Author: Alexis
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Joyful Year!
I hope that 2016 will bring you joy and that you will have the opportunity to bring joy to others! Joie means joy in french. This nice picture from David Hermans express the wish well.
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Massive Peer to Peer Collaboration
I have been asked by Philippe Honigman to answer 2 questions about open source collaboration to help him on one of his projects. I was wondering what could be the questions not already answered thousands of times. This curiosity led me to an interesting conversation, with interesting insights I would like to share with you.…
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DATFlock2015, unicorns, distributed teams and bad agile
I was in Berlin for 2 days to participate to #DATFlock2015 the conference to discuss, learn and share about Distributed Agile Teams. The program was a mix of open space sessions and workshops prepared in advance. OKR, Feedback and Reward Two sessions where particularly useful to me: How to use OKR? Fearless feedback and fair…
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Annual Performance Review
When I present the 14 points of Deming and the 7 deadly diseases of organization, I usually take some points and diseases as a starting point for discussion and thinking. One disease I usually pick is the third one: Evaluation by performance, merit rating, or annual review of performance. People react in a similar way.…
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Black Box
The black box in this article are those installed in planes. Those black box allows to analyze what happens during a more or less dramatic incident. Setting an organization where facts are analyzed to improve the system is a defining characteristic of airlines industry. A characteristic that enables an incredible improvement of security. Matthew Syed…
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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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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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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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ALE15 best conference this year
I am just back from ALE15, the fifth edition of the self organized conference from the Agile Lean Europe network. As usual, I feel really good when I am back, as if this edition was the best edition ever… I am started to get used to this feeling, as I only missed one edition, in…
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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…