In my business life, I am a consultant and coach helping to guide teams in successful software development efforts. I teach, coach and use Scrum, Lean, Kanban, XP and generally agile, iterative, collaborative methods for innovating and building products and services.
I work with both small and very large scale distributed organizations in a variety of sectors, but especially in Financial Services, Telecommunications and Internet. I am currently working for Valtech http://www.valtech.com, with people around the world, including in France (I am Paris-based), India, China, Canada, UK, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and the US, for global clients including Cross Knowledge, Societe Generale, Darty, Alcatel-Lucent, Schneider Electric and Michelin.
My practice areas have become increasingly specialized in scaling Scrum and agile, off shore, distributed and highly complex system development. I focus very much on the human side of teams and their ecosystems, and am interested in and try to provoke changes in mindset in the leadership team, to become true servant leaders, to which I also aspire.
I live in Paris and am the father of a 4+ year old little girl who keeps me agile; you'll often find us on the weekends on our bike or in one of the many parks or cafes around Paris. I have kept a home in the San Francisco, California area and may one day return...