Tuesday, May 6, 2025    Conference Day 1

Ways for R&D Managers to Get the Engineers to Shorten Time-to-Market

Summit Welcome

Peter Palmér, Conference chair, LPPDE

Peter Palmér will open the day with his vision for the conference theme:

"Shorten Time-to-Market"

and how this affects the managers, the product owners and the engineers, creating a win-win for all involved.

He will also go through the concept of Learning sessions which will be introduced to increase the level of EXCHANGE during the conference. We will reflect in smaller groups to increase the level of learning and the amount of knowledge all participants bring back with them.

During the conference we will listen practitioners from established companies, speakers with deep knowledge touching the latest findings in their companies as well as from universities.

As usual we will have a lot of time for knowledge exchange with participants and speakers during the conference.

Keynote: Risk Mitigation to Shorten Time to Market

Christer Lundh, Founder and President at AUFERO

The future is uncertain everyone will agree, but the future is less uncertain, when emergency
is closer to the present. Therefore Risk Mitigation is more important to Shorten Time to
Market than just having a Knowledge Based Product Development system for Rapid
Learning in place.

Look on risk of delay. To focus on probability of delay vs. impact of delay. Running product development, delays will almost certainly happen (highly probable). With focus on mitigations, how you reduce the impact, you make a difference.

This presentation gives a taste of Thursdays workshop where we will dig deeper and explore
how to reinforce fast response mechanisms, creating faster feedback loops. And based on
fast feedback, change the present. To apply ways to effectively reduce risk, reduce time to
market and increase customer value.

Christer Lundh is president of AUFERO, a consultant firm that helps senior leaders and
development teams to benefit from small low-cost iterations that remove a lot of risk. Christer
has built his expertise from extensive practice. He provides transformations, strategic
projects and personal advice, within product flow management, advisor on leadership, and
interim senior manager. He is a board member at LPPDE.org. He is a passionate leader who
creates flow of new products and innovations together with customers.

Make Managers Lead the Flow

Fredrik Viljesjö, Founder and Senior Advisor / Trainer at We Are Movement

Abstract TBD

Fredrik Viljesjö is one founder of We Are Movement and works as an Advisor, Enterprise Agile Coach, and DevOps/Architecture Coach with a broad and deep skill set. With 15 years of experience in development, coaching, and management, he has worked with multinational companies in Stockholm to guide them through their Lean / Agile journey.

Guiding and training development organizations to deliver value. From overall strategy and portfolio to individual development teams. He knows the whole chain of activities required for DevOps and Agile work, from getting people to collaborate better to implement a CI/CD pipelines.

Networking Break

Perspectives and Experiences from an In-house Consultant

Matthias Paetow, Senior Lean Manager at Hilti

In his presentation, Matthias will talk about:

• His learning path as a Lean Manger,
• The evolution of Lean at Hilti, from tools to systems, based on guiding principles and people’s behaviors
• Chances, challenges and examples of Lean in R&D and engineering

Matthias Paetow has the mission of making teams and people more effective, efficient whilst having more fun at work. He connects a “It’s all about people” mindset with a technical background as engineer. With that he is well equipped to support Lean in R&D and beyond. He coaches leaders, facilitates workshops with leadership teams, trains and mentors A3 problem solvers and helps teams to apply lean tools like k-briefs, root cause analysis, process mapping and more.

Matthias is a certified executive coach (ILM, by https://www.coachingcultureatwork.com/ ) and trainer in Hilti’s LCS ( https://www.leancompetency.org/ ) accredited lean training program.

Learning Session

Reflection, teach back of key takeaways, and summarize key learnings

Networking Lunch – Open Space

Revolutionizing Product Development with MobAI

Virpi Rowe, CEO and partner, transformation coach and trainer at WikiAgile

How can teams achieve tangible results quickly while simultaneously learning new skills? Using MobAI combines teamwork, continuous learning, and a model inspired by Tesla’s groundbreaking practices. This challenges conventional thinking, teaches adaptability in fast-changing environments, and provides a practical way to develop new capabilities.

It requires:

• Collaboration and psychological safety: Every contribution matters, and open communication fosters creative problem-solving.
• Rapid learning and adaptation: Teams tackle challenges by learning together and quickly adjusting to changing situations.
• Focus on results: Each experiment aims for measurable outcomes that can be directly applied in practice

Learning happens through experimentation and teamwork. 

Virpi Rowe has over 30 years of experience driving product development and organizational transformation across diverse industries. As the CEO of WikiAgile Oy, she focuses on integrating AI into teamwork to reshape how teams collaborate and deliver results. Inspired by the approaches of industry leaders like Tesla, Virpi helps teams achieve high performance and create meaningful, impactful products.

Product Projects in Half the Time – Proven in Practice

Janne Lundberg, President at LIAB

Janne will describe, with examples, a ‘simple’ but powerful approach of planning and driving mixed hardware and software projects, reducing the calendar time to half using agile and visual principles.

