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Västerbotten and Luleå kommun. Thank you for your support. Soon after I had completed my Master’s degree in the autumn of 2009, I was sharing a cup of coffee with my close friend Peder Lundkvist at his new work. Peder had just signed up for PhD studies at Quality Technology and Management, the disci...

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Main Author: Martin Holmbom
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.278.4331
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Summary:Västerbotten and Luleå kommun. Thank you for your support. Soon after I had completed my Master’s degree in the autumn of 2009, I was sharing a cup of coffee with my close friend Peder Lundkvist at his new work. Peder had just signed up for PhD studies at Quality Technology and Management, the discipline of our master’s degree, so we sat there and enjoyed our coffee with our former teachers. We laughed and cheered at the fact that Peder had actually applied to a PhD-program, something that we had both sworn never to do just a few months earlier. Little did I know that my laughter was about to get stuck in my throat, but after we had finished our coffee someone suddenly pushed me into Bjarne Bergquist’s office, the head of the division, and before I knew it, a voice from the corridor declared: “he’s the new PhD student”. Some weeks later I stepped into my own office in that very same corridor, intensively wondering what I was doing. I would like to express my appreciation to my supervisors: Anders Segerstedt, Erik Vanhatalo, Bjarne Bergquist and Kerstin Vännman. Anders – thank you for inspiring and encouraging me and for caring about how I feel. I admire your