Here are the slides from my keynote “Agile Everywhere” at Lean Forum, Gothenburg.
Great conference, great atmosphere! Very inspiring to hang out with a bunch of super-experienced practitioners. I love conferences where it’s clear that everyone is there to learn and spread knowledge. It’s funny though, in lean circles like this I’m often known as the Agile Guy, while in agile circles I’m often known as the Lean Guy đ
Here are some sample pics.
Here is the flipchart from my talk “Confessions of a Change Agent” at Agile Rock conference in Kiev. Click for a zoomed in version.
Confessions of a Change Agent
Here are the slides from my agile intro at KTH last week. Hope you enjoyed it!
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Here are my slides from today’s talk “Scaling Agile @ LEGO and Spotify” at EA trĂ€ff in Stockholm (EA = enterprise architecture). Fun to hang out with enterprise architects and learn what that’s all about đ
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Here are the slides for my talk “Agile, where are we at?” from USI conference in Paris (USI = “unexpected sources of inspiration”) in June. One of the coolest conferences I’ve ever attended!
My talk was an attempt to take a step back and look at the big picture, and also speculate about the future of agile. I was also interviewed a couple of times, and the talk was also recorded. Here are links:
2 of my kids tagged along on the trip, we took the train to make it extra adventurous (and also to mind the climate). It’s a long way (24 hours each way), but we made good use of the time!
Today I met a crowd I do not bump in to all that often; project managers. I decided to share insights from Agile projects, stretching from Hospitals to Digitilization, how they simplified and speeded up their pre-studies. Learning how to do so well, helps avoiding the “we have to speed up implementation, to make up for lost time” syndrome.
Yes, the “black window” backwards bike, was there too đ
Slides in english, are available here.
Slides in swedish, are available here.
Here are the slides from my keynote Agile Everywhere at Agile Tour Montreal. In the keynote I shared my experiences from applying agile in lots of different non-software contexts.
Enjoyed the trip! After the conference I spent a day at Ubisoft Quebec to discuss REALLY large-scale agile (like 1000-person video game projects). I see more and more companies applying agile at really large scale and my key takeaway is that, the larger the project is, the more important the agile principles are. For tiny projects any process can pretty much work. Also interesting to see how different types of organizations – such as video game development, banking, and aerospace – arrive at very similar patterns for how to deal with dozens or hundreds of agile teams building a product together. Just keep in mind that big projects are super-risky with or without agile, so your first priority should be to de-scale.
Anyway here are some sample pictures from the keynote.
Here are the slides from my Agile Africa keynote Alignment at Scale (or How to Not become Totally Unagile when you have Lots of Teams). Thanks for a great conference!
And thanks everyone for the Emma greeting, that sure made an 8 year girl very happy đ
(Emma was supposed to join me on this trip, but couldn’t make it because I had missed some required paperwork for travelling with minors to South Africa).
Here are the slides from my talk about Spotify Rhythm at Agila Sverige.
The talk is about Spotify’s current approach to getting aligned as a company. It covers:
Holy crap how did I manage to cover all that in 10 minutes?! Guess I talked fast đ
Some sample slides below.
UPDATE Dec 2016: Wrote an article about LEGO’s agile journey, see here. Includes all of the material below, plus explanations and updates.
Here are the slides for our talk Agile @ Lego at Passion for Projects in Uppsala. Enjoyed discussing this stuff with project managers and the like from all sorts of industries. A common theme from the conference was the power of self-organization, and the role of leadership in creating the right context for self-organization to happen. Our talk provided a real-life large scale example of this.
Here are the slides from my keynote “Real-life agile scaling” at Agile Tour Bangkok. Enjoyed hanging out with everyone!
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Here is an InfoQ article with a nice summary of the keynote.
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UPDATE Dec 2016: Wrote an article about LEGO’s agile journey, see here. Includes all of the material below, plus explanations and updates.
Here are the slides for my Lean Tribe keynote Scaling Agile @ Lego – our journey so far.
