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  • Was on stage tonight with my son for a #magic show (HE was performing in front of over 110). Went pretty well again. Am a proud dad! 2 weeks ago
  • About to finish writing my next lecture for Kingston University: "How Great People Can Kill Your Project" 2011-10-28
  • 1 anthropologist on radio about EU issues: "there is as much cultural difference between France and Germany than between France and Japan" 2011-09-28
  • CCP Hilmar's talk #ghconf about EVE's players behaviour comforted me in my Human Dynamics approach of projects. 2011-06-30
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Please sign here!

“Please sign here!” Every time I hear that sentence I am worried about what I am doing. And every time I am in the same situation: I have to sign to move forward but I am leaving part of my freedom away. This is true when you get a mortgage or a credit, when you [...] [...]

Off-shore development: why can’t “they” get it?

What is culture and what does it mean to be a foreigner? Don’t worry; I will not give a detailed answer to these two questions; that would need 100s of pages to do so. These 2 questions, I had to ask them to myself when I married a foreigner and when I moved to live [...] [...]

“I’m going to kill you!”

John von Neumann, the “father” of computers as they are now, has said: There’s no point in being exact about something if you don’t even know what you’re talking about. I like that quote and I’ll tell you why. I have delivered again and again courses about requirements management and requirements gathering. There is no [...] [...]

Iteration size and the tap water glass

When I teach iterative approach in software development, I use to justify it with an analogy that I have borrowed from Kent Beck: managing software is like driving a car; you permanently need to adjust left and right if you don’t want to have an accident. That’s a fine analogy and it always worked for [...] [...]