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logistics 4 min read

eFTI and OLF eCMR, Which of Those will the Future of Digital Freight be Based on?

Two major initiatives are reshaping freight documentation: EU's eFTI Regulation and Open Logistics Foundation's eCMR. But they're not competing. They're building the same digital future together.

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newsletter 3 min read

Alkukevään kuulumisia (Flowan uutiskirje 1/2025)

Onpas se kevät jo pitkällä, aivan yllättäen. Me flowalaiset toivotamme teille kaikille oikein hyvää kevättä! Tässä alkuvuoden kuulumisemme.

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Ohje: Työkaluja Claudelle, osa 2

Tässä kirjoituksessa näytän, kuinka aloittaa hyödyntämään Model Context Protocol -standardia, jonka avulla voi antaa GenAI-malli Claudelle työkalut organisaation esim. Google Driven, Slackin ja Notionin käyttöön.

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Kartoitus: Tekoälyavusteinen ohjelmistotuotanto

Jatkamme Uusien teknologioiden kartoitus -sarjaa toisella osalla, jossa syvennymme generatiiviseen tekoälyyn ohjelmistotuotannon apuvälineenä.

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Ohje: työkaluja Claudelle, osa 1

Tässä kirjoituksessa näytän, kuinka aloittaa hyödyntämään Model Context Protocol -standardia, jonka avulla voi antaa GenAI-malli Claudelle työkalut organisaation esim. Google Driven, Slackin ja Notionin käyttöön.

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innovation tech leadership product management 1 min read

Opas: tuoteinnovointi uusia teknologioita hyödyntäen

Tässä artikkelissa esittelemme videon, jossa pureudutaan uusien teknologioiden, erityisesti generatiivisen tekoälyn, hyödyntämiseen strategisessa tuotekehityksessä.

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tech leadership innovation 1 min read

Wardley mapping: käytännöllinen johdanto

Wardley Mapping on tehokas menetelmä strategian ja tuotekehityksen suunnitteluun. Annan tällä videolla lyhyen johdannon Wardley Mapping -mallinnusmenetelmään.

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Uusien teknologioiden kartoitus

Käynnistämme Uusien teknologioiden kartoitus –sarjan, jossa käymme läpi tekoälyn ja muiden nousevien teknologioiden osa-alueita kriittisesti ja tylsästi. Suhtaudumme epäilevästi hypeen ja koitamme löytää syvempää ymmärrystä kaiken mainospuheen takaa.

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newsletter fi 2 min read

Kohti uutta vuotta

Vuodenvaihde lähestyy vääjäämättä. Rauhallista joulunaikaa ja onnellista uutta vuotta sinulle koko Flowan väeltä!

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product management software development 3 min read

How to Diversify Investment Risk in Product Development

A product's lifecycle phase largely dictates the strategy in software product development. However, during the lifecycle, there are several ways to diversify investment risks to avoid insurmountable challenges by the time the product reaches the end of its lifecycle.

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product management software development fi 3 min read

Kuinka hajauttaa investointiriskiä tuotekehityksessä

Ohjelmistotuotteiden kehityksessä tuotteen elinkaari sanelee pitkälti strategian. Tuotteen elinkaaren aikana on kuitenkin useita tapoja hajauttaa investointiriskejä niin, että elinkaaren pään saavutettaessa ongelmat eivät kasva ylitsepääsemättömiksi.

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Syksyn 2024 satoa...

Syksy on tullut. Tässä uutiskirjeessä Flowan kuulumisia. Lisäksi mukana kaksi artikkelinostoa, meidän arvotarinastamme ja softa-arkkitehtuurin vaikeimmista paloista. Sekä kutsu sinulle tulla meidän kanssamme R&A-elokuvanäytökseen!

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flowa purpose fi 2 min read

Kun hämmensimme TJ:ta kieltäytymällä tekemästä tarjousta

Arvot näkyvät parhaiten silloin, kun pelissä on jotain arvokasta. Firman tapauksessa yhteiset arvot ovat sellaisia, joita halutaan jakaa kertomalla tarinoita siitä, kuinka toimittiin. Meillä Flowassa yksi tälläinen on tarina siitä, kuinka kieltäydyimme lähettämään tarjousta asiakkaalle.

