Leaving the trees behind

Off I go to Gothenburg and the west coast tomorrow; it’s time to talk at the IBC Euroforum conference “Electronics in vehicles”. If anything it will at least be nice to see some old colleagues from Volvo and meet my current Know IT ones.


Besides the very nice assignment at SAAB there’s currently a lot of Know IT business development going on, particularly I’m keeping myself occupied with some ideas around agile development as well as technology management for less mature (in terms of electronics and software) organizations. The space and time for these kinds of discussions and concept evolution is one of things I really like about KIT TM. Oh and not to forget the thread around MDA.

As far as Android goes the time for playing around with Eclipse and the SDK is rather rare but I have been able to play a bit reading sensor data. Besides the serious discussions around apps that I have with a Gbg-buddy of mine I’m keen to try something around augmented reality (after first talking a bit with Torkel and then checking out some demos on youtube).

Serious Android

Got a nice e-mail from one of my good friends back in Gothenburg today, he had some interesting and serious suggestions for Android apps (that he’s planning to realize on iPhone). We’ll see where this ends.

Next week it’s finally time for IBC. Been iterating the presentation for a while now and starting to go around in circles a bit, the final pieces will fall into place while talking I’m sure.

The last couple of days I’ve been getting acquainted with Q as well. Maybe not the most pleasant experience but in the end it gets the job done. Or at least it might. The interesting part though is to see if we can auto-generate necessary input straight from a SysML model.

Additionally I had a brief e-mail discussion with a colleague in Gothenburg about xtUML, code generation and model verification. Good to see that xtUML is getting some attention around the block; I definitely think there are some goodies to collect there. Hopefully I’ll have a chance to continue that dialogue this week since he had some follow-up questions on CM.

Well, time to open Eclipse.

Powerpoint evening

Extrapolating a couple of presentations around Vehicle Software and Electronics Management and information modeling, IBC Euroforum is closing in pretty fast.

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One interesting thing about my current assignment is the chance to work in an agile architecture team. I’ve been trying in previous assignments to influence teams in that direction (or Lean, but anyhow away from “Taylor”) without too much success unfortunately. Some might argue that Scrum isn’t the perfect fit for architecture teams but at least it is framework that brings a lot more positive momentum than the normal head-on document-centric waterfall.

Lean some more...

... if you want to know more about system architecture at Scania you can also visit IBC Euroforum in April where Staffan is one of the speakers...

IBC Conference

Another conference confirmed. In April I will talk at the “Electronics in Automotive” conference hosted by IBC Euroforum in Gothenburg. Maybe I’ll see you there?