JC) IVAN (Technical Department)

Speakers: Dragos CIOFU, Marius ROGOBETE, Radu OPREAN, Grig BARBULESCU, Cristian ANGHEL, Florin ANTON.

The main subjects of presentations and discussions :

1. Cortex A9 MPcore Architecture

2. BlueTooth (802.15.1) Principle & Applications

3. TI OMAP4 Architecture

4. ZigBee (802.15.4) Protocol stack and Tools

5. Digital Signal Processing for Communications systems: CTC decoder for WiMAX and LTE

6. LTE – FDMA and SC FDMA 

We wish the speakers and participants interested and productive discussion !

Bonjour,

Je vous informe qu’à partir du lundi 3 octobre, toute demande de voyage ou renseignement doit être réalisé via le mail Voyages, même s’il s’agit d’un déplacement à l’intérieur de la Roumanie (les déplacements des collaborateurs FR à l’intérieur de la France ne sont pas concernés).
Toutes les indemnités à verser seront traitées dorénavant uniquement à partir du mail Voyages.  Elles ne doivent donc plus passer par une demande Mantis SAF.

Ce nouveau process va permettre à Voyages de centraliser l’ensemble des voyages et d’indiquer au SAF les versements d’indemnités à effectuer. Autrement dit, si un déplacement devant donner lieu à un versement d’indemnité n’est pas réalisé via le mail Voyage, aucune indemnité ne sera versée.

Je vous remercie d’avance de la bonne application de ce process.

Virginie

I would like to inform you that starting with Monday, 3rd October, any travel or information request should be made via the Trip Organization Department, even if the business travel is within Romania (this does not apply to French employees’ business travels within France).
From now on, all the allowances to be paid will be processed only based on the Trip Organization Department e-mail. Therefore, it is no longer necessary to make a request on Mantis SAF.

This new process will enable the Trip Organization Department to centralize all the trips and to indicate to SAF the allowance payments to be made. In other words, if a trip request for which an allowance should be paid is not made via the Trip Organization Department e-mail, no allowance shall be paid.

Thank you in advance for implementing this process appropriately.

Virginie

Vã informez cã, începând cu data de luni, 3 octombrie, orice cerere de deplasare sau de informații trebuie fãcutã prin intermediul unui e-mail la departamanentul Voyage, chiar dacã este vorba despre o cãlãtorie internã, pe teritoriul României (deplasarile angajaților francezi pe teritoriul Franței nu fac obiectul acestei modificãri).
De acum înainte, toate indemnizațiile care trebuie plãtite trebuie sã facã obiectul unui e-mail la Departamentul Voyages. Nu mai este necesar sã se creeze o cerere în Mantis SAF.

Acest nou proces va permite Departamentului Voyage sã centralizeze vãrsãmintele aferente indemnizațiilor şi sã comunice departamentului SAF plãțile aferente indemnizațiilor care trebuie efectuate. Cu alte cuvinte, nu se va efectua plata indemnizațiilor care necesitã vãrsãminte, dar care nu sunt realizate prin trimiterea unui e-mail la Departamentul Voyage.

Vã mulțumesc anticipat pentru aplicarea corectã a acestui proces.

Virginie