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Speaking at DevLin 2011 with ShowOff
2011-03-10 I am in Linköping for Devlin 2011 where I will give a talk named “Git - Version Control You’ve Only Dreamt Of”. It is a one day conference organized by my friends at Responsive
I did the slides for this talk in ShowOff, which allows me to write my presentation in text and version it in Git. Firefox 4 supports SVG well enough for me to use it for all my images. This allows me to just save and directly use whatever I draw in Inkscape, no exports required.
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Notes From Smidig Open Space on Why Agile Isn't About Development Anymore
2010-11-16 Today at Smidig 2010 I sponsored an Open Space session on the topic “How and When did Agile System Development Stop Being About System Development”
We had a very good discussion, and these are the notes we managed to gather, in the order they were discussed:
- It’s Scrums fault
- It’s easier to sell with soft skills arguments
- Agile is trying to sell into other fields where the technical practices don’t apply.
- Obsolete knowledge in management, old Cobol programmers not up to date with todays technologies.
- As people speak more at conferences, the less they program.
- More attention to people who are good at talking, and devs normally aren’t.
- Using wrong metaphors, i.e. factory, to explain process to managers who do not understand leads to wrong process.
- Recipient of system development does not understand the problem of why engineering practices are important.
- Soft skills are easier to acquire.
- Average organizations have average employees. Does not want to take responsibility, not that interested.
- Management who does not understand the process they are running.
- Is this partly developers fault?
Thanks all who joined in!
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1996 revisited
2009-04-15 After receiveing what I believe was the third promotional email from my beloved mobile phone operator, showing this not-so-useful information
I was curious to see what sort of HTML did not even render images in Safari.
Behold:
#html <title>Sista chansen: Specialpris på Telia Mobilt bredband</title> <base target="_blank"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.13" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#818177 leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <TABLE height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" bgColor=#818177 border=0> <TR> <TD vAlign=top align=middle> <DIV style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: #505050; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif">Ser mailet konstigt ut? <A style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: #cf0566; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif" href="#" target=_blank>Klicka här »</A></DIV><BR> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=590 align=center bgColor=#aaaaa4 border=0> <TR> <TD vAlign=top align=middle><A href="http://tr.anp.se/track?t=c&mid=250386&uid=124849854&&&http://track.adform.net/C/?bn=212313" target=_blank><IMG alt="Nu höjer vi hastigheten och sänker priset." src="http://adata.attraction.se/Telia/buss14/09-Utskick_v15/images/erbj1.jpg" border=0></A></TD></TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top align=middle><A href="http://tr.anp.se/track?t=c&mid=250386&uid=124849854&&&http://track.adform.net/C/?bn=212313" target=_blank><IMG alt="Nu höjer vi hastigheten och sänker priset." src="http://adata.attraction.se/Telia/buss14/09-Utskick_v15/images/erbj2.jpg" border=0></A></TD></TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top align=middle><A href="http://tr.anp.se/track?t=c&mid=250386&uid=124849854&&&http://track.adform.net/C/?bn=212313" target=_blank><IMG alt="Nu höjer vi hastigheten och sänker priset." src="http://adata.attraction.se/Telia/buss14/09-Utskick_v15/images/erbj3.jpg" border=0></A></TD></TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top align=middle><A href="http://tr.anp.se/track?t=c&mid=250386&uid=124849854&&&http://track.adform.net/C/?bn=212313" target=_blank><IMG alt="Nu höjer vi hastigheten och sänker priset." src="http://adata.attraction.se/Telia/buss14/09-Utskick_v15/images/erbj4.jpg" border=0></A></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <DIV style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: #505050; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif">Vill du inte få fler erbjudanden från Telia till denna epostadress, <A style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: #cf0566; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif" href="http://www.anp.se/oa/250386/4342584B72474751437243465143" target=_blank>klicka här »</A></DIV></TD></TR></TABLE></BODY></HTML> <img border=0 width=1 height=1 src="http://www.anp.se/Clicks.asp?sqid=250386&sid=124849854&pf_action=View&pf_Link=">Wow - it is like a time machine to 1996. MSHTML did supposedly generate it.
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ThoughWorks Free Seminars in Stockholm
2009-04-07 ThoughtWorks will give two free seminars at Berns Tuesday April 21 2009.
The morning one is given by me and will be on the business value of agile and lean, and how it can be the competitive advantage in difficult times.
In the afternoon my colleague Zack Exley will give a behind-the-scenes look at the technological side of the Barack Obama campaign.
Both of the talks will be kicked off by our chairman Roy Singham who will give his view on why he believes Scandinavia has a great future in the software development world.
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Simple beats complicated
2009-04-05 Peter Krantz sent this clip from a Capoeira fight (rating: violent) which I see as a really good analogy for XP’s YAGNI and the simplest thing that could possibly work.
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ThoughtWorks Hosts A Track and Speaks At Scandinavian Developer Conference
2009-01-22 
ThoughtWorks cohosting and speaking at the Emerging Technologies track at the Scandinavian Developer Conference. Ola will speak about JRuby and I will give a presentation with a title stolen from XP: ‘The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work’.
It is a one day conference which I am really looking forward to - Kent Beck keynoting is reason enough to be there. See the full program here.
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ThoughtWorks Sweden Gets A Roommate
2009-01-13 ThoughtWorks Sweden will move in with our great friends at Agical at the end of this month. Our new address will be
ThoughtWorks Sweden Västerlånggatan 79 2tr 111 29 Stockholm Sweden
Personally it will be the first time I have an office in Old Town - cool.
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Playing to win, culture style
2009-01-12 This Saturdays edition of Dagens Industri had a really interesting column by Jan Åman, former curator of Färgfabriken. He writes about how you can either move forward or secure your back, and how the world is run by people watching their backs and making sure that decisions can never be questioned.
It is very close my favorite XP slogan “playing to win” and what I talk about in my presentation on Agile Documentation. A good read, but unfortunately only in the paper edition.
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Quoted in Computer Sweden
2008-12-17 I am quoted in todays issue of Computer Sweden on BDD. It is a well written article even if I do not agree with Emil Gustafssons quote in the end where he states that BDD doesn’t bring that much new things to the table. I think that people looking at BDD for the first time might perceive it as such, but I must say that there is a clear difference in both approach and outcome.
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Agile Sweden Christmas Party
2008-12-09 The Agile Sweden annual christmas party is on Thursday at the Agical office. The evening will kick off with a few lightning talks, of which I am doing one. My talk is titled “The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work” and will discuss how XP’s value of simplicity has more or less been forgotten as agile has gone mainstream.