When 20 Minutes launched in 2002 it was known for its print version and it remains the leading French free-sheet with 12 regional editions and a readership of over 2.3 million. But in 2017 20 Minutes is no longer a primarily paper product – it's a mobile first operation that uses the Scrum process (a subset of Agile development) to stay on top of its game.

Winoc Coppens, Director of Information, will be at Editorial Days to explain "how the 20 Minutes newsroom is working with different tools and the Agile process.

We are using the Scrum process, and closly coordinating between the IT team, the newsroom, and marketing and driving a development process that provides new tools and functionalities." 

Winoc has integrated Desk-Net into the system to "add a global overview of articles and the information that we are publishing , which improves the planning process and the coordination between digital and print."

That's key to a mobile-first newsroom, with a print team selecting information each afternoon for the paper edition. "Before Desk-Net all of this was communicated by exchanging emails, but now it's centralised" explains Coppens.

If you want to learn more about the tools in use at 20 Minutes, and the Agile framework used to drive development you can hear Winox Coppens speak at Editorial Days in Hamburg on May 17th and 18th.