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My Personal Blog


“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

Take back control of common sense

By 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
DevOps should not need to be implemented, it should be the norm. An agile mindset should just be common sense. What you need to focus on is understanding and respect in 2025 so you can build a holistic governance organization that can capture all the amazing ideas on how to work better holistically together.

Put the ready-made frameworks and methodologies you have floating around in all their bastardized forms aside and start building your own methodologies today.

No buzzwords.

No Made up roles or rituals.

Just take what works, name it after what it does and learn more about your co-workers need across your organization.

Ge those egos in check and start looking out for everyone and not just yourselves. Build that trust that you can spend time and energy looking out for others because you know they will do the same for you.

Take back control of common sense and apply it to your ways of working and start looking at your problems and opportunities from a holistic perspective!
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Projects are not that difficult

By 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
If you are running a project, then you use Project Management as the method. If you run multiple projects, then you run Program Management as a method. If you run continuous deliveries for a product or service, then you use product/service management as a methodology.

If you write code in either of those, then you use whatever method you want that fit whatever framework you have selected. Your work is the same, and it is only the level of detailed requirement and time restrictions that are different.

If you estimate correctly, then the management format should be irrelevant for you. If you can't estimate or work with requirements, then projects will feel like hell on earth and most likely fail.

This is not rocket science and if you want to be really good at your work, make sure you become an expert in working in project format because continuous deliveries will automatically be easy at the same time.

Don't blame projects for your lack of competence in estimation and working with requirement in a fixed delivery setting. Learn it, or continue to let everyone involved to suffer.

It really is that easy.
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If you are focusing on Customer First, then you are focusing on the wrong thing

By 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
If you are running a project, then you use Project Management as the method. If you run multiple projects, then you run Program Management as a method. If you run continuous deliveries for a product or service, then you use product/service management as a methodology.

If you write code in either of those, then you use whatever method you want that fit whatever framework you have selected. Your work is the same, and it is only the level of detailed requirement and time restrictions that are different.

If you estimate correctly, then the management format should be irrelevant for you. If you can't estimate or work with requirements, then projects will feel like hell on earth and most likely fail.

This is not rocket science and if you want to be really good at your work, make sure you become an expert in working in project format because continuous deliveries will automatically be easy at the same time.

Don't blame projects for your lack of competence in estimation and working with requirement in a fixed delivery setting. Learn it, or continue to let everyone involved to suffer.

It really is that easy.
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In a toxic workplace honesty is punished and silence is rewarded

By 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
In a toxic workplace honesty is punished and silence is rewarded. In a toxic workplace your reaction to other's disrespect makes you the problem. If you speak up, then you are considered problematic, and you are branded as disloyal.

If you are feeling that you must stay silent to avoid being branded as problematic or disloyal, that is a toxic workplace. If you feel that you must reduce yourself so you do not threaten others ego under the guise of the company mantra that you should be "easy to work with", then you are in a toxic workplace.

If you are bullied to change your language to avoid hurting someone's feelings, even when the words you use are not intended to hurt, then you are being censored and disrespected, and you are in a toxic workplace.

If other people are valued more than you based on their gender, color of their skin, culture or any other generic trait, then you are in a toxic workplace. Your value comes from within and if that is not the fact in your workplace, then it is a toxic workplace.

Bad leadership fear honesty and toxic workplaces thrive in silence. Fear is not commitment or loyalty and disrespect disguised as kindness is not company culture.

It is abuse.

If you have the option to find another workplace, do it as quickly as you can. If leaving is not an option, then find help outside the organization and do whatever you need to survive during working hours.

Be safe and never accept that the price for loyalty, or respect, is the loss of your voice.

You deserve better than that.

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As a developer you have no authority to make decisions

By 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
As a developer you have no authority to make decisions for the service or product that you are assigned to. If you expect to have such authority, then you will most likely be disappointed in your professional career.

The reason why you have no authority to make decision is not because you do not have the expertise required to make decisions, it is because you do not have the financial responsibility.

As an expert you are providing your opinions on how you think a service or product should best be improved from a technical perspective. The person who have the financial responsibility choose if they want to listen to your opinions or not.

I know that some people that work in Agile framework like to claim that the work is done by one team where everyone is equal, but unless everyone in the team are standing in front of the people that assign the budget, then that is not true.

There is always one person who own the financial responsibility for the product or service to generate value. That means that one person always have to balance your salary against new development because if the new development does not generate more value than your cost, then sooner or later you will get fired for lack of funding.

This fact does not mean you are not very important or that many financial owners will listen to your opinions unopposed. Just know that while you get your opinions actionable, you are never the one making the actual decision.

...and that is a good thing.
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There is no such thing as a Jira Developer or Jira Engineer

By 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
Dear recruiters, there is no such thing as a Jira Developer or Jira Engineer. Jira, all of them, are no-code products and there exist no code editing in them. Using those terms just display that the organization you are recruiting to are immature users of Atlassian products.

