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Essays, page 9
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LESS goes Stockholm for LESS2011, join us there in October
Last year I was involved in the organization of a unique conference. LESS2010 was a unique conference because it brought together different communities. We wanted to make sure that people with different points of view would discuss those points of view. The aim was to create a space for sharing ideas from different communities in …
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Agile is about customer delight
Today on twitter I got into an interesting conversation with @jeffpatton. The discussion was about whether Agile, as a family of methodologies and a value system is (or isn’t) directed at customer delight. @JeffPatton‘s point was that it is not. Here’s one of his replies to me on this subject: Later on during the day …
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You cannot transition to Agile. Stop and just embrace it!
I am writing this blog post to explore a concept. So bear with me, I’ll probably ask more questions than I’ll answer. Why do most Agile fail in our companies (or government organizations for that matter)? My view is that we cannot actually transition from a command and control management paradigm to Agile / Complex …
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Kicking up dust for the Agile Finland 2011-2012 season
A big moment for the Agile Finland community is approaching. On May 25th we’ll get together and select the new Agile Finland Board for the 2011-2012 season. There are many reasons why it is a big moment. In my opinion it is a big point in our history as a community. Agile Finland was started …
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ALE Network in active discussion in the Agile Finland mailing list
Last Friday looked to be normal day. Too much work, too little time. But then it got better.After I sent an email to the Agile Finland mailing list announcing the Helsinki event to discuss the ALE Network vision, a lot of replies came in. It was a very active discussion. Below is my (necessarily) short …
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What would a European Agile comunity look like? #ALEnetwork
Many of us have been involved in many different communities. Agile Finland for a start. But also other communities: our local kindergarten or school parent’s group, the school or kindergarten itself; the local neighbors; the apartment building executive board (“hallitus” in Finnish), etc. In fact, if we look back in history all of our history …
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Patterns of Agility, talk at Scan-Agile 2011 and Agile Riga Day 2011
Some time ago I wrote a post here about Patterns we can identify in projects and how they relate to the life-cycle model in use for the project. Some patterns are definitely signs of an Agile project (release working software at the end of every *very* short iteration for example). Other patterns are clear signs …
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Another job opportunity for 31337 h4x0rs that love testing!
F-Secure is hiring! And they have some interesting positions as well. Check out this one: People who have experience in “SW Engineer in Test” type of a role. This is a fairly new role and not well established in Finland. The discipline is young and top notch professionals rare. An excellent niche to put yourself …
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Job opportunity for awesome people in Tampere, Finland
Our good friends at Leonidas are hiring. Not, not the chocolate people, the software people 😉 The company looks very interesting. I especially liked the “one week from idea to prototype” service they have. A true agile service! 🙂 Take a look at their web-site and check if you are one of the awesome people …
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To all my friends and colleagues at Nokia, my contribution
Without a doubt many of you have read the news about Nokia taking Windows Phone 7 as their main Smartphone platform. That decision by Nokia has a tremendous impact in my local software community: Finland. Nokia mobile phones (as it was known before) has always been a major employer of software development professionals in Finland …
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SWAT Team, a Pattern for Overloaded, Multi-project Organizations
We all have seen it in our projects. Some teams are overloaded and can’t deliver what we need while others are not so busy and could even tackle more work if there was a need for that. This type of partial overloading is easily understood if we picture the work flow as a network of …
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My Agile adoption story, and why it matters to you
Every person has their own different story of how they found out about Agile and how they came to experiment and ultimately adopt it in their projects.Mine is also different than most, I started as a skeptic. I was one of those that said “it will never work”. But I did come around. Here’s the …
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