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_posts/2014-11-19-how-i-prepare-presentation.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ I also had an opportunity to give a presentation there. It was quite some time s
 
 Some people have asked me how I create presentations and I thought that it could be good idea to write it down for myself as well. Hopefully I will do more presentations... then I can use this.
 
-I don't consider myself an expert on desimomomooahahahaaa (sorry could not keep a straight face... ok - once again...) on design of slides nor do I have deep communication education. I have failed a lot though and I really enjoy doing presentation. Below works for me - your milage may vary.
+I don't consider myself an expert on design ... hahaha (sorry could not keep a straight face... ok - once again...) on design of slides nor do I have deep communication education. I have failed a lot though and I really enjoy doing presentation. Below works for me - your milage may vary.
 
 ### Strategy - introduction
 
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ I start to let that thought soar around my head when I'm walking or running (rea
 
 I even try out sound bytes for part of my talk:
 
-> So that means I rather do small steps often than gigant steps seldom.
+> So that means I rather do small steps often than giant steps seldom.
 >
 > Kanban is a process improvement tool. It makes you and your team better. It’s collaborative, visual and really simple to pick up
 
-Often I end up doing run-throughs of the talk or parts of it. Just to get a feel for how I would present this.
+Often I end up doing run-through of the talk or parts of it. Just to get a feel for how I would present this.
 
 The hardest part for me here is to remember what I thought... So I usually write down some points or bullets when I get the chance, after the run for example. They are often repeated and unstructured. Doesn't matter now.
 
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ This is the same basic introduction I do of myself for all talks. With this I al
 
 It's maybe a bit boring using the same thing over and over but sometimes I get time over and redo this template.
 
-I have added a slide for title and an outro slide to. And a final black one because I go past the last slide sometimes I have a hard time getting back into the slidedeck at the right place.
+I have added a slide for title and an outro slide to. And a final black one because I go past the last slide sometimes I have a hard time getting back into the slide-deck at the right place.
 
 ### Blank sheets
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Quite often I find it hard to find a single word or concept that describes the t
 
 I sort the pictures under respectively header by moving them in under each other. In this way I can collapse and expand the pictures as needed and keep my overview even though I end up with many pictures. See the picture to the right.
 
-After this I have a completed slide deck with short, descriptive words on each slide and all of my presenter notes in the talk. I have given presentations like this. It's pretty dull but if you move fast it can be very effective too. Check out [pecha kucha](http://www.pechakucha.org/) where people often use this technique.
+After this I have a completed slide deck with short, descriptive words on each slide and all of my presenter notes in the talk. I have given presentations like this. It's pretty dull but if you move fast it can be very effective too. Check out [Pecha Kucha](http://www.pechakucha.org/) where people often use this technique.
 
 ### Choosing pictures
 
@@ -153,9 +153,9 @@ The same rules apply - please borrow the pictures but credit the person in quest
 
 I have a [link to a search with the Creative Commons filtering already set](https://www.flickr.com/search?sort=relevance&license=1%2C2%2C3%2C4%2C5%2C6&text=burger), default searching for burgers... I cannot explain why.
 
-#### Licences
+#### Licence
 
-![Licencese](/img/Screen_Shot_2014-11-20_at_09.57.37.png)
+![Licensee](/img/Screen_Shot_2014-11-20_at_09.57.37.png)
 
 While we're on the subject. What does those licenses mean... First you should be aware of if you are selling this material or presentation (commercial use). Secondly do you plan to modify the picture; adding to it or not.
 
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ I frequently remove animations and duplicate slides and just move a little piece
 
 Don't fret the many slides. Hide them using collapse to get the overview.
 
-### Giving the prezi
+### Giving the presentation
 
 During the presentation I just try to enjoy myself. Try to have fun - chances are that the people you're talking to are having more fun then.
 

_posts/2014-11-20-goodpeople.md

@@ -20,128 +20,75 @@ business and one of the most often cited is this:
 > A bad system will defeat a good person, every time - W. Edwards
 > Deming
 
-It's not only sad - it's also true. Sadly. (Oh wow - that was an
-recursive sentence almost :)). I believe this and I have seen it in
-practice. But I have also seen the opposite. Like this:
+It's not only sad - it's also true. Sadly. (Oh wow - that was an recursive sentence almost :)). I believe this and I have seen it in practice. But I have also seen the opposite. Like this:
 
-> A good person will defeat a bad system, eventually - Marcus C.
-> Hammarberg
+> A good person will defeat a bad system, eventually
+> Marcus C. Hammarberg
 
 Let me try to clarify what I mean and what I've seen to support it.
 
