Tag: management
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The Five Dysfunctions of A Team
“If you can get all the people of an organization rowing in the same direction you can dominate any industry on any market against any competition at any time.” When the author use this quote from a friend in front of executives, they are all nodding, not only to express their approbation, but to express…
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Work Rules – Insights from Google that will transform how you live and lead
Work Rules is a book from Laszlo Bock, SVP of People Operations at Google. You will find that the “People Operations” that could be called “Human resources” in other organizations is really different in its way to operate. Main difference is the focus on data, not on opinion, and to be careful with natural human…
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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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Manage it!
Manage it! is a book by Johanna Rothman published by Pragmatic Programmers. You probably know already Pragmatic Programmers, they published Agile Retrospectives by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen, and also Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley that my friend Fabrice Aimetti translated into French. If don’t know Pragmatic Programmers yet, I recommend a…
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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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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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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…