(This page is written for recruiters.) That’s my elevator pitch. Note the punctuation after Sweden. It is not a question mark or a exclamation mark. It is what it is. With a high tail and great safety, I can state this as I not only have been involved from the beginning of the Agile movement […]
Författare: Ove Holmberg
Doubter, gaffer, author
The being vs doing agile test
Former physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard Feyman writes in his book ”Surely you are joking, Mr Feynman” about Cargo cults. This has now become a term for doing and not being agile and just doing it. Cargo cults are tribes in the pacific who was visited by airplanes, dropping cargo during world war II. […]
ALM, planning and visualization tools and how to choose the right ones.
“Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a continuous process of managing the life of an application through governance, development and maintenance. ALM is the marriage of business management to software engineering made possible by tools that facilitate and integrate requirements management, architecture, coding, testing, tracking, and release management”. From Wikipedia Tools will be more important for […]
<b>real TEAM</b> and team – whats the difference?
The word TEAM (with capitals and bold) is not the same as the word team we often talk about in software development. For us as true teamplayers who have done the army service, played in a band, played football or other teamsports, TEAM is common sense but few have done this in our teams today. I believe the root cause of why […]
Vägra estimera – guesstimera mera
I lördagens Dagens Nyheter kunde vi läsa om hur experter med avancerade modeller försökt räkna ut det kommande behovet av intensivvårdplatser. En professor i strukturbiologi med team, en professor i epidemiologi med team samt Folkhälsomyndigheten. Två av dessa missar det faktiska utfallet grovt och i social media tjafsar professorerna om semantiken i de rapporter de […]
Bokrecension: My turn (Johan Cruyff)
Jag är inne i en period med ljudböcker kring management just nu och tog en paus med Johan Cruyffs självbiografi My turn i hopp om att får en dos fotboll. Jag övertolkade titeln till att vara JCs sätt att berätta sin version och kanske var det så han också tänkte men det var ju egentligen en fint […]
Contract negotiation over partner collaboration
As a buyer of a new system we formalize our expectations on the solution we want with functional and non-functional requirements. We also make sure that the new vendor is compliant with all our standards and values and that they have good credit rating and great references. And of course the price as an offer […]
Adding VAR to software development
In Sweden there is a debate of the Video Assisting Referee (VAR) in football. A system overruling/supporting referee decision. VAR will probably be reality next season, but for now our football referees is taking the heat for their bad decisions or lack thereof. This has now been taken to its extreme in the last rounds […]
Göra rätt saker, sakerna rätt och sakerna på rätt sätt – tre dimensioner av krav som vi fuskar med
Nyligen hjälpte jag en startup med kravhantering. Det gick inget vidare då chefen ändå smög in brådskande nya features på post-it lappar och jag kunde inte förstå varför teamet jobbade sena kvällar. Före det hjälpte jag ett 100 årigt gediget svenskt tjänsteföretag med att, bland annat, coacha produktägarna. Det gick heller inget vidare då produktägarna […]
Spanish fail
2019-06-27 After working in Spain for six months we finally bought an apartment there. In restaurants and shops i make myself understandable in, but when it comes to daily chat with natives i fail hard. So i enrolled a spanish online course with a 100% pace. I did not know what that was, but it […]