Yoan Thirion - Freelance

Hello, I'm Yoan Thirion

Who am I ?

Technical Agile coach, Software craftsman

I am a Technical Agile coach.

I have designed software since more than 15 years now. My various experiences in fields like banking, insurance and industrial environments at Luxembourg helped me understood what were really fundamental to succeed in that area : agility and technical excellence.

That's why since a few years I am focusing on helping teams deliver well crafted software by coaching them on the implementation of agile practices.

I coach teams get better at XP practices, Continuous Integration and Development, Domain Driven Design, Clean Code, Behaviour Driven Development and many other technical practices (Mob programming, efficient code review, refactoring of legacy code, ...).

Because there is no agility without technical excellence.

What can I do for you ?

I can help you if you find yourselves in those problems :

  • Teams have to deliver high quality products/code but do not have time to invest in quality
  • DevOps approaches that struggle or fail because they rely exclusively on tools
  • Developers who need to implement and use good practices that are not defined or shared
  • Autonomous teams but not technically aligned
  • No space for continuous learning and therefore potentially for continuous improvement
  • Blurry technical roles like Tech leads (no one knows what their role is)
  • Tech leads for which no one knows what their role is
  • Organizational silos everywhere
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  • Discover my ‘Clean Crafter’ training

To solve those problems I propose those services :

Technical Agile coaching

Train and coach people on agile and craft development practices (mainly from eXtreme Programming) to deliver value and quality on an ongoing basis.

Communities of practice

Help people to create and lead communities of practice : disseminate good practices and use collective intelligence to define better practices.

Cultural change

Develop and maintain a corporate culture that encourages mutual support and continuous learning. Help you start your journey to the learning organization.

DevOps

Break silos and strengthen the Collective Ownership needed to implement a DevSecOps approach.

Brown bags

I come to your company for free to give a talk or facilitate a workshop. Discover my service offer and book me here

Serious games

Assist you to create serious games for different purposes like training or disruptive marketing for examples. Find examples of games in my resources.

My resources

Main public works
Approval testing kata (Gilded Rose)
05/08/2020
DDD re-distilled : an introduction to DDD strategic patterns and modelling process
26/05/2020
Vidéo de mon talk à AgileEnLigne - Xanpan, une méthode agile hybride centrée sur l'équipe
17/05/2020
F# introduction done during a Brown Bag Lunch
06/05/2020
Talk done during an Agile People meetup event
06/05/2020
XTREM WATCH — Découvrez la puissance de la veille collective
05/05/2020
Xanpan in a nutshell @AgileEnLigne
30/04/2020
Demystified Functional Programming for Object Oriented Programmers !!!
30/04/2020
En route vers l’apprenance avec Xtrem Reading (Rupture Douce 6)
22/04/2020
Xanpan — a team centric agile method story
16/04/2020
Improve your software quality with Property-Based Testing
06/04/2020
Property-Based Testing explained
03/04/2020
The art of meditation
25/03/2020
Learn to lead and help your team(s) to be successful
18/03/2020
Xanpan — a team centric agile method story
04/03/2020
Learn leadership from the Navy SEALs brown bag
27/02/2020
Learn leadership from the Navy SEALs : Discover leadership principles than can make you lead teams to high performance and success.
06/01/2020
Functional Programming made easy in C# with Language-ext
18/12/2019
Contibutor of the book Rupture Douce 6
15/12/2019
Agile HR Meetup - first event to discover the agile HR manifesto.
21/11/2019
Agile Grenoble 2019 - Le craft : la pièce manquante de votre transfo agile
14/11/2019
Agile Grenoble 2019 - Craftsminator : libérez vos entretiens d'embauche
13/11/2019
Meetup Reinventing management - Drive and intrinsic motivation. A toolkit for today's managers.
06/11/2019
Discover what postures and actions you can do as a manager to stimulate intrinsic motivation
06/11/2019
Agile comfort zone game - tool to spread an agile culture in organizations
02/11/2019
Facilitator guide for organizing collective tech watch sessions
24/10/2019
How to start a CDC approach with Pact (serie of 3 articles)
13/08/2019
Discover a new way to test your micro-services with this workshop
02/08/2019
The keys to become a learning organization
24/07/2019
Become a better speaker through peer feedback
20/07/2019
Unleash your job interviews with gamification
10/07/2019
A serie of 2 articles on why the dev are the forgotten of agility and some solutions to re-onboard them
18/06/2019
Agile France 2019 - Talk about Xtrem Reading
14/06/2019
Talk at "journée de la sécurité" Excellium : The devsec - the forgotten of the agility
14/06/2019
Newcrafts 2019 - Xtrem Reading : cultivate your collective intelligence
17/05/2019
Meetup agile - the devs the forgotten of the agility
25/04/2019
Website explaining the Xtrem reading format that allows to read 2 books in 1 hour by using collective intelligence
28/03/2019
Agile Tour Lille - Craftsminator : libérez vos entretiens d'embauche
10/11/2018
Découvrez l'histoire de Xtrem Reading ou comment lire 2 livres en 1 heure
09/10/2018
Guide to facilitate sessions using the Open Space technology
22/08/2018
Slide deck to explain the different types of cultural models (Schein, Schneider, ...)
11/07/2018
Troublemakers - have fun and discover agile roles
20/04/2018
Abstract of the course followed on Udemy with Vanessa Van Edwards
28/03/2018
Craft-challenges : discover craftsmanship through this card game available online
20/01/2018
Internal talk about how to improve our speakers skills
10/12/2017
MY CUSTOMER JOURNEY FROM MARS - Introduction to customer journey, story mapping, user story writing...
01/09/2017
DES’PO’RATE HOUSEWIVES - Demonstrate how important it is for a delivery team to interact with its Product Owner.
10/05/2017
Yata DevOps game - Demonstrate major principles behind DevOps.
07/03/2017

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Yoan Thirion

Contact me through the email adress described below :

Luxembourg