
Most product development companies have strategic goals and an overall strategy to get there. And in the same company, people working in the development teams are quite busy (often overwhelmingly so) dealing with the day-to-day tasks of adding to the products, fixing defects, and shipping new versions to the market. But when asking the development teams how the things they are working on at the moment connect to the official company strategy, it’s surprisingly often challenging to get a good answer.
This phenonemon is often referred to as the “air sandwitch”. In this webinar we share good practices used in companies to adress it.
Details:
💻 Where? Over zoom. Link to the meeting will be sent out to everyone registered before the webinar starts.
📅 When? Over lunch, Thursday 10th of April 2025, 12:00 – 13:00 CET.
🗨️ Structure? The problem & What to do about it ~35min . Followed by a Q&A.
About the Speakers:
Jan Grape is an expert engineer, architect and a renowned trainer.
Jan’s clients include Skype, Audi, iZettle/PayPal, Tobii, Ericsson, SimCorp, Teradata, and numerous small and medium-sized businesses and startup companies
Jan uses a wide palette of expert skills, ranging from architecture, usability organization and testing to help improve the companies he coaches.
In his spare time, Jan trains and mentors young software engineers.


Mattias Skarin has trained and coached Agile transformations in both fast growing companies such as AID (self-driving cars), Tobii, Joyn, as well as global enterprises such as LEGO, SimCorp and Zalando.
He often coaches on leadership, portfolio and strategy.
As a curious engineer, he enjoys exploring the boundaries of impossibility and doing something good with it.
Mattias is the author of “Real World Kanban”.