Here’s also a more detailed version from a talk that Lars Roost and I did at GOTO conference in Copenhagen: is SAFe Evil (that talk was also recorded).
This is just a brief snapshot of a journey in progress, not a journey completed đ
Sample slides below.
Wow, it’s been a crazy period. Sydney, Trondheim, Oslo, 10 talks in 2 weeks! Didn’t really plan to do that much, but one thing led to another. Fun, but exhausting!
Here’s a high-quality video recording of the Smidig 2014 keynote (on Spotify engineering culture). The conference organizers say it’s the highest-rated talk they’ve ever had! Cool :o)
Here’s a shorter version with much the same content, in the form of a two-part animated video series, for the impatient.
Here are the slides for my talk “What is Scrum?” at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology). It was a guest talk at a course called Projektstyrning. Hoping to inspire young entrepreneurs to plant agile DNA in their companies from the very beginning. Last time I spoke at KTH was 6.5 years ago, that’s when I met the first Spotify team, and I’m really happy to have been able to influence and participate in their journey!
Here are some sample slides from the talk:
Here are the slides for my talk What is an agile tester from the Colombo Agile Conference in Sri Lanka.
Here are the slides for my keynote How do you know that your product works, from the Colombo Agile Conference in Sri Lanka.
Here are the slides for my keynote “Culture > Process” at the Paris Scrum Gathering. Amazing level of enthusiasm in the room, seems like this kind of stuff was exacty what people were looking for. Happy to see the ideas take such strong hold!
An unconference is like a normal conference but with no predefined agenda, no predefined list of speakers, no slides, and…er… actually itâs not very much like a normal conference at all! Itâs more like an alternative to a conference. If the purpose of a conference is to collaborate and communicate, then an unconference will often fulfill the same purpose in a more simple, fun, and effective way!
Thereâs lots of ways of running unconferences. I’ve written a short book (or long article) about one specific format that Iâve been experimenting with over the past 5 years, mostly at companies like Crisp and Spotify.
By now it is well tested and works especially well for 1-2 day internal conferences with 20-80 participants. In fact, participants often say things like âall conferences should be like this!â or âbest conference Iâve ever been to!â. Even the most rabid meeting-haters seem to like (or at least not hate…) this collaboration format đ
Here are the slides from my keynote Starting Start Finishing from the LeanKanban Nordic conference.
Thanks for the great response! It seems like this was exactly the type of stuff people needed to hear! Some of the most tweeted quotes from the presentation:
Below are some sample slides. I had a lot of fun drawing the pics for this presentation! Thanks for giving me an excuse to waste spend time on that đ
Oh, and before you ask. I used ArtRage (software) and Intuos5Â (drawing tablet).
Here are the slides for my talk âLean from the Trenchesâ at Ăredev, Malmö. And here is the book/ebook, in case you want more details. There may also be some copies left at the conference bookstore.
Thanks for attending!
Here are the slides for my third(!) keynote at Agile Eastern Europe. The guy who was supposed to do the afternoon keynote couldn’t make it, so I was invited to jump up and do another one (talked about Spotify, but I don’t yet have permission to publish those slides, sorry). And then that one finished early, so I filled in the last 20 minutes with this short talk about Agile @ Home. Three keynotes in one day must be some kind of record đ
Thanks for listening, and glad to see that so many of you were so excited about the idea of using Agile outside of work đ
Here are the slides for my keynote “Lean from the Trenches” at Agile Eastern Europe, Kiev. And here is the book/ebook, in case you want more details. Thanks for attending!
Here are the slides from my Ale2012 keynote: Everybody wants Change – but nobody likes to Be Changed.
Thanks for coming!
Here are the slides for my talk “Lean from the Trenches” at Agile2012. And here is the book/ebook, in case you want more details (unfortunately sold out in the conference bookstore). Thanks for attending!
Here are the slides from my metrics talk “Agila mĂ€tetal i praktiken” at Dataföreningen in Stockholm. Lots of very engaged and experienced participants, lots of interesting discussions, thanks for coming!
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 :o)
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? đ
Enjoy! And please share your own tips and tricks!
