Scrum talk

I gave a talk about Scrum at a class in the Business Department at the University of Iceland today. I managed to put some of my drawings into the slides but as ofter I didn’t get everything I envision into them…but I’ll hopefully update them soon...

„Clean your room kids“…Kanban style

When my older daughter (Sunna) was around 4.5 years old and didn’t want to clean her room because she didn’t know where to start so I set up a simple visual „game“ around it…like a simple Kanban board. There were post-it notes for every...

Agile Ísland 2013

The sixth Agile Ísland conference. I really like what Sprettur have done for the Agile community in Iceland, kudos guys =) Stop Writing Software and Start Making Products (@Jeff Patton – comakewith.us – slides) I’ve been waiting for Jeff to come...

Scrum & Kanban seminar

At the end of March Hugsmiðjan held a „science trip“ for Agilenetið and among the attendees was Martha from Dokkan who asked me the following day if I’d be willing to teach Kanban at the Bezta learning line. I was more than willing since I truly...

Agile at Hugsmiðjan

We invited Agilenetið to a „science trip“ at Hugsmiðjan today where we talked about the Agile implementation (slides) that is based around a visual wall for the whole company. The whole company (around 30) meet every morning for 15 min. and issues that...

Faces for the team (or family)

I’m a sucker for props and extra visual things to make other things look more „fun“. And I love visual faces of the people I work with and recommend creating faces for everybody in the team/family at faceyourmanga.com, it’s incredible how well you...