I debug, refactor, and optimize IT companies. And jam alot too.
Henrik Kniberg
Metrics – what to measure? (Agila mätetal i praktiken)
May 11, 2012 – 10:53 am
Here are the slides from my metrics talk “Agila mätetal i praktiken” at Dataföreningen in Stockholm. Lots of very engaged and experienced participants, lots of interesting discussions, thanks for coming!
Agile@Home – simplifying life using agile and lean principles
May 2, 2012 – 4:38 pm
Here are annotated slides from my lighting talk Agile@Home at Agila Sverige 2012.
Have you tried a BBQ board? Or a travel spike? Or a homework burnup chart? How about Limiting WIP in the kitchen, or the closet? How about agile party planning? There are plenty of ways that Agile and Lean practices and ideas can be used to make life at home more simple, pleasant, and fun!
There are two recordings of the talk: here and here. The talk is in Swedish though, and the sound quality is pretty bad. And the tempo is very high – it’s a 10 minute lightning talk after all 
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In the slides I’ve added english subtitles (well, speach bubbles actually). Wanted to try that instead of writing an article, what do you think? 
Enjoy! And please share your own tips and tricks!
Big Family Trip – What we learned about the world after 6 months on the road
March 30, 2012 – 4:11 pm
I’m now back in Sweden after a 6 month Big Family Trip. It has been an incredible adventure, I’m so glad we pulled it off!
We have travelled around the world through eight countries. Denmark, China, Japan, Thailand, New Zealand, Peru, Brazil, and the British Virgin Islands in the West Indies. All in all, most things worked out better than we could have imagined.
Lean from the Trenches – Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban
January 22, 2012 – 5:17 am
I’ve published another book! This one’s called “Lean from the Trenches“. It is about how we scaled a 60-person project by combing techniques from Kanban, Scrum, and XP. I chose this title because it really it illustrates how to put Lean principles into practice in a software project, especially the notion of an end-to-end Kanban system, divided into tiers to coordinate multiple teams.
We learned a lot during this project and I’m really happy that I found the time to write about it. The book follows the same style as “Scrum and XP from the Trenches“, with 100% focus on real-life experience rather than theory. Lots of pictures and examples as usual.
You can get a hold of the book here, and also participate in a discussion forum.
http://pragprog.com/book/hklean/lean-from-the-trenches
Any feedback is welcome.
If you’ve read the book and feel like adding a review on amazon then that is greatly appreciated
Coming to Brazil
January 21, 2012 – 9:47 pm
Hi Brazil!
I’m happy to say that I’ll be visiting you in a few weeks.
I’ll be involved in two public events together with Samuel Crescêncio:
- Feb 10: Public seminar about Lean & Agile (in Florianopolis). More info coming soon.
- Feb 13-14: Certified ScrumMaster course in São Paulo.
The course will be in English, but Samuel will be around to help translate when necessary.
This is a unique opportunity, since I don’t get around to Brazil very often. In fact, this is my first visit ever to South America (I’m on a Big Family Trip).
You’ll like this course. My courses are almost always rated 9.2 – 9.8 on average (out of 10) by course participants. In addition to the Scrum stuff I’ll be talking about Lean and Kanban and going through some real-life examples from my latest book Lean from the Trenches. The course is highly interactive, with plenty of hands-on exercises and discussions. The course is also very pragmatic, focusing on what actually works and doesn’t work in real life. No dogma.
