{"id":16609,"date":"2023-08-28T16:57:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T15:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crisp.se\/?page_id=16609"},"modified":"2023-08-28T16:57:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T15:57:51","slug":"henrik-kniberg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.crisp.se\/en\/consultants\/henrik-kniberg","title":{"rendered":"Henrik Kniberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi, welcome to my humble abode!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Want help? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisp.se\/henrik.kniberg\/faq\">See my FAQ<\/a>. <\/strong>Please do so before sending me email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crisp.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/loosely-coupled-tightly-aligned-1-1024x525.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15409\" style=\"width:362px;height:184px\" width=\"362\" height=\"184\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is this guy?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I love making software and helping companies improve! Most recently worked as Minecraft gameplay designer &amp; developer &amp; coach at Mojang. Before that, spent a bunch of years coaching Spotify, Lego, and other fun companies. Was CTO at a few companies before I got into coaching. Wrote a few books on agile\/lean stuff, and a bunch of articles such as this one with the silly <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.crisp.se\/2016\/01\/25\/henrikkniberg\/making-sense-of-mvp\">skateboard metaphor.<\/a> Accidentally co-created something people call the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yvfz4HGtoPc\">Spotify Model<\/a>. Made a bunch of videos, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=502ILHjX9EE\">Agile Ownership in a Nutshell<\/a>. Done some work with climate change: co-founded <a href=\"http:\/\/GoClimate.org\">GoClimate.org<\/a> and made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3CM_KkDuzGQ\">video about climate change<\/a> (important! watch it!). Co-founded <a href=\"http:\/\/OperationalExcellence.com\">OperationalExcellence.com<\/a> together with my buddy Niklas Modig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I live near Stockholm with my wife &amp; four kids. Like to learn, create, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RFK1oO2xNLQ\">Jam<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Books<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisp.se\/bocker-och-produkter\/scrum-and-xp-from-the-trenches\">Scrum and XP from the Trenches<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoq.com\/minibooks\/kanban-scrum-minibook\">Kanban and Scrum &#8211; making the most of both<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pragprog.com\/book\/hklean\/lean-from-the-trenches\">Lean from the Trenches &#8211; managing large scale projects with kanban<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crisp.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-1-1024x444.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crisp.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-1-1024x444.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.crisp.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-1-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crisp.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-1-768x333.png 768w, https:\/\/www.crisp.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-1-1536x666.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.crisp.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-1.png 1738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Popular videos<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.crisp.se\/2014\/03\/27\/henrikkniberg\/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1\">Spotify Engineering Culture<\/a> &#8211; the origin of the so-called Spotify Model<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.crisp.se\/2012\/10\/25\/henrikkniberg\/agile-product-ownership-in-a-nutshell\">Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell<\/a> &#8211; short visual summary of agile<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3CM_KkDuzGQ\">Friendly Guide to Climate Change<\/a> &#8211; short summary of climate change and what you can do about it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CostXs2p6r0\">The Resource Utilization Trap<\/a> &#8211; a silly and fun live demo of the pull principle in lean<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vXaWOJTCYNg\">Testing Minecraft with Minecraft<\/a> &#8211; how we do test automation in Minecraft, using Minecraft&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yqi9Gwt-OEA\">Multitasking vs one piece flow<\/a> &#8211; a silly and fun live demo of why multitasking generally sucks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Popular keynotes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some of my most popular keynotes. The other 30+ keynotes are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisp.se\/konsulter\/henrik-kniberg\/keynotes\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I8vYcrgjLAo\">How to make awesome products<\/a> &#8211; Mind the Product, London<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H-TIpXMvDaQ\">Confessions of a Change Agent<\/a> &#8211; Agile Turkey, Istanbul<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.crisp.se\/2017\/09\/11\/henrikkniberg\/agile-where-are-we-at\">Agile, where are we at?