Bio

Claes Jonsson is a software and business consultant as well as a serial entrepreneur.

With more than 20 years of systems development in many diverse industries, he has participated in all the activities of producing services and products through software, from the inception of ideas to delivering the embodiment of these ideas to customers. Roles have ranged from writing software, testing, automating infrastructure and deployment, leading teams near and afar, coaching and mentoring at all levels of business as well as starting and running businesses.

In 2000 he caught the entrepreneur bug when he co-founded his first company and have since founded companies in Sweden, Cyprus and Hong Kong and China. Repeatedly starting out with small companies, it became apparent that constant and automated building, testing and deployment was vitally important long before such practices was ever called Continuous Deployment.

Of even more profound importance to Claes is to create a business where people’s creativity and skills are allowed to flourish instead of being wasted. In order to achieve this, much of an organisation’s authority is required to shift from the top down to the individual roles or groups of roles responsible for a given domain, a process Claes has taken to calling “Downshifting”. He is fully committed to ushering in a new era of managing businesses through insightful leadership, distribution of authority and responsibility as well as making decisions based on real data, intelligence and scientific experimentation and validation.

Claes is currently working as a consultant in his own newly founded expert group, where he primarily focus on helping business with practices such as DevOps, Continuous Deployment and Lean Startup, among many other things, with the explicit goal of giving hands-on help in these areas. You can find out more about my work and experiences here.

This blog will explore concepts and tools for building better businesses, making them more effective at achieving their goals through culture, processes and technology, as well as many other topics.