Christina Kjær Seime talks with Dave Rael about family, coaching, travel, culture, agility, creating, and technology
Christina works as a Lean/Agile Coach at Miles - a Norwegian consultancy company. She is an active speaker at conferences in Norway and enjoys giving workshops on different Agile topics. She is devoted to get teams and organisations to collaborate and work efficiently, creating the best products possible, using principles from Agile and Lean. Since she graduated in 2004 she has been working in numerous development projects in telecommunications, energy, media and the public sector. The first years as a developer and later on as team lead, project manager and now coach. She is passionate and interested in all things related to creating great products, convinced that this relies as much on inter-human aspects and communication as it does on technology. She is curious by nature and right now she is on a one year sabbatical with her husband and two girls. A great opportunity to experience new places, cultures, people and to learn!
Chapters:
1:17 - Dave introduces the show and Christina Kjær Seime3:40 - Christina's sabbatical and travel with her family8:45 - Christina's experiences with speaking at and organizing conferences11:34 - How Christina got started in software15:04 - Christina's many roles in software and the nature of coaching22:25 - Christina's story of failure - losing information archives and not telling anyone25:45 - Christina on being a woman in tech28:47 - Christina's book recommendations30:48 - Safety and speaking the truth38:07 - Tactfully addressing problems39:55 - Christina's hopes and expectations for returning from her sabbatical42:23 - Christina's opportunities to continue coding43:56 - The things that have Christina most excited45:45 - Christina's top 3 tips for delivering more value48:10 - Keeping up with Christina
Resources:
Miles
Smidigkonferansen
Doc Norton on Developer On Fire
Visual Management
Henrik Kniberg
Christina's book recommendation:
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win - Gene Kim
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Christina's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
Look at the whole value chain to see where you can improve
Work together
Have fun