Agile Project Management in the Process of Data Collection Albert Kjellström, Statistics Sweden

Background – The Economic Surveys Summary accounts from municipalities, counties and local federations Data is used by The National Accounts for the GDP calculations Data collection earlier characterized by an uneven workload and low work satisfation 2

Agile Project Management Team based working method Focus on continous improvements and flexibility in order to obtain a more lean production Short meetings on a daily basis, longer meetings in the end of a sprint period One formal role in the team, the Scrum Master A highly communicative way of work! 3

What did we do? Merged management teams Large scale education initiatives Used agile project management in the data collection 4

The Evaluation Qualitative interviews showed… -Increased visualization and transparency -Broadening in competence -More evenly distributed workload -Increased work satisfaction 5

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Diagram cont’d Accumulative economic resources 7