This approach has proven to work in different types of projects, like tightening systems, door hardware, id card printers, ventilators, wastewater pumps, railway system components, thermal cameras and in building a wastewater treatment plant, moving factories etc. It can be scaled from ‘one man band’ projects to bigger programs.

It is simple to describe but it is not too simple to have success in shortening the time, so I will share tips and tricks that are useful to get the full effect. 

Janne Lundberg is a Global Agile Innovation Coach and Speaker. Since 2017 Janne is working as an independent consultant transforming global leading companies – having significantly increased their Value creation, the OnTime performance and the employee happiness.

Until 2017 he worked for 6 years as Global Lean Innovation Manager for ASSA ABLOY, becoming one of the 100 most innovative companies in the world (Forbes) – before Apple. At ASSA ABLOY, Janne introduced Lean Innovation in around 90 Innovation sites globally, including starting 60 Pulse Rooms, training 1500 employees and certifying 170 Lean Innovation Champions.

Before Agile he has worked during the main part of his career at Atlas Copco with global industrial and automotive customers. There he was driving the electrical and digital transformation. He has a Master of Science in Engineering and has used Agile since 2006. He also has a LPD university training at Chalmers 2008.

Networking Break

How We Get Our Construction Project to Deliver on Time

Niklas Versvåg, Consultant Production Manager for NCC

In the construction field, significant cost overruns and project delays are not uncommon. For many projects, “shortening time to market” ultimately means meeting the original milestones defined in the contract, all while managing variations caused by ground conditions, weather, lack of action, work areas, logistics, poor design, quality deficiencies, and more. The key focus is on maintaining strategic stability by achieving consistent progress in production. This presentation will explore project management strategies for an innovative treatment plant currently being constructed in the greater Stockholm area.

We begin by benchmarking the contract timeline and its critical path, posing the question: Have we been given the conditions necessary to deliver as per the contract, and what are the risks and opportunities? As design, procurement, and production progress, we establish a more detailed overarching plan—referred to as a synchronization plan—where each team defines their significant sprint milestones. The primary focus remains on project execution and critical deliverables, while safeguarding the strategic milestones. This approach naturally highlights dependencies and integrations at a higher level.

Once the design phase is complete, we break down the work into tactical and operational plans, incorporating gateways to manage variations and unforeseen tasks that may impact the agreed Work in Progress (WIP). These three planning phases—strategic, tactical, and operational—provide teams with a clear context for their sprint planning. We apply agile methodologies to construction activities across all teams, enabling the preparation of long-term plans, sprint schedules, and production drives (pulses). All efforts are aligned towards one common goal: meeting our deadlines! This approach reflects a scaled work method.

The success of each sprint period lies in its drive: progress in the construction field should be predictable, with workloads evenly distributed across available resources. Ideally, this predictability makes the process almost “boring,” as such consistency leads to maximum output—a crucial element in shortening time to market.

Niklas Versvåg has extensive experience in contracting and turnkey projects across the oil industry, hydropower, and construction/civil engineering sectors. He has successfully led large, complex projects in multidisciplinary industries, including riser pull-in systems for oil platforms, large-scale hydropower initiatives, and megaprojects in the construction industry.

Over the past five years, Niklas has served as a site manager and production manager for construction and civil engineering projects on behalf of NCC. His prior roles include project manager and head of technical sales in the oil industry (bidding, procurement) and project/production manager in hydropower.

Niklas is driven by delivering the right things at the right time. The key to a successful project execution is consensus, clear structure, and collaboration from all involved parties regardless of their area of expertise. What motivates him most in his work is the development potential in various areas such as organization, technical solutions, and working methodology.

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Break

Navigate the Innovation Landscape – A People Centric Approach to Doing the Thing Right

Bengt Johansson, Lean Peak Solutions

In the dynamic landscape of today's market, innovation is the lifeblood that ensures not just survival but the ability to flourish and lead. Let’s have a look at a game-changing strategy: leveraging the transformative power of continuous learning, training, and skills development to fuel the organization's innovative edge. 

Envision a workforce that not only has the skills but also the courage to break new ground and pioneer industry-changing ideas. This is the power of a commitment to ongoing professional advancement that ignite creativity, equipping the team with the latest in technology and problem-solving skills, turning potential into reality.

 Continuous learning is at the heart of our approach, creating an environment where innovation is constant. Investing in the team means investing in the future, fostering engagement, loyalty, and a reputation for innovation.

Bengt Johansson has spent his entire working life at ASSA ABLOY and has seen the company grow to a global champion. Bengt has been working around 25 years with product development in different roles, production engineering, through quality management and product development. The latest 15 years Bengt spent in ASSA ABLOYs Lean Innovation program where he has been the Global Lean Innovation Manager the latest 6 years.

Learning Session

Reflection, teach back of key takeaways, and summarize key learnings

Networking Buffet