Mattias Skarin

What does it takes to succeed with software? That is my quest.

I firmly believe that companies that understands how to get the effect out of software development have a competitive edge.

This becomes increasingly important as software is everywhere, from your smartwatch, to your digital business, to your self driving car.

I’m a curious guy who likes to putting things into practice, and keep the stuff that works.

A few companies I have helped in the process: AID (self-driving cars), LEGO, Joyn (streaming entertainment), Zalando, Tobii.

What I’m up to right now

• I coach product development at a nuclear power plant
• I coach a product team in Tobii
• I coach and train leadership teams in fast growing companies using Active Agile Leadership Skills
• I coach a scaled agile transformation
• I help companies succeed with Agile contracts (co founder of agilakontrakt.se)

Publications – New

• Value Stream Mapping In Product Development (article)

Publications – AI

• ”Machine learning essentials for CTO’s” (video) –  2020

Publications – Agile

• Beyond Scaling – The Value Responsibility shift
• Real world SAFe – Leapfrogging a successful waterfall company into Agile
• 12 seemingly normal things Agile people do
• SAFe @ LEGO – video from LKCE 2015.
• InfoQ Article on Real World Kanban
• Agile in HW – developing products in one day!
• Upphandling24 – Agil upphandling främjar samarbete
• Debattartikel – Det lyser rött om Trafikverkets megaupphandling
• Hur Danmark upphandlar med hjälp av Agila kontrakt – intervju med Christian Vindinge Rasmussen
• Enterprise Kanban – improving the full value chain – 2x faster using Lean thinking
• How to slice down bigger features – Slicing cheatsheet
• Introducing Concepts (article)
• Using continuous improvement in product development (article)
• 10 Kanban boards and their context
• Kanban & Scrum – making the most of both (book)
• Converting a Scrum team to Kanban (article)
• How we coach change at Crisp
• Iterations vs. First time pass – (article at Lean Systems Society)

Publications – Books

Real World Kanban This book shares insights and exampels from 4 case studies, across the value stream – where Kanban was used to drive improvement

Read reviews here

Conferences & Talks

• Sigist 2022 – Decision making under uncertainty
• Agile Islands 2022 – Agile for everyone including non IT – the experience driven version
• Crisp Day 2022 – “On Decision making under uncertainty” (slides)
• Agile Islands 2021 – “Introduction to Agile for business and public sector” (slides)
• Crisp Day 2021 – “AI for CTO’s and impact on Architecture”  (slides)
• Agile Islands 2020 – ”Agile outside IT” (slides)
• Agile Islands 2020 – ”Leadership as an investment” –  talk together with Roland Granlund
• Agile Islands 2019 – Agile in the Public sector (slides + digitalisation kit)
• Agile Islands 2018 – ”Decision making under uncertainty”
• Agile Israel 2018, Successful Digitalisation using Agile Contracts
• Agile Israel 2018, Improving the full value chain using Lean/Agile thinking
• Agile marketing at Zalando – case story, 31:a Maj, Crisp, Stockholm
• Upphandla IT 2018, ”Ta ledartröjan i din digitalisering med hjälp av Agila kontrakt”
• LKCE 2017, ”Using Lean principles and Agile tools in Marketing”
• Agila kontraktsnätverket 2017, ”Agila kontrakt – avtalsformer och hur navigera igenom LOU”
• DevOps Greece ”Using Kanban in the field, and how we got management buy in to do so”
• Agila kontraktsnätverket 2017, ”Hur upphandla rätt leverantör”
• LKCE 2015 (Lean Kanban Central Europe) – ”Getting the building blocks in place – learnings from Safe @ LEGO”  (slides),  video
• Lean Kanban France 2015 – ”Kanban learnings across kanban case studies”
• Upphandla 2.0 Göteborg, 2015 ”Agil upphandling – går det?”
• Almedalsveckan, 5 Juli – ”Skapa effektiv offentlig sektor med hjälp av Agila kontrakt”
• Hookedfest 2015, Introducing Concepts (official launch of new book)
• Upphandla IT, Stockholm, 7 Maj – Agila kontrakt och LOU
• Västsveriges Upphandlingsdag 2015, 5 Mars – Varför det är dags att lära sig om Agila kontrakt
• DevLin, Linköping, 2014 – Att måla sig ut från ett hörn och in i ett samarbete – Agila kontrakt
• Lean Kanban Nordic – Stop starting start finishing, 27-28 Maj – Enterprise Kanban
• Dare Fest – Antwerp, Belgium, 15-17 Maj – Introducing Concepts
• Mix-IT France, 29-30 April, 2014 – On visualization
• Keynote, Agile Estonia, 15 Feb 2014 – ”Improving the full value chain”
• Lean Kanban Central Europe, Hamburg, 4-5 November, 2013 ”Improving the full value chain using Lean”  video here
• Keynote, Agile Tour Vilnius, 10 Okt 2013 – ”Waking up the zombie”
• Agile Eastern Europe 2013 – ”Visualization, what’s my brain got to do with it”
• A3 Thinking – Lean Kanban Netherlands, 7-8 Oktober, 2013
• DARE, Belgium, 14-15 Juni, ”Visualization – what’s my brain got to do with it”
• Agile Iceland 2012 – ”Improving flow from marketing to production using Kanban”
• Keynote, Agile Tour Riga 2012, ”Continuous improvement, beyond retrospectives”
• Meridiumdagen, Nov 21, Stockholm, ”Vad innebär agila kontrakt?”
• Lean Central Europe, October 22-23, Wien, ”Improving flow from marketing to operation using Kanban”
• Keynote, Open Agile, 6 Oktober 2012. ”Using continuous improvement on the full value stream”
• ESE Conference Zurich, April 24-25 2012, ”Exploring requirement options using Kanban”
• SDC, April 16-17, 2012, ”Modern product development principles” – understanding and leveraging economics using kanban.
• Kanban Applied in Oslo, March 29-30, course
• ReForum Zurich, Nov 3 2011, ”Exploring requirement options using Kanban”
• Lean & Kanban Benelux, Oct 3-4 2011,  ”What would you do – analysing charts”
• Devcon 2011 Karlskrona, Sept 14 2011, ”Techniques to improve flow”
• Agila Sverige, May 24 2011, ”Training within industry (TWI) teaching model”
• Goto Copenhagen, May 13 2011, ”10 pitfalls when implementing kanban”
• Lean Software & Systems conference 2011 Long Beach, May 4-5, ”10 pitfalls when implementing kanban”
• SDC, April 4-5 2011, ”10 pitfalls when implementing kanban”
• ScanAgile, March 3 2011, ”Kanban options as a Scrum team”
• Lean and Kanban Belgium, Sept 23-24 2010, ”Converting a Scrum team to Kanban”
• Lean SSC London, July 9 2010, ”Converting a Scrum team to Kanban”
• USI Paris, July 2 2010, ”Improving operations using Kanban”
• NDC Oslo, June 16-18 2010, ”Experimenting with kanban principles”
• Keynote Agile Estonia, May 15 2010, ”Mind over matter”
• Lean Software and Systems Atlanta, April 21-23 2010, <gah! ashcloud>
• DevOps 2009,  Oct 30-31, ”Introducing Kanban in operations”
• ScanAgile, Oct 14-15 2009, ”Introducing Kanban in operations”
• Future of Agile, May 27 2009, ”Discovering roots of Lean – visiting Toyota”

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LEGO Series play is an interactive and engaging approach to:

• Develop a vision ( and the story behind it)
• Describe the current situation across many team