Thoughts

Yesterday I started to look into a problem I have been dealing with for a very long time. Over the years I have built things on my website in bursts and when time permits. As I have not followed any real structure in naming and as the platform has changed, things have been broken. As a result, I have a hefty technical debt on my hands and I have hesitated to dig into it because I have not had any plan on how to improve. Until yesterday. Yesterday I started to work on a new schema in assets, just

I have been working on the site a bit in the past few weeks, and most of it is small changes. Despite that, these are changes that really has been bothering me that I needed to get adjusted. Some of these changes are on the details side, but most are on the larger architecture side. I am now updating a lot of content as a result. Moving from categories to filters One of the big changes is that I have moved from categories and started to use filters more. There are still plenty of categories, of

It has been a while since I sat down and wrote here on my personal blog. It is partly because between work and the never ending saga of trying to get my father's passing documented with the different Swedish government entities, but there are other reasons as well. One such reason is that I have been very tired as this spring and summer has been very difficult from a pollen perspective. All of these things combined has meant that I have a lot less energy than I usually have. Despite that, howeve

This week was a good week. I had a good meeting with my managers about managing time and expectations, and then I started to enroll in a new project. I also started the internal training I have prepared for my colleague, and I got a fair bit of work done on the presentation for the webinar I will host later this month. I also had two meeting with Atlassian that were very productive, and even the internal meetings at work felt more productive for some reason. This weekend I have slept well, and y

Product Manager own the product while the product owner manage it. Scrum Manager work both towards management and the team and everyone is an engineer, but have no scientific approach to anything they do. Sometimes I feel that the world has gone mad and that titles as well as words are used without logic or even thought sometimes. A Product Owner, owns the product. A Product Manager, manages the product. It is defined in the titles themselves... A Scrum Manager is just a manager in a fake Sc

This week I started my new position as Atlassian Architect for Sii Sweden, an Atlassian Platinum partner, after a lightning fast interview phase. It has been quite the interesting week with onboarding and getting to know the massive organization that Sii International is. I am now working from a new location in Stockholm that I do not have been to very much, so it is interesting to explore the area as well. Some of you might know that I have been looking for a new employer after QRIOS decided to

You would think that becoming exponentially better at measuring and anticipating risks is something most organizations would spend time and money on. Especially since it is the core of making sure we create value from our work and to manage our financials as an organization. Just as we as a society benefit from learning from history so we can avoid wars and cultural destruction as well as genocide, surely we as organizations would emphasize on preventing disasters, both long term and short term

We have been told to think outside the box for so long, so maybe we are forgetting how to think INSIDE the box? We placed things in the box for a reason, but maybe we have forgotten why we did it in the first place? If we always think outside the box, why do we have the box at all and does that strange box we are supposed to think outside actually exist anymore? Personally I think the only thing that matters is that we THINK, regardless if it is inside or outside the box. Don't just do witho

If your goal is to build a road to the future where your vision is aimed, why do you insist on keep digging holes where you stand? What makes less sense is why you compare the speed with which you are digging those holes instead of measuring how far the road towards your vision you are getting? Unless your road to success is a hole straight to hell, perhaps it would make sense to lift your gaze towards the horizon instead of staring down at your feel at the bottom of the hole you are so franti