Joining me from Sweden for Episode 318 of the podcast is Marcus Hammarberg, author of the fascinating book Salvation: The Bungsu Story: How Lean and Kanban saved a small hospital in Indonesia. Twice. And can help you reshape work in your company.

Marcus is a software developer, consultant, lean/agile coach, speaker, and author. He ended up with an opportunity to work with a hospital in Indonesia and he tells that compelling story in the book. How did a huge hole in the roof help trigger a change in culture and results? You'll hear about that and more in this episode. I hope you enjoy it and find it inspirational, as I did.

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Introductions

How did you get introduced to methods like agile, scrum, kanban, lean, etc. in software? The Agile Manifesto

What's the high-level story of how and why you went to Indonesia?

What was the situation? “Start where you are!”

Taking baby steps toward improvement. “What has improved since yesterday? The tiniest improvement…

What's a “conformist-amber culture?” Hierarchical, “carrot & stick” The result: “They didn't dare change anything.” Were staff really lazy and undermotivated?

How did you work to overcome blaming and a lack of trust? Being candid about not knowing the answers

Setting goals, being super clear about the goal, visualizing, providing daily updates

“In doing the work, we discover the work that needs to be done.” – Woody Zuill Thanks, Woody, for introducing me to Marcus!







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