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Thursday, November 20, 2014

A good person and a bad system - my take

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W. Edwards Deming is one the big quote-machines in the management business and one of the most often cited is this: A bad system will def...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

How I prepare and create presentations

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I've just been to Agile Singapore and had a blast. What a nice bunch of people I met there! And the event was super; fun well organise...
Friday, November 07, 2014

Communication debts and Brazilian office mornings

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As a programmer I often end up trying to explain non-technical concepts for non-technical people using things that I've picked up as a ...
Friday, October 31, 2014

It's just an experiment - experiments in practice

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At my current client we're starting to work with improvements, as I wrote about before . The things I talk about in that post is small ...

Gods care through the Band Tune Book

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We break for something different. This is not my normal IT/agile/lean post. It's about God and his care for me Happy that you continu...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

The "Don't fear audits and the news"-business methodology - with certification

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If you lie you have to have great memory Goldfish by  josullivan.59 used under Creative Commons That's a saying I've heard in...

The time I found myself wanting stuff waiting...

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One of the best and shortest explanations to what Lean really is about, I've found in the "This is Lean" -book by Niclas Modi...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

The humble blogger approach - some practical tips

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I hate fights. And arguments. Hey, even discussions sometimes I find uncomfortable or at least boring. Note that I try not to be a cowa...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Embrace uncertainty - the family version

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The one talk that made the most impact of me have to be "Embrace Uncertainty" by Dan North. If you haven't seen it... You...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Effective revisted

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I'm talking a lot about effectiveness and how it difference from efficiency . This probably have to do with two things; first - the d...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Vision statements - why not say what you REALLY mean?

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I'm working with vision statements and strategic planning right now. Man - this an area that is really misunderstood and misused I thin...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

cc all the things

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We are working a lot with trust and transparency in my current team. Specifically on the transparency item one "trick" we have b...

Some thoughts about waste and waste reduction

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Every Lean practitioner goes through a phase of "waste elimination frenzy". At least the ones I've met. Ah, well.... I did at...

Todo: Add tests ...

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I added this line in a README file for one application I'm writing now. Like I have done before many times. However, for the longest t...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The only easy day was yesterday - this is a message of hope

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At my current "client" we have been employing a lot of activities to increase the number of customer we serve per day. I've b...
Thursday, October 02, 2014

My second book is out ... kinda

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To many of my colleagues and friends writing a book is at the top of the dream list or life goals. I have been very fortunate to have don...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Ugly clothing, symbols and values

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Here in Indonesia most companies and organisations have some kind of uniform or at least very strict dress code. For example where I work, ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

How to make a empty diagram in Excel

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If I don't write this down I will forget it before the end of the day. That right there was the reason I started my blog, ca 900 posts...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

...and then it moved - the greatest feeling in the world!

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By Ben Currington  used under Creative Commons Have you ever try to lift a piano? If you have I bet you have the same experience as ...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Why so sad? Can we point to improvements without making people feel bad?

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"Fry complaining" by  Umberto Salvagnin , under  Creatives Common - As agile and lean practitioners, why do we always focus o...
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