Thomas Nilsson
Thomas Nilsson currently works mostly as a coach to large and small development organisations, including multiple Ericsson sites. This has involved starting new agile teams, teaching TDD to developers, Product Backlog prioritisation to Product Owners, re-inventing planning of
large-scale projects with Project Leads as well as coaching Scrum Masters, teams and managers.
Thomas is also the CTO of Responsive Development Technologies, a company specialising in
helping organisations use Lean and Agile techniques to deliver more value to customers more
often.
Thomas holds an MSc in Computer Science from Linköping University where he graduated in
1981. After a few years at Ericsson as a developer, team and tech lead he joined SoftLab, a
consultancy firm focusing on software development tools and methods. In 1998 he co-founded
the company later to become Responsive.
Track abstract - Agile in the organisation
Taxiing, Climbing and Crusing Agile Teams
There’s the Shu Ha Ri and Dreyfuss models of individual learning and there has been some
discussions on if this applies to organisations too. This talk will present a model of maturity of
teams that might be more appropriate. The model has provided a structure enabling coaching of
large organisations transitioning into agile to be more effective. In particular, examples will be
presented showing how, and why, strategies on pair programming, TDD, standups and
retrospectives might differ depending on how mature an agile team is.
Track abstract - Conversation Corner
In conversation
Thomas Nilsson, Lieke Arends, Rik Arends and Humayun Rashid - available in conversation corner.
This is your chance to talk to selected conference speakers and raise all the burning questions you have following their presentations. Do you have feedback, positive or negative? Take this opportunity to share your ideas in a relaxed, informal chat.
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