Currently on my mind

Gamification is a word I hear all around currently, and I like it. For me personally taking everything far too serious gamification is a great tool to stay in balance with my stress. Hopefully it will help me last a few more years :-). In services I use I also like gamification, who doesn't want a fun user experience showing there is some thinking and depth behind. Fun doesn't mean non-professional as it used to when I was a kid - meeting greyish robot-like-people at the bank or watching the news. But what about your own company, could it gain from introducing a little more gamification? Will it make people more engaged and involved? Currently I hear about several companies introducing loyalty programs for their employees. As an employee you will earn loyalty points based on your actions and your result (I assume it's based on your team/group result so it doesn't make a nursery for individualism on behalf of creating together). I guess it will be used both as...

      We all start there, with the famous Monolith Architecture. Why? Because it’s easy, it’s fast, it suits our needs just fine. Remember the first rule when distributing your systems – “Do NOT distribute your systems”, until you need it, then “Do NOT distribute your systems”, unless you really really really need it. So the Monolith is the perfect start for any start-up and can suit your need for a very long time, potentially forever.   So why bother understanding what Microservices is all about? There might come a day, when you feel you grow out of your Monolith. The size of your organization has grown quite a lot, your dev department is getting bigger, perhaps dev centers separated geographically. All you know is that growth is the only thing that will stay stable for the near future. Sooner or later I think you will start to see the typical signs of you outgrowing your Monolith (if not – congratulations, please tell me and the world how you did it); You s...

From my welcome opening speech of Netlight Edge Conference 2015 in wonderful Alte Kongresshalle in Munich. I’m Mandus Engman, I’m Partner at Netlight, I’m a Genuine Consultant, I’m entrepreneur,  I’m a father and I’m a believer. I meet many different companies in different situations, different challenges, different opportunities. I meet the people I’m a believer in that I believe together we can make a difference. We can achieve something together. I love this day because it gives me perspective and time to reflect. Where am I; where am I heading; why am I doing what I do. We tend to ask ourselves and talk about “what” and “how” but so many times we’re missing the “why” – and without the “why” we’re missing the essence, the depth – what is meaningful for real. So why are we all here? I know why I am here, but why are you here today? I know by fact that we are all here by free will. It's Sunday and no one gets paid any extra to be here. So we’re not here ...

Edge Academy takes place all over Netlight - our own intimate technology festival that for many of us is the true highlight of the year. As always the program with all the highly current and engaging sessions are stunning, a fantastic smorgosbord ready to be served. To the question "what does Netlight do?" the program of Edge Academy, see below, will serve as an answer better than many others. As always, as a genuine consultants we do what is important to our clients and what is hard and challenges ourselves. Edge Academy is made by us consultants, for us consultants. Based on our shared engagement in ourselves, in each other and in our clients.  Out of "We serve nothing but provide everything" and " Boid in Control " we get Edge Academy. http://academy.netlight.com/ Monday Architecture and Object Oriented Design With Solid Principles and Onion Architecture (Sth) Azure Services Overview With Real Life Examples (Sth...

Being a great entrepreneur and leader is not about starting a new company, nor it's a one-man-show. It's about believing in something and then engage in the challenge. It's about finding the right people to create together with and to grow talent together with. There are no shortcuts, only hard work - but it's so much fun and I love it! If you succeed, if you find the right thing to believe in, if you find the right people to create together with and if you really engage, then you can become a part of something great, be part af a great piece of art, like a monument. Or as Steve Jobs would have put it " make your dent in the Universe and start not just a business, but an entirely new way of life". Here is a great post and some examples to become inspired by. They have all found something to believe in, found the right people to work with and grown talent together. They all have built "life is great" organisations around them that believe in w...