The Agile ambition at Åland (a group of Islands between Sweden and Finland) is quite astonishing. Besides being home to a bunch of cutting edge tech companies (who have been using Agile at Scale for 8+ years), they are also experimenting with using Agile in their society. Hm, Sweden suddenly feels sooo 90’s..
I had the privilege to keynote at their first Agile conference – Agile Islands 2016. I wanted to bring something extra, so I brought with me a backwards bicycle in order to demonstrate how hard it is to adapt to changing conditions, even though we intellectually understand what we need to do.
(conversation in Swedish, with the instructions “use the pedals” and “pick up some speeed”. Yep they speak swedish in Åland)
https://youtu.be/TRrmBTqaLdI
The Black Phantom II
I you would like the slides from the presentation, they can be downloaded here.
Cheers
Mattias
