Category: General

  • Keynoting with my wife

    Keynoting with my wife

    I had the great pleasure of giving four keynote speeches this fall. I already told you about the keynote I gave in Bordeaux for AgileTour in this post. The three others are really special to me. We did those addresses with my wife. Comment ça? Certaines de nos croyances peuvent brider notre potentiel? #ATTls19 @isabelmonville…

  • Sketchnoting Resources

    Sketchnoting Resources

    One of my colleagues noticed that I take all my notes graphically and asked me for resources on how to start. I am far from being an expert, and I am not doing as beautiful drawings as the experts will do, even if I am taking notes this way for more than ten years. Having…

  • Maybe we can love division after all

    Maybe we can love division after all

    One year and a half ago, I noticed that my daughter was using an app to improve her Spanish and her English. Of course, there is an app for that! There are even several apps! The one she was using is Duolingo. I decided to give it a try and started learning Spanish from scratch.…

  • Keynote AgileTour Bordeaux

    On October 30, 2019, I add the pleasure to deliver the keynote for AgileTour Bordeaux. I delivered the keynote titled: What is your real power? in french. The recording and the slides are already available. #atbdx C'est @alexismonville qui relance l'après-midi par une keynote pic.twitter.com/k9JsQESiMX — Chris DENIAUD (@ChrisDENIAUD) October 30, 2019 I also facilitated…

  • Adding another dimension to the project management triangle

    Adding another dimension to the project management triangle

    The project management triangle is a well-known model showing that the quality of the delivery is constrained by the budget, the deadlines, and the scope. The idea is that it is possible to trade between constraints: ask for an earlier delivery with a smaller scope, for example. And If you don’t trade, then the quality…

  • I am not your guru!

    I am not your guru!

    In the documentary, I Am Not Your Guru, released in 2016, Performance coach Tony Robbins proposes an interesting exercise. Imagine your life in the near future. If everything goes well in three years, how much will you make a year? Don’t read further until you have the figures. When you get the amount, multiply it…

  • Closing Keynote at VoxxedDays Singapore

    The recording of the closing keynote I delivered at VoxxedDays Singapore is published! Let me know what you think! I would be happy to deliver an improved version of this talk for you event 🙂

  • The Podcast Experiment

    The Podcast Experiment

    I tried a new experiment last month! I recorded a few podcast episodes: The first one answers one important question: “How to form a team?” I recorded it with Valentin Yonchev and Matt Takane from the Red Hat Open Innovation Labs. The second one is a celebration of the availability of Changing Your Team From…

  • The Audiobook is available!

    The Audiobook is available!

    In addition to electronic, paperback, hardcover, and team edition, Changing Your Team From The Inside is now available as an audiobook! Michael Ried did an excellent job in narrating the book. I was even caught listening to him forgetting that I was on a review mission 🙂 The book is available on the platform you…

  • The Breakfast Huddle on Innovation Fatigue

    The Breakfast Huddle on Innovation Fatigue

    While I was travelling to Singapore, I have been invited to discuss innovation with Eliott Danker on MoneyFM. Thanks to Eliott interviewing talent, we touched on a lot of different aspects: Innovation fatigue Sustainability Burnout Innovation and customer experience Team organization preventing people to innovate Inclusivity of different perspectives Management of talented individual Manager role…

  • Theory X and Theory Y

    Theory X and Theory Y

    I had the great pleasure to deliver the closing keynote of Voxxed Days Singapore. During the talk, Going Open, I introduced Douglas McGregor theories on human motivation and management that he developed at the MIT Sloan School of Management  in 1957. The assumption in Theory X is that workers are lazy; they dislike and don’t…

  • Going Open – Closing Keynote

    Going Open – Closing Keynote

    On May 31, 2019, I had the pleasure to deliver the closing keynote of Voxxed Days Singapore: Going Open! Thank you to all the participants and organizers for a fantastic event! I had the opportunity to sign my book, Changing Your Team From The Inside on the Red Hat booth, and to meet great people!…