Background of Milan Kratochvíl

Summary: advisor & consulting, training, modeling & analysis, components, UML, SysML, use cases, requirements, knowledge technologies, mass customization.


Having grown up in Prague, I settled in Stockholm and acquired Swedish citizenship in 79. I speak Czech, Swedish, English, some German, passive Norwegian, passive Slovak and more. University Degrees in:

- Business & Administration (Prague University of Economics)
- Business, Administration & Data Processing (Stockholm University).

IT-consultant since 1977:

Programator AB (CAP) 77-79, programmer, program designer
Statskonsult AB (Sema) 79-82, system analyst/methodologist
Michael A. Jackson Scandinavia 82-89, methodologist, system analyst, instructor/guidance
independent 89- advisor, instructor/guidance, analyst.

From excellent teachers Mats Lundeberg (BPM, corporate change, IM), Anders G. Nilsson (BPM, ERP), and Goran Goldkuhl (corporate communication, KM), I graduated to work with people who were fine-tuning new architectures and methods of systems development and modeling, in large consulting firms; I became the third one hired for consulting here when Michael A. Jackson, the modeling forerunner, founded Jackson Scandinavia in 1982. I stayed until 89. My own company is focusing on software & biz engineering, mainly in knowledge-intensive enterprises; I wrote and started teaching my “Manager's Overview” in 1990 on object and knowledge tech. Atop of consulting and guidance, I’ve also taught 250+ public and on-site courses in modelin, analysis, UML, design (several of these in English); course attendees' feedback is quite beneficial to my other roles, too. Ever since 77, my customers have been finance, the public sector, global hi-tech firms, software-houses, management and IT consultancies, and training-providers for IT-professionals.

Papers at NordData (90), at 1st (91) and 2nd (94) World Congress on Expert Systems ("Developing a Know-how Strategy" has been referenced a couple of times). Lectures in Electrum/Kista (90) and in Ronneby Soft Center (98, 99). Books at Cambridge University Press and Springer (2005), see Homepage.

Certified UML 2 Professional, Advanced - that is, all 3 levels of cert (Sept. 2003 - the first and only in Sweden, and among the very first people in Europe).



I feel comfortable in several roles:

- Advisory - Instruction & training.
- Feasibility studies/reports, tool briefings.
- Use Case analysis and Business Modeling
- Components, Mass customization, knowledge-tech advice within high-tech business in general and SW in particular.