Archive for February, 2008
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
It's one of these mornings where ideas keep popping up in my head.
As a reminder, here are three ideas I had this morning
- There is no longtail for food.
Where is the amazon for the food sector ? My local super market has a lot of versions of basically the same ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Today, I began to play Yu-Gi-Oh with my 7 year old son. Yu gi Oh is a card game, similar to pokemon or magic that is played on schools all over the world. The rules are quite simple but the complexity of the game comes from the fact that ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
If you find the whole PRINCE2 process a bit too complex for your project. If you believe you do not need a whole project board and your budget does not allow for the whole conundrum. Patrick Mayfield from pearcemayfield writes on the pmtoolbox web site about workshops on what ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The following post appeared in my feed reader this morning : "....uuurrrrgggghhhhh Prince2 is killing me...."
It reminded me of the time when I was trying to learn straight from the PRINCE2 bible : "Managing successful projects with Prince2"
Sitting in the incredibly slow RER C, going to work, I would ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
While France is wondering how to make a quality public TV without ads, web apps are blooming everywhere digging TV's grave.
First you have Peer to peer networks with millions of tv shows downloaded all over the world. TV shows make for 50% of downloads on P2P networks according to a ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Le site sytadin du Ministère de l'Ecologie du Développement et de l'Aménagement Durables est une bonne idée pour connaître l'état du trafic en région parisienne. Ce site est basé sur des technologies open source et autour d'une licence creative commons. Cela laisse présager d'une certaine volonté d'ouverture envers ses utilisateurs, ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
AIR, la technologie d'Adobe qui permet de développer des applications pour le PC en utilisant des lagages du web (html, javascript, Ajax, flex, ...) sera présentée à Paris lors de la journée on AIR le 2 avril prochain.
Info et enregistrement : http://onair.adobe.com/schedule/cities/paris.php
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Bizarre comme l'on parle de boite en français pour parler d'une entreprise tandis qu'en anglais on parle de company. Dans un cas; on décrit l'environnement de travail comme étant un endroit clos et contraint tandis que dans l'autre on parle d'être ensemble, de relations humaines, de compagnie, avant tout.
On parle ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
L'association « eXtreme Programming France » (http://www.xp-france.net) promouvoit depuis 2001 les Méthodes Agiles en France. Le 11 mars prochain, M Géry Derbier de la société Pacte Novation présentera la méthodologie Crystal . Plus d'infos sur l'évènement.
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
An interesting wisdom of crowds like application to estimating software development workload in Agile projects.
Wisdom of crowds designates the process by which decisions and estimations are made as a result of a consensus between participants. Prediction Markets are a good example of consensus type process of estimation. Get people together ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Here is a truly impressive web site on PRINCE2. That includes sample exams, many helpful files and links, talks about issues and inconsistencies in PRINCE2, and a very clever way of browsing through the PRINCE2 Manual. I wish I had found out about this web site before I took ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
I was unable to go to LIFT08 this year. A mind opening conference in Switzerland dedicated to exploring the social impact of new technologies and organized by Laurent Haug. But the videos of the event are available on the web site Nouvo. I hope I'll be able to have the ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Gabrielle Benefield, Yahoo's senior director of methods and practices is being interviewed on how Yahoo has been using Scrum and Agile methods internally for the past 3 years. Lessons From a Yahoo Scrum Rollout
[...] one of the key points of why this works is that we are dealing with ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
I found 2 great podcasts on Project Management:
The project management podcast by Cornelius Fitchner available at http://www.thepmpodcast.com. I just listened today to episode 66 dealing with motivation and in 45 minutes got a very good global picture of motivation theories and application in the Project management framework.
And Controlling Chaos by ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Last I wrote was on Monday last week at the beginning of my training week for the PRINCE2 practitioner exam. What a week it has been ! I did not have any minute outside of lessons, classes, homework and PRINCE2.
PRINCE2 is really something complex. A frame of mind in which ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Today was my first day taking the PRINCE2 Practitioner course at ESC Lille. Quite intense to sit and listen all day to a teacher. Absorbing instead of producing. Haven't done that for ... well, .... at least 15 years. But so pleasurable !
After a lengthy and interesting intro on PRINCE2, ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Les prediction markets où marché de prévision sont sur le radar de beaucoup de personnes "qui font l'opinion" (le terme anglais m'échappe) pour 2008. Comme par exemple Dion Hinchcliffe qui sur ZDNet écrit dans ses 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008 :
8. Collective intelligence platforms and enterprise decision ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
PRINCE2 est un méthode de gestion de projet très structurée tandis qu'Agile penche vers une approche plus souple et adaptative.
Plusieurs project manager - blogger abordent la question de l'intérêt qu'il y a à combiner Agile et PRINCE2.
Yves Hanoulle de la société paircoaching en belgique, se demande pourquoi de plus ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
With the rise of user generated content and its impact on web site visibility, with online shops and online payment solutions, there are ways to act effectively to promote your candidate inn lections you'r not allowed to take part.
The current election race for the democratic nominee is widely watched from ...
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