It's this time a year again... Modprod Linköping 2011 is coming up.
I think that we in the Modprod board have managed to put together a rather interesting program.
Hopefully we see each other during the two days or maybe at the evening dinner even?
More info and registration at http://www.modprod.liu.se/
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torsdag 20 januari 2011
onsdag 24 november 2010
This. That.
Had a busy day today, the board meeting at the University went well and the speaker-list for Modprod 2011 is getting really close to release. From that straight back to SAAB and host a section in a training program. It’s always difficult to talk about a large subject in a very short slot but at least they know who to contact now. And then back to business which was semi-successful, but there’s always a tomorrow.
It’s interesting to observe how different personalities tackle a large scale development project. Some projects can be like inventing a new sport while playing it, without a referee. Some people go full throttle and play and try to learn as they go along, realize that without a rule-book short-cuts and quick uninformed decisions can sometimes be necessary to achieve the goal and win. Some people just sit on the ground and refuse to play until someone shows them all rules, nuances and a referee. Of course there’s a grey area in between all that black and white but sometimes I don’t really understand the person tapping out before the game even start.
It’s interesting to observe how different personalities tackle a large scale development project. Some projects can be like inventing a new sport while playing it, without a referee. Some people go full throttle and play and try to learn as they go along, realize that without a rule-book short-cuts and quick uninformed decisions can sometimes be necessary to achieve the goal and win. Some people just sit on the ground and refuse to play until someone shows them all rules, nuances and a referee. Of course there’s a grey area in between all that black and white but sometimes I don’t really understand the person tapping out before the game even start.
måndag 22 november 2010
Sands of time
Been difficult to find time to blog during the last couple of months, maybe it has something to do with priorities.
Last week we arranged an interesting seminar on lean and agile here in Linköping, Göteborg is still to come so go ahead and sign up on www.knowit.se/lean and be sure to ask some tricky questions.
So far the assignment at SAAB Aeronautics has been a really interesting journey. I’ve gained a lot of insight with regards to Scrum for larger industrial projects, and I’ve gained some confirmations on theories I’ve been juggling with before. Having worked with organizations and “processes” all over the scale I have to say that so far Scrum has proven, at least, to be the most fun. And when it comes to building teams and creating momentum for delivery it hasn’t really disappointed yet. Or maybe it’s because there are a lot of quite awesome engineers at SAAB?
On Wednesday it’s time for another board meeting with Modprod, http://www.modprod.liu.se/ , at Linköping University. February and conference time is closing in pretty fast so it’s time to dig in and execute all actions to bring it home.
In January we are turning a page here at Know IT Technology Management in Linköping. It will be really interesting to see how 2011 pans out, after the board of directors meeting we had together with the Göteborg and Stockholm office last week I feel a bit rejuvenated though, a slice of energy was well-needed during this exceptionally gray November.
Last week we arranged an interesting seminar on lean and agile here in Linköping, Göteborg is still to come so go ahead and sign up on www.knowit.se/lean and be sure to ask some tricky questions.
So far the assignment at SAAB Aeronautics has been a really interesting journey. I’ve gained a lot of insight with regards to Scrum for larger industrial projects, and I’ve gained some confirmations on theories I’ve been juggling with before. Having worked with organizations and “processes” all over the scale I have to say that so far Scrum has proven, at least, to be the most fun. And when it comes to building teams and creating momentum for delivery it hasn’t really disappointed yet. Or maybe it’s because there are a lot of quite awesome engineers at SAAB?
On Wednesday it’s time for another board meeting with Modprod, http://www.modprod.liu.se/ , at Linköping University. February and conference time is closing in pretty fast so it’s time to dig in and execute all actions to bring it home.
In January we are turning a page here at Know IT Technology Management in Linköping. It will be really interesting to see how 2011 pans out, after the board of directors meeting we had together with the Göteborg and Stockholm office last week I feel a bit rejuvenated though, a slice of energy was well-needed during this exceptionally gray November.
torsdag 11 februari 2010
Modprod 2010
So Modprod 2010 has come to an end and as last year I enjoyed the conference. Besides the obvious networking, highlights for me were the Requirements Modeling session with Kristian and the keynote by Hilding on Modellica for embedded systems. With regards to “our” performance I’ve only heard positive feeback on Gunilla’s tutorial “MBSE in a Lean context” and I think my 20-minute talk on Information Platforms was ok but next time I will put more emphasis on “what” rather than “why”.
During Kristian’s session we had a discussion around the difference between abstraction and design… arguably sometimes obvious but still he drew a quick example serving as a good mental reminder.
Regardless how obvious it is what’s abstraction and what’s design above I think mistakes are common in practice.
During Kristian’s session we had a discussion around the difference between abstraction and design… arguably sometimes obvious but still he drew a quick example serving as a good mental reminder.
