2025

• The Return of Architects

• The End of the Silicon Valley Product

• The agile coach is an operational manager but not the one you have in mind

• Getting Organized Today as in 2052? (video)

• When do we make decisions?

• How do we make decisions?

• What a strange time

• Ivan Illich and Autonomy

• Meetup Shape Up

• About Mind Maps

• Reflections on the Tyranny of Structurelessness

• Stop telling me that a tool is just a tool and we can do whatever we want with it

• Preface Kanban 2nd Edition by Hinde Pagani

• Product Management Pyramid

• Intervision on Product Management

• Small Handbook of Organizational Thinking

• Remote Work Index: What's Your Score?

• Product owner, manager, leader, *er strategy

2024

• Public Organization and Liberated Company?

• On Good Constraints

• Very Small Agile Guide Without Agile Jargon

• Possibilities

• Agile Professionalization

• UX designer, QA

• Text: The Disappearance

• License Change

• The Disappearance

• 2052

• Your questions are terrible

• I Don't Give a Damn About Being Agile

• Not cool Coach

• Who makes the decisions?

2023

• What if?

• Conferences 2024?

• Why iterations?

• How to take eco-responsibility to the next level, #1 crossing the chasm

• The military, banks, and you?

• Conversation notes: prerequisites for an agile transformation

• CSRD Backlog, a virtuous estimation

• Narration, imagination, future and adaptation

• Disappointment, satisfaction, experience

• From value henceforth

• When we talk agile with ease

• PO/PM, the great confusion

• The Berezina of Our Organizations and Agility

• Rome wasn't built in a day

• Frugarilla

• OKR is the new SAFe

• Know, want, be able

2022

• Maximum Tolerable Product

• Do you think transformation?

• Virtuous or Calamitous Organization?

• Product of Tomorrow

• Agile Raid 2022

• Product Design at ALE 2022

• Product of Tomorrow, Preamble

• Readings on product management

• Remote Work

• The HR Enigma

• On the product: the strategy

• On the product

2021

• This is not scrum (or agile)

• Should we support senior executives?

• Cultivating Imperfection

• Making my target my starting point: understanding emergence

• Towards the simple, towards the complex

• Overview of Agile Approaches

• The Initial Intention

• Roadmaps & dependencies

• Anti-coaching, anti-psychoanalysis

• Agility, a critical look at recent years to start the next ones well

• The Problem with Kindness

• Difficult End of Career for Scrum

2020

• Grooming: this mistake

• A possible history of agility, COACH, SM, PO, UX, PM, DATA

• [off topic] Music & lockdown

• Triangulation

• Scrummaster in Distress

• The Product School Quizzes

• Mob Business Development

• How to Escape a Mother-in-Law's Traps and Other Absurdities

• Don't Name Your Tools

• Storytelling

• Meetup Complex Enterprises, part 2

• Meetup Complex Organizations

• Meetup Impact Map Strategy map Mind map

• Meetup Cynefin

• Lean Topology

• Managerial introspection workshop - solution focus and host leadership

• The Release Plan

• How to Pull the Agile Movement Out of Its Procrastination

• The benefits of authenticity

2019

• On emptiness

• Yesterday Two Coaches

• Rules or principles, you must choose

• Painful Desynchronization

• Current Conversations

• Damn VUCA and PSF conference

• Model of Complex Organizations, Part 2

• Model of complex companies, part 1

• Introspection, exposure and coherence

• Managerial Problem and Shift in Postures

• Why often nobody wants to set their organization in motion?

• Event Storming, a description

• Kanban, the book, the illustrations

• Kanban, the book

• In an Ideal World

• On the Importance of Managers' Impact

• Leadership Seminar with Olaf Lewitz

• Dilts Pyramid and organizational alignment

• Scaling agile dojo

• Temporality of management

• Building Your Own Job

• Experimenting

• School of product ownership 2019

2018

• Management of Yesterday and Today

• Dynamic Kanban

• I say no

• Deliver to learn and experiment or deliver to finish?

• Estimates are wrong, especially if we consider them to be right

• The Management Break

• Collective Extrospection

• Let's Stop with the Tyranny of Vision

• Leaders, are you signaling what you desire?