 ### Story 1
 
-I consulted at a big Swedish insurance company for a couple of years. I
-was part of a team rebuilding one of their key applications (in VB.NET).
-Great guys and a team that I often think back of. One of the guys in the
-team was the maintenance person for this application. His group
-consisted of 4 people that supported ca 40 applications.
+I consulted at a big Swedish insurance company for a couple of years. I was part of a team rebuilding one of their key applications (in VB.NET). Great guys and a team that I often think back of. One of the guys in the team was the maintenance person for this application. His group consisted of 4 people that supported ca 40 applications.
 
-I often visited him after the application was rewritten - a funny guy!
-His team sat in a corner of the floor. Behind them they had a wall of
-unstructured post-it notes. I asked what it was:
+I often visited him after the application was rewritten - a funny guy! His team sat in a corner of the floor. Behind them they had a wall of unstructured post-it notes. I asked what it was:
 
-> "This? That's just the backdoors, unlocked servers and shares that we
-> found to the production servers. We put it here to make our lives
-> easier. If we find one we just keep quite about it and note it here,
-> until they find it"
+> "This? That's just the backdoor, unlocked servers and shares that we found to the production servers. We put it here to make our lives easier. If we find one we just keep quite about it and note it here, until they find it"
 
-Basically the **bad system** was hindering these **good people** from
-doing their job properly. The system was there for a good reason;
-security. The production environment was LOCKED down. And that's how it
-supposed to be. Basta! To do their job they worked around the
-system.  In fact - they told me that they estimated that more than half
-of their time was spent finding ways to actually get their work done.
+Basically the **bad system** was hindering these **good people** from doing their job properly. The system was there for a good reason; security. The production environment was LOCKED down. And that's how it supposed to be. Basta! To do their job they worked around the system.  In fact - they told me that they estimated that more than half of their time was spent finding ways to actually get their work done.
 
 Good persons defeated the bad system.
 
 ### Story 2
 
-I have only worked for governments once in my life, the Stockholm City
-Concuil. All configuring of any computer was done by a third-party
-company. And they were swamped with work.
+I have only worked for governments once in my life, the Stockholm City Council. All configuring of any computer was done by a third-party company. And they were swamped with work.
 
-We needed to open a port to get access to development database (my
-god... that was a long time ago... I hope those times never return). So
-we created an issue at the third party issue system. And waited. The day
-after - nothing.
+We needed to open a port to get access to development database (my god... that was a long time ago... I hope those times never return). So we created an issue at the third party issue system. And waited. The day after - nothing.
 
-Me: "have you reminded them?"
+- Me: "have you reminded them?"
+- Team mate: "Yes - I sent an email even."
+- Me: "How about calling them?"
+- Team mate: "No - we cannot do that."
+- Me: "Why?"
+- Team mate: "That's how **the system** works. We register our issues and wait."
 
-Team mate: "Yes - I sent an email even."
+We called them. And a very nice person helped us within 2 minutes. Not only that - we kept contact during the reminder of the project and called him for help. After he fixed it we created an issue for his record.
 
-Me: "How about calling them?"
-
-Team mate: "No - we cannot do that."
-
-Me: "Why?"
-
-Team mate: "That's how **the system** works. We register our issues and
-wait."
-
-We called them. And a very nice person helped us within 2 minutes. Not
-only that - we kept contact during the reminder of the project and
-called him for help. After he fixed it we created an issue for his
-record.
-
-We worked around the **bad system** to get some **(good) work**
-done. \*\*\*\*
+We worked around the **bad system** to get some **(good) work** done.
 
 **Good persons (and me) defeated the bad system.**
 
 ### Story 3
 
 A friend started a new job. After a couple of weeks I called her.
 
-Me: "What are you doing, E?"
+- Me: "What are you doing, E?"
+- E: "I'm writing a suggestion for a solution to give to the business so that they can say that this is not what they want?"
+- Me: "You are what?!"
+- E: "Yeah, they don't really know what they want. But the phase we are in now requires a solution document. They cannot write it - so I help them."
+- Me: "Eeeh? Good for them. "
 
-E: "I'm writing a suggestion for a solution to give to the business so
-that they can say that this is not what they want?"
-
-Me: "You are what?!"
-
-E: "Yeah, they don't really know what they want. But the phase we are in
-now requires a solution document. They cannot write it - so I help
-them."
-
-Me: "Eeeeeh? Good for them. "
-
-**E and her good friends** defeated the **bad system** by **working
-around** it. Arguably she could have just bought them a coffee and
-talked it over, but she was kind and followed the procedure.
+**E and her good friends** defeated the **bad system** by **working around** it. Arguably she could have just bought them a coffee and talked it over, but she was kind and followed the procedure.
 