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software architecture software development 6 min read

Software architecture — The Hardest parts, and how to live with them

I recently read the book “Software Architecture — the Hard Parts”. In this three-part series of articles, you have my top 4 list of the hardest parts and six patterns that I’ve found useful. In this part I'll introduce six patterns that I’ve found useful when struggling with these vicious problems.

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Software architecture — The Hardest parts - Part 2 of 3

I recently read the book “Software Architecture — the Hard Parts”. In this three-part series of articles, you have my top 4 list of the hardest parts and six patterns that I’ve found useful. Let's continue with the top 2 from my top 4 list.

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Software architecture — The Hardest parts - Part 1 of 3

I recently read the book “Software Architecture — the Hard Parts”. In this three-part series of articles, you have my top 4 list of the hardest parts and six patterns that I’ve found useful. Let's start with the bottom two from my top 4 list.

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software development 11 min read

Are you happy with crappy estimates? — Patterns and practices for better estimates

The estimates are a tricky thing. There are a lot of good estimation techniques, but no technique is perfect. There is also a lot of polarized debate about software estimation. I’ll try to avoid that and shed a systemic view on the topic. Here you have my top 12

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product management goals OKRs fi 5 min read

Näin löydät sopivankokoisen tavoitteen

Useat tiimit ja organisaatiot kamppailevat sen kanssa, kuinka määritellä sopivankokoisia tavoitteita. Tässä artikkelissa esittelen tavoitepuu-työkalun tarpeeksi pienien tavoitteiden löytämiseen.

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product management opportunity mapping fi 6 min read

Kuinka koostaa asiakashaastattelujen löydöt

Käytännöllinen johdanto opportunity mappingista, osa 2: miten luodaan opportunity map ja miten sellaista voi hyödyntää käytännössä.

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Video: Opportunity Mapping -intro

Tässä videossa esittelen opportunity mapping -mallinnustavan. Opportunity mapping on mallinnustapa tuotekehityksen product discovery -työn organisointiin ja priorisointiin.

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product management opportunity mapping fi 3 min read

Kuinka pitää asiakasnäkökulma mukana tuotekehityksen arjessa?

Opportunity mapping sopii product discovery -työn organisointiin ja priorisointiin. Sitä voidaan käyttää fokusoimaan ja priorisoimaan asiakashaastattelujen agendaa, jäsentelemään haastattelujen löydöksiä sekä priorisoimaan product discovery- ja tuotekehitystyötä.

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product management lean startup startups fi 2 min read

Jäsennystä uuden tuotteen kehityksen ensiaskeliin

Käsitys uuden tuotteen kehityksen ensiaskeleista on usein sekalainen sotku startup-jargonia ja erilaisia viitekehyksiä. Tässä kirjoituksessa tarjoan selkeän raamin näihin ensiaskeliin.

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product management goals OKRs fi 5 min read

3 hyötyä tavoitteiden ilmaisemisesta haluttuina seurauksina

Tässä artikkelissa kerron kolmesta hyödystä, jotka seuraavat siitä, että tuotekehitysorganisaatio siirtyy määrittelemään tavoitteensa haluttuina seurauksina.

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product management business agile customer discovery fi 5 min read

B2B -tuote simppelillä suunnitelmalla product/market fittiin

Product/Market Fit on startuppien Eldorado: se kun on saavutettu, on helppo myydä, hakea rahoitusta, skaalata. Tässä kirjoituksessa jaan hyvin yksinkertaisen tavan, jolla alkuvaiheen B2B-startup voi jäsentää matkansa kohti product/market fittiä.

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product management business agile product vision purpose fi 5 min read

Kuinka kirkastaa tuotevisio

Tuotevisio tukee tuotetiimien proaktiivisuutta. Lue, kuinka kirkastaa tuotevisio ja miten hyödyntää kirkasta tuotevisiota arjessa?

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Kirkas tuotevisio saa tuotetiimin loistamaan

Digitaalisessa tuotekehityksessä jatkuva oppiminen on menestymisen edellytys. Tähän vaadittavaa itseohjautuvuutta voi tukea kirkkaalla tuotevisiolla.

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Milloin on oikea aika rakentaa ensimmäinen versio softatuotteesta?

