Andreas Hägglund

Chief Post-it writer @Careem with a lust for collaboration and learning. My latest endeavor is bringing Lean & Agile to the UAE.

[Gary Hamel @profhamel]

It's crazy that the avg employee can't order a $300 office chair without a manager's sign-off! It's time to stop infantilizing employees. Pushing authority down pays BIG dividends. Here at 2 pieces of recent evidence, from @KKR_Co and @AMJPublicHealth, that buttress the case.

[Daniel Ek @eldsjal]

I'm really glad when my team at Spotify proves me wrong, like they did with "Discover Weekly."

People often think founders have everything planned out from the start, but that's at least not true for me. A lot of times, I rely on feedback from our team, customers, and partners. And I change my mind often. My job is a bit of that of a curator or producer - I’m putting together pieces of a puzzle.

When the team first pitched me "Discover Weekly," I wasn't sure about it. I didn't really get why it was special. But the team kept building on it and more and more people internally got excited. When we launched it, I was surprised. Turns out, our users really loved it, and today it's one of the top features on Spotify.

One of the most underrated skills we have in our society is listening. So I’m sending this tweet out in the world as a reminder to myself to work on becoming an ever better listener.

[Bjarte Bogsnes @bbogsnes]

Just around the corner - my new book "This is Beyond Budgeting - A Guide to More Adaptive and Human Organizations". Foreword by Gary Hamel, endorsements from Rita McGrath, Dave Snowden, Julian Birkinshaw and Jos de Blok.

https://t.co/tQ4rK5nhcz

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Estimates are a tool for managing fear. When there is no fear no estimates are needed.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

The difference between talking and delivering.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention.

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

You will note that the words "Project Manager" do not appear in either the Agile Manifesto or the Scrum Guide. They did not inadvertently forget to mention them. It's not "of course you have Project Managers, that's a given." It's not a given. There's no place for them.

[Not My Agile @NotMyAgile]

The product owner needs to fully define the acceptance criteria ahead of time, so the team knows what to implement.

#NotMyAgile

[Andrew Wilkinson @awilkinson]

"Here's the number I used to win the lottery"

–Entrepreneurs giving advice

[Andreas Hägglund @ahab1972]

@alshalloway It's a profound insight by Schein. Add to it that we're only able to talk and think about things our languages allow us to express and that our language is forged by a millenia of culture the challenge is clear

[Jeff Gothelf @jboogie]

7 Questions to Craft the Perfect Product Story https://t.co/6lYtkina5N

[Marc Burgauer @somesheep]

My timeline has again a day of manager bashing. ☹️

Protip: management dysfunctions are a symptom of the system, not an issue of bad managers. If you expect managers to fix things, you do not think in systems.

[Picard Tips @PicardTips]

Picard management tip: Become a symbol of stability for your crew. This takes time, but then they'll move mountains for you.

[Tim Ottinger @tottinge]

Where there is a handoff, there is a queue.
Where there is a queue, transit time increases (work waits).

Where there is a hand-back there is a loop.
Where there is a loop, the transit time multiplies the time of the enclosed processes and handoffs.

[Not My Agile @NotMyAgile]

Okay team. After 1 month of requirements sprints and 5 months of development sprints, we deployed to production and learned that we misunderstood some requirements. So this time, we’ll spend 3 months in requirements sprints and 3 months in development sprints.

#NotMyAgile

[Ola Ellnestam @ellnestam]

My first attempt at an Infographic where I present my view and stance on how we should develop, use and treat software.

The tentative title for the concept is "Active Software Stewardship"

[Tim Ottinger @tottinge]

Again reminded how much easier using SQL is than using an ORM.

I don't understand why ORMs are so popular.

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

TDD "tests" are not tests.

I wish we'd get over that.

They are examples of how we want the code we are writing to be used, expressed in a test format so that we can execute them easily. As such, they are executable specifications—explaining how the code should work. Not tests.