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

Sep.19

Is it done or is it done-done?

Posted by Robert in Technology

In an agile world the definition of done is interesting. Sometimes a feature is considered done, from a developer or development process perspective, when it’s moved to the Done-column. Now it “just” needs to be tested and released. Easy-peasy. Not so fast. Let’s dissect this statement in to little pieces and go thru them one by one – only then can we understand and form an opinion on the why. Trust me, there are many small concepts hidden here. Definition of done In scrum, the team (in best cases) makes…read more

Mar.08

Something new in the recruitment space

Posted by Robert in Leadership, Organizational Behaviour, Technology

It’s been said for a while that “recruitment is broken”. I have at least heard it for the last years. Is it really? Why is it that finding a job, or finding great candidates for the job takes so much time? Obviously you’re dealing with people and not goods, so it needs to be a delicate process. But with all new cool tools we have out there, AI (well doesn’t actually exist yet), machine learning, algorithms…how come we are not better at doing this. What do I mean with “not…read more