<\/a> &#8211; USI, Paris (see also my blog post)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n7wH2XdOWpM\">Focus (Stop Starting and Start Finishing)<\/a> &#8211; Agile By Example, Warsaw<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Popular articles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.crisp.se\/2016\/01\/25\/henrikkniberg\/making-sense-of-mvp\">Making sense of MVP<\/a> (and why I prefer earliest testable\/usable\/lovable) &#8211; the origin of the skateboard vs car metaphor.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/scrum\/checklist\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scrum Checklist<\/a> &#8211; unofficial, but so popular that it is kind of the official unofficial checklist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/henrik.kniberg\/How-we-got-rid-of-time-reports.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How we got rid of time reports<\/a> &#8211; a story of waste elimination<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/henrik.kniberg\/cause-effect-diagrams.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cause-effect diagrams<\/a> &#8211; a pragmatic way of doing root-cause analysis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.crisp.se\/2012\/11\/14\/henrikkniberg\/scaling-agile-at-spotify\">Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters &amp; Guilds<\/a> &#8211; this article, followed by the culture video, is the origin of the so-called Spotify Model<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoq.com\/articles\/agile-version-control\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agile version control with multiple teams<\/a> &#8211; old article (pre git), but still relevant and popular<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected interviews\/podcasts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a data-wplink-url-error=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/How to make awesome products - Mind the Product, London\">This week in video games<\/a> &#8211; we talked about Minecraft development, leadership, visual thinking, remote work, and other topics.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thespawnchunks.com\/2021\/08\/02\/the-spawn-chunks-152-the-hills-are-alive-with-henrik-kniberg\/\">The spawn chunks<\/a> &#8220;The hills are alive with Henrik Kniberg&#8221; &#8211; we talked about the new terrain generation in Minecraft among other things.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/visualthinking.libsyn.com\/33-henrik-kniberg\">Visual thinking podcast<\/a> (also on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3dsZArsc4sh1iA3GUUsfZn?si=4e1c44b5f03e4524\">Spotify<\/a> &amp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/33-henrik-kniberg\/id1488251860?i=1000489733942\">Apple<\/a>)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230; will probably add more links here&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some more links and fun facts (and shameless self-promotion&#8230;)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I was featured in the film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.invisionapp.com\/films\/squads\">Squads<\/a>, about 45 minute documentary about how the Spotify model became a thing, and why it has become so popular.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When I was on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agilealliance.org\/\">Agile Alliance<\/a> board of directors I initiated and organized a worldwide community effort to get the <a href=\"http:\/\/agilemanifesto.org\">Agile Manifesto<\/a> translated to 67 languages \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;m a Certified Scrum Trainer. In addition to my own courses, I&#8217;ve also co-taught Scrum certification courses together with Jeff Sutherland (co-creator of Scrum) on a regular basis for over 10 years. I&#8217;ve also worked for a long time with Mary Poppendieck, Alistair Cockburn, Niklas Modig, and other Agile\/Lean thought leaders. I&#8217;ve learned so much from them!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;m a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisp.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Henrik-Kniberg-SPC-certificate.png\">Certified Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant<\/a> (SPC) and a <a href=\"https:\/\/less.works\/profiles\/henrik-kniberg\">Certified LeSS practitioner.<\/a> I also helped develop Jeff Sutherland&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrumatscale.com\/\">Scrum@Scale<\/a> framework. But I mostly don&#8217;t use scaling frameworks, and instead just take the best bits of them when needed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I was rated <a href=\"http:\/\/techworld.idg.se\/2.2524\/1.639803\/sveriges-basta-utvecklare\">#2 best developer in Sweden<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/techworld.idg.se\/2.2524\/1.639803\/sveriges-basta-utvecklare\">Computer Sweden<\/a> in 2015. And rated <a href=\"http:\/\/computersweden.idg.se\/2.2683\/1.475389\/hela-listan-pa-sveriges-100-basta-utvecklare?showGallery=true&amp;allimages=true\">#3<\/a> in 2012. Been on the top-20 list every time since 2008. Although admittedly that rating system was more a popularity contest&#8230;.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/certified-scrum-trainer.jpg\" alt=\" \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/Agile-Alliance-board-alumni.png\" alt=\" \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, welcome to my humble abode! Want help? See my FAQ. Please do so before sending me email. Who is this guy? I love making software and helping companies improve! Most recently worked as Minecraft gameplay designer &amp; developer &amp; coach at Mojang. 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