Assignments

Today I read the information for the assignment 6 of Cases in Management Control, also I have read the magazine of Esther Derby. Finally, I have read forget crossing the chasm. I'll start giving feedback for the assignment 5 of Cases in Management Control.

General Issues

Today I went to the central Post Office to send my packages to Chile. Moreover, I went to close my account at the Bank and said goodbye to my friends. I'll have a meeting with Lotta at 19:30. I have to clean the kitchen and my room to deliver the apartment tomorrow.

General Issues

Today we clean all the dishes from yesterday. Also, today is a laundry time. The last time that I go to the laundry here in Sweden. I'm throwing away all the articles that are not useful. Today I met Becka we talked a lot and drank glögg.

working on improving the fifth assignment of Cases in Management Control

Today I'm working on improving the fifth assignment of Cases in Management Control. Today I'll finished this assignment of Hoffman Drugs Store.

General Issues

At 15:00 I have a meeting with Kari, and at 16:00 I have a class of Marketing of High Tech Products. After that I should give feedback to the people of Case Management Control from the fourth assignment.

Reading the papers for the next assignment in Cases in Management Control

Today I'll read the articles in order to start to think in this next Case study for Saturday.

Reading Crossing the Chasm

Today I have finished to read chapter 2 of this book.

Reading Crossing the Chasm

Today I'll start reading "Crossing the Chasm" for Marketing of High-Tech Products.

Preparing for the presentation of Executive Communication

I´m preparing for the presentation about "Business Intelligence for executive communication".

General Issues

Today I went to the Post Office, to see if I can send my luggage using the snail mail service here. Also I said good bye to Patrik. I have also lunch with Johanna. Today I have a lecture of Executive Communication.

Reading the articles for Executive Communication

Today I'll read the articles for Executive Communication tomorrow. The articles are the following:

• Getting past yes
• How to write a great

working on my fourth assignment of Cases in Management Control

Today I have been working on my fourth assignment of cases in management control, about Loctite company.

Reading the executive communication articles

Today I'll start reading the Executive Communication articles.

working on my assignment of Cases in Management Control

Today I started working on my fourth assignment of Cases in Management Control, I think I'll finished it tomorrow.

working on my presentation of Marketing of High-tech products

Today I´m working on my presentation of Marketing of High-tech products.

General Issues

Today I come back from my cousin's house in Norrköping and then I went to my Polish friends house to see a film.

working in my third case study in Cases of Management Control

Today I have finished my third case study about management control about GTE Corporation.

Visiting my cousins inn Norrköping

Today I'm going to visit my cousins in Norrköping, I'll be there the whole weekend.

working in some assignments

Today I'll meet with Gal to work in the assignment about Business Intelligence for Executive Communication, after that I'll work in the third case study for Cases in Management Control.

working in the assignments

I've read the article "Optimal Marketing" to discuss today in the class of Marketing of High-Tech products.
Today I'll give feedback to people from the second case study in Cases in Management Control.
I'll start the third assignment for Saturday about GTE for Cases in Management Control.
I´m preparing now for the presentation in a couple of hours.
I'll start reading the book for the meeting tomorrow for Executive Communication.

General Issues

Today I have a meeting with David to develop our presentation for Marketing of High-Tech products today.
I have a class about Marketing of High-Tech Products.

Working in the assignments

I'll work today in the assignment of Executive Communication searching for information. Moreover, I've finished to work in the assignment of Cases in Management Control about the Rusell Case Study.

General Issues

Today I'll send four letters to my parents and friends. I'll check at the train station if I can pay the ticket to Copenhagen there. I went to Tom Michels class about Executive Communication.

Reading the Agile Project Management book

Today I'll read chapter 8,9,10 about risks in agile project management, the necessary environment for agile projects, and finally operational infraestructure needed for this type of projects.

General Issues

Today I sent a package to Chile with books and CDs. Moreover I went to ICA and I bought something to eat.

Reading the GTE Corporation Case Study

I'm reading the GTE Corporation Case Study for Cases in Management Control.

working on the presentation for Thursday

Today I have been working for the presentation for Marketing of High-Tech Products.

Reading Executive Management articles

Today I have read three articles for Executive Management, two of them are:

• The CEO's secret of managing time
• The work of leadership

Reading "Agile Project Management"

I have finished to read chapters 6, 7 from "Agile Project Management", tomorrow I'll start with chapter 8 about risks, the approach developed by the author is highly related with PMI.
Quote of the day "Select a mix of expert and intermediate-level skill sets to create a healthy balance on the team, and provide a training ground for broadening individual perspectives".
Chin, Gary(Author). Agile Project Management : How to Succeed in the Face of Changing Project Requirements, p 89.

Finishing to work in the first assignment of Case Management Control

Today I have finished to work in the assignment, but I have some troubles when I tried to upload the file. Also I have send my feedback to the people in the course.

First assignment of Cases in Management Control

I'm working in the first assignment of cases in management control. I'll start reading and then I'll begin to write the assignment.

Reading Akallabeth

Today I'm reading Akallabeth, yesterday I finished to read the Silmarillion. I have finished to read the Silmarillion today. Tomorrow I'll return the book to Darek.

