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Frédéric Lasnier
Title: President&Chief Executive Officer
Bio: After a quick passage in a national marketing service company, Frederic Lasnier founded Pentalog with four colleagues, academics like himself. During a period of economic stagnation (in 1993).
In 1995, he decided to open permanently the capital of Pentalog to the participation of his employees. This participation now has reached 56%. It was a political vision that he shared with the founding members. Starting from 1997, Pentalog exported their first services outside of France. The percentage of foreign activities subsequently reached 60% in 2006.
In 1999, as part of a large software project (10 000 man-days in J2EE), he made his first trip to Romania and laid the foundation for the Pentalog policy of European "low cost". In 2005, he initiated the creation of BPO services (Business Process Outsourcing) and offered a New Business Model to Pentalog High Tech. In 2006, with the help of Ausy, one of the 5 most important players in the French market of outsourced R&D services, he created Pentalog Technology, a joint venture between Ausy and Pentalog, co-owned equally by the two partners. The Joint Venture aims to provide low cost but high quality R & D to global players. Pentalog took operational control of this alliance.
In 2008, Pentalog Deutschland, the German subsidiary of the group was created.
In 2009, Frederic created Pentalog Vietnam.
In all these areas, the management is provided from Orleans and it is here where 70% of the consolidated value is held.
Frederic is the father of the adaptation of the "design to cost" for intellectual services in France.
Aymeric Libeau
Title: CIO - Vice President Infrastructure & R&D
Bio: The management of infrastructure and R&D Aymeric is supervising includes all the technical aspects (for the company as well as for our customers), whether they are related to corporate needs, resources to complete a project, R&D activities or quality control.
Aymeric is the one who defines the strategy of development of our infrastructure and information system.
This former peacekeeper has led several international operations, in particular in Eastern Europe. He remains operational for some of our customers, whether as an expert in architecture, a project director or consultant in the choice of technologies.

Monica Jiman
Title: Deputy CEO
Bio: Monica graduated in Marketing and Production from the University of Orleans, and joined Pentalog as a trainee.
She then became the Manager of the branch office in Bucharest, today employing 50 people in the field of outsourced software development on the offshore as well as local market in Romania.
In May 2009 she became Chief Operational Officer. Monica is now in charge of operations in Vietnam, Eastern Europe, France and Germany, involving over 300 employees. She manages sales and business lines, the creation of new branch offices, recruitment, human resources and the responsibility of contractual operations.
Monica has been Pentalog's Deputy CEO (Deputy Chief Executive Officer) since August 2011. She is in charge of operational management, including the management of production and production structures, financial and reporting management, administration and development of existing partnerships, supervision of the information systems, technical management and … the incubator.
Alexandra Mondanel
Title: International Operations Officer
Bio: After a 4-month internship within the Pentalog Orleans Team, Alexandra was recruited to develop the company's international activities. She holds a postgraduate degree in International Business and foreign languages and she is European to the core: her mother is German and her father is French; she attended a British University, and used to work for the German subsidiary of a French company before joining Pentalog in 2005. Her ability to speak four languages will be determining to find partners all accross Europe.

Sophie Lelarge
Title: WW Sales and BL Director
Bio: Sophie is the group's Sales Director and manages the 3 Business Lines: Information Systems, Embedded Systems and BPO.
She ensures the dialogue with consultants and project managers, as well as the monitoring of our commitments, in coordination with the project managers.



Pierre Peutin
Title: Head of Business Line for Information Systems
Bio: Pierre entered Pentalog as a developer, in 1999. He has worked on web and client/servers projects, on missions of medium and long duration in both France and Belgium. After several years as a developer, Pierre oriented himself towards Business Intelligence by participating in various reporting projects for customers like PSA Peugeot Citroën, Loxam or the ACTICALL group. Later, Pierre became Project Leader for specific application developments, managing teams of 1 to 7 people based in France and offshore for Pentalog. Pierre then naturally served as an offshore Project Director before taking on the responsibility of the Business Line for Information Systems.
Pierre is presently responsible for writing business proposals, monitoring existing customers, commitment control vis-à-vis our customers on projects, compliance with Pentalog quality system procedures and control and optimization of expenses for the Business Line.
Mickaël Hiver
Title: Head of Business Lines for Embedded Systems & BPO
Bio: Mickaël entered Pentalog as a Network Administrator in February 1997 with the aim to gain global understanding of information technology in order to assist and guide users in meeting their real needs. For 8 years he was an in-house producer for Pentalog clients. With his acquired experience, Mickaël progressively left production to become first a Project Manager, then Project Director and finally the Head of Business Lines for Embedded Systems & BPO.
Mickaël is a hands-on and open person, with an acute sense of organization and priorities. Through his assistance and counseling he gives his clients and prospective clients the opportunity to focus calmly on their actual core business.
Eric Gouin
Title: Administrator
Bio: Eric graduated from a renown school of Physics and Chemistry in Paris. While he was a student he used to develop websites related to his student activities.
After two research internships within a French company producing mobile phone components in the Sophia-Antipolis Technopole, he joined the IT world in which he held several key positions.
He now is a finance and management control consultant.

