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• The Secret life of your Manager
  ScanAgile 2026 · March 17, 2026 · Helsinki, Finland

  Being a great manager is hard. It requires skills, experience, and empathy. Gone are the days of Don Draper, when managers had their own floor, office, and whiskey. And yet, most people are unaware of what managers do all day, or the problems they solve. Management has moved from telling people what to do to a job that requires a broader skill set. Join this session to learn about what managers do when you are not looking, the surprising situations managers find themselves in, and the difference great managers make in an organization. Jakob and Gitte will share stories about some of the hard decisions that middle managers face. You will get insights into the challenges of management and how you can become more successful by helping your manager. With Gitte Klitgaard.

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Past

• Autonomous teams require great technical leaders
  Agile meets Architecture 2025 · April 2025 · Berlin, Germany

  What conditions are necessary for a team to be successfully autonomous? They need the right environment, the right framing, and the right leadership — from managers, senior developers, and architects working with the team. Jakob and Gitte share experiences of autonomous teams enabled by great leaders, and stories of where autonomy was damaging because of lacking conditions. Covering what to expect from managers, architects, staff engineers, and senior engineers to enable autonomy. With Gitte Klitgaard.
• Autonomous teams require great managers
  Øredev 2024 · November 2024 · Malmö, Sweden

  Autonomous teams are like unicorns; everyone talks about them, some know a bit about them, and some believe they have wings. What is an autonomous team, and what conditions do they need to work? They need the right environment, the right framing, and the right leadership — and not just good leaders, but great managers. Jakob and Gitte share experiences of autonomous teams enabled by great managers, and stories of where autonomy was damaging because management did not live up to their task. With Gitte Klitgaard.
• Autonomous teams require great managers
  Copenhagen Developers Festival 2024 · June 2024 · Copenhagen, Denmark

  Autonomous teams are like unicorns; everyone talks about them, some know a bit about them, and some believe they have wings. What is an autonomous team, and what conditions do they need to work? They need the right environment, the right framing, and the right leadership — and not just good leaders, but great managers. Jakob and Gitte share experiences of autonomous teams enabled by great managers, and stories of where autonomy was damaging because management did not live up to their task. With Gitte Klitgaard.
• Time management for mortals
  Agila Sverige – Space Torsdag · June 2024 · Sweden
• Panel – Why one model can't fit all: creating fulfilling engineering organizations
  Øredev 2022 · November 2022 · Malmö, Sweden

  Organizations relying on software operate in an ever-changing environment. As they deal with increasing complexity, companies are waking up to the hangovers left by installing agile frameworks and one-size-fits-all models. This panel discusses the shift toward organic evolution — how to apply the right thing at the right time, build learning organizations, and give employees enough autonomy to be productive. Panelists: Heidi Helfand, Chris Smith, Susanne Kaiser. Moderated by Jakob Wolman.
• Culture eats strategy for breakfast – and scales agile
  Øredev 2015 · November 2015 · Malmö, Sweden
• Agile culture at Qlik R&D
  Foo Café · August 2015 · Malmö, Sweden

  How R&D at Qlik lives the culture and uses agile values — covering QlikAcademy, R&D Science Fair, Summits, Guilds, and The Farm: Qlik's way of scaling agile across a large organisation.
• En Prioriterad Backlog
  Foo Café – Lean Tribe Gathering · April 2015 · Malmö, Sweden

  A talk on product ownership and backlog prioritization at the Lean Tribe Gathering hosted by Foo Café.