Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
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Volunteer Experience

  • Member of the board

    Forbrændingen (music venue in the Danish town Albertslund)

  • Member of the board

    Norberg festival

    Took part in starting up the electronic music festival Norberg festival, in the town of Norberg in Sweden.
    The festival takes place in the buildings for an old iron ore mine.

  • Teacher

    Coding Pirates

    - 2 years 1 month

    Children

    Volunteer teacher at Coding Pirates Herlev department. Teaching kids about programming every thursday for 2 hours. The kids really want to make games. So to learn a bit about that myself I build http://fingerboss.com.

Publications

  • From Scrum to Agile: a Journey to Tackle the Challenges of Distributed Development in an Agile Team

    IT University - Copenhagen

    Background: Agile and distributed software development are two trends that continue to increase rapidly in today's software industry. Even though the benefits achievable by combining them are potentially many, the intrinsic challenges of such marriage often lead to severe complications that can jeopardize the successful completion of software projects. Method: To investigate empirically how these two trends can coexist without compromising on the agile core values and principles, we conducted…

    Background: Agile and distributed software development are two trends that continue to increase rapidly in today's software industry. Even though the benefits achievable by combining them are potentially many, the intrinsic challenges of such marriage often lead to severe complications that can jeopardize the successful completion of software projects. Method: To investigate empirically how these two trends can coexist without compromising on the agile core values and principles, we conducted an exploratory holistic case study. Focusing on the development team of a Danish SME having both distributed offices as well as teleworking arrangements, we showcase (the evolution of) their practices. Results: The case is an example of the effective application of the agile reflective culture that allowed the company to evolve to a level in which the col-location restrictions of agile software development are overcome by a continuously evolving software process geared towards reducing waste to achieve speed and simplicity. Conclusions: Even though results need to be considered carefully due to the single nature of the reported case, we highlight five elements that have been fundamental in such journey: agile servant-leader, agile team, trust, virtual work environment, inspect & adapt, and reduce waste. Extensive information is provided to frame the context and to allow meaningful future comparisons.

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  • Virtual by Design: How a Work Environment can Support Agile Distributed Software Development

    IT University - Copenhagen

    Won Best Paper Award at ICGSE'18 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
    Abstract: Even though agile methods have been flourishing in the last decades, their implementation in (globally) distributed arrangements still present hard challenges. Due to this tension, practices are either modified or added to compensate with the additional control required by the setup. In this paper, we present a case study about a company that managed to incrementally design a process that does not compromise the foundations of…

    Won Best Paper Award at ICGSE'18 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
    Abstract: Even though agile methods have been flourishing in the last decades, their implementation in (globally) distributed arrangements still present hard challenges. Due to this tension, practices are either modified or added to compensate with the additional control required by the setup. In this paper, we present a case study about a company that managed to incrementally design a process that does not compromise the foundations of the agile philosophy by embracing the characteristics of distributed development. We show how a virtual work environment has been crafted by continuously improving practices and carefully selecting technologies to allow each team member to fully participate regardless of the actual physical location. Aware of the single nature limitation of the reported case, we present extensive information to frame the context allowing meaningful comparisons by researchers and providing concrete examples for practitioners.

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Projects

  • Tjaz - learning

    - Present

    A side project in my spare time for generating quizzes.
    Hosted in EU, except Ai delivered by Anthropic.
    161 languages

  • Practio platform and website

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    Internationally scalable solution for travel vaccines

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  • debitoor.com

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    Debitoor is an accounting online software for invoicing.

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  • Muscula

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    I have sold Muscula.
    Online SaaS service that offers you the ability to start logging your JavaScript errors in production. Set it up in 5 minutes, just like Google Analytics. Build with Node.js and MongoDB. Used by thousands of websites. All of this with a low operational cost because of the IT-architecture and clever use of GAE as CDN.

    Things I work with: IT-architecture, Scaling, Coding, Node.js, MongoDB, Git, Github, marketing, copy-writing, facebook, G+, networking, JavaScript…

    I have sold Muscula.
    Online SaaS service that offers you the ability to start logging your JavaScript errors in production. Set it up in 5 minutes, just like Google Analytics. Build with Node.js and MongoDB. Used by thousands of websites. All of this with a low operational cost because of the IT-architecture and clever use of GAE as CDN.

    Things I work with: IT-architecture, Scaling, Coding, Node.js, MongoDB, Git, Github, marketing, copy-writing, facebook, G+, networking, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, DNS registrations, Google Analytics, GAE (CDN), Basecamp, Google docs, Webstorm.

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  • Obsurvey

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    I have now sold obsurvey.
    Online survey solution. Very easy to use, try to create a survey and see. It has some innovative stuff.
    This is build on my early experiences with JavaScript MV* architectures that I was pioneering on IE 5.5 onward. This was also when I started reading the W3C specs.

    Things I have worked with: JavaScript, MV*, Marketing, Facebook, Freelancer.com, Elance.com (for a bit of design work), Uservoice.com, Youtube, Screencasts, JavaScript, HTML, CSS…

    I have now sold obsurvey.
    Online survey solution. Very easy to use, try to create a survey and see. It has some innovative stuff.
    This is build on my early experiences with JavaScript MV* architectures that I was pioneering on IE 5.5 onward. This was also when I started reading the W3C specs.

    Things I have worked with: JavaScript, MV*, Marketing, Facebook, Freelancer.com, Elance.com (for a bit of design work), Uservoice.com, Youtube, Screencasts, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Usertesting.com, MSSQL, dotNet, C#, Visual Studio, Google Analytics, GAE (CDN).

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Honors & Awards

  • Won Best Paper Award at ICGSE'18 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

    ICGSE'18

  • Won company hackathon

    E-conomic

    The company hackathon is a yearly event where all developers, marketing, support and other parts of the organization split into small teams and hack away at an idea from 8 til 24 on a single days. The hacks are presented to the whole house in short presentations. There is a vote. And the winner is announced in front of the whole company at the annual "Company Days" event.

    My team won with an integration between e-conomic and debitoor.

Languages

  • Danish

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

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