I was also speaking at the main conference for this event. The topic of my speech was to share some ideas and experiences on how to apply Scrum outside the software industry, by using two examples. One example is to apply Scrum to my life, which is a great way of explaining a method on  processes that anyone can relate to. You can isolate the method without adding the complexity of the process. The second example is a team at Novo Nordisk quality organisation where I have successfully introduced Scrum and agile method into their ways of working. 

The first speaker at the conference, Gunnar Heldebro, a VP from Ericsson, told us how they introduced agile through their Streamline concept, with the help of an XP expert. It turned out that I played a part in this when I was assigned as an agile coach at Ericsson in Karlskrona a couple of years back, introducing Scrum. It was interesting to hear the story from top management, even though I had a different picture of it from a bottom perspective. (And the XP expert was of course Erik Lundh.)  

I think it is time to stop appearing in these events, since I no longer collect any new experiences from the software industry. But it has been very fun and challenging, and my main driver has been to develop my presentation skills.

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I’m back from another Agile conference in Stockholm. I was invited again because of the positive feedback I got the last time. Yesterday I ran a workshop on  how to use Lean kanban boards for a small but interested crowd. I split my workshop into three parts:

1.  Explaining the difference between batch & push vs. flow & pull. Most people have to experience the difference in reality to accept the fact that there is a direct relation between “work in progress” and leadtime. We did this by simulating a manufacturing line, which is later turned into a software development process.
2. I showed how a process can be mapped and analyzed using the classic Lean tool “value stream mapping”, and made them map processes of their own.
3. Last part is when a incrementally build up a Kanban board and comparing it to Scrum, which they finally get to try themselves.

The workshop went really fine and I got nice comments and feedback afterwards, so I left the workshop feeling very good. Later I celebrated with a nice dinner in one of  Stockholm’s oldest restaurants den Gyldene Freden, where I had a nice conversation with two Brasilian gentlemen who visited Stockholm for a medical convention.

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