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En ny Kentorblogg har fötts!
Nu har även Lars Wennerholm, Seniorprojektledare på Kentor, börjat skriva en blogg. Lars har många års erfarenhet av projektledning och krav i IT branschen, och vi lär nog ha många intressanta inlägg att se fram emot framöver!
Congratulations to Team Java’s two new Senior Consultants!
Today, Martin Westman and Johnne Adermark were promoted to the role of Senior Consultant at Kentor. This is an important role in Kentor’s organisation. Our Senior Consultants are not only experts in their fields, but they also play a key role in pre-sales work as well as competence development and mentoring our younger consultants. Martin and Johnne have both worked at Kentor for several years and have continually shown their dedication and resolve to making Kentor not only profitable but also in helping to advance and improve the way that we work with Java. Once again, congratulations to them both!
One Month In
One month ago, I wrote this short post about how the Java Team at Kentor was about to officially take over the management and continued development of one of the most important health care billing systems in Stockholm County. Now we have been at it for a month, and things have gone relatively smoothly, with the occasional incident and one considerable change in project organisation. Read more…
Planning Poker
I wrote a short post the other day about a recent Scrum sprint planning meeting that I led and about how much I liked using Planning Poker. As I mentioned in the post, I think Planning Poker is a great tool for engaging the less experienced developers in a group, giving them a chance to make their concerns about how software should and will be developed heard.
I stumbled across this post from Javalobby this morning, which basically talks about the same thing. Even better, it has a great Dilbert cartoon to illustrate its point. Everything becomes clearer with Dilbert.
Scrum Planning
I led my first Scrum sprint planning meeting today. I have observed a couple such meetings previously, but this was the first time I attempted to lead a meeting. A normal sprint planning would involve the product owner, but we took a slightly different approach. We had a meeting with the product owner last week where he went through all the requirements and helped us to prioritize them. Today’s meeting involved just the development team and myself, and we focused solely on estimating each backlog item. A couple of questions for the product owner came up, but nothing that impeded the meeting’s progress. Read more…
Att utveckla utvecklarna (och en förvaltningsledare)
Efter ett par intensiva veckor är jag nu färdig med alla utvecklingssamtalen för 2012. Vad roligt det har varit att få ta del av alla konsulternas planer och aspirationer, både på kort och på lång sikt. När jag tog över som teamchef kände jag en viss oro att jag skulle tappa min teknikfokus. Det är visserligen sant att mitt jobb är mycket annorlunda nu och att jag inte jobbar direkt med Javautveckling längre. Men å andra sidan så har jag fått sitta och lyssna på varje konsult i Javateamet berätta för mig om vad han eller hon vill göra och åstadkomma, och på grund av det känns det ändå som om jag fortfarande är med i svängarna, så att säga. Read more…
The Rules of Management
Ever since taking over as team manager for the Java Team at Kentor, I have been trying to find the right balance between my very technical background as a Java developer and my new role as the manager of a group of Java developers. For the last eight years, I have been working almost exclusively as a Java developer. Before I was even asked to take over as team manager, I had already decided to take a step away from programming toward a role as a technical project manager. I felt like it was time to try something new, while still keeping a solid technical base. Once I decided to take the job as team manager, this decision to move away from programming seemed even more appropriate, since I would hardly have time to immerse myself in the details of every new framework and every new development in the Java world. By focusing on a role as a project manager and team manager, it would be enough to be aware of the new developments without having necessarily to understand in detail how each one works.