 ### Your options
 
-I'm sure you can come up with many stories like this yourself. Where you
-have worked around the systems. I have friends that have described their
-entire job like "Working around the system".
+I'm sure you can come up with many stories like this yourself. Where you have worked around the systems. I have friends that have described their entire job like "Working around the system".
+
+Sure all these stories are just examples and arguably they don't produce long-lasting effects, systemic change etc. But what should these poor people do? They are stuck. They have to do they work or we punish them. They are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Putting it mildly.
 
-Sure all these stories are just examples and arguably they don't produce
-long-lasting effects, systemic change etc. But what should these poor
-people do? They are stuck. They have to do they work or we punish them.
-They are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Putting it mildly.
+So what can we do? We need rules, right? Some kind of structure at least.
 
-So what can we do? We need rules, right? Some kind of structure at
-least.
+Yes - but if we are in a position to make rules and regulations you (and I) have to consider what you want people to spend their time doing; working or working around the system. Surely - I have had assignment where more time have been spent working around the system than actually working (see Story 1 above for one example).
 
-Yes - but if we are in a position to make rules and regulations you (and
-I) have to consider what you want people to spend their time doing;
-working or working around the system. Surely - I have had assignment
-where more time have been spent working around the system than actually
-working (see Story 1 above for one example).
+I really don't have answers for that non-question. So I leave you with two quotes (one of those posts I guess) that I love:
 
-I really don't have answers for that non-question. So I leave you with
-two quotes (one of those posts I guess) that I love:
+> Awesome people do awesome things when they have an awesome environment. The job of management is to not block the awesomeness.
+> Woody Zuill (@WoodyZuill) [August 17, 2014](https://twitter.com/WoodyZuill/status/500813604720230401)
+>
 
-> Awesome people do awesome things when they have an awesome
-> environment. The job of management is to not block the awesomeness.
-> — Woody Zuill (@WoodyZuill) [August 17,
-> 2014](https://twitter.com/WoodyZuill/status/500813604720230401)
+And then
 
-> "You cannot teach jujitsu - you can only create an environment in
-> which someone can learn jujitsu. The rest is up to them" - Johnno,
-> <a href="http://dannorth.net/" target="_blank">Dan Norths</a> jujitsu
-> teacher 15 years ago
+> "You cannot teach jujitsu - you can only create an environment in which someone can learn jujitsu. The rest is up to them"
+> Johnno, <a href="http://dannorth.net/" target="_blank">Dan Norths</a> jujitsu teacher 15 years ago
 
-If you got the opportunity to influence your environment (hint: YOU
-CAN) - in which would you move it?
+If you got the opportunity to influence your environment (hint: YOU CAN) - in which would you move it?

_posts/2014-12-03-inspections-welcome.md

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+---
 title: Inspections welcome
 author: Marcus Hammarberg
 tags:
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
   - Agile
 ---
 
-I've just come back from a vacation in Bali. Due to some fortunate overbookings we ended up in a villa that was an oasis of tranquility and luxury. By far the nicest place I've ever seen, including the room I stayed in for [Agile Singapore](http://2014.agilesingapore.org/). The 3-day stay flew by but was a blessing for my soul.
+I've just come back from a vacation in Bali. Due to some fortunate over-bookings we ended up in a villa that was an oasis of tranquility and luxury. By far the nicest place I've ever seen, including the room I stayed in for [Agile Singapore](http://2014.agilesingapore.org/). The 3-day stay flew by but was a blessing for my soul.
 
 ![Our villa](/img/balivilla.jpg)
 
@@ -42,4 +43,5 @@ Do I have "Inspection welcome"-sign on my work, services, and behavior?
 If I did - how would that change me, and the way people see me?
 
 PS
+
 Btw - _inspections are welcome_ in the comments below or by [leaving feedback](https://github.com/marcusoftnet/marcusoftnet.github.io/issues/new).

