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