I have been working as a software consultant for more than 11 years. Because of that I am an eager supporter of lean principles and agile methods.
The Software Days in Lund is two events (Lucas and Spin-Syd) merged into one conference with focus on agile methods. The conference was mostly in Swedish and was held at LTH. It was high quality speakers and the highlights were:
- “Agile: order or chaos?“, Prof. Per Runesson, LTH. A discussion if we loose control using agile methods or not. According to Prof. Runesson we actually gain control in many aspects by using agile methods. They can also be sucessfully combined with established project steering methods, such as a gate-model.
- “In Search of Excellence“, Jack Järkvik, Ericsson. This tough guy talked a lot about how he had saved a lot of troubled projects at Ericsson. He did this by being tough, or actually being straight and clear if we are talking leadership. His recipe was to “improve in order of magnitude, rather than marginal changes”. Makes sense!