Aleth Delcenserie
Title: Quality Manager
Bio: Associate-founder of Pentalog and board member, Aleth Delcenserie first evolved in the graphics department of the company. Gifted with a strong sense of organization and a taste for detail, she conducted with rigorous methodology publishing projects and electronic media for over ten years, and launched the Pentalog BPO-DTP sector at the end of 2005.
From September 2007, Aleth has been responsible for the definition and for the implementation of the Pentalog Quality Policy, leading to the ISO 9001:2008 certification of the group, on December 24, 2008.
As the Director of Quality Control, Aleth is now based in Moldova since 1 January 2009, where she now shares her time between coaching project managers in implementing effectiveness control and the progress of Pentalog Quality.
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On Saturday, the 24th of August, Cornel and I organized a Project Management Camp in Chisinau, the delivery center (DC) of Pentalog, of about a hundred people in the Republic of Moldova. We organize this kind of events in the DCs several times a year to bring project managers and team leaders together and enable them to exchange ideas and to be informed about new perspectives on a project concerning the organization, management, and, sometimes technical aspects. These events are deemed very collaborative and interactive.

The theme of this session was aimed at improving the maturity of practices and participants in projects. The topics proposed to the ten participants were the following:

- System dynamics, root causes, continuous improvement and learning cycles, retrospectives
- Business value, value VS waste, Value Stream Map, Lean Management
- Wishful thinking, Team Velocity, Planning and Estimation
- Self-Organizing teams, Definition of Done, Team welfare
- Differences between traditional development and agile software development methodology

On Friday evening, the participants who accepted the invitations voted for the 3 topics (in bold on the above-mentioned list) they wanted to be covered. In addition to these topics, I presented the tools used by the infrastructure team to manage our virtualized infrastructure in our data center. They already know how it is done since the deployment of our new infrastructure. I also presented the provisioning interface layout which will enable them to manage the virtual machines themselves within the limits of the resources made available for the project as regards our private cloud.

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Business value, value VS waste, Value Stream Map, Lean Management
This topic was covered in three stages.

- Theoretical presentation of these topics
- Presentation of experience feedback in the field of agile / lean software development methodologies and a concrete application example of value stream map
- Organizing a practical exercise for emphasizing the value of collaboration. I will talk about this exercise in a future article.

Wishful thinking, Team Velocity, Planning and Estimation
The concepts were quickly presented in order to be able to share experiences. Cornel detailed several indicators to match the team’s speed. We agreed that one of the participants would lead a sharing knowledge session based on their assessments on related items.

Self-Organizing teams, Definition of Done, Team welfare
When comparing the “Command & Control” and “Self-Organizing teams” concepts, the participants expressed their views depending on their current experience and projects. Our aim was not to reach the conclusion that only one approach was perfect, but to set a clear trend towards a self-organizing team for projects where the needs are clearly expressed.

As we systematically calculate it at the end of a PM Camp, the ROTI (return on time invested) rate was 3.8 (the grades were between 3 and 5). Around the closing round table, all the participants proved to be very satisfied with the covered topics and the interactivity of the discussions. Many thanks to the project managers for attendance and active participation.

PM Camps will go on taking place in other delivery centers. The organization and the topics are to be suggested in Iasi, Brasov, Bucarest, Cluj and Sibiu.

Posted on Fri., 2 Sep. 2011 8:28 by Aymeric LIBEAU (259 day(s) old)
Categories: Romania and Moldova
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