SlideShare has published its “ruling trends in the world of presentations for the year gone by”. Funny, interesting, well done!

Some highlights:

• The average number of slides in a presentation: 19.3
• The maximum number of slides: 1’375 (!)
• Presentation typography: Arial 42%, Times New Roman 22% (!), Wingdings 17%
• Average number of pages per language: max = French with 38 :-)
• Presentation formats: PPT 61%, PPTX 17%, PPS 14%
• Average number of pictures: 19, average size of picture: 205 kb
• 7% of all presentations without a single image!
• Average size of presentation: 5.4 MB

Cross-posted on Didier Beck Weblog

As you may know, we are more and more using Scrum as a team-based framework for developing our Skye® standard software product (front-end solution for insurances) at Innoveo.

What is Scrum? (ScrumAlliance definition)

Scrum: A team-based framework to develop complex systems and products.

Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for developing any product or managing any work. It allows teams to deliver a potentially shippable set of functionality every iteration, providing the agility needed to respond to rapidly changing requirements.

The Scrum framework constantly challenges its users to focus on improvement, and its Sprints provide the stability to address the ever-changing needs that occur in any project.

These characteristics have led to Scrum becoming the most popular method in the world of agile software development.

We are consequently very proud to inform you that Laurent Kempé, who is acting as our Innoveo ScrumMaster besides being our internal “Scrum champion”, has successfully passed his ScrumMaster certification!

Congratulation to Laurent for this nice step and recognition.

Next step is now to apply for the next level: Certified Scrum Practitioner, as shown below (ScrumAlliance certification process):

cross-posted on Didier Beck’s blog