I started taking pictures ten years ago, of people, things, while traveling, while walking in the street, and I have never felt fully comfortable doing it. This post is a reflection on the complexity of being a photographer and how I handle photography’s violent essence. Cringe! Photography’s history of death Because photographs were hyper-realistic machine-made…

Or the inspirational role of teachers and parents. — Acronyms encapsulate a concept into a short easy to remember and to pronounce tagline. A perfect and short hashtag that makes it easy to forget about the concept’s complexity. The acronym STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) appeared first, depending on the source, between 1990 and 2001. Other adjacent terms have…

How to Blend in Paris: The Culture Code for Time, Friends and Knowledge — For a long time, I identified as a “third culture kid”. Third-culture kids, according to anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille, are -even unconsciously- ambassadors of the global culture. …

How to incubate the Agility mindset accross your organization I pitched at AXA Software Engineering Summit on March 19th about Agility. Here is the transcript. 0. My observation of the Agile buzz 👀 I have been working at the IT department since 2 years now. My role makes me interact a lot with the business. Everyday in meetings or the open space, I hear people talk about pizza team, PO, scrum, SME, DevOps a hundred times a day.

Launching an insurance e-commerce product in less than 6 months with no budget for marketing research, surveys, UX design, and a newly assembled team. — Mexico City, 2015. I was taking over my second job in an insurance company, after a year as consultant in a strategic design consulting firm. On my first day, my boss told me my mission was to build and launch an insurance e-commerce product in less than 6 months.

Why we succeeded with Agile development and what we should have done better. From concept to launch in 6 sprints. — After running 6 sprints to release an e-commerce insurance product, I made a case study of our journey with Agile methodology and presented the key success factors to the Executive Committee, as well our mistakes. In this article, I describe how I switched from Project Leader to Product Owner, and…