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Att börja jobba som juniorkonsult
Tänkte dela med mig av mina erfarenheter från första halvåret som juniorkonsult samt komma med tips till alla som står och gläntar på dörren till yrkeslivet. Efter att ha studerat datorspelsutveckling på DSV samt läst en del fristående kurser kände jag att det var dags att ge mig ut i arbetslivet. Efter 4 år av universitetsstudier började jag därför i Kentors java-team hösten 2013. Omställningen från det akademiska till yrkeslivet var minst sagt chockerande till en början. Tempot upplevde jag som mycket högre och jag fick verkligen anstränga mig i början för att ta in allt nytt.
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!
Stop Using Story Points
I recently read this incredibly interesting post from Industrial Logic by Joshua Kerievsky about his experiences with using story points in the agile development process. I have personally always been a bit wary of story points, since in the end, they just seem to get translated back into hours anyway. I have been witness to this several times, both as a developer and a Scrum Master. When you ask people to estimate in story points, preferably with the standard definition of 1 story point equals one day of productive work, then you invariably get estimates that when you multiply them by 8 are the same as they would have been if you had estimated in hours in the first place. Read more…
Hibernate and JPA guidelines [part 1]
I recently had a cooperation with some colleagues from the Oracle team, putting together a document with some guidelines and tips for working with Hibernate/JPA and Oracle from a performance point of view. I decided to take some of these general guidelines and tips for Hibernate/JPA to do a three part serie with blogposts here on our blog. Each topic is divided into three parts; problem, suggestion and value. Each topic evolves from a identified problem and then makes a suggestion for dealing with the problem and a value for what benefits you get from using the suggestion. Anyone working with Hibernate or JPA should take some of these guidelines and tips under consideration. They are not just for improving performance. Some are more general best practices to ensure quality, easier coding and performance.
Back in Full Swing
We have all been back from vacation now for the better part of a month (if not longer) and things are once again in full swing for the Java Team. We have a couple of new junior consultants in the team as well as a transfer from Kentor Business Solutions. Welcome to Peter, Peter and Lotten! Read more…
Testing and the Definition of Done
Previously, I have written about my current project, a system used by Stockholm Country Council for computing compensation from the county to the various health care providers within the county for services provided to the people of Stockholm. I have also mentioned previously that I have taken the role of de facto Scrum Master. In addition, I have become the de facto test manager in the team. The system does not really have users per se, but rather, it takes input in the form of XML files, it makes a bunch of calculations on this data and then it spits out some new XML files. Read more…
Certified Scrum Master
I have spent the last two days taking Crisp’s Certified Scrum Master course, and I am so pleased that I decided to do so. I have “sort of” doing Scrum for the last several years. Sure, we have been working with backlogs and sprints, we do sprint planning and try to include the product owner, and we occasionally do a retrospective. We have a Scrum board and we move things across it from Backlog to in progress to done. Read more…
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…
On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!
There are now only a couple of days left until the Java Team at Kentor takes over official responsibility for the management and continued development of one of the most important systems within health care management in Stockholm. I have written about this system before with regard to technical debt and our Scrum planning. It is deterministic in its nature and highly complex. We will be starting a new round of development almost immediately (we have been planning for it throughout the Spring), and the development will continue throughout the rest of the year. So everyone get to your starting positions…. On your mark, get set, go!
