Pragmatically agile
I am passionate about helping customers get as much value as possible from IT development. I use experience gained from 23 years of consulting customers in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. I have always based my work on an agile mindset (even if the name agile was not coined when I started). My experience from having held almost every role there is in software development gives me a unique ability to maximize the chances of success in a project. This experience also makes me immune to religious tendencies. I have sometimes removed agile practices in situations where they have not worked. I am a certified PMP (Project management professional) which enables me to work together with people who are not into agile.
Creating success
I help customers succeed with software development projects. To do that I perform a range of services from mentoring to taking an operational role in a project such as becoming the product owner or project manager. When I work with development teams I prefer to see myself as a catalyst instead of as a manager or scrum master. The important thing is to help people solve problems.
The projects I have been involved with have always been able to deliver working solutions that have successfully been put into production.
Complex replacement projects
I have worked with everything from modern web-based solutions to complex legacy back-end systems in Cobol. An agile approach to replacement projects is one of my specialities. I have worked in a diverse range of business areas: banking, logistics, health care, administration, telecom and more.
Courses and mentoring
I also hold courses and mentor in these areas:
- Agile project management
- Release strategy and replacement projects
- The Product owner role
- Systems thinking in software development
- Procurement with PS2000 or other agile contracts
About this site
This site is primarily intended as a place where I can present myself and my company to potential customers or business partners. Some of the material on the site is in Norwegian but most of it is in english.
Contact
You can reach me on: +47 92 62 59 10, or: niklas@leanway.no, twitter: @smalltalk80
Here is my LinkedIn profile.