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Fireside chat with Henrik Kniberg

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Fireside chat with Henrik Kniberg
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Hapkey's CEO, Marcus Castenfors, had the pleasure of interviewing Henrik Kniberg this week. The chat was recorded and is filled with useful tools and approaches to increasing the happiness within teams and organizations. Enjoy!

About Henrik

Henrik Kniberg is a consultant at Crisp in Stockholm. He does Minecraft gameplay design, development and team coaching at Mojang, and has previously worked at Lego and Spotify.

Henrik enjoys helping companies succeed with both the technical and human sides of product development using agile and lean principles, as described in his popular books ”Scrum and XP from the Trenches” and ”Kanban and Scrum, making the most of both” and ”Lean from the Trenches”, as well as his viral videos ”Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell” and ”Spotify Engineering Culture”.

Henrik is also engaged in climate change, he created the video Friendly Guide to Climate Change and cofounded GoClimate.com.

Here are some key take-aways from the conversation

  • If you have a problem, visualize the problem for everyone to see
  • Measure happiness in your team. It can be as simple as putting post-its on a wall
  • Focus on the "root cause" rather than just going with your instinct

What did you take away from the chat?

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