My Tweets

  • 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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The Story of Writing – Book review

I love the British Museum! When I go to the British Museum I always visit the book store. The book store used to be a mine of great books. It is now much smaller and quite disappointing to say the truth. Nevertheless, I bought this book at the British Museum. The title “The Story of [...] [...]

Dealing with a Serial Killer: the Develop Magazine #116 article

Here is the content of the article I have published in Develop Magazine, issue #116 that you can read and download on the following links: Read online: http://issuu.com/develop/docs/dev116_web. PDF Download: http://www.develop-online.net/digital-edition. Look for the issue #116 in May 2011 page 47. The version in the Develop Magazine is obviously nicer to read with diagrams. The [...] [...]

Multicultural Thinking: the Develop Magazine article

Here is the content of the article I have published in Develop Magazine, issue #114 that you can read and download on the following links: Read online: http://issuu.com/develop/docs/dev114_web. PDF Download: http://www.develop-online.net/digital-edition. Look for the issue #114 in March 2011. The version in the Develop Magazine is obviously nicer to read with diagrams. The magazine is [...] [...]

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 [...] [...]