New assignment always means busy times so the blog suffer a bit. Really nice assignment though so I’ll live with that. A lot of things going on at the same time; just the way I like it.
Tomorrow it’s time for our Lean seminar to finalize the mini-tour around Sweden with a stop here in Linköping. I’ve been working quite a bit with the seminar the past months so it will be great to see the result of all efforts. From what I’ve heard the Gothenburg-session was a success.
onsdag 10 mars 2010
onsdag 3 mars 2010
Building an aircraft
Starting a new assignment today at exactly 1245 at SAAB (not the Spyker-kind but the flying-kind) and I’m really looking forward to it. It will be a nice change of pace compared to the more research-oriented Vinnova-projects I’ve been involved in recently.
Unfortunately I don’t think I will able to blog about basically anything I do over the coming months, being very secret and all… but since I will keep one foot going in both our architecture and MBSE group I’m sure there will be stuff to share and discuss.
Additionally you can look forward to some guest-blogging around both DCI and Lean from Mats and Gunilla. The pressure is on.
Unfortunately I don’t think I will able to blog about basically anything I do over the coming months, being very secret and all… but since I will keep one foot going in both our architecture and MBSE group I’m sure there will be stuff to share and discuss.
Additionally you can look forward to some guest-blogging around both DCI and Lean from Mats and Gunilla. The pressure is on.
tisdag 2 mars 2010
Someone did think about it...
I had a short chat with my friend Tomas, who is majoring in philosophy, today. Really appreciate the discussions with him since he is pure from any R&D-baggage… an untainted soul.
Basically he had some remarks on the two rationalization options in the previous post (one could argue that those two lines are generalizations of Lean and agile) and basically he questioned why there wasn’t a third line stating
Well maybe it is a general and obvious statement but definitely a line worth discussing because sometimes we tend to focus too much on ready-made plans, available tool-boxes and methods… and somewhere down the line forget sense and reason.
Basically he had some remarks on the two rationalization options in the previous post (one could argue that those two lines are generalizations of Lean and agile) and basically he questioned why there wasn’t a third line stating
- Rationalization through sense and reason – Rational rationalization
Well maybe it is a general and obvious statement but definitely a line worth discussing because sometimes we tend to focus too much on ready-made plans, available tool-boxes and methods… and somewhere down the line forget sense and reason.
måndag 1 mars 2010
Something to think about...
A quick glimpse of what I’m currently working with, taken from a Peter & Peter meeting minute:
- Rationalization through quality – the law
- Rationalization through adaption – the team
Gives you something to think about, doesn't it?
tisdag 23 februari 2010
Puzzling
Slow week blog-wise but a lot of activity going on. Besides putting all the pieces of the puzzle together before diving into my new assignment I’ve managed to cram in some work on both xtUML and agile architecture.
So here I am listening to Seven Nation Army and writing an RUP-inspired explanation to how architecture and “agile” can connect. As a piece of this process a comparison of Lean and agile make sense… however when reading articles around the web things makes less and less sense… seems as the parties on either side of the imaginary fence try to advocate the opposite’s similarities where beneficial…
Or agile is the wrong word, the current focus in mind is Scrum.
An interesting observation is that the architecture mindset that I have fit quite well with Lean philosophies but when discussing it in terms of Scrum it is hard not to make patches and adaptations to the frame-work…
So here I am listening to Seven Nation Army and writing an RUP-inspired explanation to how architecture and “agile” can connect. As a piece of this process a comparison of Lean and agile make sense… however when reading articles around the web things makes less and less sense… seems as the parties on either side of the imaginary fence try to advocate the opposite’s similarities where beneficial…
Or agile is the wrong word, the current focus in mind is Scrum.
An interesting observation is that the architecture mindset that I have fit quite well with Lean philosophies but when discussing it in terms of Scrum it is hard not to make patches and adaptations to the frame-work…
tisdag 16 februari 2010
Architecture for Lean and agile organizations
Yesterday I was in Gothenburg for a very long but productive meeting together with Peter^2. We started out time-boxing our day with the clear goal to get something useful down on paper. The focus was on Lean and agile (or actually just Scrum and not everything “agile”) and in what direction we would like to see architecture go. At the end of the day I think we have something good cooking now and the rest is pure make-up (well almost). It's about time I would say since we have discussed this for so long now.
It would be fun if we could get some “oomf” into the paper so we could send it to e.g ECSA 2010 (hence no details of what we actually talked about here).
We’ll see, anyway days like yesterday are one very good reason why KIT TM is a good place to be at. Thanks Peter & Peter.
It would be fun if we could get some “oomf” into the paper so we could send it to e.g ECSA 2010 (hence no details of what we actually talked about here).
We’ll see, anyway days like yesterday are one very good reason why KIT TM is a good place to be at. Thanks Peter & Peter.
Kanban myself
We've started to use a Kanban-board at the office... we'll see where it takes us. The fuzzy picture is quite intentional... maybe there are secrets on the board, who knows?
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