Agile at Lundbeck

By listening, being curious and asking a few simple questions, we can create a valuable conversation in sparring situations with our colleagues. How do you make the most of your sparring sessions? How do you help your colleagues in a short time? In this episode, we will show you how to use a simple coaching tool that consists of 9 questions. These questions will help you create a valuable conversation with your colleagues, where you can listen, be curious and ask the right questions. Tune in and learn how to spar better with your colleagues in 5 minutes.

Join us in Agile@Lundbeck for this talk with Lene Kjær Kirstein from Regulatory Science & Policy. Lene and her team have found their own "Agile Dialect" by testing and adjusting agile methods to create value. You can hear Lene talk about the individual elements and what has worked for her and the team.

In this episode of the Agile@Lundbeck podcast, Rikke and Michael from the Agile Center discuss the concept of “Psychological Safety” and how it is connected to our ability at to be successful, to be competitive, and to deliver medicines to patients.

The Agile Podcast is back – asking ourself What is Servant Leadership? Join our little talk on Servant Leadership, where we ask ourselves whether only leaders can be "Servant". In this episode of the Agile@Lundbeck podcast, Rie interviews her colleague Rikke from the Agile Center about her views on Servant Leadership. You can hear Rikke talk about what characterizes a Servant leader and why it is not only managers who can benefit from this mindset.

Join the 1 year birthday celebration for the agile@Lundbeck podcast and get an update on what has happened the past year. You will among others hear what happens to teams once they overcome the initial difficulties of working in a new way and we will share how interactions and involvement in workshops creates energy. And finally, we will talk about the Agile Mindset & Servant Leadership - a topic that we will focus on more in 2023.

Mette and Sanne have been working with agile principles and design thinking for years. In this podcast they give their take on how some of the concepts and principles can bring about new revelations, better and longer-lasting solutions and essentially drive innovation.

Aneesha from Global Patient Safety has worked as a scrum master on three projects. Hear her story and how she gets energy from using a coaching mindset to help the team discover the answers rather than applying a solutions mindset. Also hear how she applies the methodology in her daily work – among others the importance of focusing on the bits of work that really add most value.

Listen-in on how Lu-Canada with a common goal and not aiming for perfection created measurable results and impact. In this podcast Martine and Isabelle share with us their learnings and experiences from using the agile methodology to develop a new medical education process. They describe the agile way of working as 'an efficient on-the-job, motivating learning experience' that moved 'cross-functional consultation and collaboration to another level'.

What is it like to be a scrum master and how does is it different from being a product manager? How many of us use “I don’t know” as an answer and do it comfortably? Despina talks us through this discomfort as a Scrum Master. Admitting we can’t know everything in advance has helped her to save time on planning and empowered her teams to innovate. Listen in on an interesting talk with Despina.

What makes agile ways of working, servant leadership and self-managed teams work in China? Today we are talking to Nina Qu, Lani Wang and Minglan Wang about their digital project called Patient Care Solution aiming to enhance the patient and the physician experience throughout the care journey. We hear about how agile became a strategic priority in China and how leadership embodied the change.

Ever wonder what a manager really thinks when leading an agile team? Today two VPs, Claus Thomsen and Ingrid Harbo, tell us about the challenges and learnings they faced.

Jacob Paduan talks us through the Padwan project and how the team used a 'responsible playful' approach to achieve impressive results. He talks very frankly about failures and has a direct message for managers leading agile teams.

We go through the scrum framework, one of the main frameworks to DO agile in this step-by-step guide.

What happens when a VP becomes a product owner and then back to a VP again? Morten Grunnet talks about implementing agile and what's he's taking with him from the mindset.

Mette Maigaard, Head of the Agile Center, talks about why we started where we did and shares what worked with the pilots and what we're still working on.

If you know nothing or very little about agile, start here. Simple and easy explanations with a Lundbeck focus.

On Part II with Johan Luthman, EVP R&D, he talks about having the right people in the room to make decisions and get things done.

Johan Luthman, EVP R&D makes the case for focused work and fun with Agile. He describes his own experience with the agile methodology and some humbling lessons along the way.

A sneak peek of some of what you can expect in Season 1 on Agile@Lundbeck.

Find out what Agile@Lundbeck is all about.