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 ?

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This the 2011 edition of #hypertextual presentation on Enterprise 2.0.

The original version has enjoyed unexepected success with more than 20,000 views (counting both french and english editions) and the honor of being ranked amongst the 10 great Enterprise 2.0 presentation for 2010 by CRM Expert Harish Kotadia.

How the social web is transforming the way we work in the 21st century is an endless source of fascination for me. This new edition tries to be more practical and focusses on the abilities of social software to create value in the knowledge economy.

The objective, as always, is to try and answer the 10 questions for organisations in an inter-connected world.

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(English Version)

Travailleur de la connaissance : celle ou celui qui travaille avec l’information ou qui développe la connaissance dans le cadre de son activité professionnelle. (Peter Drucker – 1959)

Une définition simple et visionnaire qui prend d’autant plus de pertinence aujourd’hui qu’une proportion croissante de nos activités s’articule autour de l’économie de la connaissance. Les nouveaux médias du numérique y jouent un rôle prépondérant en contribuant à la diffusion de l’information, à la fluidification sociale et à la capacitation des travailleurs de la connaissance.

Sommes-nous pour autant épanouis et libérés de toute contrainte ? The Social Network propose des éléments de réponse …

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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.

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Où va le monde du travail à l’ère du numérique ? [Conférence].

J’ai l’honneur d’avoir été invité par l’AEC Aquitaine pour intervenir aux côtés de l’excellent Serge Soudoplatoff et de Yves Eudes du Monde le 30 Novembre 2010 à Bordeaux durant la conférence des Chaires des Civilisations Numériques.

Le sujet de cette édition des Chaires est le travail à l’ère du numérique. Nous débattrons d’un certain nombre de sujets et essaierons d’apporter des réponses aux questions suivantes :

- Comment les entreprises françaises intègrent-elles ces réalités ?
- Les nouvelles technologies du numérique sont-elles vraiment profitables à toutes les organisations ?
- Quelles sont les nouvelles compétences à détecter et à valoriser dans le monde du travail ?
- Le numérique est-il plus pourvoyeur que destructeur d’emplois ?

Sujet passionnant et casting impressionnant dans lequel je me positionnerai en tant que pur produit de la culture internet (i.e blogger). Je tâcherai d’apporter une perspective empirique, où se croisent des réflexions inspirées par ma solide expérience de Knowledge Worker au contact de le culture geek d’une part et, d’autre part, celles inspirées par mon expérience à l’étranger me permettant de porter un regard extérieur sur l’entreprise.fr.

Je serai ravi de vous y rencontrer !

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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 »

J’ai eu la chance d’être invité par l’AEC aquitaine pour une conférence sur le retour de leur mission dans la Silicon Valley.

Du beau monde impliqué dans la mission pour un retour enrichi par les différents profils et les différentes perspectives sur l’eldorado du monde numérique :

Le débat a été animé par Thierry Ulmet directeur de la communication de l’AEC. (sorry d’avance c’est super long).

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Since I did it in french, I felt it was unfair not to share it with the english speaking world as well.

Youtube version also is available – I keep Vimeo as main since it is not as popular as Youtube and therefore it is not blocked by companies firewall.

So here it is : 10 questions to benchmark your organisation in the 21st century. Based on the five elevator pitches and on the latest Hypertextual articles on the Enterprise 2.0, mostly the ones related to Gary Hamel and engagement.

Music from my band Supernormal. A song I wrote as a tribute to Mark Kozelek‘s Red House Painters, one of my favorite band ever.

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.

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L’Enterprise 2.0 Forum se déroulera les 17 et 18 Mars à Paris au Méridien Montparnasse.

Cette édition succède à celle de Francfort qui a eu lieu l’Automne dernier et précède celle de Cologne qui aura lieu elle au Printemps prochain.

ECM World souhaite, avec ces conférences, donner une dimension résolument européenne à la réflexion globale qui a lieu aujourd’hui autour de l’Entreprise 2.0.

L’objectif est de s’assurer que ce nouveau système transverse d’entreprise, structurant l’organisation tel un ERP, SCM ou PLM, n’est pas uniquement calibré autour des valeurs et cultures d’entreprises anglo-saxonnes.

Par ici pour le programme et les bons de réduction …

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(Please check the revised edition of this presentation).

Just uploaded this Enterprise-2.0 presentation : Enterprise 2.0 : leveraging collaboration platforms to foster knowledge, innovation, productivity and engagement.

Best to see full screen.

Target audience is just about everyone in the company.

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(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.

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“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).

Logic+Emotion: Thinking Visually.

Sharing knowledge in an efficient way is a key subject for any knowledge worker.

When I read old fashion documents (pile of text without any effort on the style, the structure, the visuals) or attend dry old styles presentation (ppt with hundreds of bulllet points per slides), that makes want to sleep/cry/kill.  I can’t help thinking about all the time wasted – for both the writer/lecturer and the audience.

Great post by Armano who may get a bit annoying with his 2.0 hysteria, but who is still one of the best whenever it comes to illustrate concepts and thinkings in a nice and efficient way.

Google Chromic

September 4, 2008

Not as impressed as Vince with the new browser. Buggy (error at startup time after migrating the favorites) unable to access gmail, suspicious googleUpdate.exe process still active after I’ve closed the app etc …

However, the comic is quite a fascinating experience.

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