Regardless how obvious it is what’s abstraction and what’s design above I think mistakes are common in practice.
tisdag 9 februari 2010
Modprod Day 1
... is coming to an end.
Interesting day and the tutorial on requirements modeling was a positive suprise... might come back to some details when I'm back on Thursday.
http://www.modprod.liu.se/
Interesting day and the tutorial on requirements modeling was a positive suprise... might come back to some details when I'm back on Thursday.
http://www.modprod.liu.se/
torsdag 21 januari 2010
Early weekend
Slow week on the far side of the blog busy nevertheless. Modprod is closing in and the message in my talk is getting there…
Reviewed a presentation from a colleague earlier this week and found two topics extra interesting in his talk; the evolution of PD connected to the market-development and the “architecture” of agile.
Seen similar slides before but liked how these where packaged.
Maybe something I will get back to here after some further discussion.
Thinking/working/sweating a lot in the context of marketing during the start of this year, maybe I should just do what Jack does?
Well time to get packing for that Åre-trip, packing is best served together with Teddybears STHML.
Crank it up high cause "them drum machines ain't got no soul" (thanks for the tip Tomas).
/ Out.
Reviewed a presentation from a colleague earlier this week and found two topics extra interesting in his talk; the evolution of PD connected to the market-development and the “architecture” of agile.
Seen similar slides before but liked how these where packaged.
Maybe something I will get back to here after some further discussion.
Thinking/working/sweating a lot in the context of marketing during the start of this year, maybe I should just do what Jack does?
Well time to get packing for that Åre-trip, packing is best served together with Teddybears STHML.
Crank it up high cause "them drum machines ain't got no soul" (thanks for the tip Tomas).
/ Out.
tisdag 15 december 2009
Busy bee
Busy day today, a lot of meetings crammed in this final full week prior to Christmas. Will host an, hopefully, interesting talk on network design on Thursday. It will be fun to speak about one of my old expert competencies, especially when there’s a little twist to it.
Also time to ramp up the work with regards to my MODPROD talk, which will be a perfect task for the days in between holidays this year.
I’ve also started up some quite interesting activities with regards to the Linköping office… hopefully to be disclosed soon enough.
The supplier dynamics thread started up last week seems to be going in a good direction… if you just get the ball started anything is possible. Oh that last bit came out with extra cheese on top.
Also time to ramp up the work with regards to my MODPROD talk, which will be a perfect task for the days in between holidays this year.
I’ve also started up some quite interesting activities with regards to the Linköping office… hopefully to be disclosed soon enough.
The supplier dynamics thread started up last week seems to be going in a good direction… if you just get the ball started anything is possible. Oh that last bit came out with extra cheese on top.
tisdag 1 december 2009
Registration is open
Yesterday the draft program for the coming MODPROD conference was released along with the online registration site.
So if you'd like to hear me talk about information platforms or maybe learn Lean from my manager Gunilla go ahead and sign up already.
MODPROD 2010
So if you'd like to hear me talk about information platforms or maybe learn Lean from my manager Gunilla go ahead and sign up already.
MODPROD 2010
fredag 20 november 2009
A little bit of this
Board meeting with Modprod this morning and it went well. The agenda for the conference in February next year start to look really promising, ticket-system should be up and running next week. Recommend anyone interested in model-based development, or just development, to check it out.
Think I need to start Kanban myself soon as well, got a lot of different small ventures going on and successful multithreading is a must at this point otherwise I will be late with everything and become deadline, FOFI, driven (which in a sense is just-in-time so perhaps I should… …).
Oh that’s right, played an “agile” business value game together with Responsive on Wednesday evening. It was a fun exercise and definitely worth doing together with product managers, architects or just interested people. Basically you got some direct clues to the dynamics of making strategic decisions based on business value… and what that is.
Well not a lot of technical stuff today, more management. Guess next week will be more on the T side of the scale though when writing down all the juicy stuff with regards to xtUML in automotive… feel really good about this one, the 2-day crash-course-insight into Bridgepoint just added fuel to my fire.
Have a good one.
It’s Friday, if you’ve got extra time on your hands spend them on Demetri Martin, thanks TH. For his show “If I” you need a lot of extra time on those hands but it is worth it in the end, or you could just listen to him on Spotify. Because the unexamined life is not worth living. Man.
måndag 9 november 2009
A no escape conference
The presentation submitted JIT a couple of weeks ago with respect to Modprod 2010 just got accepted. This means I have to transform that beta-caterpillar into some sort of insect. A lot of time left but I love the fact that the pressure is on, there is no escape: We have to formulate a message and not just keep it in our heads.
So in Feb 2010 you can see me discuss how to build leverage for model-based systems engineering… and why we should bother.
Modprod Conference 2010
So in Feb 2010 you can see me discuss how to build leverage for model-based systems engineering… and why we should bother.
Modprod Conference 2010
fredag 23 oktober 2009
Industry participation
A very nice ending to a pleasant work-week.
