Guillaume Charest

@PhilTatWork @remyb2 I feel like cry-laughing here…

@remyb2 Ironically enough we don’t always need to hire the expertise just listen to it and not piss it off until it leaves for the private sector

Someone shared to me a G-firm commissioned document about cyber security. *Le Sigh* Another ~$100k, 77 pages document saying something we already knew: hire more cyber security expertise.

New blog post! 🚧 “If you use project gating, you’re not agile” #GCdigital sboots.ca/2022/08/24/if-…

@remyb2 @sboots Haha that’s it, you can retire now 🤪

@sboots 😳 I am mentioned as a reference. I have reached influencer status.

@plpilon @supergovernance Won’t that just mean @supergovernance has even more time to research and read studies though? 😉

@remyb2 @supergovernance Nice! So you listened to people actually going through internal governance in order to deliver value to citizens and collected their professional insights to produce an analysis grounded in reality instead of pushing buzzword frameworks? All the better imho 😉

@GuillCharest @supergovernance Fun fact: all info came from talking to EMPLOYEES of various teams (EPMO, BPMO, Finance, Transport Canada's Agile CoE, CRA' sustainability program) None of it came from commercial industry think tank that we know of....

Excellent blog on funding software and all the upfront work needed to achieve product management in a government context.

Blog sur le financement d’activités reliées au logiciel pour permettre la #GestionDeProduit au #GCNumérique Projet ou produit, des décisions difficiles de priorisation doivent être faites. Les finances peuvent être un langage pour informer ces décisions sara-sabr.github.io/ITStrategy/202…

@remyb2 @supergovernance This last entry in your excellent series is simply amazing. It is really well written and provides so much practical knowledge! Kudos to you for explains these hard to grasp concepts in ways that many can relate to in the government!

@supergovernance Hey thanks! Coming from you that's high praise!

@remyb2 @sboots I think the main argument made is that we (larger and more traditional organizations) conflate EA as a set of processes and techniques that IT alone can properly do. If EA (the practice) is only accomplished within the corporate IT branch, is it enterprise architecture?

@sboots EA is a community. Not a person. And product teams are part of that community. A human can't be an EA. Its impossible to know all about gov programs, services, and tech stacks. EA is meant to be strategic but is too often involved in tacital stuff (projects).

New blog post! 🪦 “Enterprise architecture is dead” sboots.ca/2022/06/23/ent… #GCdigital

@megberetta @ae_clarke Congratulations!!

Been away getting married, which was the best. I feel so lucky to have been able to gather with my people again. A shout-out to our incredible friend who officiated our wedding @ae_clarke, who I think I knew on Twitter before I knew she would play such a big role in our lives!

@dr_abela @ElanaAptowitzer Oh yes, sorry! Poor attempt at humour on my end😄

@dr_abela @ElanaAptowitzer That’s usually those for which you get called back, no? 😄

@ElanaAptowitzer @dr_abela That’s what I was about to say as well! I used to have a list of pre written answers given how often the same experience requirements came back in posters and how I had to repeat the same experience multiple times in the same application 🫤

@DerekAlton @redpath42 @ruchirlives @josiefraser @AliceKershaw @KristoVaher @kellyfournel @mgifford @jystewart @piacandrews @audreyt @PublicDigitalHQ @redecentralize @LucyMcTernan @paulmbradley @TravelSpirit_io @ArcofInclusion @DorotheaChris @scotgovopen Definitely!

@redpath42 @ruchirlives @josiefraser @AliceKershaw @KristoVaher @GuillCharest @kellyfournel @mgifford @jystewart @piacandrews @audreyt @PublicDigitalHQ @redecentralize @LucyMcTernan @paulmbradley @TravelSpirit_io @ArcofInclusion @DorotheaChris @scotgovopen I am happy to be part of this as well. @mgifford @GuillCharest think there is interest from #canada

1/ I was asked to put together some thoughts on government and #opensource. What follows is a summary of what I put together. I would love any feedback and ideas you might have. Tag others as well and lets have a good conversation.

@JohnKingBain Switch to electric and you won’t need to find it anymore 😆

these need to be a different colour... :)

@DerekAlton @ruchirlives @kellyfournel @mgifford @jystewart @piacandrews @audreyt @KristoVaher @PublicDigitalHQ @redecentralize Other projects in that space: degooglisons-internet.org/en/ solidproject.org

@ruchirlives @kellyfournel @mgifford @GuillCharest @jystewart @piacandrews @audreyt @KristoVaher @PublicDigitalHQ Brilliant! Makes me think about the work of @redecentralize redecentralize.org

@ruchirlives @DerekAlton @kellyfournel @mgifford @jystewart @piacandrews @audreyt @KristoVaher @PublicDigitalHQ @redecentralize @scotgov @SDGScotland I think that’s the most efficient way to tip the scales otherwise it’s never going to be a priority, just wishful thinking and grassroots efforts. Not trying to be negative just that efforts around OSS have been ongoing for more than a decade without becoming a normal approach.

@DerekAlton @kellyfournel @mgifford @GuillCharest @jystewart @piacandrews @audreyt @KristoVaher @PublicDigitalHQ @redecentralize We managed to bring @scotgov along with us, and influence it’s national performance outcomes through @SDGScotland

@DerekAlton @jaCattell @github @hslaird @cwithak @BiancaTomazeli @HilaryKilgour The rationale is sound and backed by a number of evidence such as this one: op.europa.eu/en/publication… There are useful resources on how to successfully work w/ OSS such as publiccode.net Education isn’t enough I’m afraid, need political will.

@jaCattell @github Hi James, yes, I worked on a project a couple years ago to do this with @hslaird @cwithak @BiancaTomazeli @HilaryKilgour @GuillCharest and others. I just wrote a blog about the experience: derekalton.medium.com/the-municipal-…

@remyb2 @biancawylie It is very hard! And EU has political level support as it is seen as an economic driver as well as a lever to take back control of their digital assets: op.europa.eu/en/publication…

@biancawylie Shameless plug, trying to change the mindset by proposing an Open First Strategy. Influenced by the European Commission #opensource Strategy, rooted in assuring sovereignty and contributing to the knowledge society. It's really hard. @GuillCharest sara-sabr.github.io/ITStrategy/ope…

@JohnKingBain @FlexGCInfo Markdown file in a Git repo? Separates the content from the presentation, enables collaboration on the content. If Google Workspace, make the working docs available for suggestions with the latest version published.

@FlexGCInfo the most... probably a wiki, but tbh just having it in a word document would be fine as it puts it in to a ed8table format. let's see if we can wakeup @GuillCharest :D

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