With deep sorrow we announce the loss of our former long time Chairman of the Board, Pekka Tarjanne. Pekka courageously joined Futurice’s Board of Directors year 2001 when few believed in the young company’s future. Pekka brought his extraordinary character, credibility, and leadership to help guide Futurice between years 2001-2008. We remember Pekka with great…

Futurice is proud to achieve Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status. Gold Certified Partners represent the best expertise with Microsoft technologies and have the closest relationship with Microsoft. This is an excellent recognition of our skills, competencies and references in the Microsoft domain. For more information see about the programme Microsoft Partner Programme – Gold Certified…

Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking at AES Techstart event about challenges and success factors of an IT start-up. AES stands for Aalto University Entrepreneurship Society. Perhaps the most pleasing fact about the evening was the large crowd of students either already having a start-up or thinking about starting one.  My message to you…

We were invited to lecture about Lean and Lean Software Development at TKK. The course was T-76.5612 Software Project Management. What is Lean?  Lean is a management philosophy that seeks to maximise customer value and minimise work efforts while respecting all people during the process. It covers all levels from values, principles, practises to tools….

Fondia Oy, a fast growing legal services provider, arranges a breakfast seminar about growth called “Nousuun” on Thu March 12th. The focus is especially on how to manage growth from HR perspective. The event offers three different perspective to managing growth: 1) Recruiting perspective by Timo Salmi from Proselectum,  2) Legal aspects of growth by…

We’ve been writing agile software development column series to Digitoday. The series is in Finnish but here are links to the existing columns: It-palveluliiketoiminta murroksessa Kun ketteryys korvasi kankeuden Koodaaja kyynisyyden hautajaisissa “Kyllähän mä tiesin, ettei tästä mitään tule.” Siiloista yhteistyöhön “Ei riitä, että kukin tekee parhaansa omalla tahollaan” Happy reading and commenting.

I’m proud to annouce that we have opened a new office in Tampere. To be exact, the address is Kauppakatu 3A 2, which is downtown Tampere – only a 10 minute walk from the railway station. In the beginning the office will employ a great team of four persons: Henri Holopainen, Riku Järvensivu, Janne Lidman,…

I wrote column to a Finnish news site called Digitoday about the paradigm shift in software development services. This paradigm shift features new companies providing software development services in a new way with latest methodologies, best people, application of new technologies and small teams. The new way provides two key benefits for customers: speed &…

Futurice is the Winner of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Finland in 2008. In other words, Futurice is the fastest growing technology company in Finland during the past 5 years. See the full list here. This is a great distinction for us for the excellent work we’ve done together with our customers, partners and vendors. Thank…

One of the key questions in any business is how to deliver value to the customer. So, what is value and how to define it?