How I can help

With practical experience as a consultant, employee, and leader, I have a knack for identifying barriers, setting guardrails, establishing common goals, and bringing together motivated teams for clients who are either embarking on or already working in an agile environment. I can assist you and your organisation with:

• Simplifying your governance models to avoid endless meeting loops and ensure
  timely decision-making.

• Identifying and establishing consensus on shared objectives (OKRs) in the short,
  medium, and long term.

• Establishing or optimising your portfolio function to support your agile teams and
  enhance value realisation.

• Assessing whether your agile transformation aligns with your set objectives and
  providing assistance if it falls short.

• Adapting your operating model to support the different workflows you employ.

• Coaching teams, programs, portfolios, and leadership on development, value
  realisation, and roles in an agile organisation.

• Serving as a passionate, engaged, and hands-on trainer for both open and
  closed courses on agile methodologies, frameworks, and values.

Experience

2022-2023 / Energy company | Agile Transformation Advisor, Trainer, and Leadership Coach

In connection with the customer’s transition to agile delivery across business, IT, and support functions Morten is providing advisory through hands-on coaching, teaching and as interim Product Owner. Advising on defining and implementing the clients Portfolio governance model and Portfolio operation. Learning with the client through the initiation and delivery of multiple agile teams, encompassing both operations and development, delivering end-to-end from demand to operations.

2022-2023 / Game provider | Agility Advisor

As part of the client’s transformation team, Morten advised the client on their project to product transformation and helped them define their case for change. Through interviews, assessments, and analyses, Morten identified areas for improvement and opportunities for implementing a product-centric strategy. Together with the client’s leadership, Morten crafted a comprehensive case for change, highlighting the benefits of transitioning to a product-centric approach and designed a roadmap for the transformation, outlining milestones and resource allocation.

2021-2022 / Global Insurance Company | Agile Transformation Advisor, Trainer, and Leadership Coach

Morten was transformation advisor on the client’s largest development program, involving over 3,000 employees across 29 Agile Release Trains spanning business, development, and operations. While the program utilised agile methods at the team level, it relied on a classic project management model with annual funding and budgeting, lacking continuous prioritisation at the portfolio and program levels. In collaboration with a team of portfolio leaders, Morten designed the global portfolio function, requirements process, demand flow, and prioritisation model, which were subsequently implemented area by area. The program delivered over 10% more value after the first quarter.

2021-2021 / Nordic Insurance Company | Operating Model Advisor and Trainer

Morten spearheaded the development of the client’s target operating model for the technology organisation, aiming to align business and IT around streamlined product areas across three countries. The journey towards the new operating model was executed in an agile manner, enabling employees and leaders to take responsibility for capability development and the prioritisation of areas of focus.

2020-2020 / Bank | Agile Transformation Advisor, Leadership Coach, and Trainer

Morten initiated and trained the bank’s first agile team. Leveraging agile methodologies, strong leadership support, and team engagement, we increased employee satisfaction and ownership of the transformation. With the implementation of RPA technology and process improvements, we ensured a quality boost and achieved a 20% growth in cases resolved within deadlines.

2018-2020 / Global Payment Services Company | Agile Transformation Coach and Trainer

Morten played a pivotal role in establishing the agile transformation team in collaboration with the client. Within the transformation team, Morten was responsible for identifying Lean-Agile initiatives and implementing them across two business areas. This involved training over 400 employees in Lean-Agile methods and more than 120 employees in the SAFe framework. Morten also contributed to developing a governance model from portfolio to teams, facilitated several three-month planning iterations, established roadmaps for multiple product areas, and integrated an acquired company into the new ways of working.

2017-2018 / ATP | Agile Transformation Lead

Together with a strong leadership team, dedicated employees, and skilled consultants,
Morten led ATP’s agile transformation. The transformation encompassed significant
portions of the administrative business and utilised the SAFe framework for governance,
planning, and dependency management.

2005-2017 / Nordea | VP IT, Portfolio, Program, Data Science, and Procurement Manager

During his nearly 15 years as an employee and leader in the largest bank in the Nordics, Morten had the opportunity to enhance data science capabilities for the commercial sector, establish agile contracts, drive core banking system replacements, insource employees from joint ventures, work with offshore development setups, facilitate strategic processes, manage portfolio offices, and much more.

Courses & Certifications

• ADKAR | 2023

• TBR Practitioner | Ugilic 2022

• Certified SAFe Lean Portfolio Management | SAFe, 2020

• Certified SAFe Program Consultant| SAFe, 2019

• Certified SAFe ScrumMaster | SAFe, 2019

• Certified SAFe Agilist | SAFe, 2018

• Agile Contracting | Kammeradvokaten, 2017

• GROW coaching | Nordea, 2015

• Project Management & Business Cases | PMI, 2013

• TCO Best Practice | European Institute of Purchasing, 2010