Leadership and helping people to always do their best, is my business.

I truly believe that the most effective and economical way to achieve company goals is to have motivated employees and empower them to make the right decisions. I see Scrum and systemic management as key factors to fulfil this.

I am a professional software development manager who is skilled with a strong combination of certifications in the following areas: Project Management (PMP), ScrumMaster and  Systemic Coaching. My technical background is a bachelor degree in electrical engineering, a decade of professional experience as software developer and continues education, which also includes courses in business areas.

I value to be a “whole person” both in my professional and private life – my management philosophy are based on that fact. I believe that trust and joint responsibility motivates people and makes them grow in their position. In that way, they contribute to fulfilling company goals with continuing improving effort.

Recent Articles by Bent

Coaching Scrum Teams 18 Jun 08
High-performing teams are the Formula Ones of cooperation. Systemic leadership, teambuilding and coaching are key elements for a successful implementation of Scrum. Implementation of Scrum is more than just new working procedures; it also can be a showdown with the traditional management role and business rules. This article describes how you as the leader can support and develop your team by considering your own role in light of the team’s stage of development.

Recent Comments by Bent

On Prepped for Success
First of all: I totally agree in Romans views in this article. It’s nice to read them in this short and remember able form – makes it more operational. You certainly need to have the right people aboard. Be sure too have a cross functional team...
On Attractive Task Boards
At my company we use self-sticky memo-boards like the 90 cm x 120 cm blue one at http://solutions.3m.co.uk/wps/portal/3M/en_GB/EU-Post-it/Home/Products/MemoBoards/ and have arranged those as seen at http://www.agilecoaching.dk/images/ScrumTaskBoar...
On "Four"warned Is Forearmed
I find the fourth question quite clever figured out by Steve. Those kinds of questions are named Scaling Questions and are one of the techniques that are used in several coaching models. I think that the main problem in this case is lack of dev...
On "Four"warned Is Forearmed
I agree in Andy’s views about formal traning. As a Scrum Coach, I have a slideshow that I present at the initial workshop. This slideshow introduces all the basics of Scrum. In the first two or three sprints the team will have parts of this presen...
On The Manager's Role in Agile
Thanks for at well written article that states good points of reflection regarding the change of the manager role when tuning in on Scrum. I think that managers shall be aware that their role rather should be leading and coaching teams than ma...