Me flowalaiset päädymme keskusteluihin startuppien kanssa usein siinä vaiheessa, kun startupissa tulee ajankohtaiseksi ensimmäisen softatuoteversion rakentaminen. Muuten, täältä voit lukea startup-yhteistyökeisseistämme [https://www.flowa.fi/blog/towards-impact-our-work-so-far/]. Vaikka softatuote olisi kuinka pieni, on sen rakentaminen aina iso investointi alkuvaiheen startupille. Näin on, oli sitten kyse ensimmäisestä tuotantoversiosta, MVP:stä taikka

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coaching community future of work 1 min read

Coach peer support group?

UPDATE: This ship has sailed and in the end it was not meant to be. Thank you for everyone involved, I'm keeping this blog post published so that if you return to see what came of this idea you can read this update. I'm thinking of

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Towards Impact: Our work so far

We want our company Flowa to become a true social and planetary enterprise. In this post I will introduce two of our impact projects: GoWood and What Matters To Me.

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Towards social and planetary impact

I want our company Flowa to become a true social and planetary enterprise. One that contributes to the well-being of our society and the sustainability of our planet in addition to being a financially healthy business.

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Summing up my July

Right now, people in continental Europe are starting their summer vacations. And at the same time, I'm back from mine. Along with many (most?) people in Finland. I'm writing this post to close my summer vacation chapter. To be able to move onto the next one

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Async + Sync Remote Retrospective Plan

Running a remote workshop calls for more up-front planning and prep than face-to-face workshops. That is why I'm sharing this retrospective plan, with a Miro board template, to help you get your retrospective prep done in just a few minutes!

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Remote Fishbowl Lean Coffee

This is a remote session plan, with ready-to-use templates, for a big crowd to discuss together in a structured way without a predefined agenda. It is based on both the Lean Coffee structured agendaless meeting format and the Fishbowl discussion format.

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Closing with Conclusions

Here is a quick remote workshop activity plan for closing a session with conclusions. It involves reflecting on insights, puzzles and next steps and sharing them with the whole group.

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Remote Retrospective Plan: WARP

Running a remote workshop calls for more up-front planning and prep than face-to-face workshops. That is why I'm sharing this retrospective plan, with templates (Google Jamboard for now, maybe more later), to help you get your retrospective prep done in just a few minutes!

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Facilitating Alignment with OKRs

I recently facilitated a session on OKRs in the Agile Finland Coaching Circle. In this post I share the presentation videos from the session as well as my slides.

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Remote Team Health Check

Remote Team Health Check is designed for creating shared understanding of how your remote team is coping and what challenges each one of you is facing.

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goals leadership purpose team leadership 4 min read

Kirkasta tarkoitus: miksi ja miten

Organisaatio, yksikkö, tiimi, mikä tahansa rakenne, joka kokoaa ihmisiä yhteen, tarvitsee tarkoituksen. Tarkoitus antaa rakenteeseen kuuluville ihmisille mahdollisuuden tuntea työnsä merkitykselliseksi. Se myös auttaa kaikessa päätöksenteossa kaikilla tasoilla.

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Yhteinen suunta ja autonomia

Asiantuntijoiden johtamisessa nousee usein kysymys yhteiseen suuntaan menemisestä. Kuinka yhdistää selkeä yhteinen suunta ja autonomia käytännössä?

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Effective Communication in Distributed Teams

Lot of problems we are facing while working remotely during a time of crisis boil down to communication. Join our online learning circle on effective communication in distributed teams!

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My invitation for you

I'd like to invite you to join our upcoming remote training for leaders. I believe it will be worth your while. Both you and the company you work for will learn something that will help you thrive as these uncertain times we are facing continue. A difficult ask

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What has changed for me during this crisis

I cannot control the crisis, but I can try to influence my own clarity of purpose and motivation. As an experiment, I tried the Moving Motivators exercise. Here are my findings and reflections on what has changed.

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remote work retrospectives 2 min read

Productive Remote Teams Interactive Webinar: Remote retrospectives

"People are passive", "Clumsy tools", "Lacking human connection"... These are all common challenges agile coaches, ScrumMasters and facilitators face when facilitating retrospectives remotely. At Flowa we have run Remote retrospective for years because we are located in Helsinki and Jyväskylä. We have also experience

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Survey: Challenges in working from home during lockdown

Are you working from home during lockdown? Me too. Let's share and collect our challenges for mutual benefit. Maybe that will spark some ways to help each other.

