Category: General
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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…
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Self-driving cars and basic income
In 10 to 15 years, self-driving cars will be a reality in our world. It means that, people transportation and goods transportation will be done by those self-driving cars and trucks. The positive consequences are numerous and will be highlighted by manufacturers and service providers, like the possibility to order your vehicle from your phone…
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Don’t change my mindset, I am not that open
Nick Barcet and I were schedule for the last talk session of the Openstack Summit in Vancouver (Of course, design sessions will continue on Friday). When we submitted the proposal for this session we were looking for a way to help our co-contributors to the openstack project. The way we think it can be the…
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Bridges and Hierarchy
Mark McLoughlin delivered the Red Hat Keynote, on the morning of the second day of the Openstack Summit in Vancouver. During the afternoon, he delivered a more intimate talk about the governance of the Openstack project. The main idea is that, the new Big Tent organization model will allow the emergence of new projects, and…
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Happiness is Coming
I had the great pleasure to deliver the opening keynote of April 17, 2015 of the Drupal Developer Days in Montpellier. The selected theme was Happiness… Here are the slides: And a selection of tweets: In 5 minutes, @alexismonville already make an entire room smile and laugh at #drupaldevdays ! Happiness is at rendez-vous !…
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The DevOps Opportunity
In the beginning was the session of John Allspaw and Paul Hammond during the 2009 Velocity Conference, showing how cooperation between Dev and Ops at Flickr allows 10 deployments a day (Header image of this post is extract from this presentation, and it shows how Leonard Nimoy was important for us even if I started…
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Club de Lecture
Une session du Club de Lecture de Bordeaux s’est déroulée ce samedi 28 mars 2015, de 10h30 à 12h00. L’idée de proposer cette session m’était venu suite à la participation au club de Toulouse que j’ai raconté ici. 1er RDV du Club de lecture #Bordeaux initié par @alexismonville avec le livre #management #workout de @jurgenappelo…
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World Happiness Day
March 20th, it is World Happiness Day. I am writing this short post listening to Happiness Sounds Like playlist. What recommandation for this day? Maybe follow some of the suggestions of The Year of Happy and learn things about happiness that can surprise you? Or maybe follow on your pace the UC Berkeley course about…
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Le Bonheur au Travail
Au mois d’octobre 2013, je vous avais proposé de devenir producteur du film “Le Bonheur Au Travail” de Martin Meissonnier. Le film a été diffusé hier, mardi 3 février 2015, dans les locaux d’eNovance (Red Hat) à Paris pour une avant-avant-première (c’était la contrepartie pour notre contribution au financement du film sur touscoprod.com). Le film est…
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Assess Me If You Can
A friend asked some help with an HR assessment spreadsheet he had to fill in. This spreadsheet was intended to prepare the budget for next year raises and bonuses. In one of the columns, he must write if the person was underachieving (C), on average (B), or above average (A). He obtained the following result:…