i have an interest in lean or agile development , be cause it gives great opportunities for making improvments in a place where you don’t have fixed processes. Kanban is one of the principles related to ie scrum. It is a little different how you are visulatizing the data.

Personal Kanban is about visualizing the work you are doing so you are able to handle it. I think the kanban part is really important because it gives some great options for users. This is normally done on a board of some part.

An important part is to limit your Work in progress (WIP). This is all the task that you are currently working on in any way. If you can reduce the number of distinct items you are working on at any one point you have more mental capacity and it will be easier to handle the different work items.

With the visualisation you will be able to see what your throughput is and how long time it takes to handle any one task.

We are dealing with the real world, so it is not always that we are able to block everything off and just work on what we want. A good example is now when I was just interrupted by a Text message that I choose to react to. It could be import, but it was not.

Personally we often get stuck in the state over complication, where we make everything way to complicated to handle.

The goal is to have task that are pulled, where you as a person decide which one to use. Push is just to take the first thing in the inbox and react on it.

A list programmer is most often superior because they take the time to know why they are building the software in the first place. This gives some clarity and makes it more compelling to workon. I guess that it is something like building a wall or a cathedral. The clarity helps with giving growth.

I you cannot see the work it is uncontrolled and we should never do more work than we can handle. I guess that it is an important part that we are able to know what we can do and not do more.

Currently I think I have too many tasks on that I’m working on to be successful with it. I know that it is difficult to say no to projects whey they are there and you think it is good for you.

The last thing is the POMODORO principle where you are focusing on some work for 25 minutes and then take 5 mintus of. This will help build your focus and make sure that you can get much longer in your progress. It is a really difficult discipline to use and it requires a lot of self control. It is so nice and much easier to work on other peoples projects than our own.

I’m currently reading about how to use normal Kanban in product development.

I did like the book it gave an overview of what kanban is about and the importace of stopping with all the work that you are doing.

Great by choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen

This book is the sequel to Build to last and Good to Great. It is also a research focus book, where they are comparing a bunch of different companies of different perspectives. The book validates the principles of the previous books.

They have found 10 different companies and have compared how they are performing compared to other companies in similarly niches.

They companies they have selected did a lot better. And they introduced the concept 10 x companies to identify the behavior of the better performing companies.

The things they are finding the companies are doing better are the following.

• They are performing constituent. They don’t grow because they thing the market can bare it. They strive for a 20 mile walk everyday to make sure that people are not getting too tired have something to go for. This is like Southwestern which only open a few new routes every year. For every year they have started new routes.
• They try to experiment with something. Shoot bullets and when they find something where they can excel in they do the bet for it. They need to have the time to bet on next big and work on solving the problems.
• Innovate but still keep the old ideas that work. Know when to kill the products.
• Have a deadline, for when the product can no loger be used or when something should be done before. If we cannot make it to the top today, we have to turn around.
• Luck there does not seem to be any indication on if one or the other part is doing any bether. They seem to have been gotten the same number of luck. The difference is that the 10x was able to use the unluck to propel them forwards.
• They are Specific Methodolical and consistent (SMaC ) with their content. It makes a difference in the way to are able to communicate. It could be like the bill of rights where they have a clear understanding of what will work in the future.

To contain the presentation they are using a framework. It does make it a bit more clear on what they are doing and how things will be explained.

One thing I like about the book is there is some questions that you can ask your self at the end of each section on how this apply to my organization. This really helps and makes it much more interesting to read. The questions give a sense that there is something that I’m cheating when I don’t answer the questions.

There is also use of explores to show how the ideas works for them. It could be the comparison between Scott and Amundsen South Pole journey. They use a lot of the same principles as the 10x companies.

I have been working with SAP Process Integration for a long time. I though found some areas that I could improve in.

• For my use of Java mappings the book described the use of AbstractTransformation, which gives some extra options for getting extra payloads.
• There was a good short description of the use of CCTS.
• I became a bit clear on when the ccBPM created new transactions and when not. This does clear up some misunderstanding
• There was a good example of modeling with Process Component model and Integration Scenario Models. This does make the usage of the different components clear.

It is a quite technical book on how to use each of the tools. The basis of the book is to describe each of the different components, which makes it a good induction to what is going on.

It is a book that will take you thru the basis usage of SAP PI.

It is a book about how you give better service to other people so they really start to love you. So you ability to enchant other people is in proportional with your ability to make money. It is therefore important, though making money should not be the goal.

There were a lot of great stories in it about how different people have help become more enchanting. It is quite inspiring to hear that other people are giving great service and develop product like Apple is.

Enchantment does not only apply to customer service but also how you are creating your products or organization. Part of the secret is to let the “customers” decide, half it to innovate. You need to be able to provide a service which is unique, where the involved “customer” think that they are the center of your thoughts.

We can also enchant other people that we either know or don’t. We join groups based on their ability to enchant or maybe charm us would be a better phrase.

