Here are my slides from today’s talk “Scaling Agile @ LEGO and Spotify” at EA träff in Stockholm (EA = enterprise architecture). Fun to hang out with enterprise architects and learn what that’s all about 🙂
Some sample slides from my talk:
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Agile – where are we at? My slides from USI conference, Paris.
2017-09-11 Henrik KnibergHere 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:
- Interview “Agile is about taming complexity”
- Interview “Etre agile, c’est savoir dompter la complexité“
- Interview “L’évolution de la culture agile en entreprise“
- Video recording of the talk
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!
Slides from “Passion for projects 2017”
2017-03-14 Mattias SkarinToday 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 🙂
Slides in english, are available here.
Slides in swedish, are available here.
Agile Everywhere – slides from my keynote at Agile Tour, Montreal
2016-11-21 Henrik KnibergHere 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.
Alignment at Scale – slides from my Agile Africa keynote
2016-08-23 Henrik KnibergHere 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 🙂
(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).
Spotify Rhythm – how we get aligned (slides from my talk at Agile Sverige)
2016-06-08 Henrik KnibergHere 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:
- what problem we’re trying to solve, and how we’ve gone through two other models (OKR and Priorities & Achievements) before arriving at our current model
- how we define “Bets” using the DIBB framework (Data-Insight-Belief-Bet)
- how we prioritize bets using stack-ranking based on company beliefs and north star goals
- how we visualize bets on a kanban-like company level board, and group them into Now – Next – Later columns
- how different parts of the company visualize their own bets and align with higher level bets, using interlinked bet boards.
- how we synchronize and prioritize our work using different cadences at different levels of the company.
- how this model is used to support squad autonomy
- our challenges and learnings with this so far
Holy crap how did I manage to cover all that in 10 minutes?! Guess I talked fast 🙂
Some sample slides below.
Agile @ Lego – our slides from Passion for Projects
2016-03-15 Henrik KnibergUPDATE 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.
Real-life Agile Scaling – slides from keynote @ Agile Tour Bangkok
2015-11-23 Henrik KnibergHere are the slides from my keynote “Real-life agile scaling” at Agile Tour Bangkok. Enjoyed hanging out with everyone!
Key points:
- Scaling hurts. Keep things as small as possible.
- Agile is a means, not a goal. Don’t go Agile Jihad. Don’t dump old practices that work.
- There is no “right” or “wrong” way. Just tradeoffs.
- There is no one-size-fits-all. But plenty of good practices.
- Build feedback loops at all levels. Gives you better products and a self-improving organization.
Here is an InfoQ article with a nice summary of the keynote.
Sample slides:
Scaling Agile @ Lego – our journey so far (slides from LeanTribe keynote)
2015-10-28 Henrik KnibergUPDATE 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 🙂
Sample slides below.
10 talks in 2 weeks! Here are the slides.
2014-11-01 Henrik KnibergWow, 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!
- 4 internal talks at several large banks in Sydney
- Keynote at Scrum Australia, Sydney. Topic: “Scaling agile @ Spotify” (slides)
- Keynote at Trondheim Developer Conference. Topic: “Succeeding with Lean software development” (slides).
- Talk at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Trondheim. Topic: “How do you know that your product works” (slides)
- Keynote at Smidig 2014, Oslo. Topic: “Scaling agile @ Spotify” (slides) (video)
- Lightning talk at Executive Workshop at Smidig 2014, Oslo. Topic: “Change” (slides).
- Talk at Sintef, Oslo. Topic: “Lean from the Trenches” (slides).
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.
What is Scrum? (slides from my talk at KTH)
2014-10-08 Henrik KnibergHere 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:
What is an Agile Tester? Slides from my Sri Lanka talk.
2014-07-01 Henrik KnibergHere are the slides for my talk What is an agile tester from the Colombo Agile Conference in Sri Lanka.
How do you know that your product works? Slides from my Sri Lanka keynote.
2014-07-01 Henrik KnibergHere are the slides for my keynote How do you know that your product works, from the Colombo Agile Conference in Sri Lanka.
Culture > Process (Paris Scrum Gathering keynote)
2013-09-24 Henrik KnibergHere 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!
- Video recording part 1 (starts at 0:30)
- Video recording part 2
How to run an internal unconference
2013-06-30 Henrik Kniberg
An unconference is like a normal conference but with no predefined agenda, no predefined list of speakers, no slides, and…er… actually it’s not very much like a normal conference at all! It’s 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!
There’s lots of ways of running unconferences. I’ve written a short book (or long article) about one specific format that I’ve 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 “all conferences should be like this!” or “best conference I’ve ever been to!”. Even the most rabid meeting-haters seem to like (or at least not hate…) this collaboration format 🙂
Stop Starting, Start Finishing! My slides on how to improve your life.
2013-03-14 Henrik Kniberg
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:
- “Organizations with slack are faster than organizations where the goal is to keep people busy all the time.”
- “Those who can’t say no to anything, are those who burn-out and must say no to everything”
- “Time is free! You get 24hrs per day!”
- “I wanted a long term client because then I can see the consequences of the bad advice I’m giving” (hmmm…. maybe I shouldn’t have said that… lol)
- This tweet warmed my heart: “@henrikkniberg has totally done it for me today. I need to change my life! 🙂 #sssf13”
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 🙂
Oh, and before you ask. I used ArtRage (software) and Intuos5 (drawing tablet).
Lean from the Trenches @ Øredev
2012-11-08 Henrik KnibergHere are the slides for my talk “Lean from the Trenches” at Øredev, 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!
Agile @ Home (AgileEE keynote)
2012-10-07 Henrik KnibergHere 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 🙂
Thanks for listening, and glad to see that so many of you were so excited about the idea of using Agile outside of work 🙂
Lean from the Trenches keynote @ AgileEE, Kiev
2012-10-06 Henrik KnibergHere 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!
Everybody wants Change – but nobody likes to Be Changed
2012-08-31 Henrik KnibergHere are the slides from my Ale2012 keynote: Everybody wants Change – but nobody likes to Be Changed.
Thanks for coming!
Lean from the Trenches @ Agile2012, Dallas
2012-08-14 Henrik KnibergHere 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!
Metrics – what to measure? (Agila mätetal i praktiken)
2012-05-11 Henrik KnibergHere 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
2012-05-02 Henrik KnibergHere 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? 🙂
Enjoy! And please share your own tips and tricks!
Tokyo Scrum Gathering keynote: Everybody wants Change, but nobody likes to Be Changed
2011-11-07 Henrik KnibergHere are the slides for my Tokyo Scrum Gathering keynote “Everybody wants Change, but nobody likes to be changed“. Thanks for attending!
Sample slides:
10 pitfalls when implementing kanban – slides
2011-05-16 Mattias Skarin
It’s been two busy weeks. First attended and presented at Lean Software and Systems 2011 and the week after at Goto Copenhagen 2011. Lot’s of timezones.. but met inspiring people, had plenty of good discussions and and a great time.
Many great presentations and if you have the chance, go see Benjamin Mitchell present. Also, the “Kanban Primer Play” (by Arne Roock, Bernd Schiffer and Markus Andrezak) is great way of demonstration real lean and cooperative concepts revolving around a kanban board.
I held a talk about pitfalls implementing kanban. Here are my slides!