_posts/2014-12-09-my-post-scaffolder-for-jekyll.md

@@ -63,4 +63,4 @@ bash scaffold_post "A post title"
 
 Once you execute the script, it will ask you for tags. Separate them with a comma as you remember and a nice post will be scaffolded for you. It will even open in Sublime (or whatever editor you have configured) and look something like this.
 
-Thank you [Daara Shaw](https://gist.github.com/kabrooski) for that great gist. Helped me a lot!
+Thank you [Daara Shaw](https://gist.github.com/kabrooski) for that great gist. Helped me a lot!

_posts/2014-12-09-stop-starting---start-finishing-or-else.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ I think it was [Karl Scotland](https://twitter.com/kjscotland) who said it like
 
 The reason for us doing whatever we do, creating software features for example, is for some end customer to use them. To reach that state, we need to complete the *entire* job required to be complete.
 
-Here is where I often see teams trip up. The definition of *entire*. It's *sooo* nice to move on to the next thing that we tend to forget or skip the last percentages. In fact, in many corporate cultures I've been in, having many things going on is the mark of success.
+Here is where I often see teams trip up. The definition of *entire*. It's *so* nice to move on to the next thing that we tend to forget or skip the last percentages. In fact, in many corporate cultures I've been in, having many things going on is the mark of success.
 
 Ask any big company project manager how his project is going and you'll see what I mean:
 > "Our project is doing just great - there's a lot of things going on right now."

_posts/2014-12-17-how-would-you-measure-that.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ What I've found immensely useful here is to write down some really simple exampl
 | Number of items in order | Shipping free?
 | 2  | No
 | 3  | Yes
-| 4  | Eeeeh? Yes... or?
+| 4  | Eeeh? Yes... or?
 
 See... that was not really covered by the business rule. It could be considered obvious that it was *3 or more* items in order. But by writing down a few simple examples we made the *common understanding* better.
 

_posts/2014-12-19-evaluating-my-presentations-and-pricing-them.md

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ I've been using this approach for a couple of years and it gives me feedback. Bu
 
 ## New approach
 
-The really good approach here would be to ask people on beforehand what they want to get out of the presentation, but I've noticed that many attendees are there to be info-tained not to participate up front. I do that for training and longer workshop since I then can tweak the program a bit.
+The really good approach here would be to ask people on beforehand what they want to get out of the presentation, but I've noticed that many attendees are there to be "entertained" not to participate up front. I do that for training and longer workshop since I then can tweak the program a bit.
 
 Today I tried to use other words to get another result. It worked kinda good.
 
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ One day, when I'm really brave I will use the ROTI to, a little bit more literal
 
 In Sweden I do 2 h presentations for 3 - 7 000 SEK ($375 - $875), depending on the audience and event. That's a bit too low really but let's use that as an example.
 
-Let's say that I offer a $200 / hour as base rate. As an incentive for me I get that multiplied by the ROTI-score I get: `$200 * ROTI of 3 = $800`, if I'm awesome and everyone thinks the time was well invested `$200 * 5.5 ROTI = $1100`.
+Let's say that I offer a $200 / hour as base rate. As an incentive for me I get that multiplied by the ROTI-score I get: `$200 *ROTI of 3 = $800`, if I'm awesome and everyone thinks the time was well invested `$200* 5.5 ROTI = $1100`.
 
 Or I can take my average score and say: "My average is 4.5 and my average rate is $625. If I get above my average we double the fee, below it's half price".
 

_posts/2014-12-22-what-is-the-goal.md

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Make money.
 
 Really?! That's all we do? What about the people in the company then? What about "make a difference in society"? What about all the big words we use in mission and vision statements?
 
-Are they just lies or nifty rephrasings of The Goal?
+Are they just lies or nifty rephrasing of The Goal?
 
 Again on the wikipedia (the book doesn't say much about this) it says:
 
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ As a westerner I'm inclined to ask "What about me? What about my needs?". And no
 
 ## Summary
 
-I cannot get this straight. I'm sure I'm missing something or simply haven't read enough of Mr Goldratts thinking.
+I cannot get this straight. I'm sure I'm missing something or simply haven't read enough of Mr Goldratt's thinking.
 In my mind the Theory Of Constraints thinking, five focusing steps could and SHOULD be applied to pursue any goal. It's really just taking a good look at your system / organization and see what is not contributing to The Goal. I like that. A lot.
 
 But ... does The Goal really have to be "Make money"?