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.

In i kaklet

With Christmas literally just around the corner I am still working with some things I would like to get done as soon as possible. At the moment I’m involved in some marketing tasks and I enjoy it because you have to figure out what to get across, what you actually do (not to be underestimated) and whom you’re doing it for. It also gives me a chance to go through and make an inventory about all the different areas we work with.


And if everything fails, just do what Jack from 30 Rock would do...

• Liz Lemon: Why are you wearing a tux?
• Jack: It's after 6 o'clock Lemon. What am I, a farmer?

November rain

Still wet, still November, though this morning I felt awesome riding my 7 clicks to work. The Koss on, playing some sort of soundtrack to my life, and as we now thanks to Tom Rowland it is music that triggers some kind of response.

Well the chemical bro in my ears made me creative and I got some good ”uppslag” (not the kind of uppslag translated into centerfold) with regards to my Vinnova work.

I’ll see if I can play in some of those ideas as questions at the training in xtUML and Bridgepoint that will start here at the office in about 30 minutes. If you run you can make it. As you know I’ve taken a keen interest to xtUML and it will be very interesting to hear the tool vendor’s perspective as new input.

Also, strangely enough, I miss Volvo Cars a bit this morning. There is something special about setting up a large international project as we did in 05/06. Hard work, lots of travel, tons of politics and great fun (at least in retrospect 2 years later). Most of all I miss, this morning, that creative but also conflict-filled mix of cultures working with engineers and managers from different countries. Perhaps it is because I’m on a solo mission at the moment and any conflict in my “team” could be classed as some sort of delusion.

"That's what I'm talking about,
empathy. It's about as useless as the Winter Olympics ...
This February on NBC."