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remote work games 2 min read

Productive Remote Teams Interactive Webinar: Games #3

Cancelled Unfortunately this webinar was cancelled. We will keep covering the topic of games later in this webinar series. Sign up to next week's webinar is now open. See more info below. Productive Remote Teams Interactive Webinar: Remote retrospectives“People are passive”, “Clumsy tools”, “Lacking human connection”... These

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remote work Creativity Practices 6 min read

Remote patterns and practices: Pizza co-writing

One of the problems we have come across is how to effectively produce content together. Pizza co-writing is our favorite method for this.

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Remote patterns and practices: Weekly goals

Weekly goals practice is about choosing tactics that support strategy and collaboration and guides day-to-day work. Weekly goal ideal for seasoned self-organized teams and small organizations.

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Interactive Webinar: Effective co-working sessions in remote teams

Context and challenge Many of us are now working from home and we need to co-create, brainstorm and make things happen together. This is not easy. Some have toddlers to look after and some have home schooling or other family members to support. Finding time for meetings can be difficult.

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Productive Remote Teams Interactive Webinar: Games #2

Last week we had a webinar about games that work well in remote setting, and why you should use them with your team. The webinar was fully booked and many people couldn't get their seat in time so this week we will do it again.

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Games for remote teams

Games bring joy and connection to remote teams. If you care for the productivity and wellbeing of your remote team, you should consider playing more games together. This a growing list of games that we have found to work well with remote teams. Spaceteam A collaborative mobile shouting game https:

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Playing remotely: Spaceteam

We have a long tradition of playing all kind of games together. There's no better way to get juice flowing gaming together. Spaceteam is brilliant for this

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Productive Remote Teams Interactive Webinar: Games

In this free interactive webinar we get some hands-on experience and talk about the benefits of fitting some gaming to your remote collaboration efforts!

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Free Resources for Remote Software Teams

We have collected a list of the best and most trustworthy free resources for new remote teams.

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These digital tools have enabled us to work as a distributed team

Remote team work is all about fluent interaction with your teammates. Everything related to the work needs to be available online. This is why it is essential that your digital tools are up to the job. It is important to notice that there is no such thing as a perfect

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Productive Remote Teams Interactive Webinar

Has your team just switched to remote-first mode of working? Does it feel difficult? We are organising a free interactive webinar about how to be productive while working in remote teams.

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Team Leadership: Planning and Coordinating Team's Work

Duties of a team lead(er), bullet point 1: Plan and coordinate team's work. How planning and coordinating teams' work has been disrupted by the overall disruption of creative knowledge work? And how to handle this duty now and in the future?

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Playtesting Startup Impact at Play4Agile 2020

I hosted a playtest session of my Startup Impact game at Play4Agile 2020. Here is my playtest report.

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Agile Game Design 101

This blog is a how to guide to design agile games in an agile way, meaning using agile game design principles. Agile games are serious games (or games for learning) to support learning of agile values, principles and practices.

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Build business, not features!

“If you release and you’re not embarrassed, you're too late”, I’ve been repeating. We experimented if we are practicing what we preach.

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My Startup Weekend Experience

Last weekend I attended my first Startup Weekend! Was the time investment worth it? What did I learn? Did I have fun? Then what? Read here :)

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How to break 4 vicious cycles of software development

At Flowa we have seen quite a few software projects over the years, and worked with dozens of organizations having software in the core of their business. We have identified 4 common vicious cycles and ways for breaking them. 4 vicious cycles of software developmentWhen we work in a customer

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Of 2019 and software development

As wholesome and holistic the human life is, it's difficult to figure out how single segment has developed, what has affected the shift in thinking of certain things. I welcome this moment and this space for allowing me to craft a few thoughts about programming. And the nuts

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Looking back at 2019 – part 1

Antti here, to sum up year 2019. In this first part I'm looking at our coaching curriculums.

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Tracking raw materials with blockchain - enabling climate impact and carbon accounting

The Earth loves transparency! It allows us to fight climate crisis effectively. We need transparency to ensure that the burden of the needed climate action is shared fairly and there are no freeriders. Then again, there are dozens of layers and business owners who are afraid of transparency. Too much

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coaching meetings 4 min read

Why an agenda won't make your meetings better

Are we doomed to have lousy meetings at work? What could we try to improve them instead of having a pre-planned agenda?

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coaching kanban agile games 5 min read

Learning Kanban through Games: Why and How

Principles of Kanban can seem counter-intuitive at first. Games can make them more understandable.

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