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life of a consultant

New LinkedIn profile … story

Marcus Hammarberg

Over the years I have grown tired of the tightness in how we talk about our jobs, achievements and careers in general at LinkedIn. I poked a bit of fun to it by writing a different type of profile section. Being a Swede I find it really embarrassing toothing my own horn, so I made up a story...

Faster feedback and its implications

Marcus Hammarberg

I have been thinking a lot about faster feedback my entire life. In short, this is one of the drivers behind just about anything related to agile software development, product-led development. Changing our ways of working to enable faster flow is the guiding star for continuous improvement in...

How did I learn to code

Marcus Hammarberg

I asked a few people in the Umain office that are relatively new to programming how they learn in the age of AI. And they graciously shared. And I learned A LOT from that. It’s a VERY different world now, picking up programming when AI has “always” been around. You have to actively disregard help...

Going ‘device naked’ to meetings

Marcus Hammarberg

This is a post that could end up causing me problems—or at least being flagged as “not safe for work”—but here we go: I've started going naked to meetings! To clarify a bit, I’ve started to go device naked to meetings. In other words - I try, hard, to not bring any of my devices to meetings. If...

Making the change easy

Marcus Hammarberg

One of Kent Beck’s many great things to consider is this little mind-bender of a quote for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change The quote is on X but I first read it in his great little book Tidy First?. Yes, the question mark...