Nikita in 0’th Grade.

Well – the above expression covers the fact that Niktia has started school here in Sweden, and have been through a ride (again) in regards to acquiring and new language.
Having taken him away from Singapore – where we did our focus on English and Russian as mother tongue for him; two years in Denmark gave [...]

How to Configure an $80 File Server in 45 Minutes

Found on the internet:
I use a modded Xbox and Xbox Media Center for playing media files across the network on my television and sound system. I also download large files, such as Linux ISOs, via BitTorrent. However, leaving my primary computer on all the time seemed like a waste of energy. [...]

Innovative or not – who cares ?

In Wall Street Journal, 2 guys (Robert Scoble and Dave Winer) are raising question of whether Microsoft is innovative or not. Winer says “Microsoft isn’t an inventor, and never was”.
Scoble’s argument doesn’t appear to offer the same kid of juicy sound bite that begs to be ripped out of context, but he generally seems [...]

Immigration services in Sweden.

Well – what can I say?
I think all of you have been bored about my rants about our bad experiences with the Danish Immigration Services; we spent 14 months to wait for a permission to stay in Denmark – and we got the permission for 10 months for Elena, before we had to go back [...]

Reasons organization fails at project management #2

Previous Crash and Burn
A common criticism of project management methodology is that it is cumbersome, paper intensive, and takes too much focus away from the work at hand.
Sometimes this is a reasonable concern, caused by not scaling the procedures to the size of your project. However, project management was not the problem.
The problem was a [...]

Reasons organization fails at project management

Generally speaking, all companies and organizations are trying to get better at project management. (In other words, I haven’t seen any that are purposely trying to get worse at it.)
Many companies do believe the role is impossible and may (or may not) have recognize that there might be a value associated with being able to [...]

The Art of Project Management

I believe that quite a few books and articles have been written about this subject; and finding myself in the industry for more than 12 years – I take the plunge and start publish – what I consider gathered information about Project Management and the role in Project related work – aimed toward the Projects [...]

I’ll be starting over again.

To all of you – who has been wondering where my blogs and rants have gone; well we are back again.
The reason for my delay was mainly due to our moving to Sweden; which I gladly now can report completed.
As some of you might know; Elena and myself have not found what we did consider [...]