A great quote from the book is:

    Bake a Bigger Pie There are two kinds of people and organizations in the world: eaters and bakers. Eaters want a bigger slice of an existing pie; bakers want to make a bigger pie. Eaters think that if they win, you lose, and if you win, they lose. Bakers think that everyone can win with a bigger pie.

So now go create that bigger pie.

Vi har boet på et luksus hotel i området Vagator. Nok det eneste med Pool Leoney Resort. Til 300kr pr nat var det nok dyre end de Guest houses der ellers fandtes i området. Vi havde et lækkert værelse med 5 meter hen til poolen.

Det er et ret hyggeligt sted her nede. Der er en del forskellige restauranter der alle minder rigtig meget om hinanden med deres menu kort. En blanding af Indisk, Goansk, Europæisk, Italiensk, Israelsk og Kinesisk. Det smager ret godt det meste, dog er det en god ide at undgå alt med ben, da det har de ikke så meget styr over.

Stranden er rigtig god at ligge på. Der er nogle gode spise steder, som lejer liggestole ud. Så man pludselig har spist morgenmad og frokost i solen. Det koster cirka 50kr. Så det er til at leve med. Eneste problem er at man skal huske at flytte parasollen, ellers bliver man rød. Det er prøvet og kan ikke anbefales.

En lidt mærkelig ting ved strandene er køerne. Hvem lader køer rende rundt? Indere. Der er over det hele.

Et godt sted vi fandt at spise var Fishtail på stranden. De havde god mad, billigt og med udsigt direkte nede på stranden.

Daniel havde fødselsdag mens vi har i Goa. Det var godt at kunne fejre dagen med en strandtur og herefter en god fødselsdags menu på en af de lokale restauranter. Fødselsdag kagen blev nydt med udsigt over havet.

Vi var på det traditions rige marked i Ajunta, der bliver holdt hver onsdag. Det var ikke noget at skrive hjem over, nu gør vi det så alligevel for at advare. Det har det samme “Skrammel” som de har hos de lokale gade sælgere. Den eneste sjove var at vi forsøgte at gå tilbage til vores hotel. Det gik godt og var rigtig lækkert at gå langs vandet på stranden. På et tidpunkt stoppede stranden så og blev erstattet at klipper. Vi troede at der var nemt at komme forbi disse klipper. Det viste sig at kræve mere klatre udstyr end badesutter.

En anden god tur vi havde var op til Fort Chopolap eller noget i den stil. Et gammelt fort fra ruder konges tid, der nu var forladt. Vi gik langs stranden der over. Så skulle vi klatre op af skrænten. Det gik bedre denne gang iført sandaler. Der var en rigtig flot udsigt fra Fortet over stranden.

The app is called Forbrugsforeningen and allows you as a user to search for stores in your current postal code that accepts the union’s membership discounts. For more info on the union see Forbrugsforeningen.dk. It is pretty easy to use (I hope).

The app is still in a really early stage, and it would be nice to have some more hours to spend on creating a better App. But it is a start and now we can test if there is a market for an Android app for this sort. The market is still young but with the number of android based phones exploding, there will be a lot of extra functionality to use this.

Efter jeg havde lagt ordren gik der måske 30 minutter før de ringede fra butikken og sagde at de ikke havde den valgte størrelse men nogle andre. Det var en søndag så jeg var lidt forundret over at blive ringet op af en internet butik.

Jeg fandt at størrelsen ikke passede og spurgte på mail om den kunne byttes til et nummer større. Den fandtes ikke i størrelsen men de havde en anden jakke jeg kunne få i stedet.

Fra mit bekendtskab med computer e- butikker ligger de altid i et eller andet remote område. Men Joyrun er placeret inde ved Nørreport Metro. Så det er jo ret nemt at komme til.

Så jeg tog der ind for at bytte jakken, og tænkte at jeg jo ligeså godt kunne købe nogle løbesko. Jeg fandt nogle gode sko som blev testet på løbebånd. Jeg fik en god pris på løbeskoene sammen med nogle kompressionsstrømper og drikkedunke.

Så hvis du mangler nogle løbesko/tilbehør kan Joyrun godt anbefales.

Now this year the German Grand Prix is in Hockenheim, close to SAP HQ in Waldorf. It is on July 23-25 2010. So I thought that some other SAP professionals also are going to the event. It could be a great place to network and met other people who have a passion for SAP and motorsports.

It would be fun to catch up with some other SAP professionals, so if you are going to the Grandprix drop a comment and let’s find a time to get something to drink or something to eat. I do hope to get a lot of responses, and then we might even be able to create some kind of a camp.

They have also tried to call German speaking countries like described on Amazingly elaborate fraud scheme: Okuma Group.

What is interesting is that the company name domain is only registered on 12 feb 2010 according to WHOIS. And even better it is register to an anonymous user. It does not sound trust worthy.

They news list is not real trust worthy it only dates back until July 2 2010 and only contains links to other analytics.

They also offered a less tax way thru clearing houses exotic places. Wander if you would ever see the money again.