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 During the ALE2011 unconference, a few of us spoke about local communities and ways to improve them through the ALE network. Hereafter, I tell you about what we are doing in Lyon this year and then ask you how we can share tips and get speakers to come here. What we used to do When we started having monthly meetings two seasons ago, we tried to produce slide-shows by ourselves or we took them from the Internet. Then, we presented them to the small group of attendees. We really understood we were missing interaction with people and also that the core volunteers were getting tired. The second year, we mixed games and conferences in different ways. But even though the sessions were improving, we were struggling to satisfy all attendees. Beginners felt the sessions were too high-level, and others were expecting more expertise or a different format. While writing these lines, I feel like we still miss something. Although we want to spread the best AGILE/LEAN practices to...

There are several ways to advertise your products and publishing a video tutorial on YouTube is a pragmatic one. Have a look at the one below from Hamid Shojaee from axosoft to understand the Scrum roles and artifacts.

Last April 2011, while I was recovering from organising Mix-IT , I kept coming back to the proposal to be an ALE2011 organiser. While 40 people had already committed, I posted a yes, telling myself, I would only spend a few minutes per week. However, like all the main organisers, I spent a few dozen nights working and collaborating through these Internet tools. I loved it! By committing to this event, I wanted to: get back into the international scene find practical tips and knowledge related to my professional context organise an international event from home find links from the Agile Lean European community to my local on These last days, participants, speakers and organisers have already explained ( see feedback page ), that the main differentiators with any other event, were the attendees’ engagement and their willingness to spontaneously share. For the first time in my life, among the few dozen people I met, I didn’t have to make a single effort with any...

In 2011, while agile methodologies are more than mainstream, the Product Owner position is still not well understood or defined. While I’m convinced the “Team engagement in a stream of value creation” is one key factor of agile principles, I can’t find a slogan for the Product Owner. When you want to learn about agile, you browse the Internet, find the best books to read , find a local community or an active mailing list. If you want to understand the agile Product Owner thing, you have a few ways to learn about this position. To be efficient, the first step is to understand your current context: Do you work in a project world with: A unique customer who knows his end users and pays for what he specified years ago? Your customer is inside or outside of your company, but the project’s health is yours and your customer’s problem. A customer who defined several bunches of requirements and wants to implement them step by step? Your customer is inside or outside your company and h...

Keynote speaker Dino Dai Zovi explains how to think like an attacker.  A really interesting presentation for CSO who need tips to perfom their risk analysis regarding their end point configuration and infrasture design. Thank you Nicolas for the link. Source: trailofbits : Attacker Math 101 « …And You Will Know me by the Trail of Bits

I like to read books around my professional world and, a few months ago, I bought the well-known book “The new rules of Marketing & PR” by David Meerman Scott ( See previous post ). I don’t want to bash out one more book review here, as many have been found on the web for years. Hereafter, I’ll just give my different steps of perception, feelings and progress, I had during and after the reading of this book. On my first reading, I was happy to discover the first chapter because I was, at this time, more of a product security software guy, than someone with marketing knowledge. Consequently, I understood that even if this book was aiming to help old school marketers, it would also help me to understand both cultures; print and digital marketing. When, I returned to this chapter, I stepped back and really felt how much the Internet had impacted the marketing world. And today, when I watch marketing behaviour around me, like spreading content to everybody and finally overwhel...

Computer security expert Mikko Hyppönen presents the history of computer virus and ends to the Internet crime. A delightful talk, with pragmatic examples and a focus to what really matters today: fighting online shenanigans. Source: Mikko H. Hypponen : short biography / bio