Jim Webber rules......

Jim Webber.... I just have to mention you in the headline of this blogpost.
Excuse me all the other most brilliant speakers at Nordea IT Conference 08 in Stockholm, but you just made a huge difference and mostly effected very many people mindset during that day.

Your SOA Guerilla presentation was absolutely great fantastic and mostly, opened up many peoples mind and eyes for SOA and the spagetti course we are trying to avoid in a costly way. You did it with the passion and energy that was just the lovely "idiot" way of doing it.

Many of the quotes we got during the day was regarding that we had been brave to invite you with your "idiot" thoughts around SOA. This info will both kill, inspire and also maybe put some actions to all the people involved.

Mostly inspire i guess and hope. We all know that it is more easier said then done and that are always conditions that are hard to deal with. But mostly, the inspiration will be a good start for new discussions and decisions.

Back to all the other speakers at the conference as your were not alone Jim.

Dan North... please come back Dan. If we could get only 10% of your skills, experiences and energy you would make magic in our company. People talk about your session still. Great and super!!!

Clive Bates and Julie Gardiner.... my testing favourites and not only mine. My colleagues still refers and talk about you as well, they are so proud to have had you as guest in our company. You are mostly welcome back and I will make sure that is remembered.

Mark Russell..... super well done Mark. You did a splendid job and I am told that the RCP , Rich CLient Platform information was very much input to our work at the moment and that we will need more of this information. I hope you will come back to Sweden soon.

Jesper, thanks for showing that we have great Testing people internal in Nordea, highly skilled, inspiring and very open to some great sharing.

Patrik and Peter.... my "favourite" architects ( Peter is one of my team members) I was so extremely proud of your work. During your session I was just sitting thinking of how long your skills and energy will take you. I am the one to support, coach and of course promote you to any company and work.

Henrik Kniberg, the Srum master of Scrum. You did a great impression to everyone in the audience and also to managment. Thanks for great inspiration and energy. I will put my head of that we will do something that includes part of Scrum in the future. ( not to forget to mention our conversation before the conference.... you gave me lovely laughs Henrik,thank you. Of course, I was so very happy and proud that you were on the top 75 list in Computer Sweden. Well done and welcome back to Nordea.

So.... that webber rules.. that will be the great inspiriation that the Nordea IT conference .. will rule.

Fantastic, Great, Kanon.. the list of words were as long as the list of members.

See you all soon.


From your very best
Conference Task force manager
Anna

Spinning around...

Long time since writing here on the blog. The reason is not that I have run out of things to write about. It is the total opposite. I have just run out of confidence to dare to write what is going on at the moment. But I have just got some energy to tell you again... so I will start some easy.

Last two weeks I have experienced the big happines, deepest surprise, high disappointment but also some thrilling moments I will bring with me for long.

Start with the big happiness. May 15th I was task force manager for Nordea IT conference 08 event and I can tell you that the set up was nothing but a huge success. The happiness of being part and creat such an event for many colleagues just drove me crazy happy. Of course that was visible and to be honest, I did well myself as being the opener and closer of the conference. From Good to Great, yes... yes. The quotes from the day and the evaluations have so far been so fantastic great. Well done, all of us.

Deepest surprise no 1, well.. the planned meeting with my stephmother was cancelled in the last minute as she had got herself a laywer.... puhh... She tries to make us so pissed that we will not care about anything after our father no more. She cant be more wrong in that ambition. It makes the total opposite actions from us, and I can tell.. the cool strategy I have choosen to have is now paid.

Deepest surprise no 2. I am now recommended to be the 100% owner of the Hotel I have heritaged from my father. My offer has been accepted and recommended to be taken...
and yes.... As I told you before how said i have been regarding this... I am just very surprised and let my sister and stephmother make their decisions. No matter what comes, I think, and also will be prepared. I have everything to win and nothing to loose. Nice feeling.

High disappointment... well.. the disappointment was managed in a way that it has turned out to be a personal improvement. I am both proud and happy again that things that are totally stupid and crazy decided... can be changed in to something good.

Thrilling moments.. yes,, there are many. For now.. I can tell that I have so many things to look forward to and I get a stir in my body just to think of it and plan it.

I will go to US this week and make the work of my life. I am prepared and so exited about going to the Rational conference.

I am also very thrilled to see all my lovely network connections, friends I have met there before. Damn that will be a good time.

But first... I land in New york and will take a big chunk of the red lovely apple.

US here I come....


Love A

Summertime in May...time for reunion

What a weekend. The wheather has been mostly fantastic and the temperature as hot as in the high summer here in Sweden.

I took the time to spend a weekend in my hometown at my country house and also some family gathering, which was a great happening in many ways.

