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Last November, we, the Cara Lyon team , met the JUG guys to talk about organising a day of sharing.  After a two hour conversation, we decided to have a conference at the beginning of April, where speakers will discuss Agile, Java/EE new trends (Devops, NoSQL, HTML5). Mix-IT was born. I must admit that even though my current professional life is overwhelming, I find a real pleasure spending a few hours a week, working with the Mix-IT team.  Up to now, the CARA Lyon organisation was based on a "go it alone" strategy. The JUG guys, even though they are young, work more on an “invite a specialist and find sponsorship” strategy. I definitely can't decide between both strategies today, because I do not know the impact of the size of both communities and their attractiveness to companies. Here we go : Mix-IT will occur on the 5th of April 2011 in Lyon at the Epitech Computer School located 5 minutes walking distance from the Lapardieu train station. Mixity or mixité ...

I wish you a great new year 2011. I started this blog two years ago, because " Simplifiez-vous la vie numérique " was a place dedicated to sharing with my friends and there was no room for my professional concerns. I have to admit I'm not prolific but at least I found a place to share the knowledge with which I would like to improve myself. Consequently, if you find interesting videos or articles about lean, product management, innovation, digital world, please send them to me. My email is available at the right side of this blog.

Robert Lloyd, PhD from the IHI Open school , gives us a bright introduction to the PDSA (PDCA) cycle and finishes by a practical example in the hospital context. Source : Curiouscatblog : Video-overview of the pdsa cycle

In a world where human knowledge doubles every 5-10 years, product managers fight to reduce their product/service complexity from an end user perspective. Lean experts will straightaway think about a product's internal complexity or externalising the complexity from the product. But I mainly refer here to the end user, who doesn't care about the development/production phase, but only his own experience. Since I read this communities dominates post in August, I understood that my Internet blogger's mind, was still in 2005 when the Internet was still something hype. Today 1.4 billion users have an email (400 000 corporate ones) and 4 billion have an active SMS account. Today, even if I was blind, I wouldn't be able to escape hearing the teens' phone buttons clicking all day long. Definitively, the user experience from a product interface and/or the user efficiency point of view, is not a static science. The design principles like the golden ratio seem to be anc...

Jason Fried thinks that the office isn't a good place to work efficiently. He details the main problems and proposes three suggestions to make work work. Source : Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog : Jason Fried: Why work doesn’t happen at work

 As an engineer, I do know that I have made many mistakes and many more will come. Sometimes, it's difficult for me to bear the weight of my country's history. However, it doesn't mean, we will not be smarter tomorrow. In Haiti's disaster of engine'ering, Peter Haas explains why all construction guys should know about earthquake best practices.

From their press kit:  INFLUENCERS is a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment. The film attempts to understand the essence of influence, what makes a person influential without taking a statistical or metric approach. Written and Directed by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson, the film is a Polaroid snapshot of New York influential creatives (advertising, design, fashion and entertainment) who are shaping today's pop culture. "Influencers" belongs to the new generation of short films, webdocs, which combine the documentary style and the online experience. A Film by Paul Rojanathara & Davis Johnson RELEASE DATE: October 27, 2010 RUNNING TIME: 13 minutes OFFICIAL WEBSITE: www.influencersfilm.com FACEBOOK PAGE: www.facebook.com/influencersfilm FILM: http://www.vimeo.com/16430345 Sources : Polkadot : influencers