Nordic Agile starts tomorrow

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Nordic Agile starts tomorrow. Maybe there are a few seats left if you haven't registered already?  

Øresund Agile 2008 Conference Day

Monday, June 16th, 2008

(Continued from Accelerated Agile on Øresund Agile 2008.) After two days of workshops, Wednesday was the conference day. Two sessions specifically addressed distributed Scrum: having teams, or part of teams, in different geographic locations. The presentation by Scrum co-creator Jeff Sutherland was great but also a bit utopian while the other, ...

Accelerated Agile on Øresund Agile 2008

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Yesterday I participated in the Accelerated Agile workshop at Øresund Agile 2008. It was attended by both developers and non-developers. Some parts of the workshop were common for the two groups and others were separate.  Me and another developer actually did both TDD and pair programming! BestBrains, the company that ...

Agile Architecture on Øresund Agile 2008

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Today, on the first day of Øresund Agile 2008, I attended the Agile Architecture workshop held by Jim Coplien. He is a really great speaker! Some things that stuck in my head: Don't use TDD, it destroys architecture because it makes the programmer focus on individual methods, ...

ThoughtWorks opens Swedish office in June

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

I can't help keeping an eye on ThoughtWorks so here comes a followup on I read that ThoughtWorks is looking at Sweden: According to Ola Bini's ThoughtWorks comes to Sweden and Marcus Ahnve's Joining ThoughtWorks, Starting Office in Stockholm they will be the ones manning the ThoughtWorks Swedish office that opens ...

“Novarra”, or “Surf Closed” or “How to put ads on all websites”

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Swedish telecom operator TeliaSonera has introduced a mobile data service where you agree to view ads on every web site visited. This service is provided by a company called Novarra. The ads are part of the deal, so the customer get what they pay (or rather don't pay) for. It ...

I’m quite happy with this photo

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Click to enlarge: Nice, huh?

Øresund Agile 2008 teaser

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Click to enlarge: The Øresund Agile 2008 conference runs 9-11 juni in Malmö, Sweden. Full conference program will be available on March 15.

I read that ThoughtWorks is looking at Sweden

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

If I wasn't content about living in my corner of Sweden, I would have knocked on ThoughtWorks door a long time ago. I consider them to be one of the most interesting companies around and some people I admire work there, most notably Martin Fowler and Dan North. ...