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I wish you an happy new year 2018. I would like to thanks all the communities I'm working with and all the people I have a chance to exchange with. Please feel free to contact me to talk about your next projects.

Vancouver July 2016 I wish you a happy new year 2017, with hope in this new world. I will love to meet you this year to discuss, share experience and knowledge. See you soon. Franck

I tell you, I’m not an expert in agile, just someone who found solution to my professional problems using agile methodologies. If you are convinced too and want to move further, please join us at the end of august, for a lot of open discussions and fun. Things are moving forward in the ALE 2016 organisation. Already, a great diversity of people answer to our call as shown below, but we need more. Yes the ALE 2016 will be great as it has always been since 2011 in Berlin. For those who do not know about the yearly ALE event, please find below a few tips. What is it?  If you do not know yet about the Agile Lean Europe event, here a few tips. ALE is a event for practitioners, meaning people who already practice agile methodologies like developers, modern CEO, teachers, leaders, etc.  Sharing ideas and solving problems are the ALE mains goals: people can propose topics where they share their experience, other can ask to solve a problem the can’t alone  The event ...

No EN version yet here, sorry.  Second version. Précision du principe de communauté pour résoudre des problèmes. Ceci est un message personnel à toi qui serais dans le doute par rapport à ALE2016 . Il y a quelques semaines, j’étais à Mix-IT , une conférence de développement informatique / organisation, pour assister Yves Hanoulle dans l’animation du jeu The Scaling Ball Game . Durant les conversations hors des sessions, j’ai échangé avec différentes personnes sur le prochain événement auquel je vais participer : ALE2016 , A ma plus grande surprise, j’ai découvert qu'ALE impressionnait, faisait peur ou était incompréhensible pour ceux qui n’avaient pas encore jamais participé à cet événement. Mon message est simple : Laisse toi aller, viens à ALE2016. Durant les 5 premières premières sessions dans chaque coin de l’Europe, les remarques ont toujours été les mêmes. En repartant, tu auras : Découvert des participants qui sont tous très abordables. Tous viennent à cet évé...

This is the end of a beautiful summer, and also one of the warmer recorded in France. I’m continuing my journey in the product management world and today I’m living in the product marketing one too. I will blog about this later. During this first half of this year, I read several articles on big data and started to understand how important the data science discipline is. Being able to define a direction/goal to search, collecting the proper data, then using a collection of techniques to extract something others can’t see - it sounds like magic. Also, when I listened to the Udacity Linear Disgression podcast episode “Hunting the Higgs”, I understood people with these skills can be better at solving a problem than the domain experts themselves. Katie Malone explained that in a competition to solve a particle physics problem, the best results came from machine learning people. Then I read the article about Zenefit on the vision mobile website : “Zenefits is an insurance compan...

Happy new year 2015. After 10 years inside the walls, I’m moving outside!! Time is running and I have been working in the software world for 13 years and promoting the “software agile thing” in my area, for 6 years. Today, I need to step back. As my professional life has moved from R&D management to Product Marketing Management, my professional focus has shifted and I need  to improve my skills in this area. I’m writing this article because I would like to thank my growing network and  make sure you won’t be surprised by my new area of interest, that could be outside of your own. I imagine a few of you, shaking your heads, uttering a pfff of disappointment and saying: Franck and his books, his constant learning curve. For what? This is really simple: Without a sense of progress, I get bored in my professional activity. In 2009, for the first time since beginning in this sofware development world, I had a sense of accomplishment. As Agile was the main change we ...

I used to believe the age of creativity in business, was the wave of new products based on the Internet and the future wave following the expiry of 3D printer patents (2014) . When I read Niels’s paper , I understood the collapse of craftsman-age creativity at the beginning of the industrial era, but I didn’t connect it to the different objects I saw, touched and used in my life. Last week, I visited a West African Museum in Lyon and I would not have expected this tour to open my mind to the different building ages. While we were walking in the museum, the guide explained the objects exhibited and we understood most of the collection was composed of pieces bought from the end of 19th century to the mid 20th. The objects created by one tribe were totally different from objects sculpted by another. Also, the signification could be totally different from one tribe to another and also us. Those objects were considered as art by Western people at this time, but in fact were day-to-day o...