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Principles for digital transformation

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This is where I share my random thoughts on organisation, technology and mindset related to digital transformation. Might be a bit random at start, but maybe it will eventually turn into something cohesive.

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90 from 8 Apr 2018 to 24 Mar 2025
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2025 2

  1. Intention
  2. Getting all the way

2023 5

  1. Salami tactics
  2. Role playing
  3. Where will AI be used?
  4. Training AI
  5. Listening

2022 4

  1. Software Engineer - Titles
  2. Options
  3. Decision making models
  4. The Swedish leap

2021 4

  1. Stakeholder asymmetries
  2. Short term bias in organizations
  3. Edge computing
  4. Hiding the uncomfortable

2020 31

  1. Evaluating the problem
  2. Centralization and organizational single point of failure
  3. Building the team
  4. The value of experience
  5. Playing catch-up
  6. Standing on the shoulders of giants
  7. Tragedy of the commons
  8. Meta strategy
  9. Create a platform
  10. Conventional wisdom
  11. The bigger picture
  12. Requirements
  13. Empower
  14. Reuse
  15. Non functional requirements
  16. Exceptional teams build tools
  17. Impact and reach
  18. Experts
  19. Poke it!
  20. Product development inspired by music
  21. Ahmdal's law
  22. Keeping the light on
  23. Long term
  24. Jeff Bezos on invention
  25. Business rules
  26. Brooks' law
  27. Overconstrained systems
  28. Hierarchical diagrams
  29. Code reviews
  30. Creativity
  31. Post mortems

2019 25

  1. Robustness through redundancy
  2. Top priority
  3. Importance and urgency, Eisenhower's principle
  4. Serenity
  5. Jumping to conclusions
  6. Experiments, good, bad and confusing examples
  7. Whining
  8. Groups and acronyms
  9. Searching for value
  10. Plans and planning
  11. Creating leaders
  12. The message of confidence
  13. Wood's theorem
  14. Focus
  15. Beck's law
  16. Efficiency vs effectiveness
  17. Fog of war
  18. Complexity and optimism
  19. Strategy and chess
  20. Robustness
  21. Postel's law
  22. Task forces for everything
  23. AI, soccer and chess
  24. Meta reasoning
  25. Small things

2018 19

  1. Integrated or progressive UX
  2. Compromise
  3. OODA loop
  4. CDN usage on high performance e-commerce sites
  5. Single vs Multi-tenancy
  6. Coaching
  7. Legacy
  8. Strangler pattern
  9. Prototype
  10. Minimum viable product - MVP
  11. Fear
  12. Control
  13. Expertise
  14. Flow and routine
  15. Train analogies
  16. Albert's law
  17. Cynefin
  18. Conway’s law
  19. Incidents