Reflections from a CIO in a medium-sized company in Norway
Posted in Developement on jan 21st, 2013
99x Technology is facilitating the Colombo Agile Conference in January. They asked me if I could give a short input on the benefits of Agile, from a customer point of view. One of my main responsibilities as a CIO has been to develop the internal application that supports the core of our business. The last [...]
Posted in Project Management on mai 17th, 2011
It was wonderful to meet the team again, and we’re all very eager to get going on this journey adapting to Scrum. I’m staying for two weeks, and at the end of the workshop we will do our first real Sprint Planning meeting. And from that point on, there’s no turning back. Bridges [...]
Posted in Project Management on mai 14th, 2011
SCRUM has been on the agenda for a couple of decades now, and it’s now walking through my door as well. I’m on my way for a 2-week workshop with my team in Sri Lanka. The last 5 years, developement has pretty much been based on the traditional waterfall-project-management style. Being a small team (4-5 [...]
Posted in Strategy on jun 5th, 2010
Sitter her en lørdag morgen med en lang dag foran meg. Vi jobber med å oppgradere websiden for Xtra personell, og mens utviklerne driver med sitt har jeg noen lommer av tid for refleksjon som jeg vil dele via denne bloggen. Verden har i sannhet blitt liten. 3 utviklere sitter i Colombo, Sri Lanka, og [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on apr 8th, 2010
En god del av hverdagen min består i å jobbe med et team tusenvis av kilometer unna. Siden 2006 har jeg hatt et team på 4 stykker som har jobbet fulltid for meg – i Colombo, Sri Lanka. Hvordan kom jeg på å gjøre dette? Da jeg ble presentert idèen for 5 år siden, var [...]