Visited the board meeting for Modprod during the morning (and got ÅFF-cake) and after a presentation of Know IT TM and what we do, what I do and would like to do I got called in (Sv. adjungerad) into the board of directors for Modprod. The rest of the meeting was very interesting and I learned about OPENPROD which was new to me. Now I just have to meet the deadline next week for the Call for presentations.
During the afternoon some colleguages and I wrapped up a LOTS-analysis we started a week before with regards to a Vinnova-project we are involved in. The most important part was the short term actions which from my end looks really promising.
Don't know how but in between it all I managed to have some sort of philosophical discussion about death, shoes and what not with an old friend from the sunny side of Sweden.
"...'cause here we go again"
Visited the board meeting for Modprod during the morning (and got ÅFF-cake) and after a presentation of Know IT TM and what we do, what I do and would like to do I got called in (Sv. adjungerad) into the board of directors for Modprod. The rest of the meeting was very interesting and I learned about OPENPROD which was new to me. Now I just have to meet the deadline next week for the Call for presentations.
During the afternoon some colleguages and I wrapped up a LOTS-analysis we started a week before with regards to a Vinnova-project we are involved in. The most important part was the short term actions which from my end looks really promising.
Don't know how but in between it all I managed to have some sort of philosophical discussion about death, shoes and what not with an old friend from the sunny side of Sweden.
"...'cause here we go again"
onsdag 21 oktober 2009
Interception
Jets threw 6 interceptions vs Bills on Sunday. How is that even possible in NFL? And no, I'm not gonna do some cheezy reference to product development now. It's that bad.
The INCOSE/MODPROD seminar yesterday was interesting. I’ve heard most of the keynote with regards to Modelica before but some repetition is always nice, and I didn’t know about the effort to integrate it with Autosar into Modelisar (one more link). Even though I have never worked with Modelica I have done some exercises and I kind of like the acasual equation-style modeling.
Following the keynote there were three small talks from the INCOSE conference in Singapore earlier this year. The most interesting one was about model-based technical planning using SysML. Interesting enough for me to try to find the paper behind the presentation and read some more. I admit that I’m not sold on the concept but it is a new angle to a Gantt-heavy discipline.
The afternoon was spent in workshops and our group discussed systems engineering from a process perspective. Our group were quite small which made room for interesting discussions about everything from CMMi to Lean (and of course the mandatory question “what is systems engineering”).
With regards to Speeds I am not any wiser, contracts-based engineering with assumptions and promises looks ok but I think I would start to change other things first...
Anyhow, interesting day and the EuSEC in May 2010 might be worth visiting.
6 interceptions?! Gasp.
The INCOSE/MODPROD seminar yesterday was interesting. I’ve heard most of the keynote with regards to Modelica before but some repetition is always nice, and I didn’t know about the effort to integrate it with Autosar into Modelisar (one more link). Even though I have never worked with Modelica I have done some exercises and I kind of like the acasual equation-style modeling.
Following the keynote there were three small talks from the INCOSE conference in Singapore earlier this year. The most interesting one was about model-based technical planning using SysML. Interesting enough for me to try to find the paper behind the presentation and read some more. I admit that I’m not sold on the concept but it is a new angle to a Gantt-heavy discipline.
The afternoon was spent in workshops and our group discussed systems engineering from a process perspective. Our group were quite small which made room for interesting discussions about everything from CMMi to Lean (and of course the mandatory question “what is systems engineering”).
With regards to Speeds I am not any wiser, contracts-based engineering with assumptions and promises looks ok but I think I would start to change other things first...
Anyhow, interesting day and the EuSEC in May 2010 might be worth visiting.
6 interceptions?! Gasp.
måndag 19 oktober 2009
Speeds
Just finished reading a white-paper on Speeds, the idea is of course good but I remain skeptical. To integrate different development environments and modelling tools is sometimes seen as the holy grail but to do it for just one company is hard enough, to do a one-size fits all... we'll I don't know. Especially since we have different tools with different semantics for different purposes, when you connect them you will always have semantic conflicts that can only be solved by interfering with the original idea of the tool.
The other part about Speeds I'm having some issues with is the idea to provide a "working" process accompanied with methods. Usually the process becomes a goal on its own and it won't take long until a big organization has staff dedicated to just that process, to maintain it, to educate, to adapt etc.
The upside is that tomorrow I will get a chance to hear a speech about Speeds and ask some questions. Maybe I'll be a bit wiser and less skeptical after that, who knows?
The other part about Speeds I'm having some issues with is the idea to provide a "working" process accompanied with methods. Usually the process becomes a goal on its own and it won't take long until a big organization has staff dedicated to just that process, to maintain it, to educate, to adapt etc.
The upside is that tomorrow I will get a chance to hear a speech about Speeds and ask some questions. Maybe I'll be a bit wiser and less skeptical after that, who knows?
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