Robert Mejlerö

New book out! The CTO Playbook

Posted by Robert in Agile, Informatics, Leadership, Project Management, Technology, Working from home

“The art of developing an application has been well described in various coding books that you can find gathering dust on almost all developers desks around the world. This is not that book. There may be some technical references, but astonishing few of them considering this is a CTO-book. And why’s that? This is a book for people who ended up in the situation of having to work with other people building applications — also known as “developers”. Or fresh CTO’s, Product People or whoever is interested in running dev…read more

Nov.29

Waterfall vs Agile

Posted by Robert in Agile, Project Management

Let’s start with looking at the myth. Agile means less documentation, less work, no management and you could do whatever you want. Not true. In fact Agile methodologies means more management, but mainly more self-accountability. It’s a way to engage all the participants of the team and do the planning together (with the people who knows their stuff). It’s also a way to be able to quickly change requirements and add features – by being in close contact with the customer we’ll deliver what the business needs now. It doesn’t…read more