First the working part. This weekend I brought my boys with me and we ( I ) had made some plans that they should help me with some hard work that was waiting. Carry a lot of stuff down the road, make the grass and also do some fixing with the terrace. I can tell, the motivation was not to high but increased when i told them it was an opportunity to make some pocket money for the coming vacation.

They worked, not with the love and energy I wanted, but they did. And I did. And the sun was shining heavily on our white bodies and it was lovely. I managed to fix the garden house to a house where we now can enter and bring some plants, vegetables and potatoes very soon. I love that. And mostly Robin, who loves to watch the strawberries and cucombers to be visible and grow lovely.

Second, the family gathering. This dinner held by my mother is the first gathering in 16 years with both my sister, me, my uncle and my mother at the same table. Yes, you read right. And the story behind that is just a whole book , so I leave it for now. Add on my sons and my sisters husband and we just had a great time together and had some excellent food. We managed to stay together all of us without any fights, and I was happy about that but also very aware of the atmosphere during the time.

My teenager sons were not so very extremly happy as they were bored almost in 10 minutes and after the dinner, but managed in a good way to stay cool and great.

We went back to our house quiet early, just to realize that the TV did not work and that I am such an untechnical woman... I guess. I did through away one thing to much this time..... To be able to bring in the TV i need to have a Dvd player attached to the TV, and I just did not know that,,, and I drove it to the garbage station.

Do you think my boys were happy? eh.... we did our best to play some cards and just stay close, but it is hard to amuse young people today. Especially if there is a girlfriend home waiting and texting all the time. ...

I have got a bad cold this weekend, and also a bad scar thrue my small leg today.
I am just to clumsy. I wanted to fix the grass today... and i can tell I got both hit and scared by falling into the bush... Sometimes I just wish I had a handy man to call in, some things are not just my favourites.... is that ok?

I hope so. Enjoy the lovely Swedish weather as long as you can, soon we will have another temperature again. Back to normal..

Love from here.
Anna

Opposite to brave....

Back after two days in Copenhagen and 25 degrees celcius, how lovely, spring feelings in the whole body and seul. Same here in Stockholm.

Participated in a great workshop facilitated by lovely Juliane from Grape people, The hopes and fears written on the wall was just as good as they could be and we were in control during the whole day. The fears .. yes we were good making mitigations to not fulfill them and the hopes.... yes , I guess our trust in the hopes was a great reason for us making this day really good.

My manager colleagues Tina and Glenn are just so very good in their lovely Danish way. I will truly miss them.

I also got an interesting offer these days. The answer was no .I wonder to what I say no.... really. But it feels good.

Addition... i got some inspiration to buy a new MP3 and stereo to my home. The one I have at the moment is just to bad...

I need at least a MP3 for the US trip to survive the flight to Orlando.


Get out of here Anna... why dont you write about the things you want to write about?

Ok I will, I promise. Soon i will.
A

May is here ...9 girls and the city....

One week ago since i wrote on the blog. I can easy write every day about so many things at the moment, but i just have to keep some of it at least for some weeks when its no news any more...

I told you about the good ending of last week, and that did just last for that week.
Back at work on Monday I got some embarrasing, and so sad news that I just could not believe my ears. If you guess it is about some demotivating activites .. yes then you are right.

As I always I want and try to turn bad shitty things to opportunities, i just had to scream and call for my best friends for some minutes, gather myself and just straighten the back in an upright position again.

I did some very quick decisions that Monday and I am happy I have the capacity to do. Now, i just look forward to the rest. Are´nt you? Curious about , yes me too.

Now back to May. This is probably the most lovely time of the year when the nature turns green and lovely. Just exploiding.

Regarding exploiding. This Wednesday I took my very lovely friend G to my hometown for some girl party. And Damn what a party. 9 girls in a sofa, drinking and talking and just shatting about girly things. How lovely.

Lovely happy was the old Taxi driver as well who took us downtowmn in a large bus...
If possible, he would never ever let us out of the bus. Best drive ever.4 minutes .

So,,, a very wet evening to be true, for some of the girls it ended very early, and for some of us others... it ended very late. On tired feets we walked home in the lovely night and just laughed our brains out.

Back to Stockholm and just a new opportunity.

I have not spoken to my closest neighbour that much, mostly because she was my kids teacher in pre-school I guess and she is some much older then me... but yesterday,
I asked her for a walk with me and she accepted. A nice walk, that ended with some glass of wine and a long night in the city. First the Erotica exibition ( yes, never been there before and I will tell you later about it in the blog if I dare), and then a great dancing place with a live band.

I noticed I just had so much fun and I did not even talk to one single person but my neighbour.

She had the night of her life I think, and we just went home laughing and very happy. These unexpecting happenings that just happens are lovely.

May is here, so is the energy and the sun. Here we go.

Love and kiss