General issues

We traveled today from the cottage to our apartment. Yesterday was great day where we met a lot of new people.

Travel to the cottage

Today I´m going to the cottage near Karlskrona with my international friends.

Working on the first assignment of Cases in Management Control

Today I´ll read the information to start working on the first assignment of Cases in Management Control. Moreover, I have already read the case studies that people sent as preliminary reports. I´m thinking to read this pages a second time.

Working on the presentation for Marketing of High-Tech Products

Today I have been working trying to find information for my presentation for next Thursday.

General Issues

Today I have a lecture of Marketing of High-Tech products with Tom Michel, before that I'll go to the gym.

Reading the agile project management book

Today I'll continue to read the book of agile project management. I have finished to read chapter 5.
Quoting of the day, about leassons learned in project management: "First, develop an environment that supports continual learning. Second, capture key lessons learned. And third, archive, organize, and make these learningsaccessible to current and future project teams."
Chin, Gary. Agile Project Management : How to Succeed in the Face of Changing Project Requirements. p 79. I'll start reading chapter 6 about "team management".

Reading books

Today I'm in chapter 22 of the Silmarillion. I have started to read another book of agile project management that is in e-brary at the university. The name of the book is "Agile Project Management: How to Succeed in the Face of Changing Project Requirements". I´m now reading chapter 4.

Lecture of Executive Communication

I'll go today to this lecture at 16:00, until 20:00 I hope will be less than that.

working on the experience small assignment

Today I have been working on the small assignment about the experience economy. I think I have finish it but I wait for the answer from Claudia (German).

General Issues

Today I'll go to the gym at 18:00 for Spinning class.

Reading the Marketing of High-Tech Products papers

Today I'm reading the papers delivered by the teacher in Marketing of High-Tech products.
The articles are:

• Do you want to keep your customers forever?
• The never satisfied customer.
• Welcome to the Experience Economy.

General Issues

Today I went to the bank to transfer money from my Bank account in Nordea Bank to Chile, moreover I applied for the Marketing of High-Tech Products course. Finally, I´ll go soon to the gym.

Reading books

Today I have to finished to read this book "Agile Project Management", and I 'll continue to read Silmarillion.
He defines a framework that has 5 stages that are: Envision, Speculate, Explore, Adapt, and Close.
The author mentions that three activities should be developed before starting with the development:

• Articulating a product vision.
• Defining the project's scope and constraints.
• Creating an iterative, feature based delivery plan.
  

He calls this agile project management, adaptive project management.
In the Explore phase there are some practices that belongs to three categories:

• Deliver Objectives: Workload Management.
• Technical Practices: Low-Cost Change.
• Project Community: Coaching and team development, daily team integration meetings, participatory decision making, and daily interaction with customers.

Quotation of the day: "Project managers (and product managers) are direct contributors to the team's exploring process. They encourage rather than motivate; they are demanding, but not arbitrary; they empower the team, but make certain decisions themselves; they coach rather than criticize; and they facilitate rather than command" p. 208, 209.

Reading books

Today I'm reading the Silmarillion, right now I'm on the chapter 20. In the agile project management book I'm in the chapter 7.

Laundry day

Today I'm going to the laundry to wash my clothes 15:00 - 19:00 PM.

Improving my third and second assignment of Investments in the IT Industry

Today I'm working on improving my assignments 2 and 3 of Investments in the IT Industry. I have already finished these assignments and sent it to my teacher.

Reading another chapter of Silmarillion

Today I'm reading another chapter of Silmarillion.

Executive communication

I'll finish to read the papers that Tom gave to us this week about Executive Communication.

General Issues

Today I went downtown and I met Lotta, I talk to her and I bought some food and filled out my mobile with money.

Working on the third assignment of Investments in the IT Industry

Today I have complete the calculation for the valuation of Amazon, tomorrow I'll finish it with a final touch as the same the second assignment and I'll send them to the teacher.

Working on the third assignment of Investments in the IT Industry

Today I'll work a little bit in this assignment, because I have a lot of things to do in this day.

General Issues

I'll go today to Karlskrona to see if the train station can give me back my money of the ticket to Stockholm for the November 8th.
I'll go to the gym today, and also I'll make some panqueques to my friends.

Reading The Silmarillion

Today I'm reading the Silmarillion of J.J. Tolkien, I'm on chapter 14.

General Issues

I'll go to a class of Marketing of High Tech products at 16:00. Morover I have to buy some food for tomorrow meeting with my friends.

Working in my third assignment of Investments in the IT Industry

Today I have been working on my third assignment of Investments in the IT Industry.

General Issues

Today I went to my first lecture of Executive Communication with Masha.

Working on my third assignment of Investments in the IT Industry

Today I have been working again in this assignment. I hope I´ll finish it tomorrow.

Working on my third assignment of Investments in the IT Industry

Todai I have been working again in my third assignment of Investments in the IT Industry about making a valuation of an IT company, in my case is Amazon.

General Issues

Today I have already seen "La Flor de mi secreto" whose director is Pedro Almodóvar. Tonight I'll se with my friends the third part of the "Lord of the rings", the last one.

Working on the third assignment of Investments in the IT Industry

I'm working today again on the third assignment of Investments in the IT Industry.