Time to illuminate

A crisis is a productive state. You simply need to get rid of its aftertaste of catastrophe.
Max Frisch.

Stand-Up meeting in Antarctica

A collection of the most important tasks discussed in the daily scrum-meetings in Antarctica

Use the tools

If you have the tools, use them

Hard lessons in the Antarctic

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Risk Management

Risk is a combination of both, the probability of a bug to happen in production and the art of understanding the impact for the customer. As is with lots of such decisions, people might have different views on the impact depending on how well they understand the customers' needs.

Everyday life at the Southern Hemisphere

People often ask me, how long it takes me to draw a cartoon. I cannot really provide a right answer here as it heavily depends. For this cartoon it took me only about 1 hour. This is very fast and also the number of drafts (only 2) is surprisingly low.  Usually, even though I am not a perfectionist, it takes much longer, probably 2 hours, but I've also worked on cartoons which took me 3 hours. I have stopped coloring my cartoons because this is an extra challenge at which I don't really excel. I mean, I have to spend a lot of time and the outcome is chilling. I think I do much better on some kind of grey scale. 

My daughter askmed me whether I drew the Orca straight out of my head. Of course, NOT. I cannot draw an orca just like this out of my head. I googled the web to understand the most important characteristics, then did two drafts and this is what came out. If I didn't do that, I'd definitly missed the white spots and put the eye at the wrong place. Below you see the "final" before I scan it into the computer and the very first draft.

Final version before scanning into computer

 

 

 Very first draft