Blog.
My musings on anything from leadership to technology to entrepreneurship and back.
Effective Meetings
Most meetings are a waste of time. Let's check out the best way to change that!
How to Make QA Work in Engineering
In many companies, a QA department is started with the best intentions. But after a while QA slows down the cycle time and complaints keep coming in. Let's talk about some patterns that work and that don't work when it comes to QA in engineering.
What makes leaders effective?
What makes leaders effective? Peter Drucker got an answer for us.
How to reorganize an IT department successfully
Reorganizations of IT departments are the daily bread of growing companies. But how can you make a reorg a success?
Flight levels
If your organization gets slower after an agile reorganization then flight levels might come to the rescue.
Rust versus Go
Rust and Go are two languages that both compile down to native code. How to they compare to each other? And which language should you use in your next project? Let's check it out!
A checklist for architecture proposals
We engineers are famously known for creating complicated systems that nobody understands at the end. Here's a checklist I used to guide my and my teams decisions and reign in many of the stupid ideas I had in the past.
Accelerate by Forsgren et al - book review
Accelerate became a classic book describing what makes a high performing IT department. But is it really cool? Let's check it out.
Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers
As CTO and VP it is your responsibility to shape the strategy of your business. Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers is one of the best frameworks to define a great business strategy.
Why to write tests
Writing tests makes software development a lot slower than it could theoretically be. So - does that mean that you should not write any tests at all?
