Hereby some photos from the last month or so. Ordered somewhat by date, but apart from that no real thought behind them, other than what I have found interesting enough to photograph during the last month. And as I cannot really decide where to share the pictures that I take, as I have developed an…
Writing
Common goal and incentive structures in large companies
In small companies, keeping a common goal is simple. There is probably only one product and hence product goal equals company goal. Messing up incentives is hard (but of course not impossible) as people should be rewarded for making that single product more successful. For increasing sales, improving the product or making it more stable….
Reinventing Dell – book notes
Reinventing Dell is short. I read it on a business trip to Belfast from Copenhagen sitting in a crammed airplane with my Kindle. The planes was delayed, but even without that annoyance, I would have finished it in 2-4 hours. Short is good as the points are pretty clearly communicated. Throughout the book the story…
Software Events vs. Real Life Events
Ignoring the fact that the word “event” has a special meaning in software development I will proceed to use it in its broader definition as “something that happens”. Building software to solve a “business problem” can be daunting enough and leave all sorts of cracks in the relationship between IT and Business. But if those…
Chain of responsibility software pattern for response handling
As the name suggests Chain of responsibility design pattern creates/describes a chain of responsibility. This chain can be static/hardcoded or it can be dynamic and loaded or changed at run-time. It is in many ways a more object oriented cleaner way to implement if/else or switch statement. With the additional benefit of it being able…
Three ways to solve a problem
In software development and perhaps more broadly, in creative endeavors in general, rarely does one solve a problem that has only one possible solution. Mostly there are “more ways than one to skin a cat”. There is the “wrong way” which causes more problems than it really solves. This is usually where the newcomer goes…
Leading with empathy
Good leadership/management takes empathy and compassion for the people you lead. You can lead without it, it may even be today’s norm – but you cannot be a good leader or manager without it. If you lead without empathy or compassion you will end up seeing people as resources that can just be replaced and…
Photography January 2019
Some photos from the last month or so. Primarily from a little extended weekend to Ski Sunne in Sweden. But first of a little shot from a cold January morning. Then some shots from Ski Sunne: Then a few shots outside our nice little cabin which we found through Airbnb. I can wholeheartedly recommend, so…
The push for new and shiny solutions to old known problems
As a species we have always been attracted to novelty. This has probably served us well for things with short feedback loops as we quickly learnt whether the “new and shiny” thing actually helped us or harmed us. In software development the JavaScript community has been notorious for “new and shiny” frameworks. This has –…
How to live on twenty-four hours a day
Lots have been written and said about time-management and optimization of each day lived. It is probably one of the most popular topics to write about. This probably also means that this piece I am writing right now, will be lost in the vast blue sea of self-help blog-posts. But that is okay. The book…