Fredrik talks to Gitte Klitgaard about managers, diversity, and communication. We discuss how and why management has almost become a bad word. But we need management, and good management. What do you need out of managers when you have autonomous teams?

Conflict handling - we need small conflicts, and learn to handle them so they don’t become big conflicts.

Psychological safety and how to build it within and between your teams.

Building diverse teams, which kinds of managers we need, making good things visible, communicating and building psychological safety, diversity in thinking …

… and of course: a quick note on the evolution of LEGO instructions.

Recorded during Øredev 2024.

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Links

Gitte
Øredev 2024
Autonomous teams need great managers - Gitte’s presentation with Jakob Wolman
Jakob’s blog post - What use is a manager?
Gallup´s report State of the global workplace - people are feeling more disengaged
Agila Sverige - We need more managers
Devlin 2024 - conference in Linköping
Copenhagen dev festival
Reteaming
Support us on Ko-fi!
The power of the pen
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Publisher
Kent Beck

Titles

Autonomous teams need great managers
A lot of things we agreed on
The catalyst
The multiplier
Taking care of humans
A manager who cares about me
Invisible people
A lot of the leader part
Difficult skills
Not everyone communicates well
We need the small conflicts
A thousand conflicts a day
The Xerox effect
The power of the pen
Hints here and there

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