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Comment on The Unfinished Conversation Concept in Maemo 5 by DVAU

DVAU — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:02:00 +0000

You have also to specify the use-case (not so complicated) in the pragmatic aspect.
As far as physical aspect is concerned, an important question raises: where should the information be stored and shared?
DVAU

Comment on Join PxI by Un exercice de modélisation sémantique at DVau

Un exercice de modélisation sémantique at DVau — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:16:24 +0000

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Comment on Get out of the immaturity model (part 2) by Jean

Jean — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:31:01 +0000

Dominique, yes, a pity. One reason being that the “waste” in this industry is only financial therefore not tacked. We often hear that more than 50% of the IT projects fail one way or another. And we are talking about hundreds of billions after all these years. If it was about manufacturing, let’s say for instance the production of tires, imagine the mountains of waste that this would have generate. Enough that the entire world would notice. To some extent we face a similar situation than global warming. Despite scientific evidence that we have damaged the planet and the situation is only getting worse every day, people are doubtful and don’t want to change unless there is a major crisis impacting their personal life. The same for software engineers. Even with the outsourcing/off-shoring fear…

Comment on Praxeme and Complex Systems by DVAU

DVAU — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:51:52 +0000

Yves, we are very grateful to you for your active participation to the College of contributors and for this post.
I had not anticipated that this session would have led to discuss the system theory! But, this can provide an opportunity for making clearer the foundation of Praxeme and for enriching its theoretical basis. That is precisely what I expect from the new deal between University and Enterprise.

Regarding item #3 in your post, I agree that observation and experimentation are required when it comes to complex systems, but I would not despise the conceptual endeavor. Right, analytical approach reveals itself as powerless, at some point when applied to complexity, but it is certainly not the only tool in our hands. Even though we are unable to go further today, we must believe that – some day – science will be able to decipher the laws of complexity and provides us with enough clues for anticipating even emergence – at least, in some fields.
In this prospect, we ought to pay attention to a basic phenomenon: what the linguists call “degree of articulation”, i.e. the link between two planes of the language (sound/word/sentence…). It is not only a matter of quantity like in the collection of individuals that shows emergent properties. It is about aggregates that appear on a different plane of being and that behave according to a different logic. In the process, we touch the mystery of meaning.
“Meaning in action” …

I stick to your conclusion regarding the use of the Enterprise Transformation Manifesto: our targets should be the CEO rather than anyone else.

Dominique

Comment on Praxeme and Complex Systems by Fabien Villard

Fabien Villard — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:35:34 +0000

Thanks you for this post, Yves. I’m very glad to welcome you on this community blog.

You are right, Complexity is one of the characteristics of our systems today and it is important to start to deconstruct this term in order to try to build an understandable and actionable meaning for people out of IT sphere (and even for IT people :-).

Comment on Get out of the immaturity model (part 2) by DVAU

DVAU — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:25:49 +0000

Great! This strong text should be a mandatory reading in the IT community, for hygienic purpose.
It is a pity that, after nearly three decades of software engineering, we still have to remind these basics.

Comment on BPM and SOA by DVAU

DVAU — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:19:37 +0000

The dotted arrow from “Logical Aspect” to “Pragmatic aspect” allows and summarizes a dozen of derivation rules. Thanks to these rules, a portion of the logical architecture is populated almost automatically and with a guarantee of alignment.
In this diagram, the package symbol stands for an aspect of the Enterprise System. The picture is an extract from the Enterprise System Topology, the methodological framework which is at the core of the Praxeme method. Regarding SOA, this picture shows that:
* BPM is important as an input for an SOA design;
* it is not enough: we need another starting point which lays in the semantic aspect, the place of the Business Objects.
The semantic modeling approach greatly contributes to the success of the SOA appraoch, especially in case of an IT system overhaul.

Comment on Innovation warning by DVAU

DVAU — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:43:12 +0000

Coining a trigram – or, now, a quadrigram – is easier than elaborating a really new idea.
That’s all about the new way of consulting, spin doctors, words of mouth, lack of substance in many enterprise strategies and the content emptiness of our civilization…

Comment on Movies errors, a wish list by DVAU

DVAU — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:38:07 +0000

Thank you Fabien for the fun!
Beyond that, I fully agree with your conclusion. We have to question our practices if we are to fulfill the expectations and the myth people put in information science. Proudly talking about our “best practices” is certainly not enough…

Comment on Action, Being and Darwin by Fabien Villard

Fabien Villard — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:44:54 +0000

See this post on cracked.com. It shows things from an opportunist point of view: how some people can benefit from our brain behavior.

http://www.cracked.com/article_16656_p2.html

Read especially point #2 “Black and White Choices”

Comment on Memes And The Catalog Syndrome by DVAU

DVAU — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:28:09 +0000

Excellent and very clear introduction that deserves to survive in our brain and to spread across the community!
We can add to the conclusion by linking this approach with a “marxist” analysis. Indeed, one of the factors that explain the stregnth of technology (against ideas!) lies in the capital that the vendors can summon.
The memetic theory gains strength and likeliness when inserted in a broader scope, linked together with psychological, sociological and economical disciplines. It provides us with a simple collection of rules (as you stated it): that’s a pretty good starting point for simulation and verification. Therefore, at last, we have a scientifical (I mean: formal) way for studying the social reality.

Regarding Praxeme, I would not dare to voice the claim that Praxeme is a memeplex, but, at least, we can consider it as a sign – signal, clue – of a specific memeplexe… This memeplexe is much more of a paradigme which Praxeme is based upon.

Comment on Desktop Application for Little Devices by DVAU

DVAU — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:14:56 +0000

I designed this case study with the purpose of enlightening the difference between classical approach and a real object-oriented approach. On the way, it’s easy to discover how this approach can revolutionize our way of thinking and greatly improve ergonomics and quality of our software.

My belief is that we no more refer to the object-oriented approach, we act as if it is so obvious, but we missed the novelties engraved in the object logic. The fact that programming language as Java are now of widespread usage does absolutely not imply that we understand this logic and that we make the most of it.

Fabien’s project not only will provide us with a new kind of tools but also it will contribute to train new generations of developers and designers, the kind of skills the enterprises desperately need.

Dominique Vauquier