Category: General
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The Search for Happiness
During the past days, I had the opportunity to give two conferences. One in Raleigh, North Carolina, on October 20, 2015, for the Red Hat Agile Day. The other, in Bordeaux, France, for the closing keynote of AgileTour Bordeaux, on October 30, 2015. I adapted the content according to the feedback received after my opening…
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50 Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories
Gojko Adzic and David Evans starts a series of books with efficient catchy titles: 50 Quick Ideas… I only read the one about User Stories for the moment, but you could be also interested in the ones on Tests and Retrospectives. Illustrations of ideas are great, it helps to remember them. Even if I already…
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Reinventing Organizations
Reinventing Organizations a book from Frederic Laloux, is structured in 3 main parts: The first one describes the evolution of organizations The second one presents the practices of evolutionary organizations The third one the emergence of those organizations History The author uses color coding and starts the story with the first groups of human (Infra-Red)…
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Listening exercises
I used, once again, listening exercises during the Devops Masterclass that I delivered with one of my colleagues in Ho-Chi-Minh-City for the APAC Red Hat Tech Exchange. I committed this time to publish a short description of those exercises. I set the stage for the exercises with a short warm-up exercise 1-2-3-Go ! That helps…
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The goal of an enterprise is to make money… or not
Last week, I rehearsed a session around the evolution of organizations, methodologies and IT with some people of the Red Hat Montreal office. Thank you to them for their valuable feedback! Even if the title of the presentation was Devops and Bimodal IT, I presented some roots of the evolution of organizations and methodologies, and…
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The dream begins now
The first time I explain that to enable collaboration, we need to create the conditions of this collaboration between people, people approved… But I feel like it’s not really understood. The idea that a meeting needs to be facilitated to help participants to achieve their goals is seen as animation… Like if it was only…
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We trust you
During Red Hat Summit in Boston this week, a documentary video was showed during the keynote sessions. This video describes the way Penn Manor school district used open source in their education project. Charlie Reisinger is the IT director that lead this openness strategy, also delivered a TEDxTalk in Lancaster to tell the story. I…
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Liberté et Cie par le club de lecture
Une nouvelle session de notre nouveau club de lecture à Bordeaux se déroulait ce samedi 20 juin 2015. Cette fois ci, un peu moins de participants que prévu (était-ce du à un ciel trop bleu ?) Claire, Isabel, Fabrice et Patrick se joignait à moi pour échanger autour du livre Liberté & Cie. Le contraste…
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Agile France et Le Bonheur au Travail
J’ai eu le plaisir de donner une conférence sur le bonheur lors de l’édition 2015 de la conférence Agile France à Paris. Il s’agissait d’une version raccourcie et en français de la keynote que j’avais donné en ouverture lors des Drupal Developers Days : Happiness is Coming. J’avais choisi de couper beaucoup de contenu pour…
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Happiness level during your last quarter
Two weeks ago, I facilitate a quarterly meeting of a distributed team. They met in person only once a quarter during this meeting. I chose to start the meeting with an exercise to share their feeling about the last quarter. I asked: Can you draw a line representing your happiness level during this period? The…