PMP Certified !
November 4, 2011
Ladies & Gentlemen, please be warned that I just passed the PMP Certification.
I have been studying the topic during about 6 months and I am quite pleased with the result.
Now, why on earth would an Enterprise 2.0 evangelist and Agile Methodologies practitioner would want to become PMP certified and how did he do it ?
Read on if you have some spare clicks …
Eloge du Carburateur – Matthew B. Crawford
November 17, 2010
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Matthew B. Crawford est un pur produit de l’économie de la connaissance : il est docteur en philosophie politique. Pourtant, avec cet ouvrage (Eloge du Carburateur – Essai sur le sens et la valeur du travail), il attaque celle-ci de front et chante les louanges philosophiques des activités manuelles. En philosophe authentique, l’auteur a aligné ses actes sur sa philosophie et a délaissé ses activités fructueuses dans un think tank de Washington pour ouvrir son garage de réparation de motos.
Un ouvrage accessible qui réfléchit à cette question fondamentale : comment faire sens de notre contribution professionnelle ? Une rhétorique originale et virulente battant en brêche une pensée majoritaire qui sacralise la connaissance au détriment de la pratique.
Il ne s’agit pas ici de nourrir la nostalgie d’une vie plus simple, soi disant plus authentique et dotée d’une aura démocratique liée à la classe ouvrière. Cet essai a pour objectif de montrer le potentiel d’épanouissement humain offert par les métiers manuels et la richesse de leur défi cognitif.
Première partie de l’article dédié à cet ouvrage : les 10 idées majeures du livre. Dans la seconde partie, ce blog y répond depuis une perspective de Manager et de travailleur de la connaissance.
The Egoless Knowledge Worker
July 7, 2010
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When I started working as a Junior Developer in the early 90s, I was developing application software in airline mainframe systems (for the record : IBM TPF technology). Dozen thousands of users (travel agents, airline reservation offices), hundredth thousands transactions a day.
Back in those days we were developing in Assembler/370, a programming language which, roughly speaking, is to today’s programming languages what a 70s calculator is to an iPad. Anyway, that was the most appropriate technology to get things done fast on these mainframe systems.
The problem was : a programming mistake (e.g. pointer error) would end up in mistakenly over-writing the core system, bringing the whole system down and having travel agents all around the planet without any system to enter customer bookings. Coding error would easily cost millions of dollars.
So you didn’t want to mess with the code and for each piece of code you wrote, you were having code reviews by your peers. Half a dozen professionals discussing every single line of code, the number of CPU cycles for each instruction etc … More than often, these code reviews turned out to be some kind of Arena in which professionals happened to struggle to find out who was the toughest TPF gladiator.
Prior to one of my first code review, my team leader (Tony Knight – an exemplary manager) provided me with a guideline to help me taking a step back and cool down : the 10 commandments of ego-less programming. This has since proved to be a professional life savior for me. Read the rest of this entry »
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At the Enterprise 2.0 Forum, during the Workshop on the Wednesday afternoon, Bertrand Duperrin proposed some Enterprise 2.0 definitions from both Andrew McAfee and himself. Bertrand insisted on the fact it was a moving definition, constantly evolving.
Regardless of how good these definitions were, I’m still not fully convinced. My concern is that they don’t address the management issue. And the more I think about Enterprise 2.0, the more I think it has a direct connection to management.Therefore, the definition should really focus on that point.
God bless http : Sir Ken Robinson
October 2, 2009
(Ok it’s shamefully easy to blog about TED presentations (again and again and again), but hey this is, again, awesome stuff).
Sir Ken Robinson explains how public education system all around the world educates people out of creativity. British wit and creativity insight at its best.
God bless http : Elizabeth Gilbert on creativity
October 1, 2009
“I am a … writer”. That’s how it starts. Elizabeth Gilbert is a bit of a romantic comedy character : studying and living in NYC, she used to write in magazines and did quite a few different things for a living (cook, waitress, etc …) until she wrote a New York Times best seller : Eat Pray Love. Not very good critics but tremendous success – romantic comedy indeed.
In this talk she speaks about creativity and how to lighten the burden of genius in each of us.
Baseline : in ancient Rome, artists HAD a genius that came and visit them. With Renaissance, human is put right in the center of the universe : artists ARE genius. This is a mistake which put a huge pressure on artists shoulder and doom them with anxiety, hence the very high numbers of artists that died before their time.
It’s like asking them to swallow the sun.
20mn of empowering witty wisdom to bring art and creativity back at mortal human reach. (I facebooked it a while back but I feel more comfortable heavymentaling it as it fits here nicely).















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