Cay Hasselmann

Have you ever wondered why you can really only find work in a geographic small area or why the the main GDP of most countries is fixed on a very small geographic location? Well there are many interesting theories and usually they are full of politics, but while politics play a role they are usually … Continue reading Dependency area →

When people talk about customer preferences they very rarely talk about customer preferences, but more about their own agenda. It us very easy to express a certain customer preference as a survey can be easily manipulated and many do not even bother with a survey, but instead use the good old self evident truth that … Continue reading Customer preference →

Applications or Apps are something quite common and just sticking the word mobile in front of them neither makes them new, nor does it describe a device or the use. Instead if we want a real classification we need to look at: the input means, such as audio typing, mouse, fingers, neural, etc.. the output … Continue reading Mobile Apps is no trend →

In business process management a lot of people are talking about agile and a few are using it in very limited way, so I will lock at some of areas here that always emerge in projects. Scope: Usually BPM non agile projects prefer a fixed scope, whereas in a fill agile world the scope is … Continue reading Agile in BPM →

Usually most professions have a direct or at least are stakeholder led QA function that monitors their output, however there are professions that tend to lack this kind of QA, such as architects, doctors and other professions that usually involve the professional to confess specialised knowledge in a wide area, so that testing the output … Continue reading QA void professions →

I have seen some people running around with the message to digitalise everything with the same brain emptiness like some Jehovah witnesses or free thinkers. The key with digitalisation is first to ask yourself about the consequences and the causality chain, before starting to act on a solution. So when you deal with caring or … Continue reading Digital death →

Once you start to scope any work as an architect you will quickly see that work is mainly done to avoid pain once you have reached a certain point of experience. Less experienced architects will often argue that it is cost reduction or some great idea that drives change, however it is pain and I … Continue reading Scope is a measurement of Pain →

Alternative truth should be nothing new for everyone working on projects as their is always a current truth called the project plan and potential truth, if the the current timeline is no longer working out. Also in architecture we are working with options, plan B and C, as well as conflicting scope and requirement considerations. … Continue reading Alternative truth for architects →

We are all told how important it is to fail, but when it gets concrete we an aversion to own up for good reason as owning up to failure goes against our innermost being. The strange thing however is that those that own up usually will get benefits from it as they are seen as … Continue reading Failure to fail learning from failure →

Today I like to talk about the parenthesis in term of rhetoric not the moth called ‘Lecithocera parenthesis’. Parenthesis is an explanatory or qualifying word in a passage or statement, as I have just attempted in the first sentence. I most modern writing qualification of a statement often only happens in the second or third … Continue reading Parenthesis →

In architecture we sometimes confronted by wicked problems or other problems that are unsolvable by traditional means, such as with the wicked where you can first formulate the answer after you have implemented the solution. Additional creativity often works best if you remove the pressure, often you see this with writers block. Traditional management and … Continue reading The power of giving up →

If you are like me you will want to deliver something early in a project mainly to prove yourself to yourself that you have not become deadwood. Deadwood has a tendency to get in all areas of projects or work without clear processes. Usually consultants that are representing the deadwood make some really good suggestions, … Continue reading The life force robing nature of deadwood →