All the jobs that I have seen where these roles have been used fall into three actual roles:

Add-on Developer - They develop add-ons for Jira and other Atlassian products using Forge. Ask for a Forge Developer.

Programmers using Add-ons - This is very common, and I see a lot of requests for Groovy programming in ScriptRunner for example. Ask for a Groovy programmer with specific add-on experience.

General Developers building integrations with Jira - This is done by connecting the Jira API with another system to exchange data between the systems. Ask for a developer with API and Jira experience.

None of these change any code in Jira.

So please use proper titles for the roles, and you will get the correct profiles to your job listings. Asking for developers to a no-code product, or even go as far as to throw the Engineer suffix that does not mean anything does not help you get the right people for the job.
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Path of Exile 2 early access

By 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
While I am still playing Diablo 4, Diablo 3 and The First Descendant, I plan to join the Path of Exile 2 early access as soon as I get back from Dublin. While I have a love-hate relation with Path of Exile, I will give Path of Exile a fair chance and see how I like it. One of the main reasons is that a friend of mine is also thinking to try it, and it would be fun to play together!
I am one of those players that don’t need to purchase early access as I have spent enough money on the game in the past, so I can just download the game and get into it once I get home. This should keep me occupied for a while, which is good since I feel a bit unfocused right now and could use something to focus on for a while.
Path of Exile 2 looks like it can be great fun, even if it still a massive game that require a ton of time to learn all the mechanics. It is “simpler” than Path of Exile in that there are many things that have been removed or reworked, like skill gems. The skill tree is still massive, but you can now respec much easier, which makes experimentation much easier.
So I guess we’ll see how I will like this new Path of Exile because my current feeling about the original Path of Exile game is that it is a bit repetitive, and I am no fan of having to spend days trying to research a build, or download additional programs to plan a build before I even get started. I hope that Path of Exile 2 and the new systems for respec and so on will feel better in that regard.
We’ll see what happens once I start playing, but I have a good feeling about it!
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Time to measure everything regarding health

By 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
Last night I decided to connect all the devices I have for measuring health to my health app. It is a bit overdue, but I just got the lancets for measuring my blood sugar this week and my wife has been a bit protective regarding her blood pressure cuffs. I also connected our Scales again to get weight measurements, since I seem to have gained a lot of weight recently when switching medication.
Connecting my blood sugar test unit directly to my mobile phone was super ease and now that I have lancets I will start doing multiple readings a day, just to get some data going. Since I am new to Diabetes this will be interesting to do over a longer period of time, especially since the different brands of Metformin that I use seem to have different effects. I aim to try to measure blood sugar 3 times a day now, in the morning, after lunch and before bedtime.
Connecting the scale was also not very difficult, but I think it is time to get a new one as we have had this one for almost a decade now. It does not seem to connect to the profiles for some reason, but that is ok for now. I will measure weight every morning for consistency and while the actual weight is less important, it is a good indicator of overall health.
Lastly I will use a blood pressure cuff to measure blood pressure since it is a bit high. Fortunately it is dropping from the measurements I have done so far, so it is going in the right direction so far at least, even if it is a bit high still. Once I get back to the gym I should see better results and I have also reduced salt quite a bit recently.
It will be interesting to gather all of these metrics for a while and see what activities affect what metric over time.
Today’s values are:
Blood Pressure: 131/87
Weight: 116,5
Blood sugar: 9.7
Heart rate: 73
Sleep: 6h 53m
Sleep Quality: 72
Overall feeling: Sluggish and my neck is still blocked.
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Good health, but with potential to improve

By 💫 Jimi Wikman ·
Yesterday I went on a checkup for my diabetes to see how it has improved since I got the diagnosis back in May. I also received the result of my testing for prostate cancer that everyone in Stockholm can test for once they turn 50. I tested for prostate cancer and took a long time sugar test on Wednesday, which was superfast and done by one of the most skilled nurses I have ever met.
When I was diagnosed with diabetes I had 108 in long time sugar and 15.2 in glucose, which is pretty high. The test done this week show a long time sugar value of 43 and a glucose of 8.3. This means that my long time sugar are in line with what I should have (31-46), but my sugar was a bit high as I had just had breakfast. This should improve further as I get back to exercising again and as my long term stress from work subsides and is purged from my body.
My blood pressure is high though, and I have a follow-up on that in a few weeks when I will also set a plan for exercise with the diabetes nurse. With 140/100 in blood pressure I am quite high and when I was in the emergency room I had 135/93, so I need to address that. Exercise is of course one easy way to address this, but I also will stop adding salt to my food, which I am doing way too much. I am also going to stop eating licorice, which I love a bit too much.
Overall though I am in a fairly good place, but I need to get out of the chair a bit more. So I am getting back to the gym, and I am going to start swimming to see how that feels. As always I will continue with my walks, but I will increase the frequency a bit. I will make another update about that in a later blog post.

As for my test for prostate cancer, which I have been a little apprehensive about as we have it in the family, that came back normal. So all is well there, at least for now.
All in all, I am not doing to bad, but it is time to get a little bit busy again!
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