Last Friday, October 1st, I celebrated the first year at my current employer, Metria AB. I started out as a Development Manager for the Luleå based developers. They were 19 at the time. It didn’t take long for a sort of upgrade; on November 1st last year I additionally became responsible for eight local project managers. This was my group to manage, lead and coach until September this year when yet another change or upgrade came my way....
In the great book of work life the current chapter is coming to a close. On August 1st 2017 I began my position as Team Manager (“Consultant Manager”) at the Luleå office of Sogeti. In the beginning I were responsible for 34 IT-consultants. This grew to as high as 38 at one point. During these three years I’ve learned a lot about myself and my leadership, about people and business, about technology and solutions....
I joined the tribe! This July I had the utmost priviliege to be part of SoLEAD16; the 16th class of Sogeti Leadership Academy. 26 collegues from across the world gathered under the safe wings of our facilitators Dian Lens and Mandy Sol. For three intense days we shared, cared, told and networked at the Capgemini Campus Serge Kampf Les Fontaines, a good one hour car ride north of Paris, France....
Being the longtime, die hard Scrum advocate that I know I am, it’s with somewhat mixed emotions I’ve just now discovered Modern Agile. Modern Agile is ultra-light, the opposite of mainstream Agile, which is drowning in a bloated tangle of enterprise tools, scaling frameworks and questionable certificates that yield more bureaucracy than results.1 The four principles, values, cornerstones, or whatever you want to call them, are elegant distillations of my beloved Scrum and certainly of all of the agile frameworks and toolboxes:...
We often hear that it’s important to enjoy our work, but this post is about an alternative phrase. “Have fun at work” shifts focus from work as action to work as environment. Over a course of maybe four years I’ve come to shift my position on what’s important when it comes to work. In the beginning my position was that the work tasks had to be what motivated me while working, but now I’ve come to realise that the context of where the work tasks are performed has precedence....