Marcus is an organization and transformation coach, specializing in team-based organizations. Over the years, he has become deliberately agnostic about methods and frameworks. Lean, agile, whatever the next acronym turns out to be. What he's after is the layer beneath: if a re-organization or transformation doesn’t change the underlying behaviors within an organization, nothing meaningful changes.
Marcus brings twenty years of software development to this work, having moved through nearly every role a software organization has — tester, full-stack developer, Scrum Master, line manager, agile coach, educator — and through nearly every scale, from single-team Scrum shops to multinational LeSS Huge organizations with fifty-plus teams.
That depth is the foundation, but his recent engagements have stretched well beyond software, into government and industrial contexts where the deliverable isn't code but the underlying questions about behavior, collaboration, and capability are the same.
Recent long-term engagements
• Polisen (Transformation & team coach)
• Vattenfall (Investigation leader)
• Scania (Transformation lead & Scrum Master coach)
• Siemens Energy (Scrum Master & R&D Project Manager)
• SAAB (DevOps Coach)
• Veoneer / Arrived (Requirement Area Coach & Mentor of Agile Community)
• SMHI (Agile & Team Coach)
Media & Talks
DevLin 2025 –
Hållbar mjukvara – insikter från system som vägrar dö
The Performing Organizaion –
YouTube series
Ledarelabbet (podcast)
Agila Sverige 2024 –
The Performing Organization
DevLin 2023 –
Den Presterande Organizationen
Agila Sverige 2023 –
Stressekvationen
Agilpodden #123
DevLin 2022 –
Stressekvationen
Book – The Stress Equation
Work-related stress is one of the leading causes of mental illness among white-collar workers. It hurts companies, projects, and (most importantly) people! Stress is a burden that’s created when teams stop working well.
The Stress Equation is a model and a tool to help talk about stress as a systemic issue. By exploring how pressure, complexity, and security interact in software teams, we move focus away from the individual, so that we can talk about stress from a team and organizational perspective. By exploring external factors, we discuss how to solve problems rather than cope with the consequences. Whether you’re an individual feeling stressed or a manager who can help, you’ll learn the causes of, fixes for, and how to talk about stress.
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Courses
• Active Agile Leadership
• Advanced Scrum Master
• Product Owner
• Getting One Team Scrum to Work
• Agile At Scale
• Self-Organizing Teams
