In 2010 there was an investigation on more than 35 suicides in the France Telecom workforce[1]. One of them just jumped out from a window at work and another person was found hanging in his garage with a France Telecom T-shirt on. An official report found that “pathogenic” management methods were applied to achieve job […]
Författare: Ove Holmberg
Doubter, gaffer, author
Avoiding Retrokoma
For those of you working with © Scaled Agile, Inc. and for you working with (or trying) Agile, i here suggest a way to formulate problems to avoid Retrokoma. I wrote about this phenomenon recently as how retrospectives, and i presume the © Scaled Agile, Inc. Inspect and Adapt session as well, has become waste. […]
The men who saved the world
In 1983 the nuclear balance was 35.000 rockets for the Soviet Union and 23.000 for the US. At that point our planet came terrifyingly close to a nuclear holocaust. The Soviet Union’s missile attack warning system displayed with “high reliability” that a US intercontinental ballistic missile had been launched and was headed toward the Soviet […]
Retrokoma
När man ätit en god buffet till lunch och sätter sig i 13-mötet så kommer paltkoman. På samma sätt när man jobbat intensivt och sätter sig i retrospektivet så kommer Retrokoman. Med detta inlägg vill jag utmana sanningen retrospektiv som vi agila fåntrattar envist säger att vi inte får tumma på. Jag har predikat retron […]
Nicklas Lidström is a coward
Nicklas Lidström is, in my opinion, the best hockey player ever. You say Gretzky, I doubt. Here we could spend hours debating, which I am happy to do over a beer or two. But if you have read this book so far perhaps you can see my point, as there is more to it than […]
Bokrecension: Inspirerande ledare (Übelacker)
Äntligen en bok om ledarskap på svenska, med svenska case, för svenska ledare. Boken har visserligen några år på nacken (2019) men är högst aktuell fortfarande även efter Corona. Författaren har en gedigen bakgrund från idrottsvärlden och tar upp saker jag saknar bland dagens ledare som vi sportnördar bara kan se. Boken har ett lagom […]
Psychological safety is a myth
Is Psychological Safety possible or is it a vision or a myth? 1996 Dr Alex Lifeson and Professor Geddy Lee received the Nobel Prize in Biology for their research on apes and how they challenge each other and could replicate this behaviour to humans. Their accomplishment was the discovery of key mechanisms and structural details […]
Boken om Folksams datahistoria
En gång för länge, länge sedan halkade jag in på IT av en slump. Jag blev springpojke och vaktmästare på Folksam direkt efter gymnasiet men via ”utdata” som var nästa steg för oss samt de som jobbade på posten, kom jag in på IT och nu 40 år senare har jag Folksam för att tacka […]
Feedback on the biggest agile transformation ever – H&M
This document was one part of the feedback from me when I left the H&M 2020-11-30. The purpose of this document was to shine the light on improvement from experienced Agile Coaches on the transformation from an outside-in perspective. Today – 2,5 years later – i hear that many of my friends at H&M are […]
The best company
Now let me tell you about an old Swedish engineering company, Sandvik. They are the Swedish Champions in Psychological Safety, but regardless still don’t meet my high standards. This company is sprung from steel production and today working with tools for the industrial sector. The tools are becoming more and more digital, and IT is […]