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 […]
Book review: Dynamic reteaming (Helfand)
I was very much looking forward to this book as it was perfect timing for me, planning a big reteaming but stuck and solely focused on the Team topologies concept. But i was to be disappointed as it brought nothing new to the table except branding the different patterns. Or as Helfand says Dynamic Reteaming […]
How Agile can learn from Top Gun
In my work as an agile coach and Scrum Master I have found there is a big gap between these both roles. Seldom they collaborate and often they serve their own customers without alignment. I will here introduce a new way of working with Agile/Lean in a medium/big organization decoupling the standard approach with a […]
Toxic company #1
I got a call from a friend I had been working with previously in a consulting company. The year is 2009. My friend was a project manager and wanted me to join this online gaming company with roots in offline gaming. At that point I was running my own betting service but without any profit […]
The sect
Having introduced Psychological Safety as a cornerstone for companies, this company was trickier. Psychological Safety was removed from the original Agile transformation agenda for some reason, but I introduced it as a channel in MS Teams, where the discussion started. I helped HR with workshops on the topic, hoping they would be the messenger in […]
My top 3 challenges for Psychological safety
If I should sum up the three biggest challenges for Psychological Safety it would be LCD – Leadership, Culture and DNA – all previously covered in the book, here emphasised. But these three are not the root cause for Psychological UNsafety. There is someone accountable for Psychological Safety, can you spot who it is? I […]
Agiles uppgång och fall – en obduktion
Ser tillbaka i mina anteckningar från den gamla goda tiden när Janlén, Kniberg, Hjelm, Nöteberg, Park, Bini och de andra agila pionjärena var aktiva och frågvisa och fortfarande hade skit under naglarna. Vi slängde rätt hård käft på maillistan Agile Sweden emellanåt och Jocke Holm som listmaster fick gå emellan när jag gick för hårt […]