Mattias Skarin

Product Development Coach

is a former software developer turned transformative catalyst, coaching and training companies in revolutionizing their software approaches. His expertise in Agile transformations spans organizations, from scale-ups to global enterprises. Mattias co-founded agilakontrakt.se, to share his knowledge of Agile contracting and procurement, and founded platform Active Agile Leadership. Connect with Mattias on LinkedIn. 

My expertise is improving product development in fast moving, complex environments. Both in software and hardware.

A few companies I have helped transform and improve: AID (self-driving cars), LEGO, Joyn (streaming entertainment), Zalando, SimCorp, Tobii.

I typically help out with:

  • Transformations – how improve product development performance (by a factor of 2x)
  • Digitalization – turning vision into real effect
  • Portfolio – how to set up and operate a portfolio
  • Strategy – how to make strategy happen
  • Scaling – how to set up a company for scaling
  • Leadership training – how to build the people that leads the system
  • Collaboration in product development with partners using Agile contracing

Hacks

My current AI hacks

  • Building research agents in LangGraph
  • Fine tuning open sources LLM’s with customized data
  • Testing cloud providers for AI coding tasks
  • Feature engineering in MatLab

Publications (new)

Real World Kanban 2nd Edition - new book

Pick up the book eBook / Print

Publications – Product development

  • ”Machine learning essentials for CTO’s” (video) –  2020

Conferences and talks

  • Sigist 2022 – Decision making under uncertainty
  • Agile Islands 2022 – Agile for everyone including non IT – the experience driven version
  • Crisp Day 2022 – “Decision making under uncertainty”
  • Agile Islands 2021 – “Introduction to Agile for business and public sector”
  • Crisp Day 2021 – “AI for CTO’s and impact on Architecture” 
  • Agile Islands 2020 – ”Agile outside IT”
  • Agile Islands 2020 – ”Leadership as an investment” –  talk together with Roland Granlund
  • Agile Islands 2019 – Agile in the Public sector (slides + digitalisation kit)
  • Agile Islands 2018 – ”Decision making under uncertainty”
  • Agile Israel 2018, Successful Digitalisation using Agile Contracts
  • Agile Israel 2018, Improving the full value chain using Lean/Agile thinking
  • Agile marketing at Zalando – case story, 31:a Maj, Stockholm
  • Upphandla IT 2018, ”Ta ledartröjan i din digitalisering med hjälp av Agila kontrakt”
  • LKCE 2017, ”Using Lean principles and Agile tools in Marketing”
  • Agila kontraktsnätverket 2017, ”Agila kontrakt – avtalsformer och hur navigera igenom LOU”
  • DevOps Greece ”Using Kanban in the field, and how we got management buy in to do so”
  • Agila kontraktsnätverket 2017, ”Hur upphandla rätt leverantör”
  • LKCE 2015 (Lean Kanban Central Europe) – ”Getting the building blocks in place – learnings from Safe @ LEGO”  (slides),  video
  • Lean Kanban France 2015 – ”Kanban learnings across kanban case studies”
  • Upphandla 2.0 Göteborg, 2015 ”Agil upphandling – går det?”
  • Almedalsveckan, 5 Juli – ”Skapa effektiv offentlig sektor med hjälp av Agila kontrakt”
  • Hookedfest 2015, Introducing Concepts (official launch of new book)
  • Upphandla IT, Stockholm, 7 Maj – Agila kontrakt och LOU
  • Västsveriges Upphandlingsdag 2015, 5 Mars – Varför det är dags att lära sig om Agila kontrakt
  • DevLin, Linköping, 2014 – Att måla sig ut från ett hörn och in i ett samarbete – Agila kontrakt
  • Lean Kanban Nordic – Stop starting start finishing, 27-28 Maj – Enterprise Kanban
  • Dare Fest – Antwerp, Belgium, 15-17 Maj – Introducing Concepts
  • Mix-IT France, 29-30 April, 2014 – On visualization
  • Keynote, Agile Estonia, 15 Feb 2014 – ”Improving the full value chain”
  • Lean Kanban Central Europe, Hamburg, 4-5 November, 2013 ”Improving the full value chain using Lean”  
  • Keynote, Agile Tour Vilnius, 10 Okt 2013 – ”Waking up the zombie”
  • Agile Eastern Europe 2013 – ”Visualization, what’s my brain got to do with it”
  • A3 Thinking – Lean Kanban Netherlands, 7-8 Oktober, 2013
  • DARE, Belgium, 14-15 Juni, ”Visualization – what’s my brain got to do with it”
  • Agile Iceland 2012 – ”Improving flow from marketing to production using Kanban”
  • Keynote, Agile Tour Riga 2012, ”Continuous improvement, beyond retrospectives”
  • Meridiumdagen, Nov 21, Stockholm, ”Vad innebär agila kontrakt?”
  • Lean Central Europe, October 22-23, Wien, ”Improving flow from marketing to operation using Kanban”
  • Keynote, Open Agile, 6 Oktober 2012. ”Using continuous improvement on the full value stream”
  • ESE Conference Zurich, April 24-25 2012, ”Exploring requirement options using Kanban”
  • SDC, April 16-17, 2012, ”Modern product development principles” – understanding and leveraging economics using kanban.
  • Kanban Applied in Oslo, March 29-30, course
  • ReForum Zurich, Nov 3 2011, ”Exploring requirement options using Kanban”
  • Lean & Kanban Benelux, Oct 3-4 2011,  ”What would you do – analysing charts”
  • Devcon 2011 Karlskrona, Sept 14 2011, ”Techniques to improve flow”
  • Agila Sverige, May 24 2011, ”Training within industry (TWI) teaching model”
  • Goto Copenhagen, May 13 2011, ”10 pitfalls when implementing kanban”
  • Lean Software & Systems conference 2011 Long Beach, May 4-5, ”10 pitfalls when implementing kanban”
  • SDC, April 4-5 2011, ”10 pitfalls when implementing kanban”
  • ScanAgile, March 3 2011, ”Kanban options as a Scrum team”
  • Lean and Kanban Belgium, Sept 23-24 2010, ”Converting a Scrum team to Kanban”
  • Lean SSC London, July 9 2010, ”Converting a Scrum team to Kanban”
  • USI Paris, July 2 2010, ”Improving operations using Kanban”
  • NDC Oslo, June 16-18 2010, ”Experimenting with kanban principles”
  • Keynote Agile Estonia, May 15 2010, ”Mind over matter”
  • Lean Software and Systems Atlanta, April 21-23 2010, <gah! ashcloud>
  • DevOps 2009,  Oct 30-31, ”Introducing Kanban in operations”
  • ScanAgile, Oct 14-15 2009, ”Introducing Kanban in operations”
  • Future of Agile, May 27 2009, ”Discovering roots of Lean – visiting Toyota”
Mattias Skarin
Mattias Skarin
Product Development Coach