Podcast #318 – Marcus Hammarberg, How Lean & Kanban Saved an Indonesian Hospital

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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Topics and notes for this episode:

• Find Marcus online:
  • Website
  • Twitter – @marcusoftnet
  • LinkedIn
• 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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