• Companies that will make a difference will empower people

• Agile Enterprise and Scaling

• Profession of Faith

• The Two Chaos

• Return to language: process, interaction, framework, and meaning

• Agora & FAQ

• Training in questioning

• Toxic Bang Ready

• Agile raid is over

• Convince or Be Convinced?

• Being agile? Keynote Agile Grenoble 2017

• Craft Café Podcast // scaling agility

• Grow or Scale?

• Ecosystem Host - Host Leadership

• Good work = best skills + what we love doing + what we believe in

2017

• Scaling Agile, Teams and Management

• Agile at Scale, Unleashing Self-Organization

• laconf.schoolofpo.com

• Small series on Holacracy and Sociocracy

• Dare to invite, Openspace Agility

• Wake up rh: HR fluency

• Why You Should Be Wary of SAFe

• Agility at Scale: Synchronization

• Being committed? (part 2)

• Being engaged? (part 1)

• Visual Estimation

• Being agile?

• Agile Fluency: session and mini workshop

• Parents, understanding and acting with Cynefin

• Agile CFO: noestimates, beyond budgeting

• Limits in Kanban

• Conversation around Agile Fluency

• Perspective rather than framework: Agile Fluency

• Kanban Graphs Explained to Children 2

• Kanban Charts Explained to Children

• Strategy mapping, impact mapping, off the beaten path

• Strategy Mapping, Impact Mapping

• # Action Plan Mapping (user story map) Revisited

• # Action Plan Mapping: User Story Mapping

• The coach's blues

2016

• Organizational Epiphany

• The Holacracy Framework

• The Complainers' Corner

• What is a product owner for?

• The New Philosophy of the Chief Financial Officer

• Living organizations: your help

• Team Spirit Workshop

• Creativity Workshop

• My marketing director has ideas

• Digital Transformation and Creativity

• Skits

• Paris 2016, ALE yeah !!

• Facilitate or Build

• Protocol words

• Attention and constellation

• Once upon a time scrum 3

• Once upon a time scrum 2

• Once upon a time scrum 1

• *What the fuck* and Barbouzarde

• Two new retrospective formats

• Estimates aren't just about complexity, damn it

• Hellocracy, Holocracy, Holacracy, Honolulucracy

• No one is supposed to be ignorant of the definition of done

• From Scrummaster to Agile Coach

• We're gonna groove

• Project Portfolio Kanban, Part 2

• The Practice Sawmill evolves

• Game of Coins

• Portfolio Projects Kanban, Part 1

• Immateriality

2015

• Invitation

• Olaf, Lean Kanban Fr 2015, Scrum Gathering Prague 2015

• Extend the possibilities

• Darefest 2015

• Preface Scrum 4th Edition

• # Three Key Learnings from an Agile Approach

• Paradoxes of Agile Transformations

• Pecha Kucha ale2015

• Agile Movement

• The meme space

• On the trail of living organizations

• Path of an agile transformation

• Peetic 2015, a few kibbles

• What is a successful agile transformation?

• Emotion, energy and change management

• Age of agile

• Satisfaction within 24 hours maximum!

• I see plenty of good people

• Festival of Retrospectives

• I am definitely not an agile coach

• Tools and People

• Agile Raids 2015

• Modernity, Agility, Engagement

• Expertise and Emergence

• Agile Team Presentation

2014

• Open Office365 Adoption

• Sarah, logbook, day 5

• Sarah, logbook, day 4

• Sarah, logbook, days 1 and 2

• Sarah, logbook, day 3

• The Hippie Cowboys

• Tip for the marshmallow challenge

• Charlotte & Claude, the November guests

• Shantytowns

• Personality Poker

• Events & conferences fall 2014

• Stories I Tell Right Now

• Brief Historical Reminder: Ford & Toyota

• Spring 2014 Conferences

• HR Transformation

• ALE 2014 - Under the Cracow Sun

• Agile Raid in the Cévennes

• Remote Work

• From idea to delivery plan

• 4 discomforts and a very good time

• Stories of Open Agile Adoption (now Openspace Agility)

• Spring 2014, will we cross paths?

• Complex Times, Let's Revisit Agile

• Fall/Winter 2014 Reading

• Thinking about your organization - in the field

• Lean Startup - Christophe Monnier

• Thinking about your organization - catastrophe theory

• Thinking About Your Organization - Introduction

• Mini Book: The Agile Horde

2013

• Self-organization and storytelling

• The agile horde, the videos

• Kindness

• Engagement and motivation

• Agile at scale: it's crystal clear

• Some Recent Readings (2013)

• Code, the cradle of agility

• The Agile Horde - The Slides

• Two friends

• Agile Job Interview

• Back to School 2013, why did I eat my peer?

• Task Assignment in a Scrum Project

• Agile Documentation

• Call it whatever you want

• Scrum 2013, the framework

• Dialogue, poem and situation

• Dan Mezick's Garage Vol.1

• CJDization

• Agile in a few words

• Blood and Tears

• Emotions are the source of change

• Release of training materials

• The Art of the Retrospective

• ADN Agile feedback

• Agile DNA

• Readings Fall/Winter 2013

• Cynefin and its Lego game

• The Scrum Ball and Points Game

• Why a technical *user story* is an admission of failure 2

• Why a technical *user story* is an admission of failure

• Once upon a time

• An American in Paris

• The horde

• The Picasso Mystery

• Feedback on the product owner strategy

• First Topics and Directions 2013

• Agile Open Sud 2013 Announcement

2012

• Peetic, conversations

• Governance and agile culture

• SmartCode

• Agile Tour Paris 2012

• Peetic

• Scrumshot

• Spring/Summer 2012 Reading

• The product owner strikes back

• Visual & Cognitive Management

• ALE2012: First Hot Take

• Put yourself in a position to do things right

• Topics 2012/13

• People are frustrated

• Mooooney!

• Introduction to Product Owner Strategy and Tactics

• Getting Started with Agility

• When I see them, I know what they are

• Mix-it & Sudweb

• Reading: The Empire of Coaches by Gori & Le Coz, 2006

• The curse of the man-day

• Agile Open Sud 2012, it's done (too)

• Agile Open Sud

• The return of the bearded ones?

• Scrummasters, imagine that you are me

• Shadoks, brakes, change, cynefin

• Coach retreat paris, 2012

• Stoos network, a beginning, expectations

• Agile open sud, agile coaching, breakfast & after work

2011

• Are you agile?

• Code retreat and old time session

• A few books to read about doing agile

• The agile of lost causes

• Anatomy of an Agile Mission

• Project Fortunes

• Agile & CMMi, magic potion or great divide?

• The HR, the project manager and the scrummaster

• Agile Tour Montpellier 2011, first edition

• Consideration, Respect, and the Pygmalion Effect

• Are you experienced?

• Kanban, the Trojan Horse

• Imbalance and Change Management

• SudWeb 2011, first edition

• XP2011, feedback May 12

• Belonging to a group and level of satisfaction

• ALE 2011 in Berlin September 7-9 a spontaneous self-organized conference

• XP2011, feedback May 11

• Agile and the psychoanalyst

• Anatomy of an Agile Mission / Sudweb 2011

• Children and the Marshmallow Challenge

• Technical Debt According to Uderzo & Goscinny

• Parkinson's Law by Asterix & Obelix

• Could agile restore the prestige of time and materials contracts?

• How do agilists organize themselves?

• The European Agile Identity

• Careers in an agile world or company

• Considerations on Expertise

• Mammoth and the 5 Whys

• Rant against certain agile training courses

2010

• Agile Management: The Tannenbaum & Schmidt Model

• The Oath of Non-Allegiance of Mr. Cockburn

• Ignorance is a blessing

• Your project practices under the CMMi lens

• And now something completely different: Agile!

• The agile community is searching for a certification

• To be 'in', play it 'retro'

• Scrum: Don't Get Emotional

• Agile rhythm

• Richness of X-RATED communication modes

• Richness of communication modes

• Book Review: Karmic Management, Roach/McNally/Gordon

• Reading Notes: Scrum, A Practical Guide, Claude Aubry

• The trap of French-style contractualization

• Tips for Project Managers

• The Unspoken Things

• Scrum acts, CMMi observes. scrum and cmmi post 4

• The newcomer, scrum and cmmi post 3

2009

• Leaders and managers, Scrum and cmmi post 2

• Scrum and CMMI, post 1

• Kanban, Scrum, rhythm and ritual

• CMMI Check and Scrum Project

• Django Python and the meaning of Scrum

• Yellow post-it fever

• Scrum: a pitfall for IT service companies? and Kanban?

• The Importance of Transparency

• Contracting Scrum